We asked the grads for annualized total compensation for three separate years: the year before beginning business school, the first year out of school and 1998.
Arnoud De Meyer quit his job as director of the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School last year to become president of the Singapore Management University.
At Wharton, women accounted for 40 percent of first-year enrollment, at Stanford University, women made up 39 percent of the entering business school class and at Harvard women accounted for 36 percent of first-year students.
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By comparison, about a quarter of the students entering the school this year were business majors in college.
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Three days after his birth his mother was on the phone closing business deals and strengthening Piazza for the start of a new school year.
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The 35-year-old University of Illinois grad who also has one year of Harvard Business School under his belt founded the local directory and user review site in 2004 with Russel Simmons, a former PayPal colleague.
Two elective at the Tuck School of Business, Business and Climate Change and Business Sustainability, were chosen by half the second-year class.
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Another telling sign of the attention being paid to China comes with the results of this year's Business Plan Contest for MBA students at the prestigious Harvard Business School in the United States.
Each year, the Ross School of Business holds an undergrad (and grad) stock picking competition.
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No doubt 25 year old graduates of the Harvard Business School can add much value.
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Noting this trend, Jeffrey Garten called on schools to make dramatic changes in business education when he stepped down as dean of the Yale School of Management last year.
This year the Harvard Business School started sending its entire class of 900 students to learn and work overseas as part of its Global Immersion Program.
What's more, the work of Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of the London Business School has shown there is no statistical link between one year's economic growth and the next year's stockmarket returns.
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Admissions and career services teams at University of Rochester's Simon Graduate School of Business joined forces about a year and a half ago, as the school adapted to a job market that no longer favored its finance-focused talent.
Don't think the 47-year-old Harvard Business School grad is some kind of socialist, however.
Each year, student groups gather at the Ross School of Business for the annual Undergraduate Investment Conference.
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Each year the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and the Michigan Interactive Investments (MII) Club sponsor an intercollegiate stock pitch competition.
Kai Petainen, a 32-year-old computer room manager at the University of Michigan Business School, had a total return of 45% in 2006.
At the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, applications slid 10% this year.
This year, says Kristine Laca, head of admissions at the Tuck business school at Dartmouth, women's enrolments are down right across the industry.
The company, which consists of Kim and a former business school classmate, is now part of the Excelerate Labs incubator in Chicago and plans to hire five more people this year.
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Last year, Mark de Rond, from the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School, spent six weeks studying military surgeons at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan.
Last year for example, the Harvard Business School received over 9, 500 applications, the majority of which were for the first two rounds of admissions in late September and early January.
To address these cultural issues, the year-long National Hispanic Corporate Council program at SMU's Cox School of Business starts off with a heavy dose of self-awareness exercises, case studies and discussions.
Of the thousands of applications that business schools such as Chicago Booth, Harvard Business School or Columbia might receive every year, only a modest percentage are offered an interview.
When Eric Johnson of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and his fellow researchers went through popular file-sharing services last year, they found files that contained health-related information as well as names, addresses and dates of birth.
Although global economic conditions are likely to remain tough into next year, Eric Schmidt, the chairman and CEO of web giant Google, told business school students, this is the ideal time for innovators and creators to get busy with new ideas.
Last year, students at the Telfer School of Management (University of Ottawa) and Harvard Business School adopted ethical conduct oaths.
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