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Entrepreneurship is booming in the U.S., with nearly one in five adults currently in the process of starting or running a business. At Pepperdine University, one graduate program aims to support those looking to turn ideas into impact. Dr. Stephen Kirnon leads Pepperdine’s Master of Arts in Social Entrepreneurship and Change (SEC) program. A former…

Last year, 167 students from around the world competed in the global finals of the Turner MIINT challenge at The Wharton School. Photo credit: Shira Yudkoff Turner MIINT – one of the largest experiential impact investing competitions for MBAs – has a new co-producer.   Impact Capital Managers Institute (ICM) will join The Wharton School’s  Impact,…

Katie Smith, founder of Be Your Own Boss. Courtesy photo Not everyone needs to be an entrepreneur to thrive. Social media often glamorizes quitting your corporate job, pushing the “be your own boss” narrative as the ultimate path to freedom. In a culture where entrepreneurship is trending, Katie Smith offers a counterpoint. Smith doesn’t dismiss…

Dean Oliver Yao during an ice cream social with undergraduate students at the University of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business and Economics. “We’re not content to be a regional school,” Yao says. “We’re building a business college that’s relevant, responsive, and nationally recognized. And we’re just getting started” When Oliver Yao became dean of the…

A new report from AACSB International, Global Minds, Local Impact: A Case for Student Mobility, published in July, finds that policy changes and visa restrictions are reshaping the movement of students around the world — a reality that could significantly affect business school enrollment. The report draws on a poll of 97 business schools across…

Esade Students during a Study Visit to the European institutions in Brussels. In 2025, politics is inescapable for business leaders. Wars and power plays disrupt supply chains, tariffs appear and vanish overnight, and rules for emerging technologies shift before the ink is dry. “Business leaders cannot ignore the interconnected nature of the global economy and…

Luc de Rancourt, co-director of EDHEC Business School’s new Chair in Geopolitics & Corporate Strategy, was part of geopolitics panel for World In Progress on June 24 in Chantilly, France. Courtesy photo Luc de Rancourt, a retired General of the Armée l’Air et de l’Espace (French Air and Space Force), spent nearly 40 years flying…

Pace University’s Lubin School of Business will have a new dean September 1 Pace University has tapped Ajay Khorana, a former Citigroup global treasurer with deep roots in academia, as the next dean of its Lubin School of Business. His appointment, effective September 1, 2025, follows an extensive nationwide search. Pace President Marvin Krislov says…

Drexel LeBow’s Diana Jones on the B-school’s approach to experiential learning: “It’s not just about applying concepts. It’s about asking better questions, reframing challenges, modeling scenarios, and then communicating your insights clearly to decision-makers” Experiential learning means different things to different business schools. For some, it means simulations and case studies. At Drexel University’s LeBow…

For years, Stanford Graduate School of Business finance professor Ilya Strebulaev has been known as the business school world’s “unicorn tracker,” analyzing how billion-dollar startups are built, who founds them, and which institutions supply their talent.  His latest research, announced via his LinkedIn page, turns the lens on venture capitalists themselves — and how their…