Often, participants on the Bloomberg Businessweek Business Schools Forum pit one MBA program against another in their discussion threads. The goal, usually, is to decide which business school is best for the individual posting the question, and the programs used to always be in the same continent: U.S. programs did battle with U.S. programs, European b-schools went up against European b-schools. Not anymore. Lately participants have been asking for advice on choosing between U.S. and European business schools.

For example, BlueKiwi wrote about getting waitlisted at Harvard Business School (Harvard Full-Time MBA Profile) and accepted at London Business School (London Full-Time MBA Profile). And now he or she was wondering whether to enroll in LBS or apply to other American business schools next year.

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Miami Ad School Madrid Team Wins Gold from the Art Directors Club

Madrid gold in ‘Student Brief’ category leads a list of nine other winners from Miami Ad School

The Miami Ad School Madrid duo of Andrea Aguilar and Andrew Bernstein took home a gold ADC Cube for their “Popcorn Fairy” integrated advertising piece for snack brand Popcorn, Indiana.

They lead a list of nine Miami Ad School winners:

Zoe Sys Voegelius, Thomas Llum FedEx: “Always First” ADC Gold Cube – Advertising

Ilya Malyanov, Morgan Perrine American Apparel: “Weather Forecast” ADC Silver Cube – Web Sites

Jaclyn Shelton, Ricky Anolik, Andrew Tobin Popcorn, Indiana: “Share Bag” ADC Bronze Cube – Student Brief

Pranay Suri, Andreas Rasmussen Nike+: “GlobeRunner” ADC Bronze Cube – Beyond the Web

Thomas Llum Nashua: “The Money Roll Project” ADC Bronze Cube – Collateral

Miami Ad School New York Popcorn, Indiana: “You’ll Love Us When We’re Angry” ADC Merit – Student Brief (Is this your work?

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Wisdom is supposed to come with age, but calculus, trigonometry, the ability to balance a checkbookthese things dont. In fact, the fall-off in math skills after college is about as steep and as scary as the drop in the value of a new car once you drive it off the lot. Lets face it: youth has its privileges, and this is one of them.

This all came to mind recently when someone pointed out a little statistical anomaly published in a recent GMAC publication. At the age of 20 or 21, the average GMAT score is 575. At 22 or 23, its 536, a drop of 39 points. Things improve a few years later, when most people are actually taking the GMAT, but 575? In your dreams.

Which brings me to my point.

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When Sally Blount decamped from NYU Sterns undergraduate program about a year ago to become dean of Northwestern Universitys Kellogg School of Management, the school had some big shoes to fill. It filled them today, announcing Blounts replacement, Geeta Menon.

Menon, a professor of global business and marketing who has been on the Stern faculty since 1990, will assume the position on July 15.

In a statement, Provost David McLaughlin said Menon is a strong scholar, an intellectual leader, an excellent academic administrator, an innovative thinker witha clear understanding of the need to prepare students for a globalized world.

Before joining the faculty at Stern (Stern Undergraduate Business Profile), Menon was a research executive at the Indian Market Research Bureau in Delhi.

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