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Published: January 29, 2018
HBS Admissions Director on Round 2 Next Steps
Chad Losee, managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid at Harvard Business School, again shared news about Round 2 interview invitations on his Direct from the Director blog yesterday. He alerted those Round 2 candidates who hadn’t received word in the first wave of notifications last week that a final wave would go out today at noon. True to his word, that wave has just gone out—and unfortunately for many, MBA LiveWire is reflecting a “sea of red” with most candidates reporting they’ve been “released” from consideration. “Unfortunately, we can’t move everyone forward to the next Read more
Published: January 29, 2018
A Scale That Doesn’t Tell You Your Weight? A Fuqua Prof on Why It Makes a Ton of Sense
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to step on a scale and not be told your weight? Probably not, but according to Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, that might be exactly what you need. That’s why Ariely has invented a different kind of scale that never reveals your weight, called the Shapa. This one-of-a-kind scale focuses on telling you if you’ve made progress or not toward your weight goals, taking into account your regular weight fluctuations to keep your attitude positive. In an interview with Newsweek, Ariely explained the reasoning behind the Shapa and how he thinks it’s better for the average person. Read more
Published: January 29, 2018
Going Green: Can You Guess Which Business Schools Lead the Way?
Earlier this month, the Global Hub at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management earned LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification, becoming only the second building on the Northwestern campus to earn the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest green building rating. The 415,000-square-foot Global Hub, which opened in March 2017, was designed with a low carbon footprint in mind. It is the largest of Northwestern’s 12 LEED-certified buildings. “Achieving LEED Platinum certification for the Global Hub underscores Kellogg’s strong commitment to sustainability,” Kellogg Chief Operating Officer William Garrett said in a press release. “A world-class facility demands world-class practices, Read more
Published: January 29, 2018
MBA DecisionWire Spotlight: Undecided about U. Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Dartmouth / Tuck, Northwestern / Kellogg with Scholarships
In this week’s MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights MBA candidates’ choices as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we round up responses to a candidate considering U. Chicago Booth, Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Northwestern / Kellogg for consulting with some scholarship funding. The candidate laid out the options in the initial post: Initial feedback favored the Big Apple: Read more
Published: January 25, 2018
The Chicago Booth MBA/MPP Dual-Degree Experience
Fridays from the Frontline Today’s the day the University of Chicago Booth School of Business was slated to send out interview invitations to Round 2 applicants, but posts to MBA LiveWire suggest that some applicants began receiving them earlier this week. Have you gotten one? If you’re still waiting, why not distract yourself by learning a little more about the school from a current student? Today’s Fridays from the Frontline column comes to us from Yuli Almozlino, a student in the dual-degree program Booth offers with the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. As the school’s Read more
Published: January 24, 2018
UVA Darden Professor Raises $2.2 Million for Behavioral Research
University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Morela Hernandez has a passion for behavioral research. It’s this passion that led the associate professor in leadership and organizational behavior and academic director of the Behavioral Research at Darden (BRAD) Lab to develop a new project: the Behavioral Research for Society (BRS) Lab. Read more
Published: January 24, 2018
MIT Sloan Round 2 Interview Invites to Go Out in Two Waves
If you applied to MIT Sloan School of Management in Round 2, listen up. According to a blog post today from Admissions Director Dawna Levenson, MIT Sloan Round 2 interview invites will go out in two waves, one on February 22nd and a second on March 1st. Dawna Levenson, MIT Sloan director of MBA and Master of finance admissions “Thank you to all of our Round 2 MBA applicants!” Levenson wrote as introduction. “I know how much time and effort goes into completing each part of the application. Thank you for sharing your accomplishments, Read more
Published: January 23, 2018
Yale SOM Initiative Looks to Take Female Entrepreneurship to the Next Level
It's going to be easier than ever for female founders to unite and learn from each other thanks to the newly launched Women Entrepreneurs at Yale (WE@Yale) Initiative. Developed by Cassandra Walker-Harvey, manager of the Social Environmental Innovation Program at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and Jennifer McFadden, SOM ’08, associate director of entrepreneurship and management lecturer at Yale School of Management (SOM), the initiative’s goal is to spark discussions around innovation and formalize the collective efforts of Yale’s female leaders. It’s part of the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY). Read more
Published: January 22, 2018
Washington Olin Business School Dean Reveals New Vision for 2018
Each year, January is an occasion to reflect on the previous year and set goals for the coming year. And it’s no different for top business schools. To welcome 2018, the University of Washington Olin Business School released a sneak peek of Dean Mark Taylor’s plans for the school. In the video post, Taylor talks about his new vision for Washington Olin as it embarks on its second century as a business school: to provide world-changing business education, research, and impact. This idea will be implemented in three ways: Through a global outlook, Through experimentation and thinking entrepreneurially, and Using data and a strong value system to consider impact on society. In short, Taylor explains, he wants the Olin Business School to act with integrity to create a better future and a better world. No biggie. He plans to focus on five areas in the coming year: experiential learning, innovative thinking, global learning, specialized masters, and research opportunities. Read more
Published: January 21, 2018
Watch Now! CEIBS Webinar – “Ready for the China Challenge”
On January 11th, Clear Admit was pleased to partner with CEIBS to offer an informative webinar entitled “CEIBS – Ready for the China Challenge”.  The webinar was led by Christina Mou, a CEIBS alumnus who is CEIBS’ Admissions and Marketing Manager for the MBA program and by Christopher Day a current CEIBS MBA student.  Both Mou and Day explained why they chose to have a career in China and why CEIBS was the right MBA program for them.  An interactive Q&A session followed, with Mou and Day answering the thoughtful queries from the participants. In the Read more
Published: January 21, 2018
Why More Harvard MBAs Are Choosing Careers in Politics Straight Out of School
There’s no doubt that politics and public service have been hot topics since the November 2016 election. These subjects have dominated news stories and talk shows across the country. And, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, politics and public service are also moving up as career choices for graduates from Harvard Business School (HBS). Read more
Published: January 18, 2018
The MBA Juggle: An Anderson Student on Balancing Social, Academic, and Career Aspects of B-School
Fridays from the Frontline Before coming to UCLA Anderson School of Management, first-year MBA student Julie Mills worked as a customer success manager at software-as-a-service provider Wrike and served in the Peace Corps in the eastern Caribbean. She’s hoping to advance her career in technology upon graduation, and in a recent blog post she shared how tech has taken off at Anderson over the past eight years thanks to the increased presence of MBAs in the industry, valuable partnerships with companies for on-campus recruiting, and the tight-knit community of Anderson students and alumni. The recruiting opportunities Mills has had at Read more
Published: January 17, 2018
20 Cities Make Amazon HQ2 Shortlist—What It Could Mean for MBA Students
When Amazon announced plans to construct a second headquarters, 238 North American cities began tripping over themselves to court the e-commerce behemoth, pulling out all the stops in hopes of advancing to the next round of consideration. New York City’s mayoral office lit up the Empire State building with Amazon’s glowing orange hue in a symbolic gesture, while cities like Chicago took even more extreme measures, such as proposing laws that could funnel income taxes directly back to the company. After much speculation, here is the official Amazon HQ2 shortlist: Unsurprisingly, most of the cities 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
The MBA Ethics Debate: Top Schools Tackle Sexual Harassment, NFL Protests, and More
Should business schools teach ethics and social responsibility? In the past, top MBA programs stuck to a fairly typical curriculum: finance, marketing, accounting, economics. And while those topics still comprise the core of most MBA programs, they’re now only a part of the whole. Beyond allowing MBA students to focus their studies in areas like entrepreneurship or technology, MBA programs are also taking on some of the most prominent ethical topics of the day, asking students to weigh in on current headlines and happenings. It's the MBA ethics debate. Read more
Published: January 16, 2018
Is Retail Dead or Evolving? A UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA Student Discusses What She’s Seeing
Dire assessments about the future of retail have been plaguing the industry for years. You’ve probably even heard the phrase “retail is dead” bandied around. But according to Areti Moustakis, a second-year MBA student at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, reports of retail's death have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, she says that in spite of highly publicized store closures and empty storefronts, retail isn’t dying—it’s simply evolving. Read more
Published: January 16, 2018
Current Oil Prices Offer Lesson in Supply and Demand, Rice Business Prof Breaks It Down
As the New York Times reported yesterday, oil prices briefly passed $70 a barrel more than once last week—the first time since December 2014. Chances are good you're feeling those increases at the pump or as you try to keep your house warm if you live in any of the parts of the United States currently experiencing extremely cold temperatures. While prices are fluctuating slightly due to the Keystone pipeline shutdown and an explosion at Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation, what the new price really means for the market is harmony. At least that’s how Bill Arnold, a professor in the practice of energy management at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, sees it. 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: January 15, 2018
A Novel MBA Ranking System
As MBA hopefuls review the plethora of annual rankings, we thought it a good time to revisit another approach to MBA rankings—a tiered ranking system introduced by Clear Admit’s Alex Brown in his 2016 book Becoming a Clear Admit: The Definitive Guide to MBA Admissions. Something of a departure from the traditional rankings produced by the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, and other publications, this novel MBA ranking system groups similarly competitive schools in the same tier. Below we’ve provided an excerpt from Brown’s book discussing explaining the tiered system, as Read more
Published: January 15, 2018
How to Get into a Top Business School: Admitted Students Share 10 Top Tips
Our ongoing Real Humans of the MBA Class of 2019 series has given us glimpses into tons of current MBA students who set their sights on leading business schools across the nation and the globe—and now call those campuses home. We’ve learned about some of their crazy accomplishments and the mind-blowingly diverse experiences they bring to share with classmates-turned-friends. They’ve also divulged when, why, and how they knew that x school was exactly where they belonged. Each installment in our series has focused in on a single school through the eyes of five or six amazing Read more
Published: January 15, 2018
DecisionWire Spotlight: Undecided about London Business School or Michigan / Ross with Scholarships
In this week’s MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights MBA candidates’ choices as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we round up responses to a candidate considering Michigan / Ross or London Business School for tech with scholarship funding. The candidate laid out the options in the initial post: Initial responses honed in on the candidate’s atypical location: Read more
Published: January 14, 2018
Why Tesla Wants MBAs—Despite What Elon Musk Might Say
Tesla, Inc. founder Elon Musk, a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, once pessimistically said, “As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies … our position is that we hire someone in spite of an MBA, not because of one.” While Musk’s take on MBA hires may seem intense, rigid, and even a little mean, Tesla—a world leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of solar technology, energy storage systems, and electric vehicles—is still a sought-after landing spot for many recent business school graduates. Read more
Published: January 14, 2018
Carnegie Tepper Launches New MS in Business Analytics
In response to workforce demand for employees with more analytical skills and business knowledge, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University has launched a new online Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) degree. The goal of its distinctive curriculum is to help fill the 2.7 million job openings for data professionals by 2020. Read more
Published: January 11, 2018
Barack Obama to Speak at MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Former U.S. President Barack Obama will be among the honorary speakers at this year’s MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, the school announced earlier this week. The 12th annual event will take place at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center February 23rd and 24th. Alongside Obama, the highly publicized conference will feature some of the biggest names in the sports industry, including former Microsoft CEO and Los Angeles Clippers Owner Steve Ballmer, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman, National Basketball League Commissioner Adam Silver, and former and professional athletes like Read more
Published: January 11, 2018
Is the MBA Really the Best Time of Your Life? An INSEAD Student Weighs In
Fridays from the Frontline Michel Assaad describes himself as “a management consultant with an academic background in accounting and finance, fueled by an expensive hobby of collecting academic degrees.” Indeed, the MBA he is currently pursuing at INSEAD makes his fourth business degree. What made him decide that he needed yet another set of letters after his name? Has it lived up to his expectations? Does he have any regrets? In the post that follows, he shares many thoughts on the MBA—taking on myths and stigmas that surround it and counterbalancing them with his own experiences. Will his year at Read more

MBA Applywire

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November 16, 2024 5:16pm ET
Applying: ESADE, IE Business School, IESE
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Tech
Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology, Pharmaceutical Companies: Apple , Facebook , Google , Microsoft , Oracle , Johnson & Johnson , Novartis , Pfizer , Roche
GMAT: 525
GPA: 2.79
Years of Work Experience: 4
Post MBA Location: Europe
Notes:

Asian, female, USA. Top 10 Undergraduate school in USA, majored in Biomedical Engineering. Worked for Salesforce, Accenture, and Microsoft within sales department. Major accomplishments within sales roles. Strong personal essays. Letters of Recommendations from direct managers. Founder and held multiple leadership positions in school clubs during Undergrad. Just a really bad test taker and cannot seem to get my scores up no matter how many times I take it specifically in the quant section. American trying to stay in Europe post MBA and only applying to European B-schools.
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November 15, 2024 9:32am ET
Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, Minnesota / Carlson, UVA / Darden, Yale SOM
Pre-MBA Career: Insurance
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey , Other
GMAT: 505
GPA: 3.44
Years of Work Experience: 3
Post MBA Location: Midwest, Northeast
Notes:

GMAT Note:
* The score is an unofficial practice test. I am beginning my studies for the real thing now.

Undergrad Majors:
* Economics
* Business Management

Work Experience Notes:
* Insurance experience is at a family business
* I implemented data analytics into business operations since that was not a practice beforehand.
* I help with sales, customer service, bookkeeping, and marketing.

Extracurriculars & Volunteer Activities:
* Worked as an economics research assistant during my undergrad where I consulted public and private entities
* Was part of an economics research project that won a national award for its work in community economic development
* Published 2 university-sponsored economics articles
* During my senior year, I was appointed to a university faculty committee to help plan university award ceremonies and delegate student scholarships
* Won a leadership award from my university
* Economics honor society member
* President of a student club (1 year) and a club's Senior Advisor (1 year)
* Started and led 2 initiatives that installed free smoke alarms in rural area homes (received a leadership award from the American Red Cross for this)
* Ironman triathlete
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November 14, 2024 8:16pm ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Cambridge / Judge, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, emlyon, IESE, Imperial, INSEAD, London Business School, Manchester / AMBS, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, UPenn / Wharton
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Hospitality
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Consumer Goods, Other Companies: Amazon , Apple , Google , Coca Cola , LVMH , Nestle , Nike
GRE: 326
GPA: 3.46
Years of Work Experience: 6
Post MBA Location: Consultancy
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November 14, 2024 6:29am ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Georgetown / McDonough, UVA / Darden
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Consulting, Capital Project Development (Renewable Energy/CCS)
Post-MBA Target Industry: Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Commercial Banking, Family Business, Entrepreneurship
GMAT: 664
GPA: 2.9
Years of Work Experience: 7
Notes:

Pakistani male, looking to get into the financial services industry short term, and long-term make a significant contribution to the family business or pursue entrepreneurship. Studied engineering from UT Austin for undergrad followed by three jobs (roughly 2 years each) and a nine month break in between job 2 and 3. Planning to take the GMAT again in 3 weeks to offset GPA. Goal score is 695. Mitigating circumstances around GPA are just illness and general family/self issues but doubt they will be very convincing.
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November 13, 2024 11:52am ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Georgetown / McDonough, Michigan / Ross, UNC Kenan-Flagler, USC / Marshall
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Real Estate Development Analyst and Acquisitions Project Manager
Post-MBA Target Industry: Private Equity, Family Business, Entrepreneurship Companies: Other
GPA: 3.44
Years of Work Experience: 3
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MBA LiveWire

November 17, 2024 10:14am ET
Interview Invite to Stanford GSB
Round: Round 1
Received via email on November 14, 2024
GPA: 3.52
GRE: 322
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Technology
Note:

Consortium applicant applied round 1
November 17, 2024 12:58am ET
Rejected at Columbia
Round: Round 1
Received via portal on November 14, 2024
GPA: 3.49
GMAT: 740
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: India
November 17, 2024 12:46am ET
Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua
Round: Round 1
Received via email on November 12, 2024
GPA: 3.49
GMAT: 740
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: India
November 16, 2024 12:19pm ET
Interview Invite to Northwestern / Kellogg
Round: Round 1
Received via email
GRE: 320
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Application Location: India
November 16, 2024 10:45am ET
Accepted to Boston College / Carroll
Round: Round 1
Received via phone on November 12, 2024
GPA: 3.91
GRE: 318
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: Texaa
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