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The $70,000 OPT Fee For International Students That Turns Tomorrow’s Business Leaders Away From the U.S.
Six of the tech leaders at last week's White House AI lunch came to America as international students. Under a new DHS proposal, the schools that trained them would now pay $70,000 each to let their successors stay and work. Washington wants to turn America's universities into a toll booth on the road from campus to career.
Joe Rogan Doesn’t Need An MBA But His Media Business Might
Forbes' 2026 ranking of the world's highest-paid podcasters puts the combined earnings of the top 20 at $638 million. Joe Rogan leads with $82 million. A 2023 Morning Consult survey found that 57% of Gen Z would like to become influencers. If the next generation of media companies is being built by individuals with microphones and cameras, who is teaching the business of it?
Is AI Making You A Better Procrastinator?
Procrastinators are rarely idle, according to Stanford philosopher, John Perry. They're often extremely busy, doing almost anything other than the one thing they should be doing. Now you can hand a half-formed thought to an AI agent and tell it to get going. It obliges instantly. It feels as though a great deal of work is getting done. But the thinking still has to happen.
Where Should Harvard Business School Build An International Campus?
The FT reported that Harvard Business School spent part of last year working out how to teach its MBA somewhere other than Boston, holding talks with schools in Europe and Canada. Harvard says the trigger was the threat to international student visas, that the threat receded, and that nothing further is under way. Let's say the file never got closed. Where in the world does an M7 school put its second home?
Franchise, Partner Or Build: The Three Ways A Business School Goes Global
Harvard Business School spent part of last year working out how it would teach its MBA somewhere other than Boston. There are three ways a business school goes global, and they differ greatly in cost, control and failure rate. Bill Kooser was Associate Dean at Chicago Booth, during the years when Booth's international footprint expanded. He explains how a top business school might consider the options.
The MBA Welcome Address Warren Buffett Has Never Given
For all the wisdom Warren Buffett has handed out over six decades, he has always steered clear of commencement speeches. But Buffett, who was rejected by Harvard Business School, has never stopped teaching. For years, MBA students made the pilgrimage to Omaha for a Q&A and his shareholder letters are read in business school classrooms around the world. We have imagined the welcome address he might give them on their first day.
MIT Sloan #1 In The QS MBA Ranking 2027, While Dartmouth Tuck Is #55
MIT Sloan is #1 for the first time in the QS Global MBA Rankings 2027. Harvard is #2 and Stanford GSB, while Wharton slumps to #4. There are three UK schools in the top ten, but no Asia schools in the top 20. Tuck is #55, slightly ahead of a little-known school in the UAE, while INSEAD's diversity rank is #131. Another day, another MBA ranking.