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Less than a decade ago, getting into a top U.S. business school practically required sitting for the GMAT, the numbers-heavy gatekeeper that generations of non-quant applicants learned to dread. That’s officially changing, even at the most elite programs, according to an eight-year analysis from Poets&Quants. Among the five M7 schools with comparable GRE data going…

Oh, to be a fly on the wall during one of Franc Bogovic’s and Moustafa El-Baqqaly’s conversations.  Bogovic, a Belgian impact investor, and El-Baqqaly, a London-based capital-markets banker, cite their discussions while studying on the Oxford Executive MBA as being the inspiration to found Aquitara, an impact fund with the goal of undoing the damage of Agent Orange…

Want to build a startup while earning your MBA? Look beyond the entrepreneurship courses to the actual founder resources available at your target business schools.   TIME magazine’s inaugural ranking of America’s 80 Best Incubators and Accelerators, released last week, is a good place to start. Universities are all over the list. Twenty-one of the 80, including five in the…

Getting into the Wharton School is an achievement most families would celebrate for a lifetime. The Sahani’s did it four times in four years. Navya, Nirav, Dhwanikta, and Vatsal hold nine offers between them from the Wharton School, Columbia Business School, and MIT Sloan, eight of those won through deferred admission while they were still…

Growing up, Kathleen Perley was told that she wasn’t “college material.” Despite suffering from dyslexia and ADHD, Perley eventually found a home in academia. A Fulbright Scholar, Perley studied Linguistics before building a digital healthcare agency that she sold to an equity-backed firm. Since then, she has moved into the AI space. At Rice Business,…

Rady students gathered together at the school. Courtesy photo. Career centers have never been a more crucial resource than they are today for students. At UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, the Career Management Center has become a model for what that support should look like. Leading that effort is CMC’s executive director, Toni…

A year ago, the M7 employment numbers told a pretty grim story. Job offers fell at six of the seven elite business schools in 2024. At Harvard Business School, nearly a quarter of job-seeking MBAs were still without offers three months after graduation. Chicago Booth, Kellogg, Stanford, and MIT Sloan all posted significant declines as…

After roaring back a year earlier, applications to the M7 reached a plateau for the class that entered in fall 2025. The seven elite U.S. business schools — the so-called “Magnificent Seven” — received 48,829 applications for the MBA Class of 2027, an increase of just 0.6% after applications surged 22% in the previous cycle.…

USC Marshall School of Business Dean Geoffrey Garrett, who has said he will step down this month after a turbulent start to his second term When Geoffrey Garrett announced his plan to step down as dean of USC’s Marshall School of Business in June, USC characterized it as an orderly leadership transition – Garrett would…

After a couple of sluggish years, more candidates applied to U.S. MBA programs in fall 2025 than in the previous two admission cycles. Two years ago, U.S. MBA programs were navigating a noted drop in demand, with lower applications for two straight cycles. Of all the talk of AI, economic uncertainty, and fewer international students…