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Published: January 24, 2017
HBS Round 2 Interviews Are Almost Here
As 12 p.m. Eastern time steadily approaches, the waning moments of anxiety and anticipation for Round Two interview invites to Harvard Business School are reaching a boiling point. Earlier this week, HBS Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee sent out a reminder to all applicants over at the HBS ‘Direct from the Director‘ blog. While nerves may certainly be on high for a host of applicants, Losee reminds everyone not to worry too much if you don’t receive an invite just yet. “Remember,” he writes, “this is only a portion of the interview invites; Read more
Published: January 24, 2017
Northwestern / Kellogg Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following Northwestern / Kellogg interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! Interview happened at the office of the interviewer, it was with an alum and blind. Very casual, was more to get to know me and if I’d fit in the school. Probably makes sense as Kellogg cares a lot about the culture. Interview questions that were asked were: – Why Kellogg? – Why and MBA? – What do you want to do after? – What are you doing now? The interview was relatively Read more
Published: January 23, 2017
Cambridge Judge Professor Talks Ethics in the Workplace
The subject of ethics in business continues to be a hot-button topic. Recurring corporate scandals keeping the question of how to hire and train leaders who will do right in the face of ethically challenging situations top of mind at prominent organizations around the globe. David De Cremer, a professor of management studies at Cambridge University's Judge Business School, recently penned an article for Harvard Business Review outlining six traits that he argues can predict ethical behavior in potential employees.  Read more
Published: January 23, 2017
Columbia MBA Interview Report & Questions: Rolling Admissions / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following Columbia MBA interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Rolling Admissions applicant. Good luck to them! Before the interview, I could tell that my interview was going to be relaxed and conversational from the tone established in the email exchanges. I was assigned an interviewer, so I didn’t get a choice in who to interview with. At first, I was nervous about this because my interviewer and I didn’t have similar backgrounds. We interviewed at his workplace. I was dressed business formal and he was business causal. We dove right into the conversation, and almost Read more
Published: January 22, 2017
Toronto / Rotman Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Skype
The following Toronto / Rotman interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 MBA applicant. Good luck to them! I had the interview through Skype with an adcom member. The interview was quite relaxed and the adcom was very friendly. Here are the questions: – Introduce about yourself – Why do you want to do your MBA now? – Couple of follow-up questions to go into the detail – What is your post MBA goal? why? if you cannot achieve this goal, what will be your plan B? – What motivate you Read more
Published: January 22, 2017
NYU Stern Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Adcom / On-Campus
The following NYU Stern interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 MBA applicant. Good luck to them! I was invited to interview in December and scheduled my interview for early January. Stern wants students to attend in person and interview on campus. I booked a hotel for the night before my interview near Penn station. My interview was in the morning so I took the time to walk down from Penn to the business school. Upon arriving, I checked into the admissions office. I was given a personalized folder that included information on the areas of Read more
Published: January 22, 2017
Columbia MBA Interview Questions & Report: Regular Decision / Alumnus / Off-campus
The following Columbia MBA interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Regular Decision Round applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! I was invited to interview in late December. Unlike previous years, I was only given a single interviewer to schedule with. Given that the holiday break was about to start and the rolling-admissions nature of Columbia, I wanted to schedule it as soon as possible. My interviewer was highly responsive and we scheduled an interview 2 days later. I received an email from an admissions member the morning of the interview asking me if I Read more
Published: January 22, 2017
HBS Ups the Ante for Its Annual New Venture Competition: $300,000 in Prizes to Be Won
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of its New Venture Competition (NVC), the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced that prizes for the annual entrepreneurial venture contest will exceed $300,000 across the three competition tracks. In each—the student business track, student social enterprise track and alumni track—a grand prize of $75,000 will go to the winning team—up from the $50,000 prize awarded in past years. Runners up in each track will get $25,000, and a $5,000 prize will be awarded to the venture in each Read more
Published: January 18, 2017
U.S. MBA Applicants Can Meet 14 U.K. Business Schools in DC, NYC
Next month, the British Council—the United Kingdom’s international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities—has planned a U.S. roadshow to help promote graduate management education in the United Kingdom in general while also raising the profile of 14 U.K. business schools. Read more
Published: January 17, 2017
Venture Capital Learning for Georgetown McDonough MBAs
Breaking into a career in venture capital, even with an MBA, isn’t necessarily easy. It’s something that many MBAs are interested in achieving, but that few MBAs have the support to make possible. And that’s why the MBA Venture Fellows Program at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business is so interesting. The program is a collaboration between the MBA program and the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative, and it provides full-time students interested in a career in venture capital with a year-long position at a local VC firm. It replaces the summer internship component for a typical MBA to focus solely on experience within venture capital. The program begins early in the spring semester when students start applying for positions and interviewing with VC firms. If selected, the MBA works 10 hours a week throughout the semester, and then the apprenticeship becomes a full-time internship over the summer before returning to shorter hours again in the fall. It officially concludes in December, after which time many students have been asked to stay on until graduation. To learn more about the program and what else McDonough offers its MBAs interested in venture capital, we spoke with Jeff Reid, the founding director of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative. Read more
Published: January 16, 2017
Oxford’s Saïd Business School Joins Global Network for Advanced Management
In case you missed it, Oxford University’s Saïd Business School joined the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) earlier this month. Calling itself “the leading network of top business schools committed to educating global leaders,” the GNAM was founded by Yale School of Management Dean Edward Snyder in 2012. It counts as its members eight schools in Europe, nine in Asian and the Pacific Islands, five in the Middle East and Africa and seven in the Americas. The recent addition of Oxford’s Saïd brings the total to 29 member schools. Read more
Published: January 16, 2017
Employer MBA Hiring Projections Suggest It’s a Great Time to Go to Business School
If you’re growing weary of all the MBA data forms and essays and interviews and anxiety—keep your eyes on the prize! That light at the end of the tunnel? Well, a recent employer poll from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) suggests it just keeps getting brighter. Each November, GMAC conducts a short year-end poll of employers, asking them to reflect on what business school graduate hiring actually looked like that year and what they anticipate hiring to look like in the year ahead. GMAC’s most recent Year-End Poll of Employers Report, released yesterday, paints a promising picture Read more
Published: January 15, 2017
Babson College, Coca-Cola Partner to Unleash the Potential of Women Entrepreneurs
What does it take to unleash the power of women entrepreneurs? That’s exactly what Babson College set out to discover when it was chosen by the Coca-Cola Company to review the beverage giant's 5by20 Initiative. Babson College is one of the top-ranked colleges in the world for entrepreneurship education, making it a natural partner for 5by20, the Coca-Cola Company’s global initiative aimed at empowering five million women entrepreneurs across the company’s global value chain by 2020. Babson’s report, Unleashing the Potential of Women Entrepreneurs, analyzed the program’s problems, strengths, progress and outlook to see how it was doing with regard to its goal of reaching five million women entrepreneurs throughout the Coca-Cola value chain by 2020. Read more
Published: January 15, 2017
UNC Kenan-Flagler Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Skype
The following UNC MBA interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I am an American currently working in China, so I scheduled a Skype interview (11:45pm China time). The interviewer from the adcom called right on time. He was calling from his office and the setting was fairly casual as we opened with some small talk. He started by joking that, if I had been on campus for the interview, he’d go out to where all the interviewees were waiting and say “hey, we got a Dukie in the house!” Read more
Published: January 14, 2017
NYU Stern Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus
The following NYU Stern interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 MBA applicant. Good luck to them! My interview lasted 35 min. More or less anticipated the questions: Please describe your career progress. Describe conflict situation at work and how you resolved it. Why Stern? What are your expectations? How are you planning to use your MBA? What are you bringing to the table? What experiences could you share to contribute to student body at NYU? I have attended the info night at the campus the day before and was Read more
Published: January 12, 2017
Fridays from the Frontline: Thai Adventure for MIT Sloan Student
Today’s Fridays from the Frontline comes to us from an Indian-born MIT Sloan School of Management MBA student currently in Thailand. Partha Sharma, now in his second year at Sloan, is taking part in the MIT Sloan Global Entrepreneurship Lab, or G-Lab, an experiential learning opportunity in which students spend three months working remotely from MIT with a host company headquartered elsewhere in the world and then three weeks on site at the company’s offices during their January break from classes. This year, Sloan students are in 13 different countries—Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Read more
Published: January 10, 2017
Fuqua Professor Campbell Harvey on the “January Barometer” Myth
More than 40 years since its incarnation, the so-called “January Barometer”—a theory that the direction stocks take in January predicts how their entire year will play out—is still going strong in some camps. But it’s not without its vocal detractors. In a recent Wall Street Journal article entitled “Sorry, the ‘January Barometer’ Is a Market Myth,” Fuqua School of Business Finance Professor Cambell Harvey weighs in—in opposition. Citing the Stock Trader’s Almanac, the Journal article credits the January Barometer, also sometimes called the January Indicator, as being devised by market guru Yale Hirsch in 1972. And its proponents, including Hirsch’s son, Read more
Published: January 10, 2017
HBS Round 2 Deadline Has Passed—Now What?
First, a hearty congratulations to all of you who got your Round 2 applications into Harvard Business School by last week's deadline. We know what you spent your winter holiday doing. According to Chad Losee, HBS managing director of admissions and financial aid, a conveniently timed snowstorm over the past weekend has set him and his team up nicely to sit by the fireplace, sipping hot cocoa and reading all about you. HBS Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee While Losee is sipping cocoa and lingering over applications—how are you spending your time? First of all, we realize that HBS is but one of many schools you may be applying to—and that some deadlines haven’t even yet arrived. So, to those of you still at work perfecting applications for other schools, good luck. Read more
Published: January 10, 2017
Discover How the Smith School Promotes Women in Business
What were more than 200 Girl Scouts doing at the University of Maryland R.H. Smith School of Business? They were attending Cookie College, of course! On December 10, 2016, more than 225 Brownies and Juniors from kindergarten to fifth grade headed to the UMD Smith School of Business to learn about the business of selling cookies. "The girls learned life skills like goal setting and money management that will help them in all aspects of life,” Sara Tyler, program specialist at the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital, said in a news release. “It sets them up for life.” The girls also received additional benefits, such as learning about higher education and meeting female role models. It was an empowering event that was women-led and girl-attended, and it was all a part of the R.H. Smith School of Business’ broader initiative: 50/50 by 2020. Read more
Published: January 9, 2017
MIT Sloan 2016 Employment Report Reveals Slightly Slipping Salaries
MIT Sloan School of Management late last week released its 2016 MBA Employment Report, revealing slightly slipping salaries year over year and slightly lower percentages of graduates heading into consulting and technology than in prior years. The pharmaceutical/healthcare industry drew the third largest percentage of graduates—5.8 percent—knocking investment banking out of the top three for the first time—perhaps ever. Investment banks drew just 4.7 percent of the 2016 class, down from 6.1 percent last year, 6.8 percent in 2014 and 8.1 in 2013.   Read more
Published: January 8, 2017
Oxford Saïd MBAs Beat 1,300 Applicants to Win Creative Shock 2016
Imagine joining a competition against 1,300 applicants and 182 teams, and then taking home first place. That’s exactly what happened during Creative Shock 2016; four MBA students from the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School took home the grand prize—€1,500 and airfare from Turkish Airlines. Read more
Published: January 8, 2017
Foster School Professor Discusses Charitable Giving
There’s no doubt that the holiday season is one of the biggest times of the year for charitable giving. That’s why one University of Washington Foster School of Business professor, Ann Schlosser, decided to research why we give to charitable organizations and causes. According to Schlosser, people don’t give because they’re trying to “keep up with the Joneses”—they give depending on how they feel they’re doing compared to others. Read more
Published: January 8, 2017
Forward Focus MBA: Diversity & Drive at W. P. Carey
SPONSORED CONTENT Imagine gaining a high-caliber business education without the burden of student debt. ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business is pioneering a new MBA program that offers students just that. The Forward Focus MBA, a full-time, 60-hour program, provides a scholarship to cover the full cost of tuition for the entire incoming class. With financial barriers removed, the Forward Focus MBA attracts a diverse group of students with a wide breadth of interests and experiences. Attracting Great Students from Around the World Forward Focus MBA students come from diverse socioeconomic and cultural Read more
Published: January 5, 2017
Fridays from the Frontline: Are You My Alma Mater?
Chicago native Sabrina Lakhani’s pre-MBA career took her—literally and figuratively—all over the map. From Babson College in Boston she headed to a small Connecticut marketing consultancy for a couple of years before volunteering as a full-time project coordinator at a hospital for children in Kabul. From there it was on to East Africa, working first on a network of hospitals and later on a network of schools. She then returned to work for her family’s businesses in Chicago before joining a decision heuristics science‒based marketing firm as director of client services. In choosing an MBA program, she wanted one that Read more
Published: January 4, 2017
Stanford Ignite Program Celebrates 10 Years, With No Signs of Slowing
The final weeks in December for many mean last-minute gift shopping, overindulgence with friends and family, a winding down of work and the culmination of another year. All of that may well have been afoot at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) last month, but so, too, was a celebration of a 10-year-old program that has helped foster innovation and entrepreneurship around the globe—one that shows no signs of slowing down. On December 20, 2016, Stanford GSB marked the 10th anniversary of Stanford Ignite, a unique certificate program that sets out to help non-business graduate students—those in medicine, science or engineering, for example—get a crash course business education, learning the business fundamentals they need to transform an innovative idea into a real company from renowned Stanford GSB professors and alumni. Read more

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November 28, 2024 10:49pm ET
Applying: Arizona State / W.P. Carey
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Accountant
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Booz Allen Hamilton , Ernst & Young
GRE: 311
GPA: 3.22
Years of Work Experience: 2.5
Location: Ghana
Post MBA Location: Accountant/Public
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November 28, 2024 8:12am ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, UPenn / Wharton
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Consulting
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology
GMAT: 645
GPA: 84%
Years of Work Experience: 3
Location: Brazil
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November 27, 2024 5:44pm ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Duke / Fuqua, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, UPenn / Wharton
Pre-MBA Career: Corporate Communication Specialist
Post-MBA Target Industry: Other
GPA: 3.9
Years of Work Experience: 6
Location: Indonesia
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November 27, 2024 12:00pm ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, London Business School, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Eingeneer
Post-MBA Target Industry: Other
GMAT: 675
GPA: 3,5
Years of Work Experience: 4.8
Location: Chile
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November 27, 2024 9:07am ET
Applying: Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Finance Manager
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Accenture , AT Kearney , Bain , BCG , Deloitte , Ernst & Young , McKinsey , PWC
GMAT: 690
GPA: 3.79
Years of Work Experience: 2
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November 29, 2024 9:05am ET
Accepted to Cornell / Johnson
Round: Round 1
Received via phone on November 25, 2024
GPA: 3.52
GMAT: 635
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: Northeast
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Received a call on Nov. 26. Prior background is work in communications/marketing.
November 29, 2024 5:15am ET
Accepted to UVA / Darden
Round: Early Decision
Received via phone on October 15, 2024
GPA: 67%
GMAT: 705
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: India
November 29, 2024 2:45am ET
Accepted to Cornell / Johnson
Round: Round 1
Received via email on November 26, 2024
GMAT: 740
Program Type: One Year Program
Target Career: Entrepreneurship
Application Location: India
November 28, 2024 4:55pm ET
Applied to Emory / Goizueta
Round: Round 2
Received via email
GPA: 3.19
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Finance
Application Location: Nigeria
November 28, 2024 1:14pm ET
Interview Invite to Berkeley / Haas
Round: Round 1
Received via email on October 27, 2024
GPA: 84%
GMAT: 645
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Technology
Application Location: Brazil
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