Blog Archive B-School Chart of the Week November 2013 Social Currency Ranking

Blog Archive B-School Chart of the Week November 2013 Social Currency Ranking Rankings come in all shapes and sizes, but can any ranking truly capture social cachet?  For a different perspective on the value of an MBA, we turn to the  New York Times  society pages, where the editors select and profile promising couples. Each month, we dedicate one B-School Chart of the Week to tallying how alumni from top-ranked business schools are advancing their social currency ranking. Colder weather and holiday travel seem to have brought about a lull in the  New York Times wedding announcements for November. Still, of the 124 total announcements last month, 19 included a business school mention. Several weddings featured MBA students specifically. For example, Nicholas Tangney, who is a managing director for Lorentzen Stemoco and is studying for his MBA at New York Universitys Stern School of Business, was married to Samantha Lee, a vice president and account manager for consumer products clients at DeVries Global. Similarly, Tracy Massel, a student at Harvard Business School, married Steven Melzer, the director of finance and operations strategy at Expeditionary Learning. Morgan Fauth, a first year at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business who married research analyst Kevin Patrick Coleman, Jr., was also featured among the wedding announcements. Notably, Dartmouth Tuck, which has as yet kept a rather low profile in the society pages, gained two mentions last month, raising its year-to-date total from five to seven with the marriage of alumnus and strategy consultant Andrew Brown to Caroline Hockmeyer, and the marriage of alumna and merchandise planning manager Anne Snodgrass to Wharton MBA Zachary Dennett. Another notable November announcement, though not technically an MBA wedding, was that of Ira Millstein, an adjunct professor and co-chairman of the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Business School, to former stock trader Susan Frame. Millstein is also a senior partner at Weil, Gotshal Manges and the former chairman of both the Central Park Conservancy and the American Red Cross of Greater New York. With a total of approximately 1,284 wedding announcements since January, our year-to-date total of MBA mentions hits 260 this month. Share ThisTweet B-School Charts