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Last year, an investigation by Politico found that women are still significantly less likely to run for office than men, even after the 2016 election galvanized many of them into political action. The top three reasons cited were: They don’t see themselves as candidates. Many often have to be asked,...

Why a select few U.S. colleges and universities experience an upsurge in applications Over the past four years, American colleges and universities have been struggling to recruit MBA students. A 2018 survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admissions Council, the nonprofit who oversees the GMAT examination, reported that applications to...

This webpage provides statistics for per-capita productivity of business schools in 24 leading journals covered by the University of Texas at Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings in 2015–2018. (Please see list below). The UTD rankings measure total output not correcting for tenure-track faculty size. In order to understand...

While new trends consistently emerge in higher education, rarely is a movement as widely talked about as design thinking. Stanford University’s d.school, founded in 2005, is a well-known leader in the space. IDEO, an award-winning design and innovation company, introduced human-centered design to the corporate world decades ago. Since then,...

Left unacknowledged, the ‘knowledge illusion’ can stand in the way of how much students learn. Do you know how a zipper works? Most of us assume we do. But in fact, experiments performed by psychologists reveal that when asked to explain the mechanics of a zipper, most people have no...