Last year Surbhi Verma quit her investment banking job in Mumbai, moved to Silicon Valley, and started a master’s in finance program at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business. She thought the degree would help her land a prestigious
Thirty-plus years ago, when Businessweek set out to assess the quality of full-time U.S. MBA programs, getting the hard-copy surveys out the door took some doing. “I literally sat in front of the TV night after night stuffing envelopes” recalls
Ayesha Chokhani, who grew up in Kolkata, has no love of the cold. Yet when she went to study for her master’s degree, the 29-year-old student chose the University of Toronto, where winter temperatures can fall well below freezing. Chokhani had
Today, women are almost as likely as men to fill the seats of medical school and law school classrooms. Yet the share of women enrolled in MBA programs hasnt risen above 37.2 percent in the past decade, according to the
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel said MBAs are predisposed to herdlike thinking and behavior. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen dubbed them a contrarian indicator, saying if they want to go into tech, that means a bubble is forming. In a post on
Of all the industries MBAs could end up in, the largest single chunk of them flock to one: consulting. But Bloomberg data show that they’re not likely to stick with it. Even though consulting is the most popular of the
Business school is a profitable investment for almost anyone, but some MBAs are getting more dollar value out of their degrees than others. MBAs who worked in financial services several years out of school earned more than their peers in
To some degree, MBA programs are advanced driving schools. We teach students how to operate one of the most powerful engines in the world: business. We teach how this engine must be finely engineered (operations), how it needs special fuel
Who in their right mind would get accepted to Harvard Business School and turn it down? Turns out the answer is: someone who also got into Stanford. Its a nice problem to have: Youve been admitted to two or more
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