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Published: September 28, 2016

UC Irvine’s Merage School Shoots Up 19 Spots in Latest Forbes Report

Forbes researchers ranked UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business 42nd in the country as part of its biennial ranking of MBA programs based their return on investment (ROI). Merage catapulted 19 spots above its 2013 ranking and came in 20th among public institutions. To compile its rankings, Forbes surveyed the alumni of full-time MBA programs who graduated in 2010. To determine ROI, Forbes assessed total alumni compensation, including salary, bonuses and exercised stock options for their first five years out of school as compared to the cost of tuition, required fees and foregone compensation for the two years spent in business school. Read more

Published: July 12, 2016

Robin Chase, MIT Sloan Grad and Visionary of the Sharing Economy

Robin Chase, MIT Sloan Graduate School of Management MBA (1986) and co-founder of Zipcar, is a visionary in the brave new world of the sharing economy and peer-to-peer technology. It’s easy to take for granted the omnipresence of the sharing economy in our everyday lives. For some millennials, it's hard to recall that there was ever a time before they could walk outside, wave a gadget to a car windshield, and go on an unexpected road trip. Robin Chase's Zipcar gave birth to a phenomenon. Read more

Published: July 7, 2016

UCLA’s Anderson School Hosts Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for U.S. Veterans

This month, more than eighty post-9/11 veterans with disabilities will gather on various campuses, including at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, to pursue entrepreneurship opportunities. From July 9th through 17th, they will channel their military experience into the business world during the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV). Read more

Published: June 30, 2016

Wharton School of Business Announces Groundbreaking Budget Model Tool

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s Public Policy Initiative has announced the launch of a breakthrough budget modeling tool. The Penn Wharton Budget Model Tool aims to allow transparent access to ongoing budget decisions. Accessible online, the tool is free of cost to the public and to those involved in legislation. Read more

Published: June 1, 2016

Stanford University MBA Applies Peer-to-Peer Model to Small Business Lending

A Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) MBA saw a great opportunity to apply the efficiency of the sharing economy to an area into which it hadn’t yet emerged—small business lending—through Funding Circle. Sam Hodges, along with a group of Oxford University grads, teamed up to form the company in 2010. Read more

Published: April 12, 2016

Profile: UCLA Anderson School Alum and Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. The omnipresence of video on demand is easy to take for granted. It can be difficult for some of us to recall a time before there were countless forms of digital media available at our fingertips. UCLA Anderson School of Management alum and Hulu CEO Michael Hopkins (MBA, '01), is among the leaders in this ever-expanding world. Under his leadership the company has become a top competitor in the on-demand media market. Read more

Published: April 10, 2016

USC Marshall Students Win Global Consulting Challenge

The following post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. A team of MBAs from the USC Marshall School of Business recently won both the overall challenge and company segment of the 2016 Global Consulting Challenge (GCC), held March 3rd and 4th at Google Inc.’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Now in its 14th year, the GCC is an invitation-only case competition consisting of four weeks of preparation that culminate in the two-day-long competition. Teams were presented with complex hypothetical data sets from Google during the preparation Read more

Published: March 14, 2016

Professors Address Cuban American Relations at Merage School

Newly forming Cuban American business relations were aided by a collaboration between UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business (Merage School) faculty and Cuban professionals during a recent two-day program held on February 15-16, 2016. The workshop addressed issues of negotiation, encompassing differences in economic thinking between the countries, in addition to communication styles which are embedded within each culture. Professor William Hernández Requejo from the Merage School said, “In everyday talk, Cubans interrupt one another frequently. Americans, not so much. Interruptions are off-putting to Americans and limit the information that can be gathered by Cuban negotiators in face-to-face Read more

Published: February 28, 2016

USC Marshall Hosts Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem

The following post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. The USC Marshall School of Business’ Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies recently hosted author, activist and American icon Gloria Steinem for a talk as part of Professor David Belasco’s course “Entrepreneurial Mindset: Taking the Leap.” Read more

Published: February 22, 2016

UCLA Anderson’s Dean’s Speaker Series Hosts YouTube CEO

The following post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. One of technology’s most influential leaders was the guest of honor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series on February 11, 2016. Dean Judy Olian hosted Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, who is a 1998 graduate of the Anderson School. Read more

Published: February 15, 2016

Haas School of Business Grants Seed Money to MBA Student Entrepreneurs

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business awarded the first round of grants in a new program that intends to inspire MBA student entrepreneurs to grow early stage startups. The Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program (BHEP) awarded these first ten grants in December 2015, and the next round will be bestowed in April 2016. Read more

Published: January 31, 2016

UCLA Anderson School of Management Launches Venture Accelerator

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. On Monday, January 25th, the UCLA Anderson School of Management made a great stride in entrepreneurship education through its launch of the Anderson Venture Accelerator Program. The program will provide a venue for collaboration between students and professionals, and it will serve as an incubator for innovation not only at the university, but in the global marketplace as well. Read more

Published: January 29, 2016

UCI Merage School of Business Alumna Offers Pledge for Growing Campus

The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine (UCI Merage School of Business) recently announced a $1.5 million dollar pledge from Kristen S. Monson, an alumna of the college. Monson’s gift will go toward naming the Grand Terrace in the Merage School’s new building. Dean Eric Spangenberg said, “Kristen’s significant investment is exciting for all of us in the Merage School… Her gift represents the single largest philanthropic commitment to date toward our new building; it is particularly noteworthy to come from a member of the strong alumni network established by the Read more

Published: January 18, 2016

Stanford to Offer LGBT Executive Program to Business Leaders

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. Stanford University's Graduate School of Business (GSB) has announced that it will offer an LGBT Executive Program. Beginning in late July 2016, the week-long program is described as the first of its kind. The program is designed for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered leaders who are seeking to rise to the C-suite level in their careers. Read more

Published: January 12, 2016

Wharton Professors Examine What Makes MBAs Happy

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. Professors Matthew Bidwell and Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania were recently acknowledged for their historic study on the happiness of entrepreneurs. The team discovered, after surveying 11,000 MBA graduates over a span of years, that those who ended up running their own businesses ranked themselves happiest. A recent article by Martin Zwilling in Forbes noted the professors’ research, along with a list of tips for those entering the workplace as entrepreneurs. Read more

Published: January 11, 2016

Anderson MBAs Win Big in Renewable Energy Competition

This article has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. A team of MBA students from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management won first place last month in the Renewable Energy Case Competition (RECC) at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Competitors included MBA candidates from top schools in the United States and internationally. Read more

Published: January 6, 2016

UCLA Anderson MBA Grad Wins Award For Life-Changing Technology

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. A recent graduate of the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s MBA program won $150,000 in seed money during a recent competition to support innovation in life sciences technology. Derek Herrera, winner of the award, is the founder and CEO of Spinal Singularity. The company’s goal is to revolutionize the way in which people with paralysis, Alzheimer’s or dementia manage the side effect of neurogenic bladder dysfunction. Read more

Published: January 4, 2016

USC Marshall MBA Students Team Up for Sports Business Training

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. USC Marshall School of Business MBA students recently got to explore the business side of the sports industry during a visit with executives from the Portland Trail Blazers. Read more

Published: December 28, 2015

Saïd Business School Alum’s Venture Transforms How Companies Meet

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. An MBA alumnus from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School recently launched an innovative company that provides unique meeting spaces for businesses. Julian Jost founded Spacebase in early 2015, which he describes as “the first global peer-to-peer marketplace for workshop and meeting spaces.” The company is based in Berlin and provides meeting locations in Europe, as well as in cities such as Tel Aviv, Cape Town and Hong Kong. Read more

Published: December 27, 2015

LBS Alum Explores the Next Frontier as Part of International Space Mission

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. A 2013 graduate from London Business School’s EMBA program blasted off on December 15, 2015, as part of the International Space Mission. Colonel Tim Kopra is a NASA astronaut whose path to business school was somewhat rocky. In 2011, he was training for an upcoming space mission when a biking accident thwarted his plans. Read more

Published: December 15, 2015

UCLA Anderson Hosts Global Investment Leader Who Believes in Social Responsibility

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Center for Global Management recently welcomed George R. Roberts, co-chair and CEO of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (KKR), as part of its Robertson Lecture Series on Global Business Leadership. Dean Judy Olian hosted the talk. The inaugural installment of the series, which took place in the Spring of 2014, featured General Stanley McChrystal, former U.S. Commander in Afghanistan and current owner of a business consulting firm in Alexandria, VA. Read more

Published: December 15, 2015

Wharton School Professors Address the Value of Social Impact Investing

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. Two professors from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School recently published research debunking widely-held assumptions that social impact investing delivers low returns. The study, entitled “Great Expectations: Mission Preservation and Financial Performance in Impact Investments,” was supervised by Professors David Musto, finance department chair, and Christopher Geczy, adjunct professor of finance and academic director of the Wharton Wealth Management Initiative and the Levy Equity Management Center. Their findings, which revealed that impact funds can indeed achieve a positive financial return, were published by the Wharton Social Impact Initiative (WSII). Read more

Published: December 6, 2015

Online Meets Offline for Today’s Consumer, Notes Wharton Professor

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. David Bell, professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, recently presented research exploring the intersection between online and offline shopping during a talk at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. Bell is a specialist in consumer behavior, specifically how this behavior plays out online. Read more

Published: December 6, 2015

High Earning Stats for Stanford MBA Grads

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. The 2014-2015 employment report recently published by Stanford Graduate School of Business revealed all-time highs for the school’s graduating MBA class of 2015. The Stanford MBA median salary, constant for the past four years, this year reached $130,000, a 4 percent increase. The average base salary, $129,618 last year, rose to $133,406. Read more

Published: December 1, 2015

UCLA Anderson School of Management Trains Head Start Heroes

This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Price Center) will partner with the University of Massachusetts’ Donahue Institute in training executive leaders and managers for excellence in Head Start programming. As part of a $6 million per year, five-year award, the Price Center will strengthen its Head Start Management Fellows Program. UMass Donahue will apply its share of this funding to lead the Head Start National Center on Program Management and Fiscal Operations (NCPMFO). Read more

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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

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

November 21, 2024 5:41pm ET

Accepted to Rochester / Simon

Round: Round 1

Received via email November 21, 2024

GPA: 7.4/10

GRE: 321

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Healthcare

Application Location: India

November 21, 2024 4:42pm ET

Accepted to Cornell / Johnson

Round: Round 1

Received via phone November 21, 2024

GPA: 3.16

GMAT: 730

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

November 21, 2024 4:08pm ET

Accepted to Rochester / Simon

Round: Round 1

Received via phone November 21, 2024

GMAT: 555

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

November 21, 2024 3:42pm ET

Interview Invite to NYU Stern

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 03, 2024

GPA: 3.2

GRE: 333

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Marketing

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