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The Case Centre has released its annual list of the top-selling business school cases. Above, all the authors. Courtesy The Case Centre The Case Centre has announced its Top 50 Bestselling Case Authors 2024-2025, an annual ranking that highlights the most popular and widely used case writers across global business education. Based on worldwide sales…

Which MBA startups attracted the most outside investment over the last five years? P&Q asked the world’s best MBA programs for startups founded between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2024. While some MBA founders are chasing unicorns (and some catching them), an increasing number are chasing solutions to real-world problems. Take FarmRaise, launched by…

Steven Wymer at the groundbreaking ceremony in April of 2023 Forty years ago, a twenty-something Steven Wymer vividly recalls walking toward the business school at the University of Illinois with his auditing professor, Richard Ziegler, when Ziegler facetiously joked that some day his student could have a building named after him. “Steve,” quipped Ziegler, “if…

Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business has developed 10 custom-built, AI-powered Interactive Learning Labs At Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, artificial intelligence isn’t just a topic of conversation — it’s the new language of learning. Since early 2024, Tepper has rolled out an ambitious AI program that goes well beyond the use…

Visitors walk in front of a stained-glass mural by East German artist Walter Womacka overlooking the main staircase of ESMT Berlin’s historic campus at Schlossplatz 1. If ESMT Berlin were a business student, it’d barely be old enough for its own MBA. The European School of Management and Technology was founded in 2002 by 25…

Where Research Excellence Meets Practical Relevance in the Virginia Tech Executive Ph.D. in Business When Hurricane Erin brought dangerous surf to North Carolina, CNN interviewed Virginia Tech Executive Ph.D. student Sam Proffit for expert guidance to residents in the storm’s path. Proffit, the Ocean Rescue Director for Wrightsville Beach, N.C., faces public safety challenges daily,…

A new Youngstown State University study finds MBA students are six times more likely to learn from podcasts than textbooks, with one in three launching a business or side hustle after listening If business schools thought podcasts were just background noise, new data suggests they may be underestimating their impact. A Youngstown State University survey…

Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University Tepper School of Business Dean Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou is stepping down from her job at the end of her first term on July 1 of next year. She expects to return to the faculty full-time as a professor of finance. Carnegie Mellon University has…

The number of international students arriving in the United States this August fell by 19% compared to the same time last year, according to newly released federal data from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The preliminary numbers, published through the I-94 International Visitor Arrivals Program on trade.gov, show that just over 313,000 student visa holders…

Too easy. Too hard. A two-year vacation. 11 months of hell. You hear both slants when it comes to business school. To some, MBAs take a page out of Animal House: a series of blowout bashes and hair-raising hijinks – interspersed with moments of lounging on the beach and galavanting across the globe. To others,…