"All happy companies are different, because they found something unique to do."

PETER THIEL, PAYPAL COFOUNDER, shares tips for entrepreneurs

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PayScale’s 2014–2015 College Salary Report, which ranks colleges and universities on alumni earnings, has placed Questrom 30th on its list of the best graduate business schools. According to PayScale, the School’s MBA alums pull in $81,900 as an early-career salary, and rise to a mid-career salary of $132,900.

“He’s always embraced the ideas that there’s no end to what you can achieve if you don’t care who gets the credit and that unbounded success is a result of surrounding yourself with people who are smarter than you are.”

KELLI QUESTROM on the secrets of Allen Questrom's success

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Questrom’s Executive MBA is the best in New England, according to the Financial Times. The paper also ranked the EMBA 27th in the United States and 69th globally—up 12 places from 2013.

Hang On To Those Greenbacks

Popular digital currency might not be worth the risk

THE SALES PITCH SOUNDS GREAT. Bitcoin promotes itself as a “new kind of money” and, with no banks meddling in the middle, it claims easy international—and anonymous—transactions with few, if any, fees.

Mark Williams, executive-in-residence and master lecturer, isn’t sold. In 2014, the confirmed Bitcoin skeptic gave congressional testimony on the digital currency: while he does not “view Bitcoin as ‘rat poison,’ this virtual currency does pose significant risks to small business owners.”

A former senior trading floor executive and bank examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank, Williams also presented on the topic at the World Bank in 2014. There, he outlined 10 reasons to avoid the supposed currency of the future—from the fact that Bitcoin is not legal tender to his assessment that it “is a hyper-asset bubble in the process of deflating.”

28 You’re a go-getting group. And don’t just take our word for it. Forbes has ranked BU 28th in the nation in its list of most entrepreneurial universities.

“Creating that network and that friendship and that bond with the right partners is key. You have to find someone you really trust and who’s really good—not just someone who speaks English.”

Hong Kong–based CEO George Chen (BSBA’72) on being successful in global markets

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“I’d talk to the elevator operators, I’d talk to the greeter at the front door, I’d talk to the people in the distribution center….They all had useful ideas. There’s not one person in a company who can’t make a contribution.”

ALLEN QUESTROM (BSBA’64, HON.’15), MASTER OF RETAIL, ON TURNING AROUND AMERICA’S BEST-KNOWN STORES

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Or 4.03 stars to be exact. That’s the out-of-five mark Net Impact gave to Questrom in its Business as UNusual report, a ranking of graduate school programs by social and environmental impact. The nonprofit put Questrom 22nd in the nation for its “integration of social and environmental themes into curricula, career services, and student activities.”

+5 Questrom has added 5 new endowed chairs since 2010 with three of them coming in the past two years. The most recent are two new Questrom professors and the Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor.
39 Questrom has cracked the top 40 in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of undergraduate business schools. An improved reputation score helped the School move up 4 places to 39th in the 2015 list. Overall, U.S. News ranks BU 37 out of 500 global universities.

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