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Just ten percent of case studies feature women as protagonists.
From who tops the latest U.S. News rankings to the lack of women featured in business school case studies—read trending stories from competitive MBA programs.
The U.S. News rankings are here
U.S. News & World Report’s much anticipated 2017 MBA rankings are here. There was some significant movement among top schools this year, with Harvard Business School overtaking Stanford Graduate School of Business to place first on the list. Notably, University of Chicago Booth School of Business jumped a few spots to tie with Stanford GSB for second place. Our advice remains this: The U.S. News rankings can be helpful for aspiring business students as an aggregate source of data around job placement statistics, student population, academic life, and other areas of interest. But to really find the business school that’s the right “fit” for you, look beyond the statistics. Visit the campus. Speak with students and alumni. That’s not to say keeping an eye on the U.S. News rankings isn’t a good jumping-off point for deeper research. (U.S. News & World Report)
Women underrepresented in case studies
Even as many of the world’s top business school boast increases in their proportion of female students (some are now at 40%), women lag behind in another crucial area: as protagonists in case studies. Just eight of the 74 best-selling case studies between 2009–2015 featured a female lead, according to a new study published in the Harvard Business Review. As you may know, case studies are important educational tools in many MBA programs. You might be thinking, “Well, I bet that the closer you got to 2015, the more women protagonists there were in case studies.” You’d be wrong—It was exactly the opposite. (Fortune)
Big Data, big opportunities
Top-ranked MIT’s Sloan School of Business is in talks with tech-focused giants like Facebook, Amazon, McKinsey, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others to secure opportunities for its business analytics master’s students. The new “M.N.A.n.” degree, which Sloan announced earlier this month, lasts 12-months and costs $75,000. “Recruiters have said they are looking for training in advanced business analytics—Amazon, Google and Facebook are looking for people who can take insight to action,” said Jake Cohen, senior associate dean for Sloan master’s programs. Sloan’s big reveal comes on the heels of other top MBA programs rolling out similar degrees, as many tech giants have discussed the importance of recruiting new hires with these kind of skills. (BusinessBecause)
The most international MBA programs
Over the past couple of decades, business school have begun to play catch up with the cosmopolitanism of the business world. It’s not just about recruiting students from New York, New Orleans, and Nashville—but about recruiting students from Beijing, Bangalore, and Berlin. Poets & Quants recently looked a several metrics, including schools with the most students and faculty from other countries as well as citizenship of the school’s board, to see which MBA programs are the most international. (Poets & Quants)
Business school expansion
Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business is set for an upgrade to the tune of $35 million. The investment will link the business school’s two buildings located in uptown New Orleans. The business school educates 2,900 undergraduate and graduate students, up from 1900 in 2009 when the school was still recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. According to the university’s president, about a third of all undergraduates are business majors. “Once they get to Tulane they decide—in large numbers it turns out—that the business school is where they want to make their home,” said the school’s dean. (The Advocate)
Generous, but anonymous
The University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business announced earlier this month that it had received an anonymous $20 million gift commitment, the largest contribution the 48-year-old MBA program has ever received. The only publicly known information is that the generous gifter is an alumnus/alumna. In a statement announcing the $20M gift, the school’s president said it is “a historic day for the Simon Business School,” and that the donor is “motivated by a desire to strengthen the Simon school.” Nearly 4,000 Simon graduates continue to work and live in the Rochester, New York area. (The Democrat & Chronicle)
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