Graduate programs in business and management are drawing a wider range of applicants, and these aspiring students are more likely to have a single program type in mind for either an MBA or non-MBA master’s degree, according to Graduate Management Admission Council’s 2013 mba.com Prospective...

Harvard Business School is to become the first US institution to take part in next month’s MBA Tournament (MBAT), the annual business school Olympics which takes place at HEC Paris. The MBAT started with six participating business schools in 1991, and is set against the backdrop...

The Chicago Booth School of Business extended an open invitation to both newly accepted MBA candidates as well as prospective applicants to attend one of the multiple diversity events held around the globe during the school’s 9th annual Women’s Week. In collaboration with the office of...

Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management has named M. Eric Johnson as dean effective July 1st, pending approval by the Vanderbilt Board of Trust. Currently, Johnson is associate dean at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, where he has been responsible for seven research...

Dean Thomas S. Robertson of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has announced his decision to step down when his seven-year term expires next year on June 30, 2014. Upon leaving the deanship, Robertson plans to return to the marketing faculty to teach, and to...

In the era of social media saturation, business school hopefuls have to think about more than just drafting memorable essays, nailing interviews and marketing themselves effectively during the MBA application process. Today’s applicants must scrutinize their public persona on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and elsewhere to make...

To provide leadership for the new challenges and opportunities facing management education today, AACSB International (AACSB) has released a new set of accreditation standards for the world’s leading business schools. Approved April 8th by its membership at the AACSB International Conference and Annual Meeting in Chicago,...

Round Two business school decisions are pouring in and some MBA applicants face not just two, but three or more offers of admission from their target schools. While the adage is “There’s never too much of a good thing,” the reality is that a bounty of b-school...

Harvard Business School marked this year’s 50th anniversary of admitting women to the two-year MBA Program with the W50 Summit on April 4-5th. The event, which drew more than 800 female graduates to the campus, focused on accelerating the advancement of women leaders who make a...

The University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School has announced a redesign of its evening and weekend Executive MBA programs with new features and greater convenience for working professionals. For the 24-month Evening MBA program, classes will meet on campus one night a week rather than...