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Published: October 25, 2015

Ambitious HBS Campus Master Plan Marches Forward with Two New Buildings

Plans were filed earlier this month for two new buildings on the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus, according to a report in the Harvard Crimson. The new facilities, called Klarman Hall and G2 Pavilion, will replace the existing Burden Hall, which is slated for demolition in 2018. They are part of an ongoing HBS campus master plan that will have spanned more than a decade when completed. According to development project plans filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority in early October, the two buildings will total 105,100 square feet of new construction. Klarman Hall, scheduled for completion by August 2018, will be three stories tall and will house a 1,000-seat auditorium capable of accommodating HBS’s entire MBA class, the Crimson reports. It will feature a more “welcoming” design than Burden Hall, which the documents described as “a windowless building lacking a positive relationship with campus open spaces, pedestrian paths, and buildings.” The G2 Pavilion will be connected to Klarman Hall, but plans for it are still under development. Read more

Published: October 23, 2015

Oxford Saïd Hosts Lively Debate On Corporate Responsibility

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. As part of its annual MBA Launch program, Oxford University’s Saïd Business School recently hosted a debate between faculty members that addressed whether corporations are responsible for practicing social responsibility as part of their business models. Oxford alumni accompanied debaters Oren Sussman, reader in finance, and Richard Barker, professor of accounting, in the discussion. Sussman’s assertion was that corporations should use their resources to focus on making money rather than filter them into working toward change in areas such as the climate crisis and social inequality. Barker’s team held the opposing opinion that while corporations should obviously function for profit, responsibility toward such societal issues can and should be integrated into their practices to achieve a greater goal. Read more

Published: October 22, 2015

Fridays from the Frontline: MBA Data Guru Analyzes Interview Acceptance Rates

This week, we’ve had the pleasure of connecting with Wayne Atwell, a second-year MBA student at NYU Stern School of Business, who is perhaps better known as the MBA Data Guru. In January 2014, while in the midst of applying to business school himself, he launched a website with that name after crunching numbers to figure out his own chances of getting into the various schools where he had applied. (Atwell is pictured above, far right, with his Stern block and their strategy professor, Sonia Marciano.) In using data to answer his own questions about the MBA application process, he realized he was also answering the questions of other MBA applicants, and so www.mbadataguru.com was born. As for why and how he’s kept updating it, even now amid the hectic pace of a full-time MBA program? “Mainly I like playing around with data,” he says. “I find it fun.” But he’s also gotten to chat with lots of MBA applicants, learned a bit about web development and managed to grow an audience, he adds. “Still, it’s more of a hobby than anything else." Read more

Published: October 21, 2015

MIT Sloan Launches Inclusive Innovation Competition to Improve Economic Opportunity for All Workers

As tempting as it may be to believe that a rising tide of technological innovation will lift all boats, too often low and middle income workers are left behind—or even harmed by advances that otherwise benefit business, economy and society. To meet the challenge of “inclusive innovation”—innovation that improves economic opportunity for all—MIT Sloan School of Management earlier this month launched a new competition designed to crowd source entrepreneurial and innovative energy toward this end. The MIT Inclusive Innovation Competition (IIC), funded by the Rockefeller and Joyce Foundations, was announced on October 7th as part of the launch of Solve, a new cross-disciplinary program at MIT to address the greatest challenges facing the world today. IIC is a joint effort of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) and the MIT Innovation Initiative (MITii). Read more

Published: October 20, 2015

U. Chicago Booth Interview Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus

The following U. Chicago Booth MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! This was a blind interview off-campus in a hub city with a 2014 alum. all they had beforehand was my resume. My interviewer was super-friendly, and the location they picked was a lot more casual than I was expecting. 1. Tell me about yourself , then the interviewer told me about themselves. 2. Why MBA? 3. Why Booth/ Why Chicago? 4. What are your career goals? 5. What Clubs Read more

Published: October 20, 2015

HBS Soars to Top of Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s New MBA Rankings

When Duke’s Fuqua School of Business topped Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s MBA rankings last year, the magazine came under fire for a methodology that many claimed was flawed. This year, an overhauled methodology has yielded vastly different results, including Harvard Business School’s taking the No. 1 spot for the first time in the 27-year history of the rankings. “Our annual ranking of full-time MBA programs now focuses on what most people hope to get after business school: a satisfying, well-paying job,” read the commentary that accompanied the rankings. Using a deeper and broader set of data than ever before—drawn from 13,150 current students, 18,540 alumni and 1,460 recruiters from 177 different MBA programs—Bloomberg BW's rankings are now the combination of five weighted measurements: an employer survey (accounting for 35 percent of the total score); an alumni survey drawing feedback from the classes of 2007, 2008 and 2009 (30 percent); a student survey of members of the Class of 2015 (15 percent); the school's job placement rate (10 percent) and average starting salary (10 percent). Read more

Published: October 18, 2015

Applicant Reports via LiveWire Shed Light on HBS, Chicago Booth Interview Invitations

Clear Admit’s MBA LiveWire has been ablaze with submissions over the past two weeks, prompting us to perform a little data analysis. Though we’ve been hearing from people who’ve applied to a range of schools, the greatest concentration of reports have involved Harvard Business School (HBS) and the University of Chicago Booth’s School of Business, each of which has been busy both issuing invitations to interview and “releasing” candidates from consideration. So what did we find when we charted the results? Let’s take a look at HBS first. Read more

Published: October 15, 2015

Fridays from the Frontline: Duke / Fuqua Alum on How Team Fuqua is Central to Duke Culture

Happy Friday! We’re back again this week with another edition of Fridays From the Frontlines. This week we bring you Steven Ma, Duke / Fuqua Alum (Class of 2015). Prior to Fuqua, Steven graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in Biology – not your traditional MBA applicant. When Steven made the leap into the MBA world, he found that the resources just weren’t there for him. His blog, From Bench to Board, aims to chronicle his experiences and learnings with the aim of helping those who are interested in earning an MBA without the Read more

Published: October 14, 2015

Chicago Booth Maintains No. 1 Spot in Economist’s Ranking of Full-Time MBA Programs

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business snagged the number one spot for the fourth year running in the Economist's ranking of full-time MBA programs, the Which MBA? 2015, released today. Using a methodology that gives great weight to student and alumni experiences, the Economist each year generates a list of the top 100 full-time international MBA programs. Booth’s strong performance in the overall rankings can be attributed chiefly to its ability to provide new career opportunities to its graduates. The school ranked tops out of all 100 schools both for the diversity of its recruiters and in terms of its students’ assessment of career services. Read more

Published: October 13, 2015

UC Berkeley’s Haas School Pours New Resources into Entrepreneurship

The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, already one of the highest-ranked business schools in the world for entrepreneurship, is doubling down in support of students with the startup itch. Haas Dean Rich Lyons announced yesterday that the school will provide $100,000 in seed funding for Haas student startups this year, part of an umbrella effort designed to enhance offerings for both MBA and undergraduate students interested in entrepreneurship. “Our student entrepreneurs are already thriving within the Berkeley-Haas and Bay Area startup ecosystem,” Lyons said in a statement. “This new effort will continue to build on and expand that success, creating a new generation of leaders who will be mixing with alumni and giving back to the entrepreneurial ecosystem.” Read more

Published: October 12, 2015

Judge Business School Alumnus and Faculty Member Develop Innovative Electric Vehicle Technology

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. Peter Hiscocks, senior faculty in management practice at Cambridge University Judge Business School, along with alumnus Erik Fairbarn, recently developed POD Point, a business that provides electric car charging stations in businesses, homes and public spaces. The innovative electric vehicle technology runs on a web or mobile app, which gives users a 15-minute window to cancel or continue the charge. The app platform replaces an old system that required users to scan a card into the station. Read more

Published: October 12, 2015

Xerox CEO and Chair Ursula Burns receives UCLA Anderson’s John Wooden Global Leadership Award

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. UCLA Anderson School of Business bestowed Xerox Corporation Chairman and CEO Ursula Burns with the 2015 John Wooden Global Leadership Award. The event took place at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles on October 6, 2015. Read more

Published: October 12, 2015

Columbia MBA Admissions Interview Report: J-Term / Alum / Off campus

The following Columbia Business School MBA Admissions interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a J-Term applicant. Good luck to them! Submitted Application: 9/13 Invitation to Interview: 10/5 Interview Scheduled: 10/13 Still waiting to hear back! I received six emails of alumni I could interview with, and like everyone recommended I looked up each one on LinkedIn to see who would be a good match. I looked for someone that had a similar background as me so that we could relate to each otehr, but not the exact same industry so that it wasn’t a Read more

Published: October 11, 2015

MIT Sloan Admissions Committee Shares Round 1 Updates

In case you missed it, MIT Sloan School of Management last week shared updates from its Admissions Committee, which is busy reviewing Round 1 applications. The committee will begin sending out interview invitations in mid-October (that’s this week!) and will continue through November 9th. Every applicant, whether invited to interview or not, will receive an updated status on that date. The interview period is slated to begin October 26th and continue through December 4th, the school reports. Applicants will have the choice between interviewing on campus in Cambridge or in a city near where they currently live. The Admissions Committee plans to visit approximately 15 cities, both within the United States and abroad, to conduct off-campus interviews. “We will give applicants as much notice as possible when scheduling interviews,” reads the website. Read more

Published: October 11, 2015

Stanford GSB, School of Engineering Confer 100th Online Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), together with the School of Engineering, earlier this month announced the award of the 100th online Stanford Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SI&E) Certificate, part of a unique partnership founded between the two schools in 2012. The honor went to Francisco Santolo of Dubai, a trade marketing manager for the Middle East and Africa. Santolo, who earned an MBA from the Universidad del CEMA in 2012, already had some startup experience but wanted to expand his skills and renew his motivation in forming new businesses. The certificate program gave him the opportunity to connect with other entrepreneurs and assist them on a pro bono basis. In the process, he was invited to return and co-teach a course at his business school alma mater. Read more

Published: October 10, 2015

Columbia MBA Admissions Interview Report: Early Decision / Alum / Off campus

The following Columbia Business School MBA Admissions interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant who has been accepted to Columbia Business School. Congratulations to them! The interview was formal in setting but casual in tone, and lasted about 45 minutes. I met a CBS alum (2014 graduate) at their office, located in downtown Washington, DC, and was asked: Give me your background cliffnotes. Why [current employer]? What have you done there? Immediate post-MBA goals? Why are you seeking an MBA in the context of your longer term career Read more

Published: October 8, 2015

Fridays from the Frontline: Kindergarten Teacher, with MBA from Ross, Pursues Lifelong Tech Dream

How does a kindergarten teacher with a liberal arts degree score an internship at Apple? Find out in this week’s edition of Fridays from the Frontline. Jeremy Schifeling, helped in part by an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School, not only landed a marketing internship on Apple’s iOS team, he went on to work at several educational tech firms and at LinkedIn before founding his own company designed to help others from non-tech backgrounds break into the field. He contacted us and generously offered to share his story, complete with data revealing that there are three times as many non-tech job opportunities for MBAs at internet firms (in marketing, HR, business development, etc.) as there are positions for computer science (CS) majors and engineers. So if you're from a non-tech background and want to know how make the shift, this post's for you. As always, we welcome the contributions of other current MBA students and applicants, as well as alumni! Please email Jeanette or Marianne if you would like to add your voice to the mix. Many thanks to Jeremy for his great post! Read more

Published: October 7, 2015

Columbia Business School MBA Admissions Interview: Early Decision / Alum / Off-Campus

The following Columbia Business School MBA Admissions interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant who has been accepted to Columbia Business School. Congratulations to them! My interview was genuinely pleasant. After corresponding with one of the alums provided by the school, we set up the time and date for a couple of weeks after my notification. The interview occurred in a local coffee shop near the interviewer’s office and was very relaxed and conversational. Total interview lasted about 45 minutes to 1 hour. The interview started with my interviewer giving a 5-10 minute overview Read more

Published: October 5, 2015

HBS Admissions Director “Impressed,” “Pleased,” “Proud” and on Schedule

Yesterday, Harvard Business School (HBS) Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Dee Leopold had some glowing things to say about applicants in this year’s first round at HBS. “All of us in Dillon are impressed,” she wrote in a post to her Director’s Blog. “Impressed that you met such an early deadline. Impressed at the variety of ways in which you ‘introduced yourselves.’ Impressed that you have all worked so hard to do well,” she wrote. She and her team, meanwhile, are both pleased and proud to be part of a place that applicants see as “a training ground for aspirational leadership,” she continued. These warm, almost effusive words from Leopold, who is perhaps better known for her direct, no-nonsense style, suggest that the HBS admissions director is indeed quite pleased with the initial responses she and her team received from the new “Introduce yourself” essay prompt that debuted this admission season. Read more

Published: October 4, 2015

International MBA Event to Be Held in in India: New Delhi – Nov. 3, Bangalore – Nov. 5, Mumbai – Nov. 7

The Access MBA Tour, worldwide leader in One-to-One business education events, will return to India: New Delhi on 3 November at the Lalit Hotel New Delhi, Bangalore on 5 November at Hotel Vivanta by Taj and in Mumbai on 7 November at the Taj Lands End Hotel Mumbai, the organiser Advent Group announced today. “Access MBA is designed to bridge the distance between business executives and elite MBA programmes from around the world through personalised One-to-One meetings between candidates and school representatives” – Christophe Coutat, Advent Group’s Managing Director, said. The Read more

Published: October 4, 2015

USC Alumni Endow New Leadership and Ethics Institute at Marshall School of Business

Just as the Volkswagon emissions scandal has brought concerns around leadership and ethics to the fore once again, a $10 million gift to the USC Marshall School of Business will endow a new institute to examine those very issues. USC Trustee Jerry Neely ’58 and his wife, Nancy ’61, made the gift to the school to create the Neely Leadership and Ethics Institute, designed to “advance the development of ethical business leadership within the framework of the global economy,” according to an article published last week in USC News. Read more

Published: October 4, 2015

Admissions Tip: MBA Interview Prep

With MBA interview invitations from a number of programs already on their way out to Round One applicants, we wanted to offer some more advice on this element of the admissions process. Last week we posted some very basic etiquette information that will help candidates ensure that everything is in order on the big day. Today, we turn our attention to some steps one can take to prepare for the interview itself. Know what to expect. This might go without saying, but MBA interview types and duration vary across programs. For instance, nearly all invited Stanford applicants interview with alumni, while on-campus Wharton interviews Read more

Published: October 2, 2015

Average GMAT Up, Percentage of Women, Minorities, International Students Down at Stanford GSB

Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) this week released its Class of 2017 profile, revealing the highest average GMAT score—733—of all leading business schools. It’s just a one-point gain over last year for the Palo Alto school, but enough nonetheless to stay in front of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where the average this year was 732. The average undergraduate GPA for the incoming class at Stanford GSB also was a record setter at 3.75—perhaps part of what led the Admissions Committee to add that component to its publicly shared profile statistics for the first time this year. As it does each year, the school noted that especially given its smaller class size, “even two students can, and do, create” variations in percentages in the overall profile, This year, those variations included dips in the percentage of women (40 percent this year, down from 42 percent last year), minorities (19 percent, down from 23) and international students (40 percent, down from 44). Read more

Published: October 1, 2015

Fridays from the Frontline: MIT Sloan MBA Student, Veteran Discusses Humility and Success

It’s Friday, and once again we’re bringing you insights straight from current MBA applicants and students as part of our Fridays from the Frontline column. Our contributor this week, MIT Sloan School of Management second-year Brian Kirk (pictured above, second from left), knows his fair share about the frontline, both figurative and real, having served as a U.S. Navy submariner prior to business school. In the post that follows, he offers some incredible insights about humility and its impact on success, drawn both from his time at Sloan and his military service. Worth the read. Kirk and other leaders of the MIT Sloan Veterans Association just hosted Veteran's Ambassadors Day, a day of programming and activities for prospective MBA applicants from the armed forces. They are planning a second Ambassadors Day in the spring, so if you are an active duty service person or veteran considering business school, check it out. Read more

Published: September 30, 2015

USC Marshall Interview Report: Round 3 / Adcom / On-Campus

The following USC / Marshall interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! Had my interview in May 2015as a Round 3 applicant. Interview actually was with two Adcoms (seemed like one was relatively new) and was fairly straightforward. Worth noting that I have a relatively unconventional background, so a lot of the questions were rather pointed in what I perceived as an attempt to explain my path to and out of Marshall. Why do you want to pursue your MBA right now? Why Marshall? Can you explain the reasons Read more

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MBA Applywire

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

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

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

November 27, 2024 9:07am ET

Applying: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, Notre Dame / Mendoza, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UVA / Darden, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Banking

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Commercial Banking Companies: Accenture , AT Kearney , Bain , PWC , Bank of America

GRE: 306

GPA: 3.64

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: Africa

Notes:

Recently wrote the GRE. It's not a super score but I will probably apply with it anyway. I am still considering retaking the test, as the next time I can take it is around the Round 2 deadline.

My educational background is in social sciences, so wasn't very quant-heavy. Looking at taking an additional quant course to back up my GRE score as the exam fee is about 10x the minimum wage in my country. Any suggestion is welcomed.

November 27, 2024 6:51am ET

Applying: Dartmouth / Tuck, Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Program Manager, Humanitarian INGO

Post-MBA Target Industry: Entrepreneurship, Non Profit/SI

GMAT: 685

GPA: 3.27

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: US Citizen (positioned abroad)

Notes:

Long time listener first time caller. Love the podcast! Adding my profile just because I want to be part of the community.

R2 applicant for Fall 2025 entry.

Background: mid-to-late 20s US citizen, lower-income single parent upbringing.

Work experience: currently a manager at a humanitarian INGO in active / post-conflict settings (think Afghanistan, Yemen, etc.) with several million in project budget under management and overseeing multiple teams. Will have been in emergency aid for 2 years upon matriculation, career before that was 1 year quantitative analyst ---> 1 year teaching English abroad. High impact job, recently promoted.

Academics: 3.27 cumulative. Small state school for first year with a 4.0. Transferred to an Ivy, but had to work full time to support family, had just above a 3.0 at the Ivy. I've also done a masters since at a top 5 UK (shout-out to Alex!) with distinction (3.9+ equivalent). Additionally, took Calculus this year (got an A-) to give schools a bit more reassurance on quant abilities since my quant record in college had its ups and downs, and to demonstrate respect for the rigors of the Y1 MBA curriculum.

Test: took the GMAT only once, 685 (86V 82Q 84D). First mock exam was a 625 with a terrible quant score, but brought quant up to 76th percentile with a couple months of study. Internet is too slow to take online, so only had one chance to do it in-person while I was on leave -- retake physically impossible even if I wanted to.

ECs: Very focused on social entrepreneurship. Have also been helping teach / support one of the foreign language programs at the state school I originally went to and transferred out of. Community service award as well, and mountain climber.

Post-MBA goal is social entrepreneurship that can help people in crisis contexts.

I've listened to enough Wire Taps to guess exactly what the advice will be: "You might want to cast a wider net due to the lower GPA, right now you're only targeting top schools." -- Absolutely fair call. However, what I want to do is extremely difficult and will require a ton of resources. I've selected the programs I think best fit my goals / have a strong social and entrepreneurial mission. I don't particularly mind getting dinged everywhere and reapplying next year if need be.

Long post, thanks for reading! Have a great holiday!

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November 28, 2024 3:34am ET

Interview Invite to Boston College / Carroll

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on October 29, 2024

GPA: 3.18

GRE: 302

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: General Management

November 28, 2024 2:23am ET

Accepted to NYU Stern

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 25, 2024

GPA: 3.42

GMAT: 685

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: Nyc

Note:

Interview 9/7 call and email 11/26. No scholarship

November 27, 2024 8:22pm ET

Accepted to Cornell / Johnson

Round: Round 1

Received via email November 27, 2024

GRE: 327

Program Type: One Year Program

Target Career: Technology

Application Location: San Francisco

November 27, 2024 1:46pm ET

Rejected at Washington U. / Olin

Round: Round 1

Received via portal November 27, 2024

GPA: 3.9

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Operations Management

Application Location: Asia

November 27, 2024 12:44pm ET

Accepted to Washington U. / Olin

Round: Round 2

Received via phone November 27, 2024

GPA: 3.75

GRE: 330

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Phoenix

Note:

Consortium and received a full-ride plus a stipend. Interviewed on November 10th and received offer today, November 27th.
I feel very optimistic for Booth and Yale results next week.

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