Business Schools’ Rankings: Is it Time to Click the ‘Refresh’ Button?

The Symposium brings together a broad range of Business School stakeholders including leading scholars, deans, employers, alumni, and business education media representatives. Panel members will present different perspectives on the current state of Business Schools' Programs rankings. These rankings became very important for many leading business schools, and perhaps even more for the aspiring ones. While there are shortcomings to these quantitative exercises, there are various reasons that rankings, of all sorts, continue to be in high demand (and, I suspect, increasing) among students, employers, academics and other stakeholders. At the same time, many expressed worries that there is very little reference in rankings' criteria to the outcomes, which so many of us, educators and other stakeholders, consider relevant and important in the learning & educational experience of graduate students, such as analytical skills, self awareness, creativity, various EQ competencies, appreciation of and comfort with ...