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Dec 9, 2019

Financial Times Reveals Top European Business Schools for 2019

Best European Business Schools

While many U.S. business schools continue to report declining annual applications—even to some of the most prestigious (and lucrative) MBA programs in the world—many of the best European business schools continue to flourish. According to the Financial Times, application volume in the continent increased by around 63 percent in 2019.

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Nov 20, 2019

The Top 5 Paris Companies Hiring MBA Grads

Top Paris Companies

The City of Light is known for exquisite art, architecture, culture, fashion, and luxury. Paris is also an international crossroads for business and industry. Home to ten French Companies listed in the Fortune Global 500, Paris has the highest concentration of headquarters of the 500 top companies in Europe. Some of the world’s largest banks and companies call Paris home, many of whom seek top MBA talent.

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Jan 28, 2019

Top 5 European MBA Programs for ROI

Europe Return on Investment

There’s no denying that European business schools are commanding a growing share of MBA students. According to the latest trends, as MBA applications have dropped in the U.S., they’ve increased. Last year, 61 percent of European business schools reported an increase in application volume.

There are many reasons for this increase, from the changes in U.S. immigration policies to the desire for a more globally focused education. However, one of the most appealing aspects of European business schools has to be cost. American business schools typically require a hefty investment in tuition as well as two years of foregone salary. In Europe, it is far less.

Many schools in Europe receive government funding, allowing it to offer lower tuition. For example, an MBA at IMD in Switzerland costs just CHF 60,000 for its One Year MBA. This low tuition cost and short program length also translates into a powerful return on investment (ROI). Continue reading…

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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.

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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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Mar 20, 2018

The Best Business Schools for Landing Top Consulting Jobs

Clear Admit recently explored which business schools help prepare MBAs the most for a career in consulting, which you can read below.


With starting salaries in the $140,000 to $150,000 range and a customary $25,000 signing bonus on top of that, it’s no wonder so many business school students target the prestige consulting firms known as the “MBB”—McKinsey & CompanyBoston Consulting Group (BCG), and Bain & Company—as their post-MBA landing pads. That $170,000+ annual compensation package can quickly cut any MBA loan debt you may have taken on down to size.

Indeed, management consulting has been one of the most coveted career paths for fresh MBA grads for ages. And though the technology industry has in recent years been stealing some grads from the consulting industry’s traditional slice of the pie, the most recent MBA employment reports reveal that consulting is already making a comeback against tech at certain schools.

The opportunity to work with a range of clients comprised of many of the world’s most celebrated businesses across industries—tech included—is part of the appeal of consulting. In many ways, a top consulting gig allows MBA grads to continue their management education while getting paid for it—and further honing their skills and expertise by helping solve a wide variety of business challenges. And, not for nothing, breaking into the MBB is a highly competitive pursuit—one that almost assures that your colleagues will be smart, driven people you’ll get a lot out of working with.

Finally, where the top consulting firms are choosing to find their talent reflects on the quality of the education those schools’ students are getting. In many ways, the hiring practices of the MBB can serve as a gold star standard of sorts for MBA programs.

Elite Firms Hire Grads from Elite Business Schools

The crème de la crème of leading business school talent has headed toward the top consulting firms for decades—and performed well there—creating a virtuous circle of sorts in which the firms’ appetite for such talent only grows. And while this piece focuses on MBB, we should note that a host of other consulting firms—Deloitte, A.T. Kearney, Accenture, Strategy&, and Oliver Wyman among others—are also highly prized post-MBA destinations.

If you are looking to see which business schools send the greatest percentage of their graduates into consulting overall, don’t miss our September 2017 analysis of leading consulting industry feeder schools. Which schools top the list? And what stands out about how these schools successfully train students for careers in consulting?

Looking at Class of 2016 graduates, the University of Virginia’s Darden School led the pack, with 38 percent of its graduates heading into consulting. Columbia Business School was next, sending 35 percent, followed closely by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, which sent 33 percent.

The 2017 employment reports, which have been released since our analysis last fall, show some shifts year over year. Darden tied with Emory’s Goizueta School of Business in terms of the percentage of Class of 2017 grads who headed into consulting, with each school sending 34 percent. Close on their heels were Columbia, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, and Dartmouth’s Tuck School. All four sent 33 percent of their most recent graduating class off to consulting firms.

2 Non-U.S. Schools Lead All Others in Consulting-Bound ’17 MBA Grads

But year after year, one thing remains the same. INSEAD, with campuses in France, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi, beats all leading U.S. business schools when it comes to consulting. INSEAD’s 2016 MBA employment report, detailing employment outcomes for December 2015 and July 2016 INSEAD grads, shows that 46 percent went into consulting. And the most recent figures reveal that almost a full half—49 percent—of the 1,029 students who completed the INSEAD MBA program in December 2016 and July 2017 chose to either enter or return to the consulting field.

We should note here that INSEAD is distinct from many other schools in that it includes sponsored students who are returning to their pre-MBA employers among its hiring stats. This is in contrast to many U.S. schools, where the reported number and percentage of students hired by sector and employer corresponds to those students actively seeking employment, excluding sponsored students. Of the 49 percent of INSEAD 2017 grads headed into consulting, 33 percent were new hires and the remaining 16 percent were returnees.

London Business School (LBS) was the runner-up for the Class of 2017, sending 41 percent of grads into consulting. This was a 6 percentage-point gain over the school’s previous class of MBA graduates. Like INSEAD, LBS’s reported sector designation and top employer information includes sponsored students, only its employment report does not disclose what percentage of the class those returning students represent.

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Feb 12, 2018

New UT Dallas Partnership at Jindal School Helps Make Global Connections

ut dallas partnership

In a move to increase strong global business connections, the International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis at the University of Texas at Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management has announced a new partnership with the Le Mans University of France.

The new partnership, which was approved last November in France, will connect Jindal’s International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis (ICDRiA) with Le Mans’ new Risk and Insurance Institute. The formal agreement was signed by ICDRiA director, Dr. Alain Bensoussan, and Jindal School dean Dr. Hasan Pirkul.

“[T]he partnership will enhance the Jindal School’s research profile in Europe and promises to establish welcome new ties in energy, finance, insurance, operations management and other disciplines,” Dr. Pirkul said.

According to Bensoussan, who founded ICDRiA in 2004 to better study risk management and decision making in large-investment industrial projects, believes the partnership will the university better reach its goal of developing strong international ties.

“Everything is connected in today’s global economy, which makes it important to develop links in research,” he added.

Le Mans University is located 130 miles southwest of Paris and is home to several large global insurance companies that work side-by-side with the school on risk analysis measures. Already, the university has demonstrated the wide-reaching impact of their work, through partnerships that invest in renewable energy and support infrastructure. Similar projects are planned for the partnership between Le Mans and Jindal, using the school’s resources to explore projects related to U.S. infrastructure, financial institutions and energy providers.

“We’ll be working together with good people, exchanging ideas and building momentum,” Bensoussan further explained. “By cooperating, instead of isolating ourselves, we can both create something significant.”

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