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Brooke Elliott’s Balancing Act: Protecting Illinois’ Global Mission Amid Political Headwinds
Gies College Dean Brooke Elliott with her Ford F-150 Raptor R For Brooke Elliott, dean of the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois, the biggest challenge she faces today isn’t technological disruption or shifting student demographics. It’s politics. “The changing political environment and the current administration’s view toward higher education has been…
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Dawna Clarke Steps Down As Darden’s Admissions Chief
Dawna Clarke is stepping down from her role as senior assistant dean for admissions at the Darden School of Business and moving into a new part-time assignment as special advisor to the dean and ambassador for the school After an extraordinary career in MBA admissions spanning four decades and nine deans, Dawna Clarke has stepped…
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Waking A ‘Sleeping Beauty’: Poets&Quants Names ESCP Its 2025 Business School Of The Year
Shop Circle cofounders Gian Maria Gramondi and Luca Cartechini. ‘“I truly believe ESCP is one of the best business schools globally. If I could go back, I’d choose it all over again, and I never hesitate to recommend it,’ Cartechini says. To understand the DNA of ESCP Business School, consider Shop Circle. Co-founders Luca Cartechini…
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Global MBA Boom Cools: U.S., UK & Canada Lose Applicants As Asia Surges
Students in class on ESCP’s Berlin Campus. GMAC’s 2025 Application Trends Survey found that continental European B-schools are gaining applicant interest where U.S., UK and Canadian schools are losing it Graduate management education demand is still climbing worldwide, but the contours of that growth are beginning to change. According to the Graduate Management Admission Council’s…
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How Florida’s Oldest Business School Is Punching Above Its Weight
Stetson University Business School is “a tuition-driven institution,” Dean Yiorgos Bakamitsos says. “That forces us to be relevant — to offer something distinctive that resonates with students and families making one of the biggest investments of their lives.” Courtesy photo When Stetson University’s Centurion Sales team swept three national and international sales competitions in the…
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‘Think Big, Buy Small’: Harvard Podcast Spotlights The Growing World Of Acquisition Entrepreneurship
Co-hosts Royce Yudkoff, at left, and Richard Ruback share a laugh during a recording of Think Big, Buy Small, their popular Harvard Business School podcast about entrepreneurship through acquisition. In 2001, Logan Leslie graduated high school, enlisted in the Army after 9/11, and spent seven years in Special Forces before enrolling at Harvard College. By…
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TRIUM Marks 25 Years: The Global EMBA That Put Geopolitics In The Boardroom
TRIUM students and alumni celebrate during a program event. The 18-month Global Executive MBA brings together senior leaders from around the world, fostering a tight-knit, international network that extends well beyond graduation. The program is entering its 25th year. In 2001, the world seemed poised for a second phase of globalization. The Cold War had…
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Carnegie Mellon Tepper’s International MBA Population Has Fallen 30% In 2 Years
There are plenty of seats available in the Tepper Quad this fall as the B-school enrolled its smallest MBA class in years From 2023 to 2024, Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business saw the steepest decline in international students of any top-25 U.S. MBA program, plunging from 53% to 39% of the full-time class. Now,…
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Tesla Internship Gives Rutgers MBA Student Experience To Leverage
Rutgers MBA Spencer Donihi-Goddard was boarding a plane with his fiancée in Austin last spring when he learned that he had been chosen for a summer internship position at Tesla. “I was super happy,” Donihi-Goddard recalled, although he said he didn’t really celebrate until he returned to New Jersey. “Once I told my classmates, I…
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WashU–Fudan EMBA Tops Financial Times 2025 Global EMBA Ranking For The First Time
Washington University’s joint EMBA program with Fudan University in Shanghai is the Financial Times’ top global EMBA program of 2025. WashU photo The Washington University–Fudan University Executive MBA has taken the No. 1 spot in the world in the Financial Times 2025 Executive MBA ranking, climbing two places from last year to unseat CEIBS at…
