How School Hubs Work and How to Contribute
MBA Commons is building one maintained knowledge hub for each MBA school and program. The flagship School Guide is the hub’s front door: it combines reliable program facts, practical interpretation, and links to related community knowledge without trying to turn every useful contribution into one enormous article.
Hub and guide: what is the difference?
- A School Guide is the maintained canonical reference for a school or program.
- A school hub is the guide plus the connected questions, journeys, application lessons, events, knowledge-base resources, and community-building work around that school.
- For now, the flagship guide doubles as the hub. It should point people to the best related material, while those contributions remain in the category where they naturally belong.
Where different contributions live
- School Guides: maintained program facts, structured research, and links to the school’s wider hub.
- Ask Community: a practical question, an answer, or a useful question-and-answer pair.
- MBA Journeys: a complete MBA journey or a focused personal experience.
- App Lessons: application lessons or materials that need appropriate privacy and attribution.
- Events & Meetups: a time-bound event, meetup, panel, or working session.
- Knowledge Base: durable how-to material that is broader than one school.
- Build Together: School Builder coordination, missing-hub proposals, and community projects.
Put a reliable program fact in the guide or suggest it as a correction. Put a question in Ask Community. Put a first-person experience in MBA Journeys. When a contribution contains both fact and experience, label the distinction clearly and cite the factual claim.
Categories and tags work together
The category says what kind of contribution this is. A school tag says which school it concerns. A subject tag says what it is about. This lets one useful contribution appear in several discovery paths without copying it into multiple categories.
For example, a LondonCAP contribution could be:
- an Ask Community question tagged lbs and experiential-learning;
- an MBA Journeys focused experience tagged lbs, experiential-learning, and focused-experience;
- an Events & Meetups discussion tagged lbs and experiential-learning; or
- a maintained factual section and links inside the canonical LBS guide.
Follow or watch the lbs tag if you want updates across categories. The same pattern will work for other school tags as their maintained hubs are added.
Titles should be natural and specific
Include the school naturally when it helps someone understand the topic. Do not force every title into a rigid prefix.
Good examples:
- How does LondonCAP project selection work at LBS?
- My LondonCAP experience with a healthcare client at LBS
- LBS exchange timing for an international career switcher
- London meetup for LBS applicants and alumni — 12 September
Avoid titles such as Question, My experience, or LBS: Clubs. A clear title, category, school tag, and subject tag make search, related-topic suggestions, and future hub curation much more useful.
Suggest a correction or addition
Reply to the canonical guide or the relevant discussion with:
- the section or claim that needs attention;
- the proposed correction or addition;
- a primary or highly reliable source;
- the date you checked it; and
- whether it is a fact, interpretation, question, or personal experience.
You do not need editing permission to contribute. Approved School Builders may maintain a defined guide or hub, but that role does not grant broad wiki or moderation rights.
Volunteer as a School Builder or School Ambassador
When should a program element get its own topic?
Create a separate topic when there is a real question, a useful personal experience, a time-bound event, substantial reusable analysis, or an ongoing discussion that deserves its own replies. A course, club, centre, exchange partner, project, or other program element does not need its own topic merely because it exists. The canonical guide can describe it until the community has something useful to ask, add, or discuss.