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What a difference two years can make! In 2024, Gem Nwannem was working in product marketing for small tech firms. After starting a hybrid MBA at the University of Washington’s Foster School, Nwannem landed the opportunity of a lifetime. Now a senior product manager at Amazon Shipping, Nwannem oversees product rollouts and messaging across the…

Startup Wise Guys, an early-stage accelerator in which Estonian Business School holds an ownership stake, is part of EBS’s larger entrepreneurship network in Tallinn. Across Europe, business schools are leaning into startup hubs, venture studios and founder pipelines to help students create opportunity in a changing job market. Timmu Tõke arrived at Estonian Business School (EBS) in 2013 with a clear…

Adhira Tippur built an AI intake platform to streamline work in her mom’s dental clinic – with huge success. That led to her co-founding Kairos Health after she joined Rice University’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. Courtesy photo You’ve likely heard some version of this before: across the country, healthcare practices are straining under administrative overload, staffing shortages,…

The University of San Francisco’s hilltop campus has weathered years of enrollment pressure and financial strain — and emerged with one of the most celebrated accreditation reviews in the school’s history. Courtesy photos The exit meeting is the moment at the end of a multi-day site visit when AACSB International reviewers – accreditors who set…

Bunge with client Alzana Jakupovic. Courtesy photo For many MBA programs, experiential learning is a selling point. In St. Louis, Missouri at Washington University’s Olin Business School, experiential learning is a defining part of their student experience. Rather than experiencing simulated business cases or hypothetical consulting exercises, students actually work through real challenges for global…

Michelle Sisto, director of the EDHEC AI Centre, opens a London panel on AI and the future of work with a keynote on how AI is already reshaping human cognition. In an amphitheater at EDHEC Business School in France, 350 students sat almost in silence, writing out their homework for a lesson about artificial intelligence.…

London Business School’s Regent’s Park campus. The school’s North Building at Sussex Place will be renamed the David and Molly Pyott Building after a new £25 million gift supporting MBA scholarships. Courtesy photo The London Business School announced today a £25 million gift, one of the largest in school history, to rename its North Building at Sussex Place and fund scholarships to attract top…

A rendering of the new Rick Goings Institute for Management and Executive Leadership at Rollins College, expected to open within the next year, adjoined to the Rollins Museum of Art as part of the college’s broader Innovation Triangle initiative. Rick Goings believes business schools today are really good at spitting out CFOs and technical specialists trained to manage spreadsheets, operations, and quarterly…

Business school alumni remain proud of where they studied, but their connection to their former institutions is weakening across almost every measure, according to the latest Alumni Matters study from CarringtonCrisp, produced in association with EFMD. The research, conducted among nearly 2,000 alumni from 41 countries, finds that just over three-quarters (76%) of respondents say…

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