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Published: July 8, 2013
Northwestern’s Kellogg School Names New Senior Fellow for its Kellogg Markets and Customers Initiative
Sanjay Khosla, a former executive at Mondelez (Kraft) and Unilever, has been appointed as senior fellow with the Kellogg Markets and Customers Initiative (KMCI), Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management announced last week. “To excel in today's global 21st century business environment requires deep customer insight—not only in developed nations, but also in emerging markets,” Kellogg Dean Sally Blount said in a statement. “Sanjay Khosla has decades of experience in adapting business strategies to new markets, and his accomplishments and perspective will be invaluable to both Kellogg faculty and students.” Read more
Published: July 7, 2013
New $10 Million Alumni Donation Will Support Curriculum Innovation at Harvard Business School
The family of a late Harvard Business School (HBS) alumnus has donated $10 million to help support efforts already underway to innovativly redesign the second-year MBA curriculum, the school announced last week. The donation, from the family of the late William F. Connell, a 1963 MBA graduate of HBS, will establish the Margot and William F. Connell Family MBA Program Innovation Fund, which will help support the redesign of the HBS second-year curriculum to provide MBA students with more courses, new technology applications and platforms and expanded faculty development initiatives. Read more
Published: July 4, 2013
Columbia Entrepreneurs Lab Provides Free Summer Working Space to Student Teams to Collaborate on Business Ventures
Columbia Entrepreneurs Lab (CEL), a co-working space run by Columbia Business School’s Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center, this summer welcomes its first class of more than 20 students from across Columbia University. The student teams, which represent seven different schools, were selected to develop 13 business ventures over the summer using the lab's resources and space free of charge. Among the ideas selected as part of the inaugural CEL class are a news agregator that monitors geographic-specific, social media traffic for trending stories, a program to bridge educational and cultural gaps between Chinese and American students and an online private tutoring marketplace. Read more
Published: July 4, 2013
Fridays From The Frontline
Welcome to Fridays From the Frontline. We hope this Friday finds you well and that everyone enjoyed their July 4th! In this week’s post, we peruse all the news in the b-school blogosphere from applicants and current students. Hamm0 opened the newly posted Stanford application and was a bit discouraged to find it full of short, personal questions like “Your favorite thing to read?” Timbob posted his responses to questions about what it's like to be a Brit applying to MBA programs in the U.S.--his main concern? Brits can't sell their strengths as well as Americans. He also relayed a amusing anecdote about taking the adversity he faced changing a tire in the middle of traffic and putting that adversity into one of his Stanford essays. MBAgirljourney narrows down her top five MBA programs and the East Coast schools win the day. Read more
Published: July 2, 2013
Oxford University’s Saïd Business School Launches Innovative Online Module to Address Global Challenges
A new online module at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford is bringing together students in the school’s MBA and executive MBA programs with Oxford alumni and leading academic researchers to address some of the most challenging global business and policy issues. In its first year, the program has focused on global ageing. Called GOTO (Global Opportunities, Threats: Oxford), the interactive, multimedia web platform is designed to blend curated content with in-person learning through tutorial groups and events to create plans to address the world’s biggest problems. This year, an action-oriented community of Oxford students, academics and alumni took a hard look at the changing demographics, global pinch points, patterns of consumption, environmental impact and healthcare system strain created by the long-term trend toward global ageing. GOTO will focus on a different global issue each year. Read more
Published: July 1, 2013
UCLA Anderson School of Management to Become Financially Self-Supporting
Beginning with the 2014-15 academic year, the UCLA Anderson School of Management will no longer rely on state funding but will instead be completely self-supporting, the school reported last week. University of California President Mark Yudof approved the school’s proposed status change for its full-time MBA program on June 24th, ending a three-year review process. The decision is expected to make it easier for the school to fund-raise with its alumni and philanthropic donors, to make tuition fees more predictable and to give the school greater flexibility in faculty assignments, according to UCLA Anderson Dean Judy Olian, who has led the campaign to win self-supporting status for the school. Read more
Published: June 30, 2013
Some Master’s Degree Students Now Eligible for Harvard Business School’s 2+2 Program
Harvard Business School (HBS) today announced that it has expanded the eligibility requirements of its 2+2 Program to include not only college students but also candidates who have gone directly to a master’s degree program after their undergraduate study. The 2+2 Program at HBS is a deferred admissions process originally designed for college students who want to secure a future spot in the HBS MBA class. Candidates admitted to the 2+2 Program will have a place reserved for them at HBS, which they can assume after completing two years of work in the public, private or nonprofit sector. With today’s change, the program is now also open to current students in full-time master’s programs who proceeded directly from college to their current master's degree program, according to HBS Dean of Admissions Dee Leopold. Read more
Published: June 27, 2013
Fridays From The Frontline
Hello there and welcome to this week's Fridays From the Frontline. Each week Clear Admit peruses the b-school blogosphere in search of the freshest reports from current applicants and students. This week saw new applicant and student bloggers join the community while established bloggers shed a little light on at least one student's internship experience.  TimBob attempted to attend two schools' London information sessions in one evening, but only managed to attend the MIT Sloan event.  Pru explained how she fell in love "strategically" with Tuck, but that with additional reflection decided to broaden her figurative dating pool. MBA Over 30 highlighted the rise of entrepreneurship within Wharton's program. Amit shared his intention to focus first on his GMAT before getting caught up in a discussion of schools or essays. Poetic Quant described how his internal MBA clock sped up once his target schools updated their essays for the 2013-2014 admissions cycle. MBA Over 30 highlighted the rise of entrepreneurship within Wharton's program.Anderson '15 Aimee prepared for beginning the program by strengthening her quantitative abilities and volunteering at the LA film festival. Read more
Published: June 26, 2013
Clear Admit’s Stacey Oyler Discusses Finding the Right MBA Fit with Bloomberg BusinessWeek
In a recent article about finding the right fit in a business school program, Bloomberg BusinessWeek turned to Clear Admit Senior Admissions Counselor Stacey Oyler for some guidance. Oyler, who worked in admissions for Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and as a recruiter for McKinsey before joining Clear Admit, encouraged prospective applicants not to let a school’s rank in the various MBA rankings overshadow other important considerations. A top-ranked school can help catch recruiters’ eyes, but the school also needs to be the best match for what you want to do, Oyler told Bloomberg BW. “It’s two years and a significant financial investment,” she said. “So take the time to think about fit just as much as rank and reputation.” Read more
Published: June 25, 2013
Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business Joins Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing diversity in business school and the corporate world, announced this week that Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business has joined as its newest member school, bringing the total number of member schools to a record 18. McDonough is the first new business school to join the Consortium since 2010. The Consortium recruits new member schools selectively, believing that by partnering with only the top MBA programs in the country is the best way to help its members and fellows succeed while providing its corporate partners with access to the most promising candidates. Read more
Published: June 25, 2013
QS World MBA Tour Announces Fall Tour Dates For North America
The QS World MBA Tour is scheduled to visit 21 North American locations, including three cities in Canada, beginning in early September. Designed by MBA graduates, the QS World MBA Tour features free workshops led by admissions experts and alumni to help prospective applicants improve their application strategy and stand the best chance of getting into the MBA programs of their choice. During each event, attendees have the chance to meet face-to-face with admissions directors from top business schools around the world. Additional features of the QS World MBA Tour include: $1,200,000 (USD) of exclusive scholarships available for attendees Workshops designed to help improve GMAT scores Careers panel with MBA recruiters and alumni Women & leadership forum Below is a list of event dates in September: Read more
Published: June 24, 2013
Six Yale SOM Students Selected for Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Fellowships
Five current MBA students and one recent graduate of the Yale School of Management (SOM) have been selected through a competitive process to be among this summer’s fellows at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI), the school announced earlier this month. To date, the YEI Summer Fellowship – open to students and teams throughout the university – has accelerated more than 70 Yale student business ventures, which have raised $60.5 million in outside financing and created more than 210 new jobs.  Not only will this year’s six SOM students get to spend the summer developing their ventures at the YEI, they also will benefit from financial support, a work space, mentoring, entrepreneur-led workshops and opportunities to network with potential investors. Selected teams receive stipends from YEI for the summer of up to $20,000 per team, which supports living expenses and initial start-up costs, access to legal, accounting and marketing corporate partners and more. Read more
Published: June 23, 2013
UC Berkeley-Haas Graduates Enjoy Strong Employment Opportunities
Early employment data shows that MBA graduates from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley are landing top jobs and top salaries, the school reports. The firms hiring the most Haas graduates this year include McKinsey & Co., Google, JPMorgan, Kaiser and Amazon, and salaries and signing bonuses are continuing an upward climb. Other tip hiring firms include Deloitte Consulting, Samsung, Bain, Adobe, Microsoft and Zynga. But traditional MBA sectors are not the only ones seeing strong hiring, according to Lisa Feldman, executive director of the Career Management Group. “Real estate is a strong area for us this year, and we are also seeing a strong class of entrepreneurs,” she said in an article on the Haas website. “In addition to the entrepreneurs themselves, we have a growing number of students exploring the impact they might have in smaller organizations and seeking experience with early-stage startups,” she added. Read more
Published: June 20, 2013
Alumni Gift Helps Fund Loan Assistance Program for Columbia Business School MBAs Who Pursue Jobs in Public, Nonprofit Sectors and More
Columbia Business School (CBS) has a trio of alumni to thank for filling the coffers of its loan assistance fund, a program that helps alleviate the financial burden of repaying education loans for MBA graduates who pursue work in the public and nonprofit sectors. Elizabeth B. Strickler ’86 and Mark T. Gallogly ’86 have made a generous gift to establish a new fund named in honor of Ms. Strickler’s mother, Ellen B. Strickler ’78, the school announced earlier this month. The Ellen B. Strickler ’78 Loan Assistance Fund is designed to encourage MBA graduates to seek out work in public and nonprofit sectors, as well as with microfinance organizations, low-profit limited liability companies (L3C) and social ventures that focus on low income communities or create significant public good. Each are areas with many unmet needs that CBS grads can address, but they pay much lower salaries than private industry. The fund will be run by the CBS Social Enterprise Program (SEP). Read more
Published: June 20, 2013
Co-Founder Eliot Ingram Named CEO of Clear Admit
Clear Admit is pleased to announce that co-founder Eliot Ingram has assumed the role of CEO. He succeeds former CEO Graham Richmond, who recently launched Southwark Consulting, a firm that advises graduate admissions offices on enrollment best practices. “I look forward to taking over full leadership of Clear Admit and positioning the firm for its next round of growth,” said Ingram. Ingram has served as a senior admissions counselor and the firm’s CFO since he founded the company with Richmond in late 2001. Clear Admit, a leader in the MBA admissions space for more than a decade, provides guidance – Read more
Published: June 20, 2013
Fridays From the Frontline
Hello and welcome back to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly perusal of all the news in the b-school blogosphere. This week was quiet on the student front, but crowded with posts from both bloggers who will be matriculating to b-school this year and MBA applicants. Hamm0 explains his dread at having to attend his company's Diversity Day and talks b-school recommendations and essays. PPandey87 announces that he is moving to NYC. MBAgirljourney tries to develop a standardized scorecard for MBA admissions consulting firms. MBA Over 30 discusses the importance of sincerity in the MBA application process.  Pru documents all the little details that go into preparing to matriculate to Chicago Booth, including applying for loans, discussing co-signers, and finding a roommate. Read more
Published: June 19, 2013
UC Berkeley Haas Partners with MIT Sloan on Energy Efficiency Research Project
Researchers at the Haas School of Management at the University of California at Berkeley are teaming up with researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management to take a closer look at energy-efficiency policies and regulations around the globe to determine whether they are realizing their full potential, the schools announced this week. The project, called E2e, is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the two schools designed to find the best way to go from using a large amount of energy (“E”) to a small of amount of energy (“e”). Participating experts will include engineers, economists and others, and the initiative is led by Catherine Wolfram, associate professor and co-director of the Energy Institute at Haas, Michael Greenstone, a professor of environmental economics at MIT, and Christopher Knittel, co-director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR). Read more
Published: June 19, 2013
The MBA Tour Announces Summer Event Dates for USA
Are you applying to business school with the hope of becoming a member of the Class of 2016? This summer, The MBA Tour will host eight conferences in the U.S. for prospective MBA applicants.  Below is a list of event dates: July 18: Chicago July 20: New York City July 22: Boston July 23: Washington, D.C. July 25: Atlanta July 27: San Francisco July 28: Los Angeles July 30: Houston During these conference, attendees can participate in business school panel presentations, school presentations and an MBA fair.  The panel Read more
Published: June 18, 2013
Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business Hosts Young Women’s International Leadership Summit
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business this week welcomes a group of outstanding young women leaders from around the globe to its campus as part of a week-long leadership summit, the school announced this week. Twenty-six young women between the ages of 15 and 23 are taking part in the iLive2Lead (iL2L) 2013 Young Women’s International Leadership Summit on McDonough’s Washington, DC, campus. The women, who come from 21 different countries, will learn leadership skills and develop entrepreneurship action plans as part of the event, which is sponsored by McDonough’s Office of Executive Education. Read more
Published: June 17, 2013
Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business Confers First MBA/MPH Joint Degrees
Two members of the graduating Class of 2013 at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business earned not only an MBA while there but also a master’s degree in public health (MPH). Kate Head and Catherine Augustyn were the first recipients of the new joint degree, which Tuck now offers in partnership with The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI).  The new program is designed for students who want to combine Tuck’s comprehensive MBA program with TDI’s deep dive into health policy and clinical practice issues. “The combination of those two programs we thought would be a really terrific marriage,” Paul B. Gardent, an adjunct professor of business administration at Tuck and director of the joint degree program, said as part of an article published in Tuck’s online newsroom. The joint degree program is an outgrowth of the Health Care Initiative, an effort launched in 2008 to expand healthcare-focused courses and career resources at Tuck. Read more
Published: June 16, 2013
MIT Sloan Finance Professors to Fundraise for Center for Finance and Policy
Finance professors at MIT Sloan School of Management will conduct a series of high-level seminars in London and Shanghai as part of efforts to raise funds for a new center that will examine the intersection between finance and government, the Financial Times reports today. To date, MIT has raised almost half of the $10 million needed for the center, according to the FT. The MIT Center for Finance and Policy is intended to serve as a hub of research and financial analysis of public policy issues, bringing together top thinkers and spurring collaboration between government, the private sector and academia. “Finance is one field where academia and business are very close,” Sloan Deputy Dean S.P. Kothari told the FT. The center will take a cross-disciplinary approach to tackling the government challenges facing finance and banking, resulting in research that will have implications for every household, Kothari added. Read more
Published: June 13, 2013
AIGAC Releases 2013 MBA Applicant Survey Results
The average applicant to business school spends between 90 and 140 hours on the MBA application process, according to findings from the 2013 Applicant Survey conducted by the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC). Excluding GMAT prep, applicants report that they spend between 70 and 110 hours on the application itself.  AIGAC released the applicant survey results as part of its annual conference, which took place this week in Philadelphia. The association was founded in 2006 to promote high ethical standards and professional development among graduate admissions consultants. It conducts an online survey of MBA applicants each year to help its member graduate management admissions consultants and admissions committees at top business schools better understand prospective MBA students’ goals and needs. Read more
Published: June 13, 2013
Fridays From The Frontline
Hello there an welcome to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit's weekly perusal of all the news in the b-school blogosphere. This week found applicants in different stages of their application strategies while many students began their summer internships.  MBA Over 30 provided his readers with GMAT study problems though he can safely say the he won't be taking the GMAT again. Poetic Quant happily announced that the division head at his current place of employment agreed to write a recommendation on his behalf. Sanket reflected on his previous experience applying for Stanford's Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani  Fellowship.  Writing in Transit built on his last post by responding to a question about the motivations he had for leaving the work place and pursuing an MBA. Sassafrass found that some of his San Francisco friends and colleagues didn't quite understand why he would pursue an MBA. Tepper '14 Ccatcher began her internship in Foster City and struggled with loud roommates while making friends with ducks.   McCombs '14 Shelby spend some time in Ghana before beginning her summer internship. Read more
Published: June 12, 2013
Top Business Schools Help Students Who Head into Lower Paying Fields
Taking on debt to finance an MBA program only to take a job at a low-paying nonprofit organization after business school doesn’t add up to graduates being able to repay their loans. Fortunately, many top business schools have created programs to help ease the financial burden for those who go into nonprofit or other low-paying fields, according to a recent report in Bloomberg BusinessWeek.  In addition to Harvard Business School, which this year gave 19 students grants of $50,000 to supplement their first-year salaries, schools including Columbia Business School (CBS), Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, UMichigan’s Ross School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School all also offer financial assistance in one form or another to help graduates repay student loans, Bloomberg BW reports. And while many business school students don’t seem to know about these programs, they should: The benefits can extend for multiple years adding up to as much as $100,000 for some, Bloomberg BW adds. Read more
Published: June 11, 2013
UC Berkeley’s Haas School Awards New Hansoo Lee Fellowships to Two MBA Students
The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley has awarded two inaugural $5,000 prizes as part of the Hansoo Lee Fellowship for Entrepreneurs, a new fund established to honor entrepreneur and alumnus Hansoo Lee, MBA ’10, who died in March of lung cancer.  Romi Elan and Charlie Hughes, MBA students in the Class of 2014, were selected from 10 applicants for the fellowship for a photo app they designed to help friends connect around shared interests and hobbies. Called “Goalzy,” the app is intended to help small groups of friends encourage one another through pictures to pursue personal goals. Seeing pictures of their friends’ latest harvest, for example, could spur other friends to get their own hands in the dirt at the community garden. ““We wanted to help people keep true to their promises to themselves,” Elan said in a statement. Read more

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November 14, 2024 1:49pm ET
Accepted to IESE
Round: Round 1
Received via phone November 14, 2024
GPA: 3.1
EA: 163
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Other
Application Location: Chile
November 14, 2024 1:22pm ET
Interview Invite to NYU Stern
Round: Round 1
Received via email November 14, 2024
GPA: 3.6
GRE: 328
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Application Location: United States
November 14, 2024 12:15pm ET
Accepted to Cornell / Johnson
Round: Round 1
Received via phone November 14, 2024
GPA: 3.64
GMAT: 730
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: New York
Note:

Interviewed 10/14, received a call and follow-up email on 11/4 with scholarship info
November 14, 2024 12:09pm ET
Interview Invite to Carnegie Mellon / Tepper
Round: Round 1
Received via email November 14, 2024
GMAT: 695
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Healthcare
Application Location: China
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10+ years’ working experience in clinical trial field of healthcare industry
November 14, 2024 11:08am ET
Accepted to NYU Stern
Round: Round 1
Received via phone November 14, 2024
GPA: 3.7
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: New York
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