Student Profile

Our Students Have Extensive Experience

Our students are working professionals who average 14 years of experience in diverse backgrounds. A typical class can include professionals in IT, finance, HR, and sales, as well as entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists. They come to class ready and willing to share their practical experience and past successes.

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Leadership Learning

Built to Advance Your Career

The skills and knowledge you gain at LFGSM make you a more effective business leader and the kind of manager who gets noticed. A Lake Forest MBA gives you a perspective that goes beyond a single department or functional area to encompass a greater understanding of the organization’s overall strategies and goals.

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The LFGSM Experience

Designed to Help You Rise Higher

At LFGSM, the coursework is rigorous, but the experience of working with us isn’t. Our program is heavy on relevant learning and light on bureaucracy. From admissions through the classroom experience, all the way to graduation, we pride ourselves on being responsive to the needs of our professional students.

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The LFGSM Faculty

Our Faculty is Strictly Business

Our courses are led by a 100% practitioner faculty of business leaders and successful professionals, bringing experience that can only come from making real decisions that affect real companies. Get your business education from business leaders, not from teaching assistants or research-focused professors.

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News and Events

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LFGSM Business Education Forum: February 9

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Attend an MBA Preview

Lake Forest: March 5, 2012

Schaumburg: March 12, 2012

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LFGSM Welcomes Walgreens' Warren D. Lindley to its Board of Directors

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LFGSM Welcomes Baxter's Antoinette L. Gawin to its Board of Directors

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36 Area Professionals Receive Chance of a Lifetime: “Write Your Own Future” Scholarships Awarded

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New Epicenter of Business Learning in the Northwest Suburbs

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LFGSM Introduces the Daytime MBA Program

Featured Video

Why Choose Lake Forest Graduate School of Management?

Harley Haney on How Getting His Lake Forest MBA in Grayslake Changed His Life and Career

Why Should Global Business Matter to You?

The LFGSM Experience

Can a Lake Forest MBA Make You a Better Spouse?

Faculty Member Adam Hartung Speaks at FutureForum

Faculty Member Rich Horwath Speaks at FutureForum