Financial Times “European Business Schools” Ranking 2025:

🎓 Cologne’s WiSo Faculty stays among Europe’s top business schools.
🏆 The University of Cologne rises to 62nd place.
📊 Strong in quality, international outlook and graduate satisfaction.
🇩🇪 Ranked 6th in Germany and 10th in the DACH region.

👉 https://uni.koeln/R9894

#financialtimes #Ranking #BusinessSchools #wisocgn #UniversityofCologne #BusinessExcellence

"For an MBA student from a prestigious institution, wealth accumulation can begin immediately after graduation, if it hasn’t begun already. The median graduate from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, for example, might earn $175,000 in their first year out. Unlike law and medicine, where every practicing professional holds an advanced degree, an MBA is optional for aspiring capitalists.
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Their time came at the turn of the twentieth century, as the massive bloating of American industry fueled demand for a new professional class to coordinate the organs of moneymaking. Business schools emerged as finishing schools for top managers, delineating and legitimizing them as both keepers of special insight within the corporate world and academic peers to lawyers, doctors, and clergy, whose respectability they desired but could not easily attain. If a salty Harvard classics major would not offer the managers their due praise, then a business school could.

In the business school, technical curricula are embedded in a matrix of ideological validation: not only the insistence that solutions to societal ills should be routed through a business framework and that a business career amounts to a more noble cause than profit maximization, but that profit maximization is itself a virtue.

Here, neoliberal capitalism is taken for granted as a moral absolute and inescapable reality. At best, greed might not be considered good, but it will always be necessary in a world where market logic dictates behavior and there is no alternative way for human life to be arranged. Business schools are themselves dictated by market logic: If capitalism is the end of history, and if companies need hierarchical management to function, then the capitalist economy’s demand for trained managers will never subside, making the supply of such individuals an endlessly generative enterprise."

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/business-schools-capitalism-ethics-managerial

#BusinessSchools #Management #Capitalism #Ethics #MBAs

7 Best Business Schools in Boston: Programs & Rankings 2025

Thinking of pursuing a business degree in Boston? Boston is well-known as a center for academia and is home to some of the world's best business schools. They offer the ideal curriculum for an MBA, a finance degree, or an entrepreneurial course.

Top Picks for 2025:

Explore programs & rankings here: https://scholarinfohub.com/best-business-schools-in-boston/

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#MBA #usa #uspol #uk #Canada #business #businessschools

A question for those who are more familiar with various MBA programs.

Can I assume that these programs consider a targeted hit a reasonable step for the modern CEO to take so as to preserve his corporations' shareholder value?

Behind the crisis at #JohnLewis lies a much more general issue:

Do top managers need experience in the sector in which their firm operates?

In the UK (& elsewhere) we have become beholden to the idea (promoted by #BusinessSchools among others) that #management is a generic & transferable skill divorced from practical experience in that which is being managed.

In UK, this is partly related to the norms of the #civilservice & Cabinet or Ministerial generalists.

An idea whose time is up?

Several academic journal publishers have banned authors from using #ChatGPT, and professors are changing exams and assignments in response to the tool. But is ChatGPT a tipping point that will change #BusinessSchools as we know them?

While many of us are stunned by how impressive and natural the output can be, it doesn't mean it's useful for everything we do. Here’s what @INSEAD found are the major implications for #research, #teaching, and #learning.

https://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-organisations/chatgpt-and-future-business-education #AI