B-Schools Battle for Top Talent

Competition among top MBA programs to attract the most brilliant applicants has grown fierce, according to a news piece in Business Because. With tactics ranging from launching online programs, expanding class sizes, increasing scholarship opportunities, overhauling curricula and creating ever more specialized courses, it’s clear the elite programs will continue to pull out all the stops to entice the best candidates.

Seb Murray’s article, in which I share a few of my own views related to this trend, brings up several interesting points about this intensified competition, and includes perspectives from the admissions side of top programs in the US and abroad. If you’re curious to know what b-schools are doing to lure in the top talent, I invite you to follow the link above for the whole story.