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Harvard’s Kristen Fitzpatrick: “What’s evolving is the premium employers place on adaptability. Organizations are navigating rapid changes in technology, AI, business models, and the broader economic environment” Kristen Fitzpatrick is the managing director of Career & Professional Development at Harvard Business School. At HBS, she helps students and alumni navigate their careers and prepare for…

Attendees connect at AACSB’s Deans Conference in Orlando last wee, where discussions examined how business schools can prepare students for AI without sacrificing independent thinking and judgment. According to the 2026 Deans Survey, 87% of respondents rate AI readiness a high or very high priority, but only about one in five give their schools similarly…

Consulting is dying, you’ll hear. Artificial intelligence can shoulder much of the research and data collection normally handled by junior consultants – and complete it in hours, not days. Some companies are building internal consulting operations, while others are choosing specialists over generalists. Let’s face it: budgets are tight – and consulting teams don’t come…

More than a third of the most successful AI venture capitalists in the U.S. have an MBA. Most of them earned it at one of two schools. Of the investors in the 2026 Strebulaev-Jackson ranking of top 100 AI VCs, 38 hold an MBA, according to an analysis Stanford GSB professor Ilya Strebulaev shared with…

Larry Gies welcomes Illinois business majors during a signing day ceremony at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (Photo by Fred Zwicky / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Larry Gies, namesake of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Gies College of Business, has pledged another $100 million in matching gifts to the business school,…

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Before prospective business master’s students ask how good a school is, they now ask what it will cost them and what they’ll get back. That’s the central finding of the 2026 Tomorrow’s Masters study from CarringtonCrisp, produced in association with EFMD Global. Total fees and other costs are now the single most important consideration when…

Rebecca Mallen-Churchill, senior director of admissions, recruitment & financial services at W.P. Carey: “ASU is known for innovation, and you feel that here. There is an energy around building, creating, and pushing what is possible” Rebecca Mallen-Churchill’s has been a part of the Arizona State University community since she was a student. She graduated from…

Ramirez (bottom right) and family, at their coffee shop Reysol Coffee Roasters It’s one thing to study leadership, logistics and decision-making in class, and it’s another to put those skills to the test right in the middle of an actual disaster. Most college students are focused on their studies, and perhaps a job alongside them.…

Imagine you’re a marketing student – a fellow at a business school. You’re sitting in a small group with a professor, deciding which questions some of the world’s top marketing leaders should answer. You debate what’s worth asking, dig into the responses, build graphs to spot trends and talk through what the data actually means…