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Dec 5, 2019

GMAT Scores, Gender Parity Slip for Columbia Class of 2021

Columbia Full-Time MBA

Data from the most recent Columbia Business School full-time MBA class has been officially revealed, with modest decreases in the program’s GMAT average, gender parity, and total enrollment. However, despite the changes, the Columbia 2021 MBA class remains largely the same as the previous class.

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Nov 6, 2019

Top 5 MBA Destinations: The Top Hiring Companies in Manchester, UK

Manchester Careers

With a rich history dating back thousands of year, the Northern UK city of Manchester is known for its industrial heritage, textile industry, literature, the Trade Union movement, women’s suffrage, and, of course, Morrissey.

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Nov 5, 2019

Masters Advantage: Business Analytics or Accounting?

Business Analytics or Accounting

A specialized master’s degree can be a valuable tool for enhancing your career prospects. If you have a specific career in mind—financial analysis, marketing, statistics, etc.—a master’s degree in your specialty can provide you with the advanced training you need to be successful. So, the question is, what specialized masters is right for you and will give you the advantage you want?

To help you out, we’re putting the most popular master’s degrees head-to-head in our new series. First up, we’re comparing Business Analytics and Accounting.

What is a Master’s in Business Analytics?

A Master’s in Business Analytics is designed for students interested in big data. These individuals are interested in using machine learning algorithms to process data and draw conclusions in everything from sports to consulting, manufacturing, and healthcare. It’s all about making sense of vast amounts of data to streamline business.

What is a Master’s in Accounting?

A Master’s in Accounting is exactly what it sounds like—it’s hyper-focused on accounting. Individuals who choose this path are interested in completing their CPA examination and pursuing a career in corporate accounting. You’ll be prepared to take a strategic accounting role in audit, tax, financial management, and more.

Business Analytics or Accounting: Coursework

There’s some overlap in the coursework you’ll take as an accounting master’s student and a business analytics student. Both master’s programs delve into financial topics and include finance-related courses. In fact, some Master’s in Business Analytics programs offer a professional track in finance.  

Also, in both cases, you’ll dive into analytical techniques and data modeling—though in the Accounting program it will always emphasize finance and accounting areas whereas Business Analytics tends to be more generic.

However, that’s where the similarities end. In Business Analytics, you’ll dive deep into computer programming, statistics, machine learning, and visualization. On the other hand, a Master’s in Accounting will take you into financial reporting, auditing, business taxation, business law, and management accounting.

Those enrolled in a Master’s in Business Analytics programs will deal with more heavy statistical analysis, while those in accounting programs will focus more on elements such as taxation and financial reporting.

Business Analytics or Accounting: Accessibility

Both master’s degrees can typically be completed in 12 months with some programs lasting up to two years. In addition, students can complete either program through full-time, part-time, online, or hybrid tracks. What’s different is the application process and what type of student is best suited to each program.

Business Analytics students must be mathematically inclined and gifted in quantitative fields. Many of these Master’s programs are STEM-designated, so candidates must be prepared to demonstrate high grades and test scores in these subjects.

Master’s in Accounting applicants are expected to have a strong background in accounting, often having earned their undergraduate degree in the same field. Work experience is not typically required unless the student has no practical training in accounting.

Business Analytics or Accounting: Careers

As a Business Analyst, you may earn a higher salary than an accountant when starting—around $15,000 more—and you’ll have more job opportunities. A Master’s in Business Analytics graduate can work in a variety of analyst roles in everything from marketing to finance, strategy, and statistics. While, on the other hand, a Master’s in Accounting graduate is typically regulated to an accounting, tax, or audit career.

Business Analysts are in high demand and have many opportunities regarding their careers, typically earning around $85,000 to start. They can work in almost any industry and in a variety of job functions, including:

  • Business analyst
  • Budget analyst
  • Financial analyst
  • Corporate strategy analyst
  • Actuary
  • Social media data analyst
  • Business intelligence analyst
  • Machine learning analyst

Master’s in Accounting graduates are also in high demand and can work in a range of industries. Everyone from public accounting firms to government organizations, financial institutions, and nonprofits need accountants. However, when it comes to job functions, graduates are typically limited to working as an accountant or an auditor earning around $69,000 to start.

Business Analytics or Accounting: The Top Programs

To earn your Master’s in Business Analytics or Accounting, there are many top programs across the country that are highly regarded. It all depends on your specific interests and goals.

Those opting to enroll in the USC Marshall School of Business may have a tough time deciding between either master’s programs, considering each are regarded among the country’s best options.

If you want the best of both worlds, the USC Marshall School of Business is the only program to be in the top five for both degrees. It is highly regarded for offering great flexibility and quality curriculum.

In the Midwest, one of the top Master’s program for Business Analytics can be found at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management. Its MS Business Analytics and Information Management program is 11 months long, affordable, and STEM-oriented. For a Master’s in Accounting, you should look toward the University of Illinois Gies College of Business, which offers the best STEM-designated accounting program in the country with a 98 percent job placement rate.

On the East Coast, MIT Sloan offers the best Master’s in Business Analytics program with 100 percent of the most recent graduating class earning employment offers by graduation. Whereas NYU Stern an excellent Master of Science in Accounting, ranked 9th overall by the U.S. News & World Report.

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Dec 5, 2018

Americans Are Disconnected With Upward Mobility, Says New Kellogg Research – Chicago News

American Upward Mobility

Let’s explore some of the most interesting stories that have emerged from Chicago business schools this week.


How Close­ly Do Our Beliefs About Social Mobil­i­ty Match Reality?Kellogg Insight

New research from Northwestern Kellogg Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Edoar­do Teso assessed mobility rates among social classes in the U.S., U.K., France, Italy, and Sweden and found that Amer­i­cans’ over­es­ti­mat­ed and Europeans underestimated “people’s chances of climbing from the bot­tom to the top of the eco­nom­ic lad­der.”

According to the article, Teso won­ders whether the disconnect between people’s perceptions com­pared to the real­i­ty of social mobility might “explain why the Unit­ed States often resists income redis­tri­b­u­tion poli­cies such as high­er tax­es for the wealthy, while many Euro­pean nations embrace them.”

“These per­cep­tions are real­ly deeply root­ed,” Teso notes.

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“Amer­i­ca is famous­ly a land of immi­grants where many peo­ple did in fact build their own fortunes. In con­trast, Europe prac­ticed feu­dal­ism for cen­turies, dur­ing which a person’s fate was large­ly gov­erned by their fam­i­ly circum­stances,” Teso’s research claims.

You can read more about research here.

PIMCO and University of Chicago’s Center for Decision Research Announce Partnership to Guide Wiser Decision-MkingBooth School of Business News

To commemorate the partnership between Chicago Booth’s Center for Decision Research (CDR) and PIMCO, an “innovator in applying research to investment decisions,” the CDR laboratories will be rechristened the PIMCO Laboratories for Decision Research, which will “yield scientific discoveries with the potential to improve individual and social welfare.”

PIMCO Group CIO Dan Ivascyn writes, “Through this novel partnership, we hope to nurture exceptional insights into decision making behavior that will ultimately help PIMCO make wiser decisions for portfolios, clients and employees.”

Booth Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Accounting Madhav Rajan writes, “PIMCO’s spirit of experimentation and interest in asking real-time questions about investing and the economy make it the ideal partner for Booth.”

According to the press release, the PIMCO Decision Research Laboratories will “include a new ‘storefront’ behavioral science research lab to foster greater engagement with the public and to broaden the reach and increase diversity of participants in the research studies.”

Rajan continues, “From PIMCO’s plans to disseminate CDR’s research findings, to conducting joint projects in behavioral science, the collaboration will have a transformational impact on our research enterprise.”

You can read more about the partnership here.

MBA Student Carley Mostar Secures Funding for Her CommunityUIC Business Blog

Carley Mostar, Gies MBA ’19

The UIC Liautaud Graduate School of Business recently profiled Carley Mostar, MBA ’19, whose “Info Park” project secured $25,000 in funding from the Ford College Community Challenge (Ford C3).

Conceived as a collaboration between Mostar, the UIC School of Architecture, and the community of East Garfield Park, Mostar dreamt a plan to transform “one of the lots into a member-use space for the community to use as our own public or private space.”

Mostar and the group have hit the ground running, working with “community engagement workshops and have even started researching fabricators and vendors to work with in preparation for construction, slated to start in early spring of 2019.”

Mostar explains the importance of incorporating the voices of the community into her “Info Park” plan.

“It’s very important to me when doing this kind of work to make sure that the people who the work is for have their voices centered in the outcome of the project,” she says in a recent interview.

You can read more about Mostar and the project here.

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Apr 13, 2018

What They’re Saying: Zuckerberg Testifies Amid Facebook Scandal

Facebook Scandal

Earlier this week, ultra-rich and seemingly malnourished social media monolith Mark Zuckerberg testified before a continually befuddled U.S. Congress about the Facebook scandal regarding the private information of its unwary users.

However, despite getting turned into a plethora of memes during his time in Washington DC, it’s patently unclear what, if anything, will come as a result of the testimony, in which Zuckerberg said that data was even coming from users who didn’t actually have their own Facebook accounts.

Zuckerberg’s appearance before Congress came within the short window of time in which Cambridge Analytica—the other company embroiled in ongoing Facebook scandal—watched as its CEO Alexander Nix stepped down from his role. Check out how business schools are reacting to the recent news below.


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Jan 23, 2018

How Can We Respond To A Crisis Better? An MIT Alum Has a Few Suggestions

handling a crisis

In the wake of Hawaii’s false emergency threat last week, MIT Sloan recently discussed the two key lessons that will make countries more “efficient when responding to a crisis.”

Miyamoto International’s Elizabeth Petheo (MBA ’14) whose career has focused on international urban disaster and risk reduction and resiliency programs believes that countries in which disasters occur should drive resiliency efforts, but “international actors can act as a catalyst for knowledge transfer.”

Petheo explains that the national actors “who know the area best, understand what capabilities their community already has, and what needs to be strengthened” are the ones who need to drive the conversation. She advises communities to develop a checklist of sorts and ensure they have firm handles on questions related to the necessary equipment, whether there’s a control structure in place to make decisions, “who else in their ecosystem will be respond to disasters, and how their specific work area impacts other areas.”

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Part two of disaster relief involves the perspectives—and efforts—of the international community, which are necessary for communities to “understand links—how different actors who respond in a time of crisis can help and support each other,” according to Petheo.

Miyamoto, for instance, uses data to “help local first responders understand what different scenarios would be if an earthquake did strike their area, then help communities identify the gaps in their readiness and what areas could be strengthened.”

“To prepare for a crisis, there are a number of questions that communities can ask themselves. ‘This is not an exhaustive list,’ Petheo said, ‘but there are a couple of different buckets: the logistical and operations side of things; overall administrative management of how things get executed; and the players themselves.'”

Petheo concludes, “There is the economic, societal, social, and individual impact that’s happening all at the same time, which is what makes these kinds of emergencies so complex [but] the more you can think through what possible scenarios would be, what the situation that the community or government face would be, the better they are in coping when a crisis actually happens.”

Check out the recent of MIT’s article on disaster relief here.

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