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...business school that actively enforced a non-disclosure policy. The administrations at three of HBS’s top peer institutions—Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School—let their students decide whether they want to disclose their grades to recruiters...
...same is more or less true at the University of Pennsylvania’s business school. “There is really no policy at Wharton right now,” Edward I. George, chair of Wharton’s MBA Executive Committee, said in an interview. “What’s in place is a system of more or less voluntary grade non-disclosure...
...academics.Over the past seven years, many concerns have been raised about the policy. Anecdotal evidence from professors and administrators has supported the notion that students are simply taking academics less seriously. These anecdotes have been proven at other schools. At the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, another B-School that doesn’t allow grade release, undergrads taking cross-registered classes routinely outperform MBA candidates. Were the same perception about HBS to take hold among recruiters, HBS’s reputation (and the opportunities of its students) would be diminished.A no-release policy that all students...
...than gaining general management skills,” he added.HBS is not the only top business school reexamining its grade disclosure policy. Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School—the three other peer schools that have a non-disclosure policy—are also reviewing to what extent students should be allowed to show potential employers their grades. Ruback, who is also a senior associate dean at HBS and Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, said...
...Aisner. “It is very hard to say that there is a cause and effect relationship just by looking at salaries because there [are other]...issues that make people want to come here.” Scott Stallings, associate director of student programs and advising at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, warned that the supposed salary increases of business school graduates can be deceptive. “The per student salary is not necessarily going up. Companies are hiring more MBAs commanding MBA salaries so the average salary is going up,” said...