Finding An MBA Program For VC Careers
Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley is home to many of the most famous venture capitalists Finding An MBA Program For VC Career Venture capital and private equity are notoriously difficult fields to...
View ArticleHarvard Vs. Stanford: The Entrepreneurial Battle Of Goliaths
Harvard Business School versus Stanford Graduate School of Business. Rankings aside, most people agree these two institutions sit at the top of the highly competitive world of graduate management...
View ArticlePoets&Quants’ Top MBA Startups Of 2019
Some of the MBAs behind the companies on the Top MBA Startups of 2019 When we started ranking and celebrating successful MBA startups in 2013, we did so with one goal: to recognize startup founders who...
View ArticleB-Schools With The Most VC-Backed MBA Startups
Stanford Graduate School of Business MBAs at graduation have plenty to be happy about There’s a new top dog when it comes to schools producing venture capital-backed companies. After five years of...
View ArticleIndustries & Work Cultures That Make MBAs Happiest
Perhaps money is the way to happiness. According to a robust data set from MBA-founded job platform TransparentCareer, venture capital and private equity have the happiest and most satisfied recent...
View ArticleDartmouth Tuck’s Enhanced Core Takes Shape
Changes to the curriculum include an expanded orientation program for incoming students. Tuck photo News from the Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business “On November 30, the Tuck faculty voted...
View ArticleCovid Stories: How This Stanford MBA Student Overcame A Triple Whammy Of...
Dan Mandelman took a leave of absence from Stanford GSB last quarter to care for his ailing dad and a business threatened by the coronavirus pandemic. Courtesy photo 2020 has been a trying year for...
View ArticleStudy: 85% Of MBAs Interested In Entrepreneurship
Over 85% of current MBAs and applicants say they’re considering entrepreneurship as a current or future career path, according to a new survey by venture capital firm Illuminate Ventures. The online...
View ArticleJob Ads Requiring COVID-19 Vaccination Jumped 5,000% Since January
If you’re planning to apply for a job this year, chances are dramatically increasing that you’ll face vaccine requirements. Ladders, Inc. researchers completed a comprehensive review of all 3.8...
View ArticleFamiliar Programs & Some Surprises In New Ranking Of Entrepreneurship MBAs
Not every aspiring entrepreneur can be the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. For every startup founder who strikes it big after dropping out of college, hundreds more build their businesses with the...
View ArticleWhich Schools Produce The Most Unicorn Founders? This Stanford Prof Has...
What did unicorn founders study at university? LinkedIn post by Ilya Strebulaev, a finance professor and founder of the Venture Capital Initiative at Stanford GSB Which business schools are more likely...
View ArticleB-Schools Seek To Counter Fears After The Collapse Of Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank, a subsidiary of SVB Financial Group, was shut down by federal regulators on Friday, March 10. Business schools, and the MBAs they teach, are trying to gauge the fallout Silicon...
View ArticleIn VC Ranking, New & Small Firms Make The Biggest Splash
Attention MBAs: You don’t have to work for one of the biggest venture capital companies to make a big difference. That’s the takeaway from a new study conducted by Oliver Gottschalg, a professor of...
View ArticleDo You Need An MBA To Found A Unicorn? History Says … Probably Not
Stanford’s Venture Capital Initiative, ;ed by finance professor Ilya Strebulaev, found that just 323 of 1,110 U.S.-based, VC-backed unicorns have at least one founder who went to a business school...
View ArticleRecord VC Hires In This Top B-School’s 2023 MBA Class
Will McKelvey, MBA 23 (right), met with 43 founders in five days on a cross-country trip to Berkeley in 2021 with his college roommate. McKelvey was planning on pursuing venture capital at Haas. He now...
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