This proved the case at an MBA fair August 12th hosted by Kaplan Test Prep in Chicago, Ahlm said. He noted that Chicago Booth had a table at the event directly across from the region’s other top MBA program, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.

Ahlm, who replaced departing Admissions Director Rose Martinelli earlier this summer, was surprised by how much interest prospective applicants showed in Chicago Booth’s marking program because of what he called an unbelievably powerful stereotype that . . . → Continue Reading]]> In a post earlier this month to the Booth Insider, the admissions blog for the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Admissions Director Kurt Ahlm shared his surprise at finding himself bombarded by questions about the school’s marketing program at recent MBA fairs.

This proved the case at an MBA fair August 12th hosted by Kaplan Test Prep in Chicago, Ahlm said. He noted that Chicago Booth had a table at the event directly across from the region’s other top MBA program, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.

Ahlm, who replaced departing Admissions Director Rose Martinelli earlier this summer, was surprised by how much interest prospective applicants showed in Chicago Booth’s marking program because of what he called an unbelievably powerful stereotype that Chicago Booth is the choice for those who want to study finance, while Kellogg is the choice for marketing.

Calling this an “incredible inaccurate perception,” Ahlm noted that it is one his team has been working hard to overcome. “Based on the discussions I had last night it seems like Chicago’s reputation for having one of the best Marketing programs of any of the top business schools is starting to penetrate this steel curtain of misperception,” he continued.

For prospective applicants interested in learning more about the marketing program at Chicago Booth, Ahlm recommended visiting the website for the school’s Kilts Center for Marketing.

In a subsequent post to the Booth Insider, Assistant Director of Admissions Kelley Curtin also noted that the “Marketing at Chicago Booth” brochure for 2010 is now available. The brochure, which provides information about the school’s distinct approach toward marketing, notable alumni in the field, marketing companies who recruit at Chicago Booth and more, is available here.

Blount took the reins at Kellogg on July 15th, replacing Sunil Chopra, who has served as interim dean since Dean Dipak Jain stepped down last September. As she shares in her introductory blog post, the decision to say yes to Kellogg’s invitation was her second – her first was as a graduate student.

“The first time was life-changing. I have no doubt that the second time will be as well,” . . . → Continue Reading]]> Sally Blount, the new dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, plans to blog her way through her first 100 days on the job. Her posts, which began in mid-July when she first assumed her new role, provide insight into her background, her passions and her vision for the school.

Blount took the reins at Kellogg on July 15th, replacing Sunil Chopra, who has served as interim dean since Dean Dipak Jain stepped down last September. As she shares in her introductory blog post, the decision to say yes to Kellogg’s invitation was her second – her first was as a graduate student.

“The first time was life-changing. I have no doubt that the second time will be as well,” she wrote. “Both decisions were motivated by the same reason: Kellogg is a business school like no other,” she continued.

After obtaining her doctorate from Kellogg, Blount worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and as a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago School of Business (now Chicago Booth) before moving to New York University, where she taught and served as dean of the undergraduate college and vice dean of the Stern School of Business. She is an expert in the fields of negotiation and behavioral decision making.

Subsequent posts on Blount’s First 100 Days blog range from personal accounts of what it’s like to return as dean to a school where she first was a student to a pledge to newly appointed University of Chicago Booth School of Business Dean Sunil Kumar to work together “to extend Chicago’s position as a global destination for management education.”

If you are considering applying to Kellogg, following Blount’s blog is a great way to learn more about the new dean and her plans for the business school’s future. To follow it, click here.

The campus, the school’s second, will enroll 200 students when completed in spring of 2012. ISB’s first campus was established in Hyderabad in 1999 with the help of top international business schools including the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and London Business School.

A number of ISB’s initial investors have contributed an additional $42.9 million (2bn rupees) for construction of the new campus in Mohali. It will be home to four separate institutes focused on healthcare management, public policy, manufacturing excellence and innovation and physical infrastructure management, according to the . . . → Continue Reading]]> Construction work began this week on a new 70-acre campus for the Indian School of Business in Mohali, Punjab, the Financial Times reported.

The campus, the school’s second, will enroll 200 students when completed in spring of 2012. ISB’s first campus was established in Hyderabad in 1999 with the help of top international business schools including the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and London Business School.

A number of ISB’s initial investors have contributed an additional $42.9 million (2bn rupees) for construction of the new campus in Mohali. It will be home to four separate institutes focused on healthcare management, public policy, manufacturing excellence and innovation and physical infrastructure management, according to the FT report.

MIT Sloan School of Management will provide academic support to two of the institutes, the BML Munjal Hero Honda Institute of Manufacturing Excellence and the Punj Lloyd Institute of Physical Infrastructure Management. Wharton, meanwhile, will support the Max India Institute of Healthcare Management. An academic association for the Bharti Institute of Public Policy is still being finalized.

Savita Mahajan, who is deputy dean of ISB, will serve as chief executive of the Mohali campus, the FT reports.

For the full FT article, click here.

The donation will establish the Bernice and Leonard H. Lavin Professorship, founded through a generous gift from the Lavin family, co-founders of the Alberto Culver Company, which they built into a $1.5 billion enterprise. Kent Grayson, a member of the Kellogg marketing department since 2002, will hold the newly created chair position, the school’s first since 2007.

Grayson, who teaches Kellogg’s core marketing course and researches the role of fact and fabrication in the marketplace, was deeply honored by the appointment. “It’s not only an amazing honor to be asked to hold a chair on the Kellogg . . . → Continue Reading]]> A generous family gift to the Kellogg School of Management will create a new chaired professorship in marketing, the school announced earlier this week.

The donation will establish the Bernice and Leonard H. Lavin Professorship, founded through a generous gift from the Lavin family, co-founders of the Alberto Culver Company, which they built into a $1.5 billion enterprise. Kent Grayson, a member of the Kellogg marketing department since 2002, will hold the newly created chair position, the school’s first since 2007.

Grayson, who teaches Kellogg’s core marketing course and researches the role of fact and fabrication in the marketplace, was deeply honored by the appointment. “It’s not only an amazing honor to be asked to hold a chair on the Kellogg faculty, but it’s an immense pleasure to be asked to hold a chair named for someone who literally and truly invented many of the things I talk about in the classroom,” he said in a statement. “Mr. Lavin was one of the first people to launch and run a national sales company, and his products often represented innovations in marketing.”

Bernice Lavin, for her part, helped advance the organization’s missions in healthcare, women and family services. And Bernice and Leonard’s daughter, Carol Lavin Bernick, has long supported the Kellogg School, including serving as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board.

“While the Lavin Chair is a family gift, both our family and the Alberto Culver Company believe in the teaching and the outstanding research of the Kellogg School,” she said. “We hope this gift can help further its legacy of producing world-class business leaders,” said added.

Last week, the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University also announced the creation of a new chaired professorship thanks to a generous gift to the school. The resurgence of such gifts is a welcome development at top business schools, perhaps signaling that philanthropic giving has entered a period of recovery following a considerable slowdown as the result of the global economic crisis.

Charter members of BSAHCM include Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Harvard Business School, the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

“The Alliance aims to help the public understand the capacity of our institutions to bring about solutions to many of the management and leadership issues arising in the health sector on a global basis,” Fuqua’s Health Sector Management Director Kevin Schulman said in a statement announcing the organization’s . . . → Continue Reading]]> Last month, five leading U.S. business schools joined together to form the Business School Alliance for Healthcare Management (BSAHCM), an organization focused on fostering management education in the healthcare sector as part of an effort to improve healthcare overall.

Charter members of BSAHCM include Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Harvard Business School, the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

“The Alliance aims to help the public understand the capacity of our institutions to bring about solutions to many of the management and leadership issues arising in the health sector on a global basis,” Fuqua’s Health Sector Management Director Kevin Schulman said in a statement announcing the organization’s establishment. To be successful, management education must help create leaders who design healthcare solutions built around business fundamentals, he continued.

Fuqua’s Schulman was appointed an initial member of the BSAHCM Board of Directors at the alliance’s inaugural meeting. Other initial board members, each nominated and approved for two-year terms, include David Dranove, Kellogg; Lawton R. Burns, Wharton; Richard Hamermesh, Harvard; and Kristiana Raube, Haas.

Alliance institutions are approaching their work with a sense of urgency, according to Schulman. “The recent healthcare reform legislation in the US largely revolved around the critical issue of access to care for the uninsured,” he said. “But other crises loom even larger for most Americans: the chronic over-utilization of tests and specialist services; misaligned incentives; staggeringly high costs; and variable or poor quality of care,” he noted.  

Other BSAHCM member schools so far include Yale University, Arizona State University, Vanderbilt University, Boston University and the University of Colorado at Denver. Membership in the Alliance is open to healthcare management programs at top business schools that have shown a commitment to research, teaching and service in the health sector.

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INSEAD, with campuses in France; Singapore and Abu Dhabi, is currently in the process of naming a replacement for Brown, one that is complicated given that it requires the approval of faculty across the school’s multiple campuses. But according to the FT report, a decision is expected in the next couple of weeks, and Jain has emerged as the front-runner.

Jain stepped down as dean of Kellogg in September 2009, having served as a marketing professor at the school since 1986 and dean since 1994. Though his academic career has largely been in the United States, the . . . → Continue Reading]]> Dipak Jain, the former dean of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, has been tipped to replace outgoing Dean Frank Brown at INSEAD, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

INSEAD, with campuses in France; Singapore and Abu Dhabi, is currently in the process of naming a replacement for Brown, one that is complicated given that it requires the approval of faculty across the school’s multiple campuses. But according to the FT report, a decision is expected in the next couple of weeks, and Jain has emerged as the front-runner.

Jain stepped down as dean of Kellogg in September 2009, having served as a marketing professor at the school since 1986 and dean since 1994. Though his academic career has largely been in the United States, the FT reports that it is his vision of developments in Asia that make him an attractive candidate to INSEAD. Born in India, Jain taught there in his youth and was instrumental in establishing the Indian School of Business.

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Applauded by admissions officers and applicants alike, the Clear Admit School Guides are informative and detailed profiles of leading business schools that combine the views of faculty, students, alumni and the popular press. They are available electronically (in PDF . . . → Continue Reading]]> Available for immediate purchase and download are the 2010-2011 versions of the Clear Admit School Guides to Chicago Booth, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, Ross, Stanford and Wharton.  These titles feature the most current information from the programs, including the latest admissions guidelines, class demographics and placement statistics, and offer insight into year-over-year trends.

Applauded by admissions officers and applicants alike, the Clear Admit School Guides are informative and detailed profiles of leading business schools that combine the views of faculty, students, alumni and the popular press. They are available electronically (in PDF format) to help you meet your tight time constraints.

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Updated versions of the remaining School Guide titles are slated for release later this summer, so stay tuned for more details!