MBA Alumni Spotlight: General Motors CEO Mary Barra
General Motors CEO and Stanford MBA, Mary Barra, is a testament to passion and commitment. Though many profiles on Barra focus on her role as the world’s first female automaker CEO, it is perhaps more telling that, according to Forbes, Barra is lauded as having “… accomplished more in three years than most CEOs do in 30 years.”
Terry College Research Finds Harm In A Good Reputation
New research from the University of Georgia – Terry College of Business has found that a good reputation could actually have a negative impact on business.
Fortune Features Wharton Prof’s Insight on Net Neutrality
Newly appointed Federal Communication Commission chairman Ajit Pai spoke last week at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., in which he fiercely criticized net neutrality rules. Pai expressed his opposition to the “ … heavy-handed regulations,” of the Title II classification, which prevents paid prioritization of bandwidth.
Cambridge Judge Empowers Women to Become Rising Leaders
Currently, only 26 women serve as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies—roughly 5 percent—and only one in six board members are women (17 percent). While the numbers are up from twelve years ago when there were no women CEOs and only 10 percent of board members were women, there’s still a lot of work to be done. Judge Business School is among the MBA programs working to further bridge the gap with its Cambridge Rising Women Leaders Programme. Continue reading…
Which Business Schools Produce The Most Unicorn Founders?
Billion-dollar startups, more affectionately and repeatedly crowned as Unicorns, have become a benchmark that business schools around the world use to boast overall success. But which business schools actually produce the most successful startup founders?
Which London Universities Educate the Most Global Business Elite?
Who educates the global business elite in the UK? According to the latest Times Higher Education Alma Mater Index 2017, three schools in London made it into the top thirty: the University of Oxford (14), University of Cambridge (20) and Imperial College London (29). Continue reading…
