MBA ニュース：Harvard University Appoints Jodi Goldstein New Managing Director of I-Lab

Harvard Business School (HBS) has appointed Jodi Goldstein, a long-time investor and entrepreneur, will become Harvard i-lab’s new Evans Family Foundation Managing Director this June.

Last year she spearheaded the Launch Lab, a business incubator for Harvard alumni, which is putting Allston, MA—where the i-lab is located—on the map as a solutions-centered hub swirling with interdisciplinary collaboration.

Goldstein has been a high-tech entrepreneur and investor for the past 15 years, with a focus on innovative consumer technologies. With industry expertise in consumer, e-commerce, mobile, social networking and luxury goods, she’s been on the management team of several venture-backed startups including iMarket (sold to D&B), Planetall (sold to Amazon for more than $100M), Send.com, Hoteluxury.com and Mobicious. 

Most recently, she was a co-founder of Drync, a mobile app for wine (a 2011 MassChallenge winner). She’s also an HBS alumna.

For more see the Harvard Innovation Lab press release. 

MBA ニュース：IESE Business School, China Europe International Business School Launch New World Executive MBA

Spain’s IESE Business School has partnered with the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) to launch the World Executive MBA.

The new program will feature modules on CEIBS and IESE campuses across five continents. Modules are scheduled to take place in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Barcelona, New York, Munich, Silicon Valley, Sao Paulo and in strategic locations in India and Africa. 

To cater to executives from a variety of regions, the program format will be blended. Residential modules at CEIBS and IESE campuses will complement online modules. Both courses taught as part of the residential modules and those taught online will follow the case study method and will be taught by expert faculty from both schools.

IESE and CEIBS have been partners in a range of programs for 20 years, including a Global CEO Program, a Global CEO Program for China and a joint PhD.

For more information, see the World Executive MBA.

MBA ニュース： ウォートン・スクール Expands its Online MBA

Wharton School has expanded its online foundational MBA courses to now include a Business Foundations Specialization series that adds a capstone project in which participants can apply what they learn to help solve real-world business issues, the school announced last week. 

Wharton will invite top performers in the online series to apply to one of the school’s graduate programs, waiving the application fee, and will award up to five $20,000 scholarships to applicants who are admitted.

As with the initial four courses in Wharton’s Foundation Series – Accounting, Finance, Marketing and Operations Management – the new Capstone Project component is available through online education platform Coursera. Wharton was one of the first leading business schools to present the building blocks of its MBA curriculum in online form to a world audience.

The  Business Foundations Specialization series combines all four foundation courses, taught by Wharton faculty, with the newly added project component and confers a Coursera Verified Certificate for participants who complete the entire series. 

As part of the Capstone Project, participants work with industry partners to help solve a specific real-world problem. Snapdeal and Shazam have entered into initial partnerships with Wharton to provide Capstone project topics.

The cost of the entire series with a Verified Certificate is $595.

The top 50 performers each year in the Business Foundations Specialization series will be eligible to apply to one of Wharton’s graduate business programs without paying an application fee. Wharton will also award $20,000 scholarships to up to five students admitted to the MBA program who have excelled in the Specialization series in the previous 12 months.

For more information see Wharton Online

MBA Round 3/4/5 (Late Round) Deadlines

The following is a list of remaining late MBA Round deadlines:

Feb. 27: LBS R3
Mar. 03: IESE R3
Mar. 04: INSEAD
Mar. 11: Berkeley/Haas R3
Mar. 11: Cornell/Johnson R3
Mar. 13: Emory/Goizueta R4
Mar. 13: Oxford R4
Mar. 13: UNC/Kenan-Flagler R4
Mar. 15: CMU/Tepper R3
Mar. 15: NYU/Stern R4
Mar. 19: Duke/Fuqua R3
Mar. 23: Michigan/Ross R3
Mar. 24: UT McCombs R3
Mar. 26: Wharton R3
Apr. 01: Georgetown/McDonough R3
Apr. 01: Northwestern/Kellogg R3
Apr. 01: Stanford GSB R3
Apr. 01: Dartmouth/Tuck April Round
Apr. 01: UVA/Darden
Apr. 06: Harvard R3
Apr. 15: Columbia Regular Decision
Apr. 15: UCLA Anderson R3
Apr. 15: USC Marshall R3
Apr. 17: LBS R4
Apr. 23: Yale SOM R3
Apr. 24: Oxford R5
May 19: IESE R4
May 29: Oxford R6

While it’s always best to apply as early as possible, the difference between applying in Round 1 and applying in Round 2 is, for most applicants, a marginal one.  

However most of the seats in the incoming class will have been given away by the time Round 2 decisions are released, the acceptance rate in the third round is dramatically lower than that for the first two deadlines of the season.

エコノミスト：Top 10 Business School Alumni Networks

The Economist has listed the world's top-10 alumni networks. Nine of the top 10 strongest alumni networks are affiliated with U.S. schools. 

The best schools also tend to be old and big, this means keeping up to date on an awful lot of people. Harvard Business School, for example, has 44,500 registered MBA alumni.

The Tuck school at Dartmouth comes out top with its famously fierce collegiate spirit. 

For more information, please see the Economist. 

MBA ニュース：Georgetown, ESADE and SDA Bocconi School of Management Launch Global Advanced Management Program

Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Madrid’s ESADE and Milan’s SDA Bocconi of Management have united to launch the Global Advanced Management Program (GAMP)m a new program designed to prepare senior executives to meet the demands of organizations.

The  program takes participants to three different continents. GAMP participants will meet for three one-week modules held every two months.

During the first module, at Georgetown McDonough in Washington, D.C., participants will look at the complex circumstances shaping the world today and their impact on business. 

Next, participants will convene in Asia, where the Antai College of Economics and Management (Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China) will host a second module analyzing emerging global business models. 

The third and final module will take place at ESADE in Madrid and will help participants hone the leadership skills required at highly international companies.

GAMP gives participants a crash course in the real-time challenges facing leaders in the global marketplace. The format was also designed to help participants expand their network to include new countries and cultures.

GAMP will also feature several special components, such as a CEO Forum, a Wellness Plan and a Ground-field Exposure Lab.

For more see Georgetown-ESADE-SDA Bocconi Global Advanced Management Program.

MBA ニュース：シカゴ大学 ブース to Make Hong Kong’s Mount Davis Asia Executive MBA Hub

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business hopes to renovate Hong Kong’s historic Mount Davis site, once an artillery base, into a new intellectual hub to serve as home to the school’s Executive MBA Program in Asia.

“The center will allow us to engage even more effectively with the business and academic communities in Hong Kong,” Chicago Booth Dean Sunil Kumar said in a statement. “It will be a testament to our lasting commitment to educating leaders in the region.”

Originally a gun battery in the 1930s, Mount Davis became a mess hall and clubhouse for British officers after World War II and later a government detention center. Chicago Booth’s plans would involve adaptive reuse of some of the original structure and key architectural elements, such as fireplaces and arches, as proscribed by local conservation management guidelines. 

Building plans were submitted in January, and Town Planning approval is slated for June 2015. Pending approval and subsequent land grant execution, construction could start in August 2016, with occupancy anticipated for August 2018.

For more information see the Chicago Booth website