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- M7 stands for the Magnificent Seven: HBS, Stanford, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg, Columbia and MIT Sloan. Yep, like the western.
- Wharton, founded in 1881, was the world's first collegiate business school.
- Tuck, founded at Dartmouth in 1900, was the world's first graduate school of management.
- HBS opened in 1908 and teaches by the case method: you argue a real company's decision in class.
- Wharton doesn't do a one-on-one interview. It's a Team-Based Discussion with other applicants.
- Stanford GSB's best-known essay asks one thing: what matters most to you, and why?
- INSEAD's MBA runs about ten months, across campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.
- ISB's flagship PGP is a one-year programme, taught in Hyderabad and Mohali.
- Columbia has a January intake, J-Term, for students who skip the summer internship.
- Round 1 deadlines usually land in September or October; Round 2 in January.
- Darden, at the University of Virginia, also teaches mainly through cases.
- LBS sits on the edge of Regent's Park in London.