Latest Imperial College Business School news

Top business schools are providing access to seed and venture capital – essential for many student entrepreneurs to launch and scale their start-up ventures.

Skilling up and scaling up are not mutually exclusive pursuits. Business schools are temping entrepreneurs to their programs but start-ups remain wary of investing in education.

Future managers must become masters of analytics. Top business schools are teaming up with big data leaders, which are desperate to hire talent.

The gender gulf still exists but but there are signs that top business schools are bridging the divide.

As the technical landscape shifts there is an intensive desire to hire marketers with digital skills. Chief marketing officers must now combine both technology and strategic expertise.

MBA careers departments are forecasting rising demand for data managers and recruiters are on the lookout for analytics talent.

Financial technology companies founded by business school graduates are revolutionizing financial services and disrupting areas such as payments, money transfers and SME loans.

In financial services, demand for professionals with financial analytics is growing at a rapid pace, as data becomes the sexiest word in the recruitment market.

Recruiters from Microsoft and Oracle say they value MBA graduates, as the technology industry taps more business schools to help drive growth.

Business schools are teaching MBA students how to use data analytics and programming languages like Python and Ruby – skills in demand at big technology companies.