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Jonathan Pfeffer joined the Clear Admit and MetroMBA teams in 2015 after spending several years as an arts/culture writer, editor, and radio producer. In addition to his role as Contributing Writer at MetroMBA and Contributing Editor at Clear Admit, he was also a co-founder of the Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast. He holds a BA in Film/Video, Ethnomusicology, and Media Studies from Oberlin College.
Published: March 13, 2018
Joe Biden Discusses How to Revive Slumping Industrial Cities at Kellogg
On Friday, March 9th, an eager audience gathered at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management to hear what wisdom Joe Biden might have to impart from his distinguished political career to the world of business. Speaking the day after observations of International Women’s Day around the world, the former vice president opened his talk with with a message about inclusion. He cautioned the crowd that “in order for a country to succeed… it has to husband all its assets. It cannot leave half its initiative, half its brain power, half of its courage, half of its capability, half of its Read more
Published: March 8, 2018
Four Things to Consider When Visiting Full-Time MBA Programs
Fridays from the Frontline The process of picking a business school is both an art and a science. Broadly speaking, prospective students must decide which industry they ultimately want to infiltrate and then figure out which MBA program will give them the necessary tools to get where they need to go. This all sounds simple and straightforward enough, but there are a host of other variables prospective b-schoolers must weigh in order to make an informed choice—geographic location, small, tight-knit community vs. huge class with expansive network, the prevailing on-campus cultural attitude, and the reputation of the school within one’s Read more
Published: March 7, 2018
Is Tuck the Best Business School for Studying Emerging Markets?
As stateside opportunities wax and wane, MBA students at U.S. business schools have become increasingly interested in emerging markets in developing countries around the globe. Though they can present greater risks, there are career opportunities unique to these often overlooked economies that appeal to many sides of the MBA in training—particularly the part that longs to get in on the ground floor of the next big thing. Read more
Published: March 5, 2018
Our Five Favorite MBA Podcasts Right Now
Many business schools and MBA students have recently begun to produce podcasts, discussing the diverse range of student and graduate experiences as well as current trends and relevant topics in business. These podcasts are unique in that they provide a candid, first-person look at business school from those currently enrolled, allowing for an open platform to discuss business topics outside of the confines of the university. While this is a fairly new trend, there are several different podcasts out there for those who might be interested to learn more. We’ve assembled our five favorite MBA podcasts right now, and we’ll Read more
Published: March 4, 2018
How to Secure the MBA Summer Internship You Want
Sponsored Content According to research published the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) last year, 86 percent of companies planned to hire an MBA graduate. It comes as no surprise that the reason most MBA candidates choose a business school is to strengthen their position in the job market. One of the most popular and effective employment strategies is to pursue an internship like one of the many offered at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Read more
Published: March 4, 2018
The Skinny on Corporate MBA Fellowship Programs—Could One Be Right for You?
Prospective MBA students looking to join a program at a leading business school have a wealth of opportunities available to them in the form of corporate MBA fellowship programs. These highly competitive fellowships, often geared toward under-represented minorities, are offered by many major corporate recruiters hoping to secure top MBA talent early in their time at business school. Corporate MBA fellowship programs can present a great option for those looking to offset the cost of business school, since many include stipends that cover some or all of awardees’ MBA tuition costs. Corporate MBA fellowship programs also can be an excellent way Read more
Published: March 1, 2018
The Vision Behind the Cornell MBA FinTech Intensive
Fridays from the Frontline Fintech is one of those buzzy, disruptive industries the business world loves to hate and hates to love. But very much unlike their tech brethren—edtech, cleantech, insurtech— the financial services sector, which should by all accounts be shaking in its skivvies about going the way of the Guam flying fox, has strangely begun to embrace fintech innovations like open banking and cryptocurrency. MBA students are taking notice and beginning to flock toward fintech in lieu of more traditional financial services gigs. Enter Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management’s FinTech Intensive, “a cutting-edge Read more
Published: February 26, 2018
7 Top Takeaways from Leading Business School 2017 Employment Reports
There’s been a steady stream of salary and employment data from leading business schools over the past several months as one after another has released 2017 employment reports. We’ve shared a lot of it along the way, including special reports on Kellogg, McDonough, NYU Stern, Tuck, and Stanford. With results from nearly every top school now in, prospective MBA students can take heart that the news is pretty universally encouraging. Overall, data gathered about the Class of 2017 reveal growing salaries across all industries Read more
Published: February 22, 2018
Snagging a Job at Amazon—A Ross Business School Student Shares How He Did It
Fridays from the Frontline Amazon is a leading recruiter of MBA students—indeed, the top hirer on many business school campuses. Among those is Michigan’s Ross School of Business, which has supplied a steady stream of reliable talent to the e-commerce giant. As Amazon’s plans for HQ2 continue to unfold—much to everyone’s anticipation and consternation—many applicants applying to business school want to know: what’s the behind-the-scenes process of landing a job at Amazon really like? When the soaring mortar boards return to earth, how can they, too, be among the MBA grads headed off toward a career at Amazon. Dhanishth Khosla Read more
Published: February 15, 2018
How Far Would You Go for the One You Love?
Fridays from the Frontline The process of moving to a new city to start business school is tough, but one could argue that it’s tougher on folks who make the move to support their partner. The Booth Partners Club is a student club that provides events and group activities throughout the school year specifically designed to support significant others and spouses of Booth MBA students. The Partners Club touts itself as a “budget-friendly way to make some instant friends and have some fun in the city.” In addition to the opportunities for networking—and friendship—that the Partners Club Read more
Published: February 8, 2018
Is B-School Student Globetrotting Killing the Earth? MIT Students Take Action
Fridays from the Frontline MIT’s two-year Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program is a unique dual-degree offering that the Sloan School of Management established in partnership with the School of Engineering. The LGO program merges a state-of-the-art management curriculum with advanced engineering training to prepare students to handle global operations, product development, and manufacturing problems with aplomb. LGO students pursue six-month research internships at a wide range of partner companies in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, energy, high-tech, and global supply chain industries. Notable LGO alumni like Verizon’s Chief Supply Chain Officer Viju Menon (LGO ’94), Tesla’s Read more
Published: January 17, 2018
145,000 Reasons to Consider Making Your Post-MBA Career with Visa Inc.
The race for superiority in the global electronic payments market is a heated one. Every major credit card company has pulled out all the stops to persuade consumers to embrace digital transactions as their primary payment method—and they are going to need all the help they can get. It’s one of many reasons why major companies like Visa are always recruiting MBAs. Companies rely on a mixture of seasoned veterans with an understanding of the foundation of their business and an influx of fresh thinkers with a finger on the pulse of digital commerce and a desire to change the Read more
Published: January 16, 2018
Berkeley Haas Transforms Tragedy into Social Good
In the wake of a heartbreaking tragedy, students at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business harnessed their empathy and initiative to create a chance to fund future underrepresented minority and social impact startups. The Haas EMBA Class of 2017 established the Sanaya Shah Memorial Fund to honor classmate Sumit Shah and his wife Astha Shah’s daughter Sanaya, who passed away after 52 days “due to complications from prematurity and a rare heart condition.” “She was our little warrior princess, a true fighter to the very end who never gave up,” Sumit said in Read more
Published: November 15, 2017
Beyond Business School: How a Chicago Booth MBA Helped Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Once a ferocious beast in the kingdom of tech with massive product launches and antitrust sagas, it could be argued that Microsoft has spent the first two decades of the 21st century in search of solid ground. The Steve Balmer era, which focused on “devices and services,” brought us the Xbox, the Surface, and the acquisitions of Skype and Linkedin. Wired posits that the fall of Microsoft “stems from its attempts to lock users into its products by refusing to work with competitors,” coupled with a series of “me-too hardware products,” like Read more
Published: June 7, 2017
“Manbassadors” Help Haas Address Gender Inequality
UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business recently profiled the Manbassadors, a student organization that provides men with tools to “better support their female friends, girlfriends, wives, and daughters when they’re no longer blind to how women often have to deal with unfair situations.” Dean Richard Lyons will present a “Question the Status Quo” award to Manbassadors Founder Patrick Ford ’17. Read more
Published: January 30, 2017
MIT, CBS Startup Addresses Sanitation at Refugee Camps
MIT Sloan recently published an article on change:WATER Labs, a Cambridge-based startup co-founded by biochemist and Columbia Business School (CBS) MBA '04 Diana Yousef. change:WATER Labs qualified for the Hult Prize social entrepreneurship competition last month with its water-less toilet to help out refugee camps. Read more
Published: December 29, 2016
Stanford 2016 MBAs Have Banner Year for Employment
Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) recently revealed data that cemented 2016 as a banner year for MBA graduates when it comes to both employment and salaries, demonstrating how in demand the talent and flexibility of its graduates are in the marketplace. The mean compensation for graduating MBAs from Stanford's most recent class was $179,345, a figure that includes the mean $23,636 starting bonus reported by 55 percent of the class and the record-breaking mean other guaranteed compensation of $74,665 reported by 35 percent of the class. Median total compensation, meanwhile, was $163,827. This figure puts Stanford GSB grads ahead of Class of 2016 Harvard Business School graduates, whose median total compensation was $158,080, as well as every other leading business school that has reported its 2016 employment figures. Read more
Published: December 7, 2016
Stanford GSB Impact Fund Bridges Classroom and Workforce
A recent article on the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) website details the first investment made by the Stanford GSB Impact Fund in Geneticure, a pharmocogenetic testing company “working on a better diagnostic test for hypertension [to] quickly identify which treatment will work best for which patient.” On the process of vetting potential companies for investment, Dan Liss, MBA ’16, JD ’18, and captain of the Geneticure investment team, described it as follows: “We would set up a call to see where they are, what are their fundraising needs and analyze a Read more
Published: August 1, 2016
Summer Reading: Biographies of Business Tycoons
There’s no better season than summer to kick back in a hammock, relax with an ice-cold beverage and soak up grizzly war stories from entrepreneurs who came, saw and conquered—and have the battle scars (and book deals) to prove it. Here are 10 bios that offer priceless insights for MBA students and emerging entrepreneurs: Read more
Published: July 14, 2016
Columbia Professor Breaks Down What Brexit Could Mean Down the Road
Columbia Business School posted an article on its blog this week by Professor and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz about the potential economic fallout that the United Kingdom’s recent “Brexit” referendum could have on the global political arena in the not-too-distant future. Read more
Published: June 22, 2016
Summer Reading: 10 Essential Books About Leadership
Some say leaders are born, not made. But any successful entrepreneur will tell you that a deep knowledge of how to engage and inspire a team trumps innate charisma more often than not. Read more
Published: May 26, 2016
Mobile App from MIT Sloan Alum Facilitates Loans For Pakistani Farmers
MIT Sloan recently published an article on its blog about Ricult, a new startup aimed at giving “the world’s poorest farmers direct access to credit and supplies through a mobile platform.” Read more
Published: May 10, 2016
MIT Sloan Alum Connects Hard-Up Nonprofits With Deep-Pocketed Millennials
This post has been republished in its entirety from original source, metromba.com. MIT Sloan’s blog recently published an article on 2013 MBA graduate Isa Watson’s giving company Envested, which connects local Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based nonprofits to philanthropic millennials. Read more
Published: April 6, 2016
MBATube Killed the SEO Star
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. It feels positively Philip K. Dick–esque to think that from the mid-20th century until roughly five to 10 years into the new millennium, moving images delivered across cathode ray televisions were the medium de rigeur to communicate information to a large audience. Although the advent of Google Glass and Oculus Rift suggest that virtual reality (VR) advertising could be just around the corner (think of the possibilities for fabric softening bears!), video remains, according to the Amsterdam-based MBATUBE, the “medium of today’s generation.” According to the site, “approximately 80 percent of all internet traffic will be video” by 2019. Read more
Published: February 28, 2016
There’s No Biz Like Demographically Diverse Show Biz
The following post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. Columbia Business School (CBS)’s website recently published new research that offers tangible solutions for increasing workplace diversity. This is an especially hot-button topic in the realm of show business ever since the 2016 Oscars contenders were widely decried throughout the media as demographically homogeneous. Read more

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December 21, 2024 8:37am ET
Accepted to Duke / Fuqua
Round: Round 1
Received via phone on December 11, 2024
GMAT: 675
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
December 21, 2024 2:38am ET
Waitlisted at Duke / Fuqua
Round: Round 1
Received via phone on December 10, 2024
GPA: 3.27
GMAT: 760
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Finance
Application Location: CA
December 20, 2024 11:16pm ET
Accepted to Babson / Olin
Round: Round 1
Received via email on December 17, 2024
GPA: 3.9
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: South Asia
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Accepted to Columbia
Round: Round 1
Received via portal on December 10, 2024
GMAT: 750
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Application Location: India
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December 20, 2024 3:21pm ET
Accepted to Yale SOM
Round: Round 1
Received via email December 20, 2024
GPA: 4.0
GMAT: 750
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
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100% scholarship
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