Posts by Matthew Korman

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Matthew Korman is a contributing author and editor for Clear Admit. Since graduating from Rowan University with a degree in journalism and political science, Matthew has worked with numerous academic institutions, in addition to roles as a music industry writer, promoter, and data analyst. His works have appeared in publications such as NPR and Sports Illustrated.

Published: December 11, 2016

Sitting Down With “Superbosses” Author, Tuck Professor Sydney Finkelstein

Bosses who are older or more experienced aren't necessarily better, according to Sydney Finkelstein, author, management professor and faculty director at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. And he should know. His latest book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, takes a painstakingly deep look into the the characteristics of exceptional leaders, and he shared some of his key findings in a recent interview with Clear Admit. Tuck Professor Sydney Finkelstein "I feel like the single most important thing is the mindset,” he says, casting off the idea that any specific degree of experience matters more. “You can start your career, even as a student, with this mindset. Sometimes helping other people is the best way you can help yourself. You have to be willing to make the effort.” As an example of someone willing to make that extra effort, Finkelstein points to revered NFL Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh, whose San Francisco 49ers teams in the 1980s revolutionized the game, earning three Super Bowl titles between 1982 and 1989. Frequently emphasizing Walsh’s exceptional mindset in the book, Finkelstein highlights how he would help his staff get jobs outside of the 49ers organization. Read more

Published: December 7, 2016

A Look at Mark Taylor, Olin School of Business’s New Dean

Newly appointed Dean Mark Taylor of Washington University’s Olin School of Business in St. Louis wasn't sure at the start of his career if academics was the path for him. “I didn’t know whether I wanted to be an academic and change the world in terms of producing research that was impactful, or whether I wanted to work in the finance industry,” he said as part of an article on the Olin website. “I was in such a hurry, I actually ended up doing both at the same time.” Read more

Published: December 5, 2016

The Surprising Science Behind Why We Give Bad Gifts

It’s hard to imagine what it might feel like to wake up on Christmas morning and see a brand new Lexus or Audi parked in the driveway, tied up in a giant red bow. Screaming, of course, would be a natural reaction. But the closest most of us ever come to this scenario is watching it unfold in television commercials. Those commercials capture the emotional moment when someone gives someone else a gift—in this case, a huge one. But the motivations of the gift giver and recipient aren’t always aligned—a disconnect that can often lead to some pretty bad presents. Read more

Published: November 30, 2016

More Business Schools Accept GRE in Bid to Draw Non-Traditional Students, Kaplan Survey Shows

Despite emerging in the late 1940s, the Graduate Record Exam—more affectionately known as the GRE—took time to be seen as a viable MBA admissions exam alternative to the more standardized GMAT. But growing numbers of business schools accepting the optional test has eased the way for more non-traditional MBA students to apply by simply taking the same test they might use to apply for any number of other master's degree programs. Just seven years ago, test preparation education company Kaplan Inc. found that only 24 percent of business schools accepted the GRE instead of the GMAT. Today, that figure has soared to 92 percent, according to Kaplan Test Prep’s 2016 Business School Admissions Officers Survey. Read more

Published: November 29, 2016

Sydney Finkelstein’s “Superbosses” Named Among Amazon’s Best of 2016

Twenty books into Sydney Finkelstein’s career, to call him an expert in leadership is something of an understatement. Finkelstein, management professor and faculty director at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, has earned wide acclaim for his most recently published book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, which Amazon named one of the 20 best business and leadership books of 2016. Read more

Published: November 27, 2016

Darden Introduces New Institute for Business in Society Executive Director

After leading research and outreach efforts with the University of Chicago—serving as both the executive director for the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics and director of research and operations with the Chicago Booth School of Business’ Center for Population Economics—Joseph Burton has joined the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business as the new executive director of the Institute for Business in Society. Joseph Burton, new executive director for Darden’s Institute for Society in Business “Joey’s experience elevating faculty research Read more

Published: November 24, 2016

Black Friday 2016 MBA Guide: Laptops

Earlier this year, we took a look at "The Right Laptops For MBA Students." But, as it is with most large purchases, the market tends to change very quickly. Plus with the holiday season ready to go into full swing, it’s a pretty good time to go shopping again. Here are some of this year’s best deals on laptops perfect for MBA students. Read more

Published: October 26, 2016

How This Saïd MBA Grad Is Helping Destroy Tax Jargon

“If you could deduct a dollar for every word of jargon on your tax return, chances are, you would owe a lot less tax.” Those words, published in the New York Times, could realistically have been written in 2016. But this notion of an incredibly common public nuisance was published in 1984. And more than 30 years later, not much has changed. The typical annotation surrounding tax jargon is littered with brash profanities, and for good reason: filing taxes can be nauseatingly frustrating, and the endless wordiness that comes with it only makes it worse. Luckily, that mired Read more

Published: October 25, 2016

LBS MBA Student Named Future LGBT Leader by Financial Times

London Business School (LBS) student Dr. Nicholas Deakin, MBA ‘17, was among the honorees named to this year’s Financial Times “2016 OUTstanding LGBT+ Future Leaders” list, coming in at an impressive fifth overall. Deakin has already made a long-standing positive impact in the LGBT community as an acting co-president of the LBS Out In Business Club and volunteer member of the school’s Diversity Role Models program. He was one of three LBS alumni named to the “Future Leaders” list, alongside Samuel Rensing, MBA ‘16, and Emmeline Tang, MBA ‘15. Read more

Published: October 16, 2016

ENTREPRENEURSHIP@ London Business School: 10 New Ventures Join LBS School Incubator Program

For the past seven years, the London Business School (LBS) Incubator Program has facilitated a wealth of new startups, helping a total of 57 companies and creating more than 150 new jobs. With more applicants now than ever before, the program has welcomed 10 new ventures to join for the upcoming the year. “The incubator makes the following available: dedicated free office space, an extensive program of support from a number of professional service firms and strategic input and mentoring from Deloitte, our sponsors,” explained Jane Khedair, head of entrepreneurship at LBS’s Career Center, in Read more

Published: October 12, 2016

Stanford GSB to Open State-of-the-Art Highland Hall for First-Year Students

Arching in the skyline of Serra Street overlooking the Knight Management Center complex, students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) will be hard-pressed to miss the soon-to-be-completed Highland Hall. With its stark purple finish shimmering brightly in the California sun, the state-of-the-art building is a striking, modern accent to the campus. However, the most striking feature about it may not be the captivating exterior but rather its intended use: as a residency for first-year MBA students. Units have private entrances and baths, as well as a shared kitchen. Photo credit: Elena Zhukova The $75 million project is Read more

Published: October 11, 2016

MIT Sloan, Harvard Professors Share Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

For more than 40 years, MIT Sloan Economist Bengt Holmström has laid a foundation of formative work in contract theory. Now, finally, his work on the subject—along with that of Harvard Professor Oliver Hart—has been recognized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, earning the pair a Nobel Prize. Holmström, 67, is the fifth to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences while serving as a member of the MIT faculty, joining Paul A. Samuelson (1970), Franco Modigliani (1985), Robert M. Solow (1987) and Peter Diamond (2010). Holmström joined the MIT faculty in 1994. Read more

Published: October 9, 2016

Harvard Life Lab to Open on Allston Innovation Corridor in November

Building on the successes of the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-Lab), established in 2011, and the Harvard Launch Lab, a start-up incubator that welcomed its first ventures in 2014, Harvard University will add another facility to the growing innovation corridor along Allston's Western Avenue with the forthcoming Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab, scheduled to open next month. The new facility will provide a space for students, faculty, alumni and postdoctoral scholars from schools across the university, including Harvard Business School (HBS), to incubate high-potential startups in biotech and future-minded life sciences. It will also provide the necessary equipment needed for these often costly science-focused startups to scale. Read more

Published: October 5, 2016

Wharton Students Gather for “Judgement Free” Discussion on Race

A week after Wharton students gathered in the wake of police shootings of Terence Crutcher and Keith Scott in Oklahoma City and Charlotte, it felt like the time for an open discussion on race open to the entire MBA community had arrived. Students joined together for an event organized by the Return on Equality (ROE) student coalition and the Wharton African American MBA Association (AAMBAA) in Wharton’s Huntsman Hall for two hours last Thursday. As part of a “judgment free” open discussion, they together Read more

Published: October 5, 2016

ROMBA 2016 Conference Taking Place Now in Dallas

The world’s largest gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) graduate business school students is taking place now through October 8th in Dallas as Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) hosts its 2016 LGBT MBA & Business Graduate Conference. The three-day conference, which this year centers around the theme of “Authentic Disruption,” aims to be much more than simply a career fair for LGBT MBA students. Indeed, with a jam-packed schedule of keynote addresses, community initiatives, company visits and more, the event seeks to promotes broader visibility and transparency of the LGBT business community, create Read more

Published: October 4, 2016

Haas Professor and “Power Poses” Co-Author Backtracks from Own Study

Six years ago, researchers at Columbia and Harvard quickly gained recognition in the psychological science community with research they published suggesting that power poses—particular body stances and positioning held for limited periods of time—could lend themselves to increased feelings of power and tolerance for risk. The 2010 report, “Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance,” was co-authored by Dana Carney and Andy Yap, then at Columbia, and Amy Cuddy (pictured above, right) at Harvard Business School. The three wrote, “results of this study confirmed our prediction that posing in high-power nonverbal displays (as opposed to low-power nonverbal displays) would cause neuroendocrine and behavioral changes for both male and female participants: High-power posers experienced elevations in testosterone, decreases in cortisol, and increased feelings of power and tolerance for risk; low-power posers exhibited the opposite pattern.” Read more

Published: October 3, 2016

Tuck’s New Mission Statement Looks Toward Future

“Wisdom encompasses the essential aptitudes of confident humility,” reads the introduction to the new mission statement for Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, defining a new vision for the future of the New Hampshire business school. Speaking to the Tuck community, Dean Matthew J. Slaughter broke down the school’s newly refined outlook into a concise ten-word statement: “Tuck educates wise leaders to better the world of business.” “It has been an invigorating and affirming process,” Slaughter said in a letter released last week, “the results of which I am excited to share with you today." Read more

Published: October 3, 2016

Columbia Business School Launches Inaugural Re-Orientation Program

While seldom the most important step in a student’s career, the value of orientation is nonetheless immeasurable for many. Often it creates a unique bond between the students and their new surroundings at an impossibly vital point during formative years. But after it’s over, it's over, right? Not so fast, says Columbia Business School (CBS). Questioning why that special cohesion-building process should be reserved just for first-students, the school late last month held its first-ever orientation for second-year business students. Dubbed the “Re-Orientation,” it was led by the Columbia Leadership Lab. Read more

Published: October 2, 2016

Kellogg Receives $10 Million from Former Motorola CEO

With the completion of the state-of-the-art Global Hub, the brand new epicenter of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, slated for the very near future, the Evanston business school received even more good news in the form of a $10.25-million donation from the Christopher B. Galvin Family Foundation. The foundation is run by former Motorola CEO Chris Galvin and his wife, Cynthia. With the donation, the first-floor design wing and conference center of the Global Hub will be named in their honor. Read more

Published: September 30, 2016

McCombs Celebrates Fifth Annual Austin Startup Week

Since 2011, every early October at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas has celebrated Austin’s burgeoning entrepreneurial environment with the five-day Austin Startup Week. And with the fifth edition right around the corner, more and more McCombs students look to join the ever-growing ranks of alumni with celebrated startups. Several startups that have emerged from McCombs over the past five years include Sock Club, Nicely Noted and Beatbox Beverages. Sock Club is a niche sock-only online store co-created in 2012 by Noah Lee, a McCombs MBA class of 2016 alumnus. When speaking about the MBA program, Lee notes, “Running a new company requires managing your mistakes and opportunities and is impacted by how effectively you can react to the results of your economic activity. The Texas MBA Program didn’t necessarily teach me how to do things. It taught me how to think about things and make decisions.” Read more

Published: September 29, 2016

Kellogg’s Global Hub Enters Final Phases of Construction

Before the end of 2016, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University won’t just be culminating another successful year, it’ll be celebrating the opening of its immense new Global Hub. The approximately 410,000-square-foot center, located on the edge of Lake Michigan in Chicago, will serve as Kellogg's new modern epicenter. Included in the enormous 103-foot complex designed by Toronto-based architecture firm KPMB Architects will be advanced, green-friendly classrooms, a 1,400-square-foot student lounge, an auditorium and a picturesque 2,000-square-foot terrace overlooking Lake Michigan. Read more

Published: September 28, 2016

Stanford GSB Class of 2018 Profile Reveals High GMATs, Increasing Diversity

Always one of the last schools to publish its class profile, Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) yesterday shared details about the Class of 2018, revealing a significantly rebounded average GMAT score and growing diversity. As the final class to be hand-selected by Derrick Bolton—the school’s longstanding admissions director who earlier this month left his role to head admissions for Stanford’s new Knight-Hennessy Program—it’s something of a crowing achievement. Derrick Bolton, who led MBA admissions at Stanford GSB for 15 years, before moving over to the Knight-Hennessy Program earlier this month Record Application Volume, Record Read more

Published: September 27, 2016

Students, Faculty Stand in Unity at Ross Black Lives Matter Gathering

In silence, students, staff and faculty at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School Of Business spoke volumes. Standing together on the afternoon of Monday, September 26th, dressed in all black, the group unified behind signs of Black Lives Matter and #Ross4Change, sending a powerful, cohesive message. The moment was organized by the Black Business Student Association and the Student Government Association at Ross, which is also helping put together a Kickstarter campaign championing diversity. Perhaps most poignant were signs with hard, honest data about the number of Read more

Published: September 25, 2016

Harvard Business School Announces Newest Entrepreneurs-in-Residence

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced its 2016-17 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiRs) at the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. The program—which brings founders, investors and industry experts from across industries, many of them HBS alumni, to work directly with current students—is now entering its 12th year. Entrepreneurship has been a cornerstone of the Harvard MBA program since the late 1940s when it became a part of the required course load for first-year students. As well, the school’s MBA program offers numerous entrepreneurship electives for students to further expand their understanding of what it takes to run your own business. The Rock Center, the intellectual epicenter of the Harvard Business School’s study on entrepreneurship, provides foundation for innovation in the field, helping refine the goals of its students. Read more

Published: September 21, 2016

GMAC Introduces New Features for GMAT Enhanced Score Report

In early January 2016, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which owns and administers the GMAT, introduced the GMAT Enhanced Score Report (ESR), providing test-takers with deeper insight into their scores. Recently, GMAC unveiled a newer, enhanced version of the ESR, including three new features. The new elements build on the initial ESR, which allowed users to look at separate result segments of the GMAT and compare themselves against other test-takers. In addition to giving the test-takers a percentage ranking to see where they stack up against potential competition, it also allowed them to pinpoint the areas in which they would benefit most from additional preparation. Read more

MBA Livewire

November 22, 2024 8:08am ET

Accepted to Cambridge / Judge

Round: Round 2

Received via email November 22, 2024

GMAT: 695

Program Type: One Year Program

Application Location: Asia

November 22, 2024 1:39am ET

Rejected at Columbia

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on November 14, 2024

GMAT: 695

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: India

November 22, 2024 1:07am ET

Interview Invite to Carnegie Mellon / Tepper

Round: Round 1

Received via email

Note:

Interview with admissions team member

November 22, 2024 1:02am ET

Accepted to Rochester / Simon

Round: Round 1

Received via phone November 21, 2024

GMAT: 625

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Entrepreneurship

Application Location: India

November 21, 2024 6:44pm ET

Accepted to Rochester / Simon

Round: Round 1

Received via phone November 21, 2024

GPA: 3.82

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Operations Management

Application Location: Nigeria

Note:

Application submission was on the 14th of October. Interview was on the 7th of November. Admitted with scholarship.

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