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Published: February 16, 2017

When Will Those MIT Sloan R2 Interview Invites Roll Out?

In a post to her Admissions Blog yesterday, MIT Sloan School of Management Director of MBA and Master of Finance Admissions Dawna Levenson provided lots of valuable information for MIT Sloan applicants anxiously awaiting Round 2 interview invitations. Dawna Levenson, MIT Sloan director of MBA and Master of finance admissions As at many leading business schools, an interview is a required step toward admission at MIT Sloan. “The goal of the interview is to personally get to know you better and to hear more about your professional stories and background,” Levenson writes. MIT Sloan R2 interview 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: January 12, 2017

Fridays from the Frontline: Thai Adventure for MIT Sloan Student

Today’s Fridays from the Frontline comes to us from an Indian-born MIT Sloan School of Management MBA student currently in Thailand. Partha Sharma, now in his second year at Sloan, is taking part in the MIT Sloan Global Entrepreneurship Lab, or G-Lab, an experiential learning opportunity in which students spend three months working remotely from MIT with a host company headquartered elsewhere in the world and then three weeks on site at the company’s offices during their January break from classes. This year, Sloan students are in 13 different countries—Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Read more

Published: January 9, 2017

MIT Sloan 2016 Employment Report Reveals Slightly Slipping Salaries

MIT Sloan School of Management late last week released its 2016 MBA Employment Report, revealing slightly slipping salaries year over year and slightly lower percentages of graduates heading into consulting and technology than in prior years. The pharmaceutical/healthcare industry drew the third largest percentage of graduates—5.8 percent—knocking investment banking out of the top three for the first time—perhaps ever. Investment banks drew just 4.7 percent of the 2016 class, down from 6.1 percent last year, 6.8 percent in 2014 and 8.1 in 2013. Read more

Published: December 21, 2016

Parsing Round 1 MBA LiveWire Data Reveals Some Interesting Results

The last couple of weeks have been very busy indeed as the majority of schools we cover on Clear Admit released final decisions to their Round 1 applicants. MBA LiveWire saw record activity as the community chimed in to share their individual results with each other. We thought it would be interesting to do some data analysis on these results and are excited to share our findings. We should stress, though, that the data is very likely subject to response bias, by which we mean that candidates with positive results may be more inclined to share them, resulting Read more

Published: December 13, 2016

MIT Sloan Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub

The following MIT Sloan interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Interviewed with an Adcom member, she was very nice and made me feel comfortable during the 40 minutes interview. The first question was if anything had changed since I’ve submitted my application. Then she continued with a series of behavioral questions. Some of the questions were: • Tell me about a time you had a conflict with someone at work. • Tell me about a time you led a team. • Tell me about a time when you had Read more

Published: November 27, 2016

MIT Sloan Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus

The following MIT Sloan interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed in the afternoon immediately after the lunch with current students. The class I sat in on in the morning was really interesting, and the lunch was spent mostly worrying that I had forgotten everything that I have done over the past 5.5 years. The sitting area was extremely quiet, everyone clearly extremely nervous except for the guy who brought a book to read. I occasionally tried to talk to others, but most people weren’t really interested in talking. Once I got Read more

Published: November 26, 2016

MIT Sloan Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Skype

The following MIT Sloan interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! So the interviewer started off by telling me about herself, and what her role was at Sloan. She also mentioned that since this wasn’t a blind interview, she was really looking forward to stories outside of what I had already conveyed in my essays, and résumé. I can say that this interview was markedly different from my other interviews, in terms of its strong focus on behavioral questions. The interviewer not only asked behavioral questions but also at times drilled down to focus Read more

Published: November 21, 2016

MIT Sloan Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus

The following MIT Sloan interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Interviewed with adcom on campus. Much less behavioral focused than I anticipated, even though the adcom mentioned in the interview that it would be behavioral focused. Tell me about your background Can you explain xyz project further Why MBA? Tell me about a time when you faced a challenging client Tell me about a time when you faced a conflict within your team Do you think you handled it to the best of your ability? Tell me about a piece of constructive advice Read more

Published: November 17, 2016

MIT Sloan Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus

The following MIT Sloan interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! My interview occurred on-campus at MIT with a member of the admissions office. The interview was exactly as advertised on the MIT website. The focus was entirely on the past and how I arrived at various decisions, what thought processes I used to reach those decisions, and how I acted or reacted to certain events. MIT’s interview is probably the most straightforward in that you know exactly what they’re interested in knowing based on the BEI description on the website. The key for Read more

Published: November 15, 2016

Amid Roller Coaster Rides for Some, HBS Stays Put atop Bloomberg BusinessWeek Ranking

For the second consecutive year, Harvard Business School (HBS) tops the Bloomberg BusinessWeek annual ranking of MBA programs—released today—making it one of the few leading schools that didn’t experience shifts in a list that holds lots of changes this year over last. Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) shot up to second, from its seventh spot last year, and Duke’s Fuqua School followed right on its heels, moving from eighth last year to number three. Together, they knocked the University of Chicago Booth School of Business down from second to fourth. Read more

Published: October 25, 2016

MIT Sloan Interview Questions Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub

The following MIT Sloan interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! This interview took place last cycle [2015-2016 admissions cycle]. Interview was with an adcom at a very nice local MBB consulting office. I grabbed a bottle of water in the reception area and waited by myself until the interviewer was finished with the previous candidate. Interview was not as casual as an alumni interview, but was pleasant and not high pressure. I saw the next candidate coming in on my way out and had a nice lunch afterwards to Read more

Published: October 24, 2016

Impending MBA Interview? Latest Clear Admit Interview Guides Have All You Need to Prepare

The MBA interview—the nail-biting, stomach-churning, sleep-robbing, suit-demanding component of the MBA application process that ties some applicants up in knots—is upon us. But there’s no reason to fret: not with Clear Admit’s in-depth Interview Guide Series as part of your arsenal. Providing expert advice and insider tips on what to expect and how to prepare, these guides are ready and waiting to help you conquer your jitters and ace your interview. Maybe you’re among the lucky ones who has already received an interview invite from your top choice business school (Harvard Business School and U. Chicago Booth to name a couple)? We’ve also heard—via the MBA LiveWire—that invites are rolling out from places like Columbia Business School (CBS), Cambridge’s Judge School, Duke’s Fuqua School and INSEAD. Of course, with more candidates set to receive Round 1 decisions in the coming weeks, the interview invitation madness has just begun. 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: September 19, 2016

Starting a Career in Tech After Your MBA

When getting your MBA, it’s easy to get caught up in the herd mentality. With hoards of classmates heading off to meet with top consulting firms or pursuing careers in investment banking, it can be tempting to simply go with the flow. But while many business school students do choose careers in finance or consulting, those industries are not your only options. Tech opportunities are exploding in a big way. In fact, 12 percent of MBAs accepted a job in the industry in 2015, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council’s (GMAC) annual Global Management Education Read more

Published: September 15, 2016

Chicago’s McGowan Charitable Fund Announces 7th Class of Fellows

Since 2010, the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund has been naming 10 outstanding second-year MBA students as members of its annual class of McGowan Fellows. The fund was created and named in honor of William G. McGowan, an American business leader and founder of MCI Communications, following his passing in 1992. The selected fellows join a prestigious group of alumni from some of the best business schools around the United States. One fellow is chosen annually from each of 10 partner business schools. Each receives full tuition for the second year of his or her MBA studies. Read more

Published: September 11, 2016

Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Dawna Levenson of MIT Sloan School of Management

If you’ve got the MIT Sloan School of Management in your sights for the coming application season, you’re very likely busy putting the finishing touches on your Round 1 application—due Thursday. What better time to get a glimpse into the woman who heads MBA admissions for the school? Dawna Levenson has been in her current role as director of MIT Sloan Admissions since March 2013, but she’s been at the school for much longer than that. When she arrived in November 2007, it was as associate director of academic programs for the School of Engineering, and she had been reading MBA applications for the past year. She moved over to admissions in 2012, where she’s since stayed, but her combined experiences really help her know the MBA program inside and out. She also knows the school as a student, having obtained her B.S. in management science at MIT and her M.S., also in management science, at MIT Sloan. And she spent 18 years working for Andersen Consulting, now Accenture, as a consultant. All that experience gives her amazing insight into the goals and aspirations of prospective Sloan applicants and helps her know who will fit best with the school’s signature MBA program. Read more

Published: September 7, 2016

ENTREPRENEURSHIP@MIT: MIT Demo Day Celebrates Next Generation of Startups

On Friday, September 9th, 17 teams of MIT students, including MBA students from MIT Sloan School of Management, will have a chance to make a lasting impact on the startup community when they present their pitches for MIT Demo Day. Eighty-six total entrepreneurs comprise the 17 teams, 74 percent male and 26 percent female. The vast majority of the 86 entrants come from backgrounds in business and engineering, mixed with students involved in science, policy and political science, and design. In total, nine “industry verticals” will be represented by the teams: logistics, energy, Read more

Published: August 4, 2016

Fridays from the Frontline: The Pre-MBA Journey—What to Do with Your Summer Vacation

This week’s Fridays from the Frontline comes to us from a soon-to-be first-year student at MIT Sloan School of Management. Jayesh Kannan, a member of Sloan’s Class of 2018, reflects on the happy news of his acceptance (which conveniently came on his birthday!) before diving in to outline all that he hoped to accomplish before getting to campus. If you’re gearing up to apply to business school this fall, tuck this away for suggestions of how to spend next summer. If, like Kannan, you’re coming to the end of that summer before business school, how many of the things 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: June 30, 2016

Top MBA Recruiters: Boston Consulting Group

Boston Consulting Group - A Dominant Force in Consulting When it comes to consulting firms there are a few names sure to show up on any MBAs dream job list: McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, Deloitte Consulting, and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). While McKinsey reigns on top in Vault.com’s ranking of the most prestigious consulting firms on Earth, BCG has had a lock on the number two spot for almost 10 years. 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 20, 2016

Hot MBA Jobs: IT Manager/Director

The following post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. As the lines between business and technology industries continue to blur, more and more information, computer and tech professionals are looking to business schools and MBA programs to achieve a leg up on the competition. An MBA with a focus on information technology (IT) is a great path to landing any number of tech-related jobs. One such position is that of the IT manager/director. Read more

Published: March 31, 2016

MIT Sloan School’s New Logo Results in Lawsuit

Cambridge, MA (Knight-Ridder)—Earlier this week, the MIT Sloan School of Management unveiled a new logo designed to bring the school’s “MIT brand” to the fore. “After extensive study and collaborative effort, the logo was designed to reflect the smart, open, grounded and inventive nature of the school,” read an official statement from the school. “One of the distinguishing ways that MIT stands apart from its peer schools is through our relationship with the Institute—a world-class research institution.” Within hours of the new logo’s debut, a lawsuit was filed by the letter ‘I’. In a tersely worded statement, the letter ‘I’ Read more

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CLASS SIZE: 433

Women: 49%

Median GMAT: 730

Median GPA: 3.7

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November 20, 2024 9:42pm ET

Applying: Babson / Olin, , Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Emory / Goizueta, Rice / Jones, Rochester / Simon, SMU Cox, UCI Merage, Washington U. / Olin

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Technology - Entrepreneurship

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Entrepreneurship

GRE: 333

GPA: 2.56

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: Lagos

Notes:

I just got rejected for WashU Olin and I have an interview invitation with Questrom. GPA continues to bother me but I addressed it in my supporting essays.

November 19, 2024 12:51pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, INSEAD, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Tech in government

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Entrepreneurship Companies: Bain , McKinsey

GRE: 319

GPA: 2.9

Years of Work Experience: 7

Notes:

I got cancer when I was undergrad that's why my undergrad GPA is low. After MBA I want to work in consulting then make a social impact in Africa through entrepreneurship

November 19, 2024 12:06pm ET

Applying: Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, U. Washington / Foster, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UT Austin / McCombs, UVA / Darden

Pre-MBA Career: Wealth Management and Military

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Asset Management, inc. HF, Other Companies: Bain , BCG , Deloitte , McKinsey , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan Asset Management , State Street , Vanguard

GPA: 3.80

Years of Work Experience: 7

Location: San Diego

Post MBA Location: Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis, Charlotte

Notes:

UG Degree: BBA Financial Markets at an Accredited Institution.

Civilian Work History: 3 years as Wealth Advisor under an RIA in Minneapolis and Denver. Total AUM of ~$350-400M, served as a salaried advisor in a primary and secondary capacity. Holistic services to include investment management, estate planning, retirement planning, insurance planning, tax planning, etc.

Military History: 4 years as a supply/logistics officer heading efforts for air/ground mobility, defense contracting, supply and procurement, and fiscal budget management while located at various bases within CONUS and multiple forward deployed locations.

Professional Certifications: Obtained Certified Financial Planner designation (2022) and Series 65 (2019).

November 18, 2024 12:50am ET

Applying: Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, NYU Stern, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Consulting

Post-MBA Target Industry: Investment Banking Companies: Bank of America , Barclays , Citibank , Credit Suisse , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan Chase

GRE: 323

GPA: 3.32

Years of Work Experience: 7

Notes:

Education:
- Combined Major in Economics and Statistics
- CFA Charterholder (passed all three levels on the first attempt)

Professional Experience:
- Manager at a Big 4 firm Specializing in capital projects and infrastructure, with a role similar to investment banking
- Seven years of experience, mainly in financial services in Ghana

Extracurricular Activities:
- Pro bono capital-raising services for SMEs
- Aspiring to run a full advisory firm for SMEs in the future
- CFA exam coaching and tutorial classes for candidates
- Founder of a travel and tour club offering affordable trips to explore beautiful and historic scenes in Ghana

Will being 32 years old affect the attractiveness of my candidacy?

November 17, 2024 9:24am ET

Applying: Columbia, , Georgetown / McDonough, Harvard Business School, INSEAD, NYU Stern, Oxford / Saïd, Stanford GSB, UCLA Anderson, Yale SOM

Pre-MBA Career: Higher Education

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Media, Undecided Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey , JP Morgan , Morgan Stanley , JP Morgan Chase , Apple , Google , Microsoft , Andressen Horowitz , Charles River , Sequoia Capital , Blackstone , KKR , 21st Century Fox , Comcast , Walt Disney

GPA: 3.97

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: Denver, Colorado

Post MBA Location: New York City

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MBA LiveWire

November 23, 2024 7:37am ET

Accepted to NYU Stern

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on November 21, 2024

GPA: 6.42

GMAT: 760

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Technology

Application Location: India

November 23, 2024 12:41am ET

Accepted to SMU Cox

Round: Round 1

Received via email November 22, 2024

GPA: 3.6

GRE: 331

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Marketing

Application Location: Delta, Nigeria

November 22, 2024 11:09pm ET

Accepted to NYU Stern

Round: Round 1

Received via portal November 22, 2024

GPA: 3.65

Program Type: One Year Program

Target Career: Technology

Application Location: NY

Note:

Submitted on 9/1, interview invite on 10/8, interviewed on 10/30. No phone call but portal updated on 11/22 around 1pm est. No scholarship..

November 22, 2024 8:42pm ET

Accepted to SMU Cox

Round: Round 1

Received via phone November 22, 2024

GPA: 3.9

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Mississippi

November 22, 2024 8:34pm ET

Rejected at SMU Cox

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on November 21, 2024

GPA: 3.89/4

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Asia

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