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At Cornell, a student-authored diversity memo has become the latest flashpoint in the national debate over DEI and career access A set of peer-driven guidelines urging some MBA students at Cornell University to reconsider attending identity-based recruiting conferences has sparked campus debate — and, potentially, national controversy. What began as an internal message from the…

Talking straight numbers, which MBA program has produced the most founders over the last decade? According to PitchBook’s latest ranking, the school at the top of the list is the same as last year: Harvard Business School with a founder count of 1,906. Those MBA entrepreneurs, in turn, created 1,757 companies that raised more than…

Stayer Center. Photo by Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business has introduced an MBA Deferred Admission Program aimed at students who see an MBA in their future but aren’t ready to enroll right away. The program is open to college seniors and recent graduates with limited work experience. Admitted students…

The payoff from a U.S. MBA has slipped again. A new analysis by Bloomberg shows that the degree’s return on investment fell this year as costs rose faster than salary gains — and the edge MBAs enjoy over non-MBAs continued to narrow. According to Bloomberg’s latest update of its Business School ROI Calculator, which draws…

Women make up 47% of Duke Fuqua’s MBA Class of 2027, following last year’s historic Class of 2026 that became the first in school history with a majority of women at 51%. In 2019, women comprised 43% on the incoming Class of 2021. Duke photo Last year, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business celebrated a…

Stanford sets the standard. Known for the highest pay and lowest acceptance rates, Stanford GSB ranks atop the Bloomberg Businessweek and QS rankings. For the third consecutive year, the GSB held the #1 spot in LinkedIn’s annual MBA rankings – “Top MBA Programs 2025: The 100 Best Global Business Schools to Grow Your Career.” Like…

Dean Erika James (from left), donor Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs, and faculty director David Musto gather at Wharton to celebrate Jacobs’ $60 million gift establishing the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Master of Science in Quantitative Finance program, the school’s first new degree in 50 years. University of Pennsylvania’s The Wharton School announced today (September 15)…

Morris Mthombeni, dean of the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Pretoria, South Africa: “The growing prominence of climate denialists is fast undoing all the progressive work towards a more inclusive society. In this context, the kind of responsible management education being offered by business schools ought not to rely on optimism, but on relentless…

Soumitra Dutta has resigned as dean of Oxford Saïd Business School after a five-month investigation found he violated the university’s harassment policy Oxford University has named Mette Morsing interim dean of its Saïd Business School after Soumitra Dutta, the school’s leader since 2022, resigned in the wake of a harassment probe that upheld multiple allegations…

Entrepreneurship Festival 2024 at ESCP’s Paris campus celebrated 15 years of the Blue Factory and marked its expansion into a truly European incubator, now active across five campuses in Paris, Berlin, London, Turin, and Madrid. Courtesy photo Leaning over laptops at a bright blue table inside ESCP’s Paris incubator, three young founders are building a…