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Growing up, Kathleen Perley was told that she wasn’t “college material.” Despite suffering from dyslexia and ADHD, Perley eventually found a home in academia. A Fulbright Scholar, Perley studied Linguistics before building a digital healthcare agency that she sold to an equity-backed firm. Since then, she has moved into the AI space. At Rice Business,…

A year ago, the M7 employment numbers told a pretty grim story. Job offers fell at six of the seven elite business schools in 2024. At Harvard Business School, nearly a quarter of job-seeking MBAs were still without offers three months after graduation. Chicago Booth, Kellogg, Stanford, and MIT Sloan all posted significant declines as…

Rady students gathered together at the school. Courtesy photo. Career centers have never been a more crucial resource than they are today for students. At UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, the Career Management Center has become a model for what that support should look like. Leading that effort is CMC’s executive director, Toni…

After roaring back a year earlier, applications to the M7 reached a plateau for the class that entered in fall 2025. The seven elite U.S. business schools — the so-called “Magnificent Seven” — received 48,829 applications for the MBA Class of 2027, an increase of just 0.6% after applications surged 22% in the previous cycle.…

USC Marshall School of Business Dean Geoffrey Garrett, who has said he will step down this month after a turbulent start to his second term When Geoffrey Garrett announced his plan to step down as dean of USC’s Marshall School of Business in June, USC characterized it as an orderly leadership transition – Garrett would…

After a couple of sluggish years, more candidates applied to U.S. MBA programs in fall 2025 than in the previous two admission cycles. Two years ago, U.S. MBA programs were navigating a noted drop in demand, with lower applications for two straight cycles. Of all the talk of AI, economic uncertainty, and fewer international students…

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…

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…

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…