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Management Consulting Report: Pay Is Rising, But New Skills Are Needed
Change is inevitable. React too slowly? You’ll land in Chapter 11. React too quickly? You’ll produce a half-measure that’s quickly surpassed. That’s why companies onboard management consultants – to understand what change means…and how to capitalize on it. With the advent of AI and analytics, you might expect the consulting industry to be experiencing a…
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MIT Sloan MBA Class Of 2027: International Ranks Grow, But U.S. Diversity Stays Flat
The MIT Sloan School of Management enrolled 450 students in its MBA Class of 2027, its second-largest class in nearly a decade. The M7 also increased its share of international students even as many U.S. business schools saw declines. (Courtesy: Above Summit/MIT Sloan) MIT Sloan School of Management enrolled its second-largest MBA class in nearly…
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Michigan Ross Launches AI Concentration For Full-Time MBAs
Michigan’s Ross School of Business will offer an AI concentration in its MBA. Photo Credit: University of Michigan (Ross) Artificial intelligence is becoming core to the MBA. The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business is the latest to make that official, announcing this week a new AI concentration for Full-Time MBA students that blends…
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Applications Are Now Open for the 2026 Moelis Advance Access Program
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Hackers Target Penn, Send Profane Emails To Wharton Students & Alumni
Thousands of members of the University of Pennsylvania community — including Wharton School students and alumni — received a series of profanity-laced emails on Friday morning in what officials are calling a “fraudulent and highly offensive” cyber incident. The emails carried the same message, sent to some recipients repeatedly — one told Poets&Quants she received…
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VR Versus Video: A Pepperdine Prof’s Study On Immersive Learning
Pepperdine Graziadio students are using virtual reality to learn business Immersive technology is reshaping the way people interact with the world. Among the estimated 171 million virtual reality users globally are students from Pepperdine University’s Seaver College business who are exploring new topics via the virtual world. Leading them is Steve Bauer, assistant professor of…
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Are Business Schools Accidentally Turning Away Working-Class Talent?
At most elite MBA programs, the pitch is familiar: future global leaders, entrepreneurs reshaping industries, changemakers tackling climate and inequality. For many students, those promises are galvanizing. For others, they can be alienating. That tension is at the heart of new research on institutional exclusion by Stanford sociologist Michelle Jackson and emlyon professor Christof Brandtner.…
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Indiana Kelley Has Published An ‘AI Playbook’ — And Shared It With The World
The Kelley School Artificial intelligence has moved from talk to action at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. This summer, Kelley rolled out the Kelley AI Playbook, a working guide that shows faculty how to weave generative AI into teaching, grading, research, and service — and how to do it responsibly. The school revised the…
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‘AI Is The New Excel’: Kelley Dean Patrick Hopkins On ‘Future-Proofing’ Faculty & Students
Pat Hopkins, dean of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business: When Patrick Hopkins became dean of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in March, he knew the stakes were high. Business schools face what he calls “tremendous headwinds” — from public skepticism over the value of a degree, to the accelerating disruption of artificial intelligence,…
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Amazon Will Slash 14,000 Corporate Jobs In One Of Its Biggest Layoffs To Date
Amazon was reported to be preparing to lay off 30,000 workers on Tuesday (October 28). Instead, the mega-corporation announced 14,000 layoffs, which amounts to about 4% of its corporate workforce Amazon was reported to be preparing to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning this week in what would be the company’s largest layoff…
