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Published: January 15, 2019

MBA News You Need: HBS Talks Brexit, Stanford Researches Poverty, IU Kelley Announces LGBTQ+ Scholarship, and More

Published: January 8, 2019

MBA News You Need: Harvard Talks AI, London Business School and MIT Sloan Look Toward 2019, Kellogg Professor Gives Retreat Insights, and More

Published: December 23, 2018

Harvard Business School Explains the Need to Nurture Free Trade

While global free trade is clearly a good idea and necessary to our ultimate success, it’s important to remember that it’s not the natural order of things. It needs to be nurtured, tended, and maintained over time to survive. To get a better idea of what this looks like, Harvard Business School associate professor Sophus Reinert and professor of management practice Dante Roscini discuss the history of free trade and what we can learn from the lessons of the past. Read more

Published: December 4, 2018

MBA News You Need: LBS Announces Innovation Winners, HBS Works on Enterprise Research Campus, MIT Sloan Studies False News, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news you need that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of December 3, 2018. London Business School Announces Real Innovation Awards Winners It takes tenacity, originality, and expert timing—not to mention incredible luck—to start any kind of business, let alone one that pushes the conversation forward. But that rare combination of qualities is precisely what London Business School looks for when Read more

Published: November 27, 2018

MBA News You Need: Berkeley Haas Launches Startup Fund, HBS Talks Global Experience, Dartmouth Tuck Students Explore Sustainable Investing, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of November 26, 2018. Berkeley Haas Launches New Social Impact Startup Fund Jorge Calderon, founder of the new Berkeley Haas Social Venture Fund, with Venture Fellow Jessie Tang, MBA 20. Photo: Jim Block The new Berkeley Haas Social Venture Fund was launched this past spring to support four student social impact startups. The fund offers two awards: a cash prize of up to $5,000 and a resource award, which provides ventures with a network, mentoring, and office space. All recipients receive three months of dedicated coaching from a network of advisers pulled from the Berkeley / Haas alumni network. The goal of the fund is to support 10 to 20 social venture startups per semester once it truly gets off the ground. Four full-time MBA students have been named Social Venture Fund program fellows so far: Maggie Fried (MBA ’19) is focused on food, water, and health-related startups Stephanie Solove (MBA ’19) is focused on education and the workforce Jessie Tang (MBA ’19) is focused on financial services and housing Sam Roth (MBA ’19) is focused on energy and the environment The recipient of the first grant was Pedi-Ed, a health education nonprofit co-founded by Ahaana Singh (BS ’19), Caroline McGuire (Integrative Biology ’19), and Adam DeAngelo, a Boston University senior. Learn more in the Berkeley Haas Newsroom. MBA Admissions Director Talks the HBS Global Experience As Round 1 applicants wrap up their interviews at Harvard Business School, MBA admissions director Chad Losee took to the HBS blog to reflect on the school's global reach after much time on the road meeting candidates in person. Losee recently traveled to Tokyo to conduct interviews and meet local alumni at the HBS Japanese Research Center (JRC). Read more

Published: November 20, 2018

MBA News You Need: IESE Launches MiM Program, Prodigy Finance Helps International Working Graduates, HBS Hosts Financial Crisis Conference, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of November 19, 2018. IESE Launches New Master in Management Program IESE Business School‘s Madrid campus will offer an 11-month Master in Management (MiM) program starting September 2019. The only program of its kind at IESE, the MiM is aimed at recent graduates and young professionals preparing to enter the workforce for the first time. The program Read more

Published: November 15, 2018

Harvard Business School MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-campus

The following Harvard Business School MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Pre-interview, I got to hang out at the hospitality room where they had refreshments and even Legos to play with! Everyone was visibly nervous including me and about 10 minutes before the scheduled interview, they took us to the interview wait room upstairs. That was definitely the most nerve-wrecking moment as I just sat there waiting for the interviewer to call out my name. My interviewer came out and picked me up to take me to Read more

Published: November 8, 2018

Stanford GSB Tops Bloomberg Businessweek Ranking for First Time

The Stanford Graduate School of Business is no stranger to a top spot, but this is their first time claiming #1 on the Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-School list for U.S. programs. There are more familiar faces in the lead, with Wharton holding steady in second and Harvard Business School placing third. MIT / Sloan and Chicago Booth round out the top five, and then some greater shake-ups hit the standings, such as Berkeley / Haas jumping five spots and UVA / Darden a whopping eight positions. This can be attributed to Bloomberg Businessweek’s change in methodology—which was such a departure from last year’s approach, that they did not even include prior rankings for comparison. Before we dig into our key takeaways, here is a quick glance at this year’s top 10 (with the addition of 2017 rankings in parentheses): Read more

Published: November 7, 2018

Harvard Business School MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On Campus

The following Harvard Business School MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I spent a day on campus participating in interviewee activities (class visit, lunch with the admissions director, tour and career session), and interviewed the following morning. All interviewees hung out in a hospitality room until 15 minutes before our time slot. At that point, a student admissions volunteer collected all interviewees for the given time slot (there were about 10 of us) and took us upstairs to another waiting room. After about ten minutes, admissions representatives Read more

Published: November 7, 2018

MBA News You Need: Yale SOM Dean Search Continues, Berkeley Haas Discusses Value of MBA for Women Leaders, HBS Opens Lehman Brothers Exhibit, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of November 8, 2018. Yale SOM Search for New Dean Enters Interview Stage The search for someone new to lead Yale SOM began last spring when Dean Edward Snyder announced he would step down at the end of this year. A search advisory committee chaired by Finance Professor Andrew Metrick and composed of nine other faculty Read more

Published: November 7, 2018

Gettin’ Paid: Recent Harvard MBA Grads See Starting Salaries North of $160K

Harvard Business School (HBS) this week joined other top MBA programs in publishing employment stats for its most recent graduates. Top takeaways? Try starting salaries exceeding $160,000. This year’s median base pay, $140,000, is up $5,000 over last year. In addition, 65 percent of the class earned median sign-on bonuses of another $25,000. There were also other upticks, with 14 percent of students reporting median guaranteed first-year comp of $28,500, up from 13 percent and $25,000 the year before. Within three months of graduating, 95 percent of the class reported receiving at least one job offer, Read more

Published: October 31, 2018

MBA News You Need: HBS Celebrates Alumni Entrepreneurs, H1-B Visa Lottery Changes, Cornell Research on Endorsements, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of November 1, 2018. Rock 100 Summit Showcases Successful HBS Alumni Entrepreneurs According to a new survey of Harvard Business School alumni interviewed 10 to 15 years after graduation, 50 percent characterize themselves as entrepreneurs. To celebrate the many successful alumni who have launched or are launching a newly minted enterprise, HBS gathered 100 of Read more

Published: October 29, 2018

Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg Top Economist 2018 Rankings

The newest Economist best MBA rankings for full-time programs is officially out, with two Chicago schools topping the list. The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management sit at number one and two for 2018. This new ranking is only a modest shift from 2017, when the schools were also first and second, albeit in reverse order. Harvard Business School, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and Stanford Graduate School of Business all maintained the same ranks as Read more

Published: October 18, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: 10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA Program

Fridays from the Frontline Dual-degree master’s programs are incredibly enticing to students looking to distinguish themselves in their career pursuits. The combination of an MBA and a specialize master’s degree in engineering is proving particularly hot right now. Harvard Business School (HBS) welcomed its inaugural MS/MBA class to campus this fall as part of a program designed for future tech venture leaders who want to gain foundational business skills alongside design skills and deeper engineering knowledge. As Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee shared in a recent podcast with Read more

Published: October 15, 2018

HBS Admissions Director Chad Losee Dishes on the MBA Interview, Essays, Financial Aid, and More

Are you anxiously awaiting an interview for Harvard Business School (HBS)? I’m going to let you in on a secret. Chad Losee—who leads admissions for HBS and conducts a portion of the interviews with applicants himself—is nervous, too. For real. He told me as much in our latest Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast. Losee, for those who haven’t been following MBA admissions or HBS for long, is a bit of a special case. Not only does he now lead admissions for one of the most selective business schools in the world, he was a student at that Read more

Published: October 14, 2018

Top HBS MBA Interview Tips from Actual Interviewees

We know that many of you Class of 2021 hopefuls are eagerly awaiting your interviews with the Harvard Business School (HBS) admissions committee. To help you prepare, we’ve rounded up the top interview tips from experienced candidates, as reported in the Clear Admit Interview Guide. You can thank us—and them—by paying it forward and submitting reports of your own after you interview. Whether on campus, via Skype, or in any of several global hub cities, HBS interviews are all “non-blind,” meaning the adcom members conducting your interview will have fully examined and be familiar with your application. Let’s see what sage advice last year’s class passed on. Read more

Published: October 3, 2018

Has the MBA Lost Its Luster? GMAC Application Trends Survey Sheds Some Light

Declining application volume at U.S. business schools made the headlines when the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) released the findings of its annual application trends survey earlier this week (10/1). “Applications Down at 70 Percent of U.S. MBA Programs—Including Harvard,” broadcast one news outlet. And it’s true. The GMAC data reveal that just 32 percent of U.S. programs reported growth as compared to last year. Overall, U.S. business schools experienced a nearly 7 percent decline, with domestic applications down 1.8 percent and international volume off by 10.5 percent. Growth in Other Markets Offsets U.S. Decline Read more

Published: October 3, 2018

MBA News You Need: Yale Creates First-Generation Scholarship, HBS and UNC Kenan-Flagler Help Budding Entrepreneurs, and More…

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of October 4, 2018. New Yale SOM Scholarship Will Support First-Generation College Students Lise Pfeiffer Chapman For the first time at Yale SOM, an endowed scholarship has been created to help first-generation college students finance their educations. It was established by Lise Pfeiffer Chapman, a 1981 Yale MBA alumna who received a generous loan from a Read more

Published: September 30, 2018

More Artificial Intelligence Case Studies Coming to Harvard Business School

Thanks to a $5 million gift from 1972 MBA alumnus Stephen A. Schwarzman—chairman, CEO, and co-founder of multinational private equity asset management and financial services firm Blackstone—more artificial intelligence–focused case studies are coming to Harvard Business School (HBS). The donation will help the school explore the implications of AI on industries, business, and markets and will help to spur the efforts of HBS faculty currently researching AI. Read more

Published: September 30, 2018

HBS R1 Interview Notification Dates: October 4th, 10th

Are you anxiously awaiting an interview invitation after applying in Round 1 this year to Harvard Business School (HBS)? In case you haven’t already heard, HBS has shared details about its upcoming interview notifications. In a recent post to his Direct from the Director blog, HBS Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid shared that the school interviews approximately twice as many candidates as it can ultimately admit. “Those interview invitations come out in two waves,” Losee wrote. “October 1st and October 4th at noon eastern time.” These dates uphold Clear Admit’s own predictions Read more

Published: September 19, 2018

MBA News You Need: CBS Research Reveals Success Requires Passion, 5 Yale SOM Students Named Kerry Fellows, FT Talks U.S. Business School Application Declines, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of September 20, 2018. CBS Research Reveals That Success Requires Dedication PLUS Passion It takes more than determination to succeed. According to the latest research published by Columbia Business School (CBS) and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, it takes grit: the combination of perseverance and passion. In fact, the key ingredient of grit is passion, which has long Read more

Published: September 18, 2018

MBA LiveWire Data Predicts HBS, Wharton & Stanford Interview Invite Timing

October is an anxious month for MBA aspirants who have submitted applications to the leading MBA programs for Round 1. Many of these programs roll out their interview invite decisions during the month. If you are one of these candidates, MBA LiveWire is a good place for you to keep up to date with what’s going on; we hope you will also share your news. Harvard Leads the Way Harvard generally leads the way with Round 1 interview invite decisions. In 2017, HBS released its decisions on two dates, October 2nd and October 5th. The latter date included all those Read more

Published: September 13, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: Embracing Entrepreneurship and the HBS Asian-American Community

Fridays from the Frontline Recent Harvard Business School (HBS) alumus Wilson Kyi (MBA ’18) hosts a popular podcast called Fish Sauce, which is dedicated to “the unique traits and viewpoints Asian-Americans bring to entrepreneurship.” According to Kyi, the podcast was a natural outgrowth of the cross-cultural community that the Asian-American Business Association (AABA) engendered at HBS. Kyi, who according to his bio “leaped into smaller tech after growing tired of big tech,” took to the HBS blog in a recent post to discuss the soup-to-nuts process behind the Fish Sauce podcast and the multifaceted role Read more

Published: September 10, 2018

Applications Down 4.5 Percent at HBS, But Applicant Quality Remains High

The release of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Class of 2020 profile statistics last week revealed that the Boston school—like many of its U.S. peers—saw a decrease in overall application volume, but median GMAT score and GPA remained unchanged from the prior year at 730 and 3.71 respectively. The admit rate, 11 percent, was also unchanged year over year. So though he was working from a smaller pool of 9,886 applicants (down from 10,351 last year), Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee did not sacrifice on quality. HBS is one of many leading U.S. Read more

Published: September 7, 2018

MBA News You Need: HBS Welcomes First Joint MS/MBA Class, Chicago Booth Students Highlight Courses, LBS Announces Real Innovation Award Nominees, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of September 5, 2018. HBS Welcomes Inaugural MS/MBA Class Students from Harvard Business School (HBS)’s new joint two-year MS/MBA program kicked off their first-year courses at HBS following an intensive System Engineering course. In a blog post, HBS Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee praised the “talent and diversity of backgrounds we have represented in the Read more

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CLASS SIZE: 930

Women: 45%

MEDIAN GMAT: 740

MEAN GPA: 3.69

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December 20, 2024 5:17pm ET

Applying: Columbia, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Healthcare

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG

GRE: 332

GPA: 3.5

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: Florida

Post MBA Location: Consulting

Notes:

25F, lgbtq, 3 years as a registered nurse. also have started working for an early stage VC in the past several months.

December 19, 2024 4:44pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Insurance

Post-MBA Target Industry: Entrepreneurship

GRE: 318

GPA: 3.59

Years of Work Experience: 3.5

Location: Georgia

Post MBA Location: Southeast

Notes:

Looking to launch a tech startup post MBA, without any background in tech. Come from a quant heavy background and undergraduate coursework. I regularly attended admissions events, in person and online at my schools. I hope that focusing energy on my few top schools and spending a lot of time on essays will help me overcome the less than average test score (164 quant 154 verbal) and GPA.

Serial entrepreneur with a history of profitable small businesses. Was promoted twice in 3.5 years. Involved in many extracurricular activities in and outside of work. My background is very centered around financial services/insurance, is this a red flag for a pivot to Tech Entrepreneurship?

Transferred between two state schools in the southeast. School I graduated from is a top 25 undergrad business program. Obtained a few professionals designations post grad.

December 18, 2024 11:38am ET

Applying: Michigan / Ross, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Held various positions in Finance and Accounting in a healthcare institution

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Other Companies: BCG , Deloitte , Other

GPA: 3.0

Years of Work Experience: 11

Location: International

Notes:

I am passionate about healthcare enhancing patient quality care. So exploring in that field is what I would love. Got a 72k scholarship from Vandy and named Forte Fellow. UNC 50k. I'm having a hard time deciding though my heart is leaning towards Owen

December 18, 2024 10:23am ET

Applying: Arizona State / W.P. Carey, Indiana / Kelley, Ohio State / Fisher

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Facility management

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting

GRE: 309

GPA: 2.8

Years of Work Experience: 3

Notes:

Graduate GPA -3.869

December 18, 2024 2:57am ET

Applying: IESE, INSEAD, MIT Sloan, U. Chicago Booth

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Engineering

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Undecided Companies: Amazon

GMAT: 690

GPA: 3.26

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: Chile

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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

December 20, 2024 7:50pm ET

Accepted to Columbia

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on December 10, 2024

GMAT: 750

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: India

Note:

$100k scholarship

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

Note:

100% scholarship

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