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News items that we think are relevant and potentially of interest to MBA applicants and anyone interested in business school.
Published: September 14, 2016
University of Chicago Booth School of Business Names Interim Dean
Accounting professor Douglas J. Skinner has been named interim dean for the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the school announced quietly earlier this summer. University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer praised Skinner in his new role, saying, “Doug’s appointment will help sustain the momentum that has been built to further establish Chicago Booth as one of the world’s preeminent business schools while the search for the next dean is conducted.” Chicago Booth Interim Dean Douglas Skinner Chicago Booth Interim Dean Skinner came to Booth in 2005 from the
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Published: September 13, 2016
ENTREPRENEURSHIP@ UNC Kenan-Flagler: “Game-Changer” Adams Apprenticeship Program
With its September 15th deadline looming, entrepreneurial first-year MBA students at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School are busily putting the finishing touches on their applications, hoping to secure a spot in the next cohort of an innovative program the school unveiled in early 2015. For the 20 to 30 students chosen, participation in the Adams Apprenticeship could be a “game-changer,” according to Ted Zoller, director of Kenan-Flagler’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. The program, named for UNC benefactor, entrepreneur and pharmaceutical pioneer John Adams and based partially on research done by Zoller himself, is part of a long-term
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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,
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Published: August 10, 2016
Society Spotlight: The National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA)
Although minorities have long been involved in the corporate sector, challenges remain for minority MBAs entering the workforce. Thankfully, organizations like the National Black MBA Association (NMBMAA) seek to address these challenges, provide resources, and create a community for minorities in business.
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Published: August 1, 2016
Summer Reading: Biographies of Business Tycoons
There’s no better season than summer to kick back in a hammock, relax with an ice-cold beverage and soak up grizzly war stories from entrepreneurs who came, saw and conquered—and have the battle scars (and book deals) to prove it. Here are 10 bios that offer priceless insights for MBA students and emerging entrepreneurs:
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Published: April 25, 2016
Published: March 30, 2016
MBA DecisionWire Reveals Candidates’ Gravitation Toward Certain Pairings of Schools
MBA DecisionWire, where candidates share where they’ve decided to attend business school based on the offers they received, has drawn hundreds of entries already in its inaugural season. This level of activity has prompted us to introduce a new bi-monthly column where we will share observations gleaned from the MBA DecisionWire data. Read on for our first set of insights, and stay tuned going forward for more of the same! Popular School Pairings Today we wanted to look at a few popular school pairings—that is, schools where candidates who apply to one program often also apply to the
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MBA Admissions Mashup: Campus Visits, #FOMO, and R3 Applications
Every Wednesday, we share a round-up of the latest news from admissions blogs at the top business schools. Congratulations to everyone receiving interview invitations and positive admissions decisions! (Needless to say, if you haven’t already done so, we urge you to head on over to MBA LiveWire to share the good news!) One way to ace your MBA admissions interview is to be able to show fit with the program, an in-depth knowledge of the curriculum, student clubs, in addition to the campus. This week, we’re featuring some admissions blogs that make the case for campus visits, how to
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Published: February 24, 2016
Decline of the Unicorns (A Startup Tale)
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. In advance of his upcoming course, ‘How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC,’ set to start 12 April 2016, London Business School’s blog recently spoke with Management Practice in Marketing and Entrepreneurship Professor John Mullins to gain insight into why we are starting to see a sharp decline in the value of so-called “unicorn” start-ups. Mullins explained at a recent Regent’s Park campus event that a combination of hysterical marketing,
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Published: February 23, 2016
MBA Admissions Mashup: Diversity & Inclusion
Every Wednesday, we share a round-up of the latest news from admissions blogs at the top business schools. This week’s MBA Admissions Mashup takes a look at what business schools and MBAs are doing to promote diversity and inclusion on campus and we’ve sprinkled in several admissions tips...just in time for your MBA interview or a Round 3 target deadline.
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Published: January 4, 2016
Published: November 16, 2015
How Will You Commemorate National Entrepreneurs’ Day (It’s Today!)
Not every MBA student heads to business school with the start-up itch, but the numbers who do are growing. In fact, 28 percent of business school applicants plan to start their own business, up from 19 percent just five years ago today, according to the most recent Prospective Student Survey Report from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).
Researchers from GMAC have been live-tweeting these and other statistics from events taking place as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015. GEW, which takes place during the third week of November, launched in 2007 with 37 participating countries and has grown to 160 countries. Thousands of events are scheduled all over the world and more than 10 million people are expected to take part in GEW2015, which began yesterday and continues through November 22nd.
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Published: November 1, 2015
Admissions Tip: Submitting Additional Materials
For those of you who applied in Round 1, your applications are now submitted and you are ideally hearing from some of your target schools regarding interview invites. You should be feeling good about all the work you put in and are perhaps even a bit excited about any upcoming interview opportunities, but something is nagging at you. Ever since you clicked ‘submit’ in the online applications, you feel you now have less control over the process. As one applicant put it: “It’s like a black hole, an emptiness – you race to submit everything and have all this energy
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Published: October 15, 2015
Fridays from the Frontline: Duke / Fuqua Alum on How Team Fuqua is Central to Duke Culture
Happy Friday! We’re back again this week with another edition of Fridays From the Frontlines. This week we bring you Steven Ma, Duke / Fuqua Alum (Class of 2015). Prior to Fuqua, Steven graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in Biology – not your traditional MBA applicant. When Steven made the leap into the MBA world, he found that the resources just weren’t there for him. His blog, From Bench to Board, aims to chronicle his experiences and learnings with the aim of helping those who are interested in earning an MBA without the
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Published: October 14, 2015
Chicago Booth Maintains No. 1 Spot in Economist’s Ranking of Full-Time MBA Programs
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business snagged the number one spot for the fourth year running in the Economist's ranking of full-time MBA programs, the Which MBA? 2015, released today. Using a methodology that gives great weight to student and alumni experiences, the Economist each year generates a list of the top 100 full-time international MBA programs.
Booth’s strong performance in the overall rankings can be attributed chiefly to its ability to provide new career opportunities to its graduates. The school ranked tops out of all 100 schools both for the diversity of its recruiters and in terms of its students’ assessment of career services.
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Published: September 16, 2015
New Forté “Rising Star” Pilot Program Preps Undergrad Women for Business
Undergraduate women on 10 U.S. campuses can now participate in a fun, free online program designed to help them prepare and compete for top jobs in business-related fields. The new “Rising Star” pilot initiative, announced yesterday by the Forté Foundation, is designed to encourage young women of all majors to start exploring career options early to better position them for jobs in business fields immediately upon graduation. By extension, the new program could also help position women to apply to competitive MBA programs after acquiring requisite work experience.
Schools participating in the “Rising Star” program include Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, George Washington University, Indiana University, New York University, Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas at Austin, William & Mary and Yale University. Forté handpicked the participating schools, most of which are in the consortium’s business school membership already, with the goal of including a diversity of schools ranging from large public institutions to small private colleges. “We went to familiar campuses where we have a strong support network for this pilot year, with the intention of expanding as soon as the pilot year is over,” says Forté Executive Director Elissa Sangster.
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Published: September 7, 2015
How To Make Sure Your Job Enhances Your MBA Application
This post has been republished in entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
MBA candidates most often apply to business school because they are seeking more rapid career advancement, or they want to dramatically change their career path. However, for many full-time MBA candidates, job dissatisfaction is just as likely a reason—otherwise they wouldn’t be applying for an MBA. But no matter the reason behind the MBA, every applicant should remember that their application is a chance to sell their skills and demonstrate the value that they will add to the program. To do this, it’s important to learn how to spin your work experience.
We reached out to Julie R. Barefoot, the associate dean of MBA admissions at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, for her advice on making the most out your job experience. Here’s what she had to say:
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Introducing the New and Enhanced Clear Admit Website
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new and enhanced Clear Admit website, which includes a range of interactive features, exclusive content and improved navigation to help prospective MBA applicants quickly and easily find resources to guide them through the admissions process for the top MBA programs.
This comprehensive site redesign reflects our mission as the leading independent resource for top-tier MBA applicants and helps us share the admissions expertise we have developed over the past 14 years.
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Employers Bullish on Hiring Recent MBA Grads, Recruiters Survey Shows
Students graduating in recent days from MBA programs across the United States and around the globe have more to celebrate than simply turning tassels, results from a corporate recruiters’ survey released today show. Indeed, employer demand for recent business school graduates tops all previous years, according to the 2015 Corporate Recruiters Survey, conducted by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) in partnership with EFMD and the MBA Career Services & Employer Alliance (MBA CSEA).
Source: GMAC
An astounding 92 percent of U.S. employers surveyed report plans to hire MBA grads this year, up 12 percent over last year. Globally, numbers are also robust, if not quite as strong as the U.S. figures. Some 84 percent of employers worldwide expect to add new MBAs to their workforce this year, up from 74 percent in 2014 and just 50 percent in 2009. This bests the prior all-time high of 82 percent in 2005.
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Published: April 29, 2015
Harvard Business School Wants Its Business Fundamentals Course to Be Law of the Land
Harvard Business School (HBS) today announced that the online business fundamentals course it launched last year will now be available to entering students at Harvard Law School. Today’s announcement follows on the heels of an announcement yesterday that HBS would likewise make its signature online business fundamentals course, known as HBX Credential of Readiness (CORe), available to undergraduate students at nearby Amherst College, with plans in place to roll it out to additional undergraduate institutions in the future. HBX CORe has been available to Harvard College undergraduates since last year.
CORe, says HBS, uses the HBS signature case-based method to teach participants the key concepts of business. As in an HBS classroom, CORe classes require active participation and social learning. Three individual courses make up the HBX CORe core offering: Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting.
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Published: April 27, 2015
HBS Inks Agreement with Amherst Making Online Business Fundamentals Course More Accessible
Undergraduates at Amherst College will have increased access to HBX, Harvard Business School’s online business fundamentals course, thanks to a new agreement announced this week between the two schools. Similar agreements with other colleges and universities are expected to follow, according to HBS.
The agreement with Amherst is designed to increase access to the HBX Credential of Readiness (CORe) program, an 11-week online course on the fundamentals of business designed by HBS faculty. First offered last summer, HBX CORe has now been offered to four cohorts of students. The next program will begin on June 3rd.
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Clear Admit Welcomes New Admissions Counselor from Columbia Business School
Clear Admit this month welcomed a new Admissions Counselor to our team of experts. Erin Hale joins us from Columbia Business School (CBS), where she worked in admissions for three years as a member of both the recruitment and operations teams. Erin brings not only her in-depth knowledge of the CBS admissions process and MBA admissions in general, but also a passion for working with MBA applicants.
Erin has been drawn to admissions since her college days at Colgate University, where she volunteered in the admissions office while completing her degree in English. She had a brief but enjoyable stint at publisher John Wiley following graduation, but soon enough the pull to return to work in admissions was too hard to resist. Working first in transfer admissions at Marymount Manhattan College, she came to CBS in 2011.
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Yale School of Management Hosts Annual Pre-MBA Leadership Program
Yale School of Management (SOM) today kicked off its annual Pre-MBA Leadership Program, welcoming 59 students from 24 countries to its New Haven campus.
Now in its fifth year, the two-week program targets second-, third- and fourth-year university students, as well as recent graduates, from under-represented minority populations. Two years ago, the program expanded to also include students from universities in the Global Network for Advanced Management, a consortium of 27 leading business schools from around the world.
The intention of the program is to provide participants with an introduction to MBA coursework and associated potential career paths while helping develop their leadership skills and providing them with valuable networking opportunities. Programming includes compressed versions of several of SOM’s core curriculum courses, including classes in operations, microeconomics and accounting.
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Attend a FREE MBA Admissions Workshop
Thinking about applying to business school this fall? Get a head start by signing up for one of Clear Admit’s free MBA Admissions Workshops to hear from a seasoned expert in MBA admissions and get answers to your questions early on in the admissions process. Clear Admit will be hosting five free, in-person MBA Admissions Workshops from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the following cities: Los Angeles – Thursday, April 24 Chicago – Thursday, May 15 Philadelphia – Thursday, May 22 New York City – Thursday, May 29 Boston – Thursday, June 4 During
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Stanford Graduate School of Business: MBA vs MSx
You know about the two-year, full-time MBA program at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). But did you know the school also offers a second masters degree focused on general management? Stanford’s MSx Program offers a Master of Science in Management degree, a one-year, full-time program geared toward experienced professionals with at least eight years in the work force. So if it's a Stanford MBA vs MSx, which should you choose?
Which program is right for you depends on a range of factors. Both are full-time and focus on general management, and both are taught by Stanford GSB faculty and feature a range of elective course offerings. Students in either program have full access to Stanford’s GSB centers, courses throughout Stanford University, university-wide institutes and student clubs, events and social activities.
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