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Co-Founder Fortuna Admissions, MaKiNetwork, & CentreCourt with Poets & Quants; columnist for Forbes, BBC (formerly BusinessWeek, The Economist); rankings expert
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Why Everyone Should Answer Stanford’s Iconic ‘What Matters Most’ Essay

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By Matt Symonds, Fortuna Admissions
| Poets&Quants Verified
Stanford Graduate School of Business at dusk For more than two decades, Stanford GSB has laid down the same challenge to its applicants: What matters most to you, and why? It’s a question so simple that applicants routinely underestimate it, and so demanding that many spend weeks circling it before they find anything to say. I’ve heard candidates who can speak fluently about deal structures and market entry strategy go quiet when asked to explain what actually drives them.
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The Student Who Shared His Notes & Changed How The World Learns

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By Matt Symonds
| Poets&Quants Verified
London Business School graduate Riccardo Ocleppo built Docsity out of simple frustration over finding good study material. Fifteen years later, it is one of the world’s largest peer-to-peer learning communities In 2010, Poets&Quants published a profile of Don Jacobs, the legendary dean who spent a quarter century transforming Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University into one of the world’s great business schools.
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Meet SDA Bocconi’s MBA Class Of 2026

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By Matt Symonds
| Poets&Quants Verified
If there was a European equivalent of the M7 U.S. business schools, SDA Bocconi would naturally be on the list. Rooted in the long-standing tradition of Bocconi University, the School of Management combines academic excellence with an entrepreneurial mindset. The one-year MBA consistently ranks among the world’s best, including No. 1 in Europe in Bloomberg’s Best Business School Ranking 2025-26, and regularly among the top 5 in The Financial Times.
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