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January 27, 2014 Harvard Business School topped  The Financial Times ‘ 2014 global MBA ranking for the second year in a row and the fifth time since the  FT  began ranking full-time MBA programs in 1999. Stanford Graduate School of Business held on to its second place finish of last year, but Wharton slipped from its third-place perch to fourth, replaced by London Business School. Columbia Business School and INSEAD shared fifth place. The bigger news in the new ranking, published today, had to do with other prominent U.S. schools. Yale University’s School of Management jumped four places to tenth in the world, its first appearance among the top 10 in seven years. Only two years ago,  The Financial Times had ranked Yale 20th in the world. Yet, curiously, the school’s weighted salaries for alumni fell to $150,880 from $159,370 a year earlier and the average increase over pre-MBA pay also dropped to 114% from 118% in 2013. The Univer...

November 14, 2013 A graduating MBA student in Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business this year nailed down a private equity job in the northeast with a total compensation package north of half a million dollars. This year’s highest paid Stanford MBA, who had a business undergraduate degree and three to five years of work experience before getting a graduate degree, reported receiving a guaranteed annual bonus of $337,500–a sum that does not even include potential tuition reimbursement, relocation expenses, auto allowances, profit sharing, stock or stock options. If that student received the median base salary in private equity of $150,000 along with the median signing bonus of $35,000, the person’s total first-year compensation would be a minimum of $522,500. The numbers are disclosed in Stanford’s recently published employment report for the Class of 2013. All told, Stanford MBAs reported median base salaries of $125,000–exactly the same as last year. But median...

ECONOMIST LIST Rank Business School Country 1 Chicago, University of - Booth School of Business United States 2 Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business United States 3 Virginia, University of - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration United States 4 Harvard Business School United States 5 Columbia Business School United States 6 California at Berkeley, University of - Haas School of Business United States 7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Sloan School of Management United States 8 Stanford Graduate School of Business United States 9 IESE Business School - University of Navarra Spain 10 IMD - International Institute for Management Development Switzerland 11 New York University – Leonard N Stern School of Business United States 12 London Business School United Kingdom 13 Pennsylvania, University of – Wharton School United States 14 HEC School of Management, Paris France 15 Cornell University – Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Man...