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Divinity Matovu, MBA mom: Many mothers “feel like getting an MBA might be impossible for them. They don’t see a lot of examples of other women who have done it. As a mom thinking about higher education, you can start to feel very alone, isolated and doubtful.” Courtesy photo For all the progress business schools…

Former Gies College of Business Dean Jeff Brown, on the Reichard Real Estate Academy: “I like to describe it as a major renovation of an existing property. We’re figuring out which pieces are strong and which ones need to be rebuilt” When Jeff Brown stepped down as dean of the Gies College of Business at…

Kelley Direct KD Online student Sue Chung, a practicing rheumatologist, was named chief medical officer of a major clinical health network in Southern California shortly after completing her MBA in May 2025. For years, conventional thinking held that online MBAs were for working professionals, those looking to rise in their current industries and companies. Full-time…

Yoram (Jerry) Wind, The Lauder Professor Emeritus and Professor of Marketing at Wharton, argues that creativity is an essential leadership skill as artificial intelligence reshapes how leaders think and decide. For nearly 50 years, pioneering Wharton Professor Jerry Wind helped define how generations of MBA students think about markets, strategy, and leadership. He pioneered how…

Auburn University online MBA students. Auburn again had the highest 1-year retention rate of our OMBA ranking, recording 100% returning students the last two years. A defining factor of Poets&Quants’ ranking of the Best Online MBA Programs in the U.S. is the volume of supplementary data we release along with it. This includes what alumni…

In this column, Ayush Dubey, MBA candidate at Yale School of Management, talks about his his semester abroad at London Business School, why he ultimately returned to Yale, and what future students should weigh when considering an MBA exchange. In undergrad, studying abroad is a no-brainer: a new country, fresh friendships, and months of exploration…

Remember starting college? It was quite the transition. New people and bigger demands. If you were a starting midfielder in high school, you were glued to the bench come freshman year. If you were an A-student in AP courses, you pulled B’s in college Gen Eds. On your own for the first time, you struggled…

Former Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino William A. Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager and ’92 Harvard Business School, has publicly declared his support for embattled former Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. In an extensive post on X, where Ackman boasts 1.9-million followers, he declares that Gino is innocent of charges that she…

The holidays are here…and it’s time to look back. Nostalgia? A little, maybe. After all, this is the time to slow down, to see how far we’ve come…and start preparing for the year ahead. If anything, reflecting enables us to see the bigger picture – the events that shaped the current year…and the underlying shifts…

Graduates of University of Texas at Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management’s online MBA celebrate after the ceremony. Courtesy photo At Poets&Quants, we believe the quality of the cohort makes for a better learning environment for all students, and the more evaluation candidates are subjected to on the front end, the better the class experience…