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For a long list of extraordinary achievements during his six years in the job. UVA Darden Dean Scott Beardsley is the Dean of the Year for 2020 The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors today (Dec. 19) named Darden School of Business Dean Scott Beardsley the university’s new president, effective Jan. 1. He was unanimously…

Tell me a story. You can almost picture Mad Men’s Don Draper delivering a client pitch. Whether he was trading in tobacco or chocolate, Draper would reel off a story. Depending on the value proposition, he would play to the comforts of nostalgia or the power of identity by turning clients into the mothers and…

Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda at the University of Virginia n a year marked by turmoil and outside pressures directed at the University of Virginia, the appointment of Scott C. Beardsley as UVA’s 10th president should be a moment for unity — not political posturing. On December 19, UVA’s Board of Visitors unanimously selected Beardsley, the long-serving…

MBA enrollment declined 6% over the past five years, while applications to master’s-level programs increased 25% during the same period, AACSB reports Graduate business education at AACSB-accredited schools is not shrinking, but it is changing shape. New global enrollment data show a market adjusting to employer needs, demographic shifts, and geopolitical forces – with the…

Erik Gordon, Area Chair of Entrepreneurial Studies and faculty managing director of the Wolverine Venture Fund at Ross School of Business. The student-led venture fund – the first in the country – recently landed its first unicorn exit. Courtesy photo The first time University of Michigan startup HistoSonics approached the student-led Wolverine Venture Fund, the…

When Thomas Lengel sits in a classroom at the Manderson Graduate School of Business, he brings with him more than a notebook and a laptop. He brings years of real-world experience, lessons learned on warehouse floors and in management meetings, and a renewed sense of purpose. Lengel, a Wilmington, Delaware native with deep family ties…

Students from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management Let’s start with the numbers: for the MBA Class of 2024, 35 % of graduates accepted roles in consulting, making it by far the largest single industry choice at Kellogg. Even more impressive: those going into consulting had a median base salary of $190,000. For anyone who wants…

Members of Yale SOM’s MBA Class of 2025 faced another challenging hiring market marked by longer recruiting timelines and slower early job outcomes. Yale photo If 2024 marked a shock to the MBA job market, Yale School of Management’s Class of 2025 shows what happens when that shock lingers. Both job offers and acceptances slipped…

Mannheim Business School campus. Mannheim, along with ESMT Berlin and WHU, is calling international students and faculty to “Say JA to Germany” amid shifting global visa and academic freedom policies. As the U.S. and some parts of Europe become, let’s say, less friendly to international students and scholars, three leading German business schools are partnering…

Snow blankets the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor. The school’s Class of 2025 MBA employment report shows graduates navigating a slower, later-clearing job market with steady pay and improving outcomes after graduation. Photo Credit: University of Michigan (Ross) After weathering a particularly tough MBA hiring cycle in 2024, graduates of University…