What’s most surprising about the new US News ranking might be the lack of surprises – in other words, how similar the ranking is to last year’s. The top ten schools are the same, except Dartmouth has slipped into a tie for tenth, and the schools are in nearly the same order.
That’s in contrast to other rankings like those from Financial Times and the Economist, which saw major upheavals as top B-schools opted out of being ranked due to the pandemic.
When it came to the US News ranking, however, few schools opted out. And for those schools that didn’t submit data, including Wharton and MIT Sloan, US news simply reused data from last year’s ranking and ranked the schools anyway.
March 3, 2021
As travel and eating out resume in post-pandemic India, the love-hate relationship between hotels and restaurant owners and online aggregators of their services has come to the fore yet again.
On Feb. 26, the Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI) initiated the #GoDirect, #BookDirect, and #OrderDirect campaigns on social media to urge patrons to connect with businesses directly instead of going through popular travel portals such as MakeMyTrip and Yatra, and food delivery apps such as Swiggy and Zomato. The association, which represents 55,000 hotels and 500,000 restaurants across the country, believes that intermediaries are biting into the revenues of their members, and making it hard for them to survive amid a tough business environment.
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Certainly, those are all respected business schools, but conspicuously absent are some of the “usual suspects” of elite MBA rankings.
For example, the top two schools from the Economist’s 2019 ranking, University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School, are nowhere to be found. How could that be?
The answer, it turns out, is that a number of top MBA programs simply decided to sit out the Economist’s ranking this year.
But their loss seems to be the gain of schools like IESE, which catapulted 9 spots to the top of the ranking, or EDHEC, which jumped an entire 25 spots.
What Can We Expect After the Pandemic?
Credit.John Gall
By Grace Blakeley
112 pp. Verso. Paper, $14.95.
The chasm between just how well some have thrived economically during the pandemic and just how badly others have fared is among the more startling results of this
annus horribilis. But where some see the disease as upending some industries (travel and restaurants) and boosting others (home entertainment and technology), Blakeley, an English writer, Labour Party activist and leftist theorist, sees the have and have-not divide as the latest and perhaps most egregious chapter of the sad story of capitalism.
For Blakeley, the response to Covid is twined with the great financial crisis of 2008-9: Then, states bailed out the financial industry; now, the state is bailing out all industry to maintain the system of “monopoly capitalism.” While she acknowledges that no government could just let the system collapse, she excoriates the way that officials have become handmaidens to