Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
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If the school raises recognition, use the reply titled 'If they ask for recognition criteria'.
From: Cyrille Minso · Subject: A fifth-Palme review for consideration
Attach: nothing. Offer the criteria; do not invent current deadlines, selection or committee decisions.
Answer any specific question first, then use the matching reply below. These are replies to engagement, not additional unsolicited opening emails. Use the name of the person who actually replied and retain the existing contact route.
Owner: Cyrille Minso. Free examples: approved, with no conditions.
Upgrade outlook: 80-100%, corporate estimate for this school. He wrote: "regarding the preselection, it is more a % of chance to be upgraded".
Does payment determine the level? The level of Palmes is determined independently by the International Scientific Committee based on academic and international recognition criteria; the membership fee is simply calculated afterwards according to the level of Palmes awarded.
Eduniversal's licensing price list, sent by Cyrille on October 5, 2026: For a school holding 4 Palmes, Silver is EUR 5,990 per year and Gold is EUR 9,990 per year, excluding taxes, over a three-year license. Platinum is EUR 9,990 per year plus a program promotion pack. All three tiers include the certification widget. Platinum promotion packs: up to 5 programs EUR 13,345; up to 10 EUR 23,290; unlimited EUR 59,800. The pack billing period is not specified; use the formal quotation for that detail.
NYMM's guidance to sellers, membership plan: share only exceptionally, when really required. Do not attach it to routine first messages or free-example notes.
NYMM's guidance to sellers, recognition conversation: If the school raises recognition, use the reply titled 'If they ask for recognition criteria', with the fee and independent decision stated clearly. Keep the recognition text in reserve. Do not describe the school as formally preselected on the basis of this estimate. Keep the estimate in seller guidance; do not present it as an awarded or guaranteed level. The prepared recognition text states a one-time EUR 2,990 priority evaluation fee, separately from membership. That fee is not listed in the licensing price list supplied here.
Carey is a first contact. No earlier exchange with this school is on file. The contact on your list is entered as Prof. Alexander Triantis. He is the dean, and Dean is his published title, so address him as Dean Triantis. He has led the school since August 2019 and was appointed to a second term through June 30, 2029. Our reading is that he is not a new dean looking for an early result, and that the opening is what he is building now: in an interview published on July 18, 2025, he described Carey's first Executive MBA, with monthly residencies primarily in Washington, D.C., and a new Master in Management.
Two things shape the approach. First, Carey displays outside recognition on its own pages: AACSB accreditation, with initial accreditation in February 2017, and Poets&Quants' Ten Schools to Watch in 2024, which the dean cited in his message in the school's impact report. We found no statement against rankings or paid evaluations in the pages collected on September 17, 2026. The first email with the free AI examples offers three examples of what AI assistants answered to a prospective student's questions. Any later conversation about a paid service is a separate matter, opened using the confirmed terms below. Second, the Johns Hopkins vendor page describes one route for a new vendor: the ordering department sends an invitation, and once the Purchasing Department approves it the vendor registers through the vendor portal. In our reading, a yes from the dean alone would not make a payment possible. That matters if the school agrees to discuss a separate paid service.
One message to the dean, with no one copied. If the dean's office asks for another recipient, add that person then. Answer whoever replies.
No contact on file. We found nothing on who inside Carey approves a purchase in the pages collected on September 17, 2026. Our working assumption is the dean, and it is not confirmed. He is the same person as on your list, in a second term that runs through June 30, 2029.
The university's vendor page says the ordering department sends the invitation and the Purchasing Department approves it. We found nothing on who at Carey holds the budget, and no finance or business officer for Carey, in the pages collected on September 17, 2026.
Free AI examples first. These instructions apply to message 1 under What to send, its note and its timing. Send that first email only. If the school raises recognition, use the reply titled 'If they ask for recognition criteria'.
Free AI examples first. These instructions apply to message 1 under What to send, its note and its timing. Send that first email only. If the school raises recognition, use the reply titled 'If they ask for recognition criteria'.
Free AI examples first. These instructions apply to message 1 under What to send, its note and its timing. Send that first email only. If the school raises recognition, use the reply titled 'If they ask for recognition criteria'.
Subject: What AI assistants say about Carey
Attach: the short note with the three examples (item 3) · When: once the sender checks are complete and the short note is attached. Preferred: by October 16. If the sender checks are not complete by October 16, send from November 2. A free-example message sent after October 18, 2026 needs the questions asked again first. Never send without the short note.
Attach: the short note (item 3), again
When: ten working days after the free-example message, and not on the dates marked Avoid in the dates table: October 19 to 30, November 16 to 20, November 23 to 27, December 15, 2026 to January 3, 2027, March 22 to 26, 2027, and May 17 to 25, 2027. If the tenth working day falls on one of those dates, send on the first working day after them.
After this: If there is no reply to the follow-up, stop. Do not write to anyone else at the school.
4. One page for the dean. Only after the first conversation, and only if the contact agrees. Never with the free-example message or the follow-up.Prepared · sender checksOpen
| Person | Part in the decision | What to know | Contact so far |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander TriantisDean, since August 2019. Second term through June 30, 2029 | The person you write to. Our working assumption is that he decides. We found nothing on who approves a purchase in the pages collected on September 17, 2026. | In the July 2025 interview he describes the school in terms of products and markets, and several of the statements we collected carry a figure. Was dean at the University of Maryland Smith School of Business before Carey. A question to be ready for from him, in our judgment: what does this do for an applicant choosing between Carey and another school? | No contact on file |
| Kiera HynninenAssociate Dean for Global Marketing and Communications | Not copied on the free-example message or the follow-up. Continue with her if the dean introduces her. | Oversees school communications, including branding, marketing and advertising, the website, social media and public relations. Nothing in the pages we collected shows that her office handles rankings or outside rating bodies. A question to be ready for from her if the examples are passed to her, in our judgment: is this something schools pay for? | No contact on file |
| Mindi ShephardSenior Director of Strategy Management and Institutional Effectiveness | Not yet involved. Nothing in the pages we collected says she handles vendor invitations or outside rating bodies. | More than 30 years at Johns Hopkins. Led Carey's initial AACSB accreditation process and formed its Institutional Data and Analytics division. Questions to be ready for from her, in our judgment: how is this different from AACSB, and how many hours does it take? | No contact on file |
| Lasse MertinsProfessor of Practice and Vice Dean for Education and Partnerships | Not yet involved. Whether outside rating bodies go through his office is not in the pages we collected. | Partnerships is in his title. Only his title appears in the pages we collected on September 17, 2026. | No contact on file |
| Kelly FarmerAssistant Dean for Recruitment and Admissions | Not yet involved. | Oversees recruitment, application evaluation and candidate experience for Carey's MBA, MS and Certificate programs. Not copied: no one is copied on the free-example message or the follow-up. | No contact on file |
| Budget ownerNot found in the pages collected | Not identified. | We found no finance or business officer for Carey named in the pages collected on September 17, 2026. Do not ask who holds the budget. It comes up after the school agrees to discuss a separate paid service. | Not identified |
- EduniversalCyrille Minso
- Write to · no contact yetAlexander TriantisDean
- Not copied · no contact yetKiera HynninenAssociate Dean for Global Marketing and Communications
- Before any payment · if Eduniversal is a new vendorJohns Hopkins UniversityA vendor invitation from the ordering department, approved by the Purchasing Department. Whether Eduniversal is already a Johns Hopkins vendor is not in the pages we collected.
- Not yet involvedMindi ShephardSenior Director of Strategy Management and Institutional Effectiveness
- Not yet involvedKelly FarmerAssistant Dean for Recruitment and Admissions
- Not yet involvedLasse MertinsProfessor of Practice and Vice Dean for Education and Partnerships
Introductions. No one in your network has yet been matched to Dean Triantis. In your own closed cases, several wins came through a personal introduction. Share the deans of your member schools, and each will be checked against his published career. So far that is all we hold: he was dean at the University of Maryland Smith School of Business before Carey. That is his former school, not a known contact. His boards and co-authors are not in the pages collected on September 17, 2026. Any match appears on this map. Keep members of your committee out of the sales conversation.
Free AI examples first. These instructions apply to message 1 under What to send, its note and its timing. Send that first email only. If the school raises recognition, use the reply titled 'If they ask for recognition criteria'.
A reply, or a forward
The free-example message asks for nothing. If none comes, send the follow-up once, after ten working days. If there is no reply to the follow-up, stop. Answer whoever replies. No reply time can be given. This page takes out the ways we can see a first approach failing here. It does not promise a reply.
A short exchange on what the examples show
If they say the comparison misreads their pages, check it against their pages and correct the comparison if they are right. We report what the assistants answered without altering it. Correcting our own comparison is not a service, and nothing is sold. If they ask what Eduniversal is proposing, keep any recognition review separate from the free AI examples in the first email. The one page (item 4) is for after a first conversation, and only if the contact agrees. If they ask about fees or about anything beyond the examples: Use the direct commercial answer on this page: the prepared recognition text states EUR 2,990 once for evaluation, membership is optional and separately priced in the licensing price list, and Cyrille confirms that the committee determines the Palme level independently. Request written scope or terms only for details not supplied here.
One question, if the school replies
After a reply, ask one thing: who at the school would use this. Do not make budget, purchasing or supplier registration a condition of receiving the free examples. Those come up after the school agrees to discuss a separate paid service.
January to March 21, 2027: a contact with no decision asked
Only if the school has replied. Keep an unsolicited check-in light. If the school wants a separate commercial discussion, its timing takes precedence over this calendar suggestion; use confirmed written terms. Intersession classes run January 4 to 22, and the Spring I session runs January 25 to March 21. Any later conversation about a paid service is a separate matter, opened using the confirmed terms below. See 'What we need from you' below.
Later, with the school’s agreement: a separate paid service
After substantive engagement, use the permission question below; proceed with written information if the school agrees. Any later conversation about a paid service is a separate matter, opened using the confirmed terms below. See 'What we need from you' below. The dates table marks March 29 to May 14, 2027, in the Spring II session and after the spring break of March 22 to 26, as a workable stretch in the school's calendar for such a conversation. That is our judgment, not a date the school has set. If the school asks for them, bring your published criteria.
If the school asks about anything paid: the vendor invitation at Johns Hopkins
For reference, if the school itself asks what comes next. Do not raise purchasing or vendor registration with the school. The university's vendor page gives the steps. A new vendor gives the Johns Hopkins ordering department its email address, so that the department can send an invitation. Once the department submits the invitation and the Purchasing Department approves it, the vendor receives an invitation to add its information through the vendor portal. The page says the email will come from “PaymentWorks on behalf of Johns Hopkins Enterprises”. The vendor validates its email address, completes and submits the registration, Johns Hopkins reviews it, and the vendor is notified of its vendor number. We found no turnaround time on that page as collected on September 17, 2026. Which department would be the ordering department for Carey is not on that page.
If the school chooses to go ahead: one call and the paperwork
Only if the school itself has asked for a paid service using the confirmed fees above. In our judgment the workable weeks are March 29 to May 14, 2027, before the exam week of May 17 to 21. Ask in one message for their contracting entity and address, the tax details they require, whether a purchase order number must be on the invoice, and payment terms. Have your own entity and tax details and a one-page scope ready. Nothing on this page promises an order or a date for one.
| Dates | Why | |
|---|---|---|
| Now to October 16 | Good | Fall I classes run to October 26. Our recommended moment for the free-example message, once the sender checks are complete. The date is our advice, not a rule in the school's calendar. If the sender checks are not complete by October 16, send from November 2. A free-example message sent after October 18, 2026 needs the questions asked again first. Never send without the short note. Session dates in this table are from Carey's own academic calendar for its graduate sessions. |
| October 19 to 30 | Avoid | The Fall I session ends October 26 and Fall II begins October 27. These are class days. Our advice is not to start a new exchange across the changeover. |
| November 2 to 13 | Good | Fall II classes are in session. Second window for the free-example message, if the sender checks are not complete by October 16. A free-example message sent after October 18, 2026 needs the questions asked again first. Also where the follow-up falls if the free-example message went by October 16: ten working days later is between October 19 and 30, so it moves to November 2. |
| November 16 to 20 | Avoid | Your convention in Biarritz, on your own calendar. Nothing should need a reply from you that week. Do not raise the convention with the school. |
| November 23 to 27 | Avoid | The calendar lists no break for November 23 to 25. The Thanksgiving holiday is November 26 and 27, with no onsite classes. Our advice is to leave the whole week. |
| November 30 to December 11 | Good | Fall II classes are in session. Where the follow-up falls if the free-example message went between November 2 and 13: ten working days later is between November 16 and 27, so it moves to November 30. A first email sent after October 18, 2026 needs the questions asked again first. |
| December 15, 2026 to January 3, 2027 | Avoid | Exam week for onsite classes is December 15 to 23, and Fall II classes end December 23. The calendar lines we collected show nothing for December 24 to January 3. Leaving those days is our advice. Intersession classes begin January 4. |
| January 4 to 22, 2027 | Intersession classes. No classes are held on January 18, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. | |
| January 25 to March 21, 2027 | Good | Spring I session. A contact with no decision asked, only if the school has replied. Keep an unsolicited check-in light; an agreed commercial discussion may proceed with confirmed written terms. |
| March 22 to 26, 2027 | Avoid | Spring break. No onsite or online classes are held. |
| March 29 to May 14, 2027 | Good | Spring II session, which runs to May 23. Only if the school itself asks about anything beyond the examples. Any later conversation about a paid service is a separate matter, opened using the confirmed terms below. |
| May 17 to 25, 2027 | Avoid | Exam week for onsite classes is May 17 to 21. Spring II classes end May 23. The Carey graduation ceremony is May 25 (tentative). |
| June 1 to 10, 2027 | The calendar lines we collected end with the graduation ceremony. A possible second slot for the call and the paperwork, in our judgment, only if the school has chosen to go ahead. The school's own dates decide. | |
| June 30 | The university's financial statements are for years ended June 30. That is the university's year, not a budget cycle of the school's own. We found no start date for the year and no budget months in the pages collected on September 17, 2026. Do not raise budget with the school. If the school itself asks what comes next, ask the dean's office when the school's own requests are set. |
Free AI examples first. These instructions apply to message 1 under What to send, its note and its timing. Send that first email only. If the school raises recognition, use the reply titled 'If they ask for recognition criteria'.
| Item | Why it matters here |
|---|---|
| Confirmation that you will correct the comparison where the note has misread the school's published pages | The free-example message says so in your name. We report what the assistants answered without altering it. |
| Your published criteria, your own short answer on how an Eduniversal evaluation differs from AACSB accreditation, and the staff time an evaluation asks of a school | Questions to be ready for from Mindi Shephard, in our judgment. She led Carey's initial AACSB accreditation process. This page does not write those answers for you. Sellers give them only if the school asks. |
| Carey's current level and its history on your scale, its Deans' Vote result, and its standing against the other US schools you rate | This page shows 4 Palmes, taken from your priority list. We found no school named as a competitor in the pages collected on September 17, 2026. |
| Your own written statement of what the examples can and cannot show | AI answers change over time. That has to be said with the examples, in your words, before someone at Carey says it. |
| Who at Eduniversal sends any convention or Deans' Vote invitation, and when | Sellers do not invite. Any invitation is sent by Eduniversal separately, using the confirmed terms below. |
| Confirmation of your 2026 convention dates and place | This page uses November 16 to 20 in Biarritz, from your own calendar. Sellers do not mention the convention to the school. |
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Level today | 4 Palmes (from your priority list) |
| Upgrade outlook | 80-100% (corporate estimate; not a formal preselection; no guarantee) |
| Owner at Eduniversal | Cyrille Minso |
| Write to | Alexander Triantis, no one copied |
| Decides | Alexander Triantis, Dean (on your list as Prof. Alexander Triantis; our working assumption, since we found nothing on who approves a purchase in the pages collected on September 17, 2026) |
| Route | The dean first, with no one copied. If the school later wants to buy and Eduniversal is a new vendor to Johns Hopkins: a vendor invitation from the ordering department, approved by the Purchasing Department |
| Quoted so far | Nothing. No fee discussion with this school is on file. |
| Status | Prepared, nothing sent |