M7 is the name of the seven most prestigious and desirable business schools in the world that are typically listed at the top in business school rankings such as U.S. News & World Report. A business school is a university-level institution that teaches topics such as accounting, finance, marketing, organizational behavior, strategy and quantitative methods. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ...

The self-defined set of M7 business schools are:

• Columbia Business School in New York, NY
• Harvard Business School in Cambridge, MA
• Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, IL
• MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston, MA
• Stanford Graduate School of Business in Stanford, CA
• University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in Chicago, IL
• Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA

The deans of these seven business schools secretively meet once a year at a very private location for benchmarking and other closely guarded purposes. The schools humbly deemphasize this relationship but unfortunately the relationship seems to encourage a significant degree of consternation among non-M7 schools. The "M" in "M7" stands for "Magic", "Magnificent" or "MBA". Columbia University Graduate School of Business (part of Columbia University) is one of the worlds leading business schools. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University and one of the worlds leading management schools. ... Map of the Cambridgeshire area (1904) The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... MA may stand for: a common Chinese last name megaampere M.A. Can stand for Marijuana Anonymous, a fellowship of recovering Marijuana addicts similar to Alcoholics Anonymous. ... The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is one of the worlds leading business schools. ... Evanston is the name of several places in the United States of America: Evanston, Illinois Evanston, Indiana Evanston, Ohio Evanston, Wyoming This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... IL may stand for: Israel (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) Illinois (U.S. state) an abbreviation for the Russian Ilyushin design bureau an abbreviation for Common Intermediate Language French for He This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT Sloan is one of the worlds leading business schools, conducting research and teaching in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategic management, economics, organizational behavior, operations management, supply... Boston is a town and small port c. ... MA may stand for: a common Chinese last name megaampere M.A. Can stand for Marijuana Anonymous, a fellowship of recovering Marijuana addicts similar to Alcoholics Anonymous. ... Stanford Graduate School of Business, also known as Stanford Business School or Stanford GSB, is one of the worlds leading schools of management. ... Stanford may refer: Stanford University Places: Stanford, Kentucky Stanford, California, home of Stanford University Stanford Shopping Center Stanford, New York, town in Dutchess County. ... CA or ca may stand for: C&A stores calcium (Ca): symbol for the chemical element California: State of, United States Canada (ISO country code) Catalan language (ISO 639 alpha-2) Cellular automata Central America Certificate authority Channel America: Defunct US television network Chartered accountant Chemical Abstract Citizens Alliance: Political... ==General Information== Windowed ceiling of the Graduate School of Business Hyde Park Center The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB) is one of the worlds leading business schools. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... IL may stand for: Israel (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) Illinois (U.S. state) an abbreviation for the Russian Ilyushin design bureau an abbreviation for Common Intermediate Language French for He This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is one of the worlds leading business schools. ... Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ... Look up Pa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Pa, PA or pa may stand for: pa, a word for dad or father (pa or paw) pa, Chinese political title meaning hegemon Pa, Maori word meaning a fortified village or redoubt, described at length in Maori Wars Per annum, p. ...

References

• "GSB Expects 50% Student Turnover" - University of Chicago article, mentions M7 (Note: This article is a parody)