Manhattan Review

Manhattan Review’s origin can be traced directly back to an Ivy League MBA classroom in 1999. While teaching advanced quantitative subjects to MBAs at Columbia Business School in New York City, then doctoral candidate Joern Meissner developed a reputation for explaining complicated concepts in an understandable way. Remembering their own less-than-optimal experiences preparing for admissions tests, his students challenged him to assist their friends, who were frustrated with conventional test preparation options. In response, he created original lectures that focused on presenting test content in a simplified and intelligible manner, a method vastly different from the voluminous memorization and so-called tricks commonly offered by others. The new approach immediately proved highly popular with students, inspiring the birth of Manhattan Review.

Since its founding, Manhattan Review has grown into a multi-national educational services firm with thousands of highly satisfied students all over the world. What began as graduate test preparation now spans business, law, and college admissions tests. The original lectures have been continuously expanded and updated by the Manhattan Review team, an enthusiastic group of master test-preparation professionals and senior academics. More than twenty-five years on, the founding principle is unchanged: explain the material properly and the score follows.