Harvard Business School’s new Indian-born dean, Nitin Nohria, recently announced that the top business school would not be opening new campuses in Asia, despite the overwhelming demand from Asian students, reports a Wall Street Journal article last week. Dean Nohria’s first public gesture as dean had...

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be joining the Stanford GSB faculty next month as co-director of the school’s Center for Global Business and the Economy, reports a Businessweek blog post last week. The center “aims to be the leader in developing and disseminating...

Founded in 1990, the Judge Business School at University of Cambridge has powered its way up the international rankings, mainly because of its strength in entrepreneurship, particularly in technology and the sciences. A deeply collaborative school, it enjoys strong ties to the many companies in...

Along with the deterioration of the economy came a huge boom in b-school applications. According to a Businessweek article yesterday, “Business School Applications Sputter,” that two-year boom now appears to be softening. Top MBA programs in the U.S., including Wharton and UC Berkeley Haas, have reported...

Top Asian business schools are “courting” leading U.S. professors as part of their strategy to strengthen their programs’ credibility, reports a Wall Street Journal article, “Foreign Schools Target U.S. Professors.” Deans at these Asian b-schools say that “nabbing ‘star’ professors is critical for building clout in...

It’s been a season of change for deans at top business schools in the U.S. Last week Sunil Kumar, Stanford GSB‘s Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, was named the new dean of Chicago Booth. According to Robert Zimmer, University of Chicago president, “[Kumar] brings the...

While charting his MBA application process, one MBA applicant blogger, KT,  recently wrote in his blog, My Quest for Life, about hitting a snag when tackling Kellogg’s question on displaying teamwork. Teamwork, and its close cousin, leadership, are highly prized by MBA programs. But even...

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, and the Indian School of Business, four rival Asian business schools, have joined forces to recruit students from North American and Europe, reports a Bloomberg Businessweek article, “Asian...

As the summer progresses and applicants begin researching their target schools in more depth, we would like to highlight a valuable research tool: school-hosted blogs. The last few years have seen a significant increase in the number of MBA student blogs hosted by schools’ admissions...

New Jersey’s Centenary College will be shutting down its Asian MBA program because of widespread plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct, reports an Inside Higher Ed article “Policing Plagiarism Abroad.” The 400 students who study at the branch programs in Taiwan,...