MBA

Harvard MBA startup to sell classmates' admissions essays

Six Harvard MBAs have persuaded their classmates to cough up the actual essays they wrote to get admitted to Harvard for free, so they can sell them to applicants. By John A. Byrne

Revisiting Harvard's most successful MBA class

The power and influence of Harvard B-school's class of 1949 were nothing less than extraordinary. We talk with author Laurence Shames, who told the story of this historic class. Interview by John A. Byrne

UNC brings rarity to online MBA programs: Credibility

Online MBA degrees have been proliferating like daisies in an open field in recent years, but UNC-Kenan-Flagler's program takes its task more seriously than the rest. By John A. Byrne

A faster (and cheaper) alternative to an MBA

Master's in management programs are booming, especially among liberal arts grads in pursuit of a competitive edge.

FORTUNE -- After graduating from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2006 with a B.S. in political science, Evan Rezin found a job as a marketing associate at Bemis, a $5.3 billion-a-year maker of flexible packaging for consumer goods and pharmaceuticals. She enjoyed the work, but "political science has nothing to do with MORE

Want to revamp B-school? Ask the recruiters.

France's HEC has tended to fall in the shadow behind rival European business schools INSEAD, London Business School, and IMD. So it turned to Bain & Co., a voracious MBA recruiter, for help. By John A. Byrne

What makes a master B-school professor?

Yiorgos Allayannis is one of many superstar teachers at UVA-Darden, and his evolution shows how the school has made teaching an integral part of its culture. By John A. Byrne

Yale B-school wants a piece of the spotlight

Veteran B-school dean Ted Snyder has come to Yale with an ambitious agenda, designed to garner the attention and influence that has long eluded the business school. By John A. Byrne

Northwestern Kellogg to shrink two-year MBA program

The school plans to put less of an emphasis on its traditional two-year degree program as part of a sweeping strategic review at the school.

By John A. Byrne, contributor

(Poets&Quants) -- Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management said today it plans to shrink the size of its two-year MBA program by up to 25% and double or triple the enrollment in the school's one-year MBA program for business undergraduates.

"It's very clear MORE

Gen-Y looks to developing economies for biz training

Business schools, non-profits, and private employers are sending students and young workers to developing nations to hone their business skills. By Ethan Rouen

UCLA rejects 52 MBA applicants for plagiarism

All told, UCLA's Anderson school found that 52 MBA candidates were lifting whole paragraphs from other, unattributed sources in their essays. And they are far from the only B-school dealing with the problem. By John A. Byrne