Foster School Has More MBAs Gaining Tech Employment Than Any Other B-School
The University of Washington’s Foster School of Business has become the leading B-school in tech employment. According to the 2016 employment reports, more MBAs at Foster took tech jobs than at any other school—outpacing even Silicon Valley schools such as Stanford GSB and the University of California, Berkeley. In fact, Foster sent more than half (52 percent) of its MBA graduates into the tech sector, that’s a 9 percent increase over last year and a 13.2 percent lead over the next closest school. Continue reading…
MBA Alumni Spotlight: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Harvard MBA ‘95
Mark Zuckerberg may be the biggest and most recognizable person behind Facebook, but there’s a whole team of executives behind the scenes making sure that the social media giant is paying dividends to investors. One of these executives is Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook Chief Operations Officer (COO) and Harvard Business School alumni. According to her bio, Sheryl received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with highest distinction from HBS. Continue reading…
Rotman School Weighs In on Canadian AI
Before Google, Amazon and Silicon Valley took advantage of the artificial intelligence boom, Canada actually laid the groundwork. In fact, it was a handful of Canadian researchers—backed by the Canadian government and universities—that helped to produce a growing number of artificial intelligence startups. Unfortunately, many of Canadian AI scientists have been lured away from Canada by fat paychecks from Google, Facebook, Apple and other companies. Continue reading…
Ryerson Startup Wins $250K from Google.org
Building a better world and starting a company are not mutually exclusive. In fact, it’s businesses that tend to have the most innovative ideas for a better world. And that’s exactly what Google set out to discover with their Impact Challenge. The Challenge started with hundreds of applications from nonprofit innovators across Canada until the projects were narrowed down to 10 exceptional organizations. Growing North, a project that got its start at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management, was one of the winning finalists. Continue reading…
Chicago Booth Alumni Spotlight: David Lawee, Google
David Lawee, Canadian born entrepreneur and current Vice President of Corporate Development at Google, is a business titan the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago is surely proud to call an alum.
The Potential Impact of Brexit on U.K. Business Schools
British Prime Minister Theresa May plans to invoke Article 50 of the European Union Lisbon Treaty on March 29th—triggering the United Kingdom’s two-year process of exiting the bloc of nations it has been part of for four decades. Given this, it seems a good time to look at the impact of Brexit on U.K. schools. According to a 2017 GMAC Brexit-U.S. Survey, 45 percent of respondents claimed that Brexit would make them less likely to study in the United Kingdom. But what does that figure mean? Are U.K. schools expecting fewer applications from top international talent, or is everything well? Continue reading…
