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Bountiful market for students

If there is one word that sums up the consumer market for Executive MBA programmes these days, it is choice.

Turn on, tune in, and learn

Andrew Baxter on the advantages of a 21st century education.

Empathetic business sense nurtured by disaster

Mark Mulligan hears why one humanitarian felt compelled to study for an EMBA.

Professor to watch: Bill Duggan of Columbia Business School.

As academics go, Bill Duggan is refreshingly down-to-earth. An associate professor of management at Columbia Business School in New York, he specialises in what he calls “strategic intuition”.

Dean profile: Steve Jones of the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler school

Steve Jones is not your average business school dean. Before becoming the top dog at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler school, he was not an academic, but a chief executive.

Deans’ column: Peter Lorange of IMD on Roald Amundsen the explorer

Peter Lorange extols the virtues of his fellow Norwegian Roald Amundsen.

When two heads are better than one

Embarking on an EMBA is synonymous with extensive hard work, sleepless nights – and stress – and is guaranteed to disturb any household.

Teamwork makes a world of difference

Andrew Baxter explains how schools – in partnership or individually – have developed multi-site global EMBA programmes

Interaction adds to learning experience

Andrew Baxter talks to recent graduates of two global EMBA programmes.

Still too few women

The low number of women on MBA and EMBA programmes has long been a source of concern to business schools.

Part-timers have more opportunities

School profile: Tanaka Business School

How to strike a right balance

Collaborative programmes come to the fore

EMBA 2007 methodology

Insead diary

Dean profile: Philippe Naert of TiasNimbas

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Top MBA programmes 2008

  1. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
  2. London Business School
  3. Columbia Business School
  4. Stanford University GSB
  5. Harvard Business School
  6. Insead
  7. MIT: Sloan
  8. IE Business School
  9. University of Chicago GSB
  10. University of Cambridge: Judge

Top European Business Schools 2007

  1. HEC Paris
  2. London Business School
  3. Insead
  4. IMD
  5. IE Business School
  6. Iese Business School
  7. ESCP-EAP European School of Management
  8. RSM Erasmus University
  9. EM Lyon
  10. Esade Business School

Top EMBA programmes 2007

  1. Kellogg/Hong Kong UST Business School
  2. Trium: HEC Paris/LSE/New York University: Stern
  3. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
  4. Columbia/London Business School
  5. IE Business School
  6. London Business School
  7. University of Chicago GSB
    Washington University: Olin
  8. Columbia Business School
    Insead

Top masters in management programmes 2007

  1. HEC Paris
  2. Cems
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  3. ESCP-EAP European School of Management
  4. Essec Business School
  5. EM Lyon
  6. Grenoble Graduate School of Business
  7. Audencia
  8. Stockholm School of Economics
  9. RSM Erasmus Univeristy

Top executive education custom programmes 2007

  1. Duke Corporate Education
  2. IMD
  3. Harvard Business School
  4. Iese Business School
  5. Babson Executive Education
  6. University of Chicago GSB
  7. Columbia Business School
  8. Thunderbird School of Global Management
  9. MIT: Sloan
  10. Ashridge

Top executive education open programmes 2007

  1. Harvard Business School
  2. Stanford University GSB
  3. University of Virginia: Darden
  4. University of Chicago GSB
  5. IMD
  6. Center for Creative Leadership
  7. IE Business School
  8. Iese Business School
    Northwestern University: Kellogg
  9. Babson Executive Education