Blog Archive B-School Chart of the Week June 2014 Social Currency Ranking

Blog Archive B-School Chart of the Week June 2014 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.   With June marking the halfway point in our 2014 tally of MBAs whose nuptials were mentioned in the  New York Times  wedding announcements, we present an overview of the past six months of data. The number of business school students and alumni who were highlighted in June aloneâ€"a total of 67â€"more than doubled our year-to-date figure, bringing the cumulative tally to 130 out of 600 weddings in 2014. Despite the sudden leap after a relatively slow May, the year-over-year numbers for June are strikingly similar, considering the aggregate tally was 127 out of 590 weddings at the same point in 2013. Wharton bettered CBS for the month to take the leader spot in our social currency rankings, claiming an aggregate yearly total of 24 mentions. These included the double-MBA wedding of Wharton alumnae  Ginny Too and Emily McNabb, both of whom now work in the Philadelphia office of McKinsey Company. In addition, Dartmouth Tuck made surprising gains for June, with five mentionsâ€"the first of any for the school this yearâ€"tying with Stanford GSB. Notably, these also included some double-MBA marriages, including that of Dartmouth Tuck alumnus  Matthew Woodward  to Stanford GSB alumna Neha Chauhan, and that of Tuck alumnus  Ryan McDonald  to HBS alumna Caroline Wilson. In another wedding of note, longtime news anchor, special correspondent, and television host  Katie Couric married Chicago Booth MBA John Molner, a partner at investment banking firm Brown Brothers Harriman. Share ThisTweet B-School Charts