Technology

Published: May 9, 2018

Gearing Up for Orientation: NYU Stern One-Year MBA Programs in Tech, Fashion

As it prepares to welcome students for orientation next week, NYU Stern School of Business has shared preliminary class profiles for its two new specialized one-year MBA programs—the Andre Koo Tech MBA and the Fashion & Luxury MBA. Stern announced the launch of the new May-to-May programs one year ago. The inaugural classes will each be made up of approximately 30 students. Though designed for students from different backgrounds targeting diverse post-MBA career paths, the two programs do share several things in common. Each pairs traditional core Read more

Published: April 18, 2018

Four Reasons to Consider a Startup MBA Internship

Sponsored Content by Kathleen McGuirk, Kellogg MBA ’18 This summer, I interned at CommonBond, a fintech startup tackling higher education financing. CommonBond was the second fintech company I worked at, and one of the reasons I chose to return to work in a startup was because I thrive off the energy that defines startup cultures. In particular, I enjoy the ability to take quick, calculated actions to make an impact on business metrics. Now, as I head back to Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management to start my second year, I have been reflecting on my Read more

Published: April 8, 2018

The Allure of AI: Haas Student Conference Tackles Complex Issues

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in almost every industry in the business world today. And there’s plenty to chew on, particularly when it comes to its ethical and financial implications. Some intrepid MBA students at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business have set out to tackle a few of the biggest issues head on with an all-day conference this month called AI: Shape the Future. The April 13th event will take a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding AI, encompassing computer science, business, and policy. The day will feature presentations from industry professionals, faculty, and school administrators Read more

Published: March 15, 2018

Scoring a Job at Salesforce with Your MBA

Salesforce, one of the country’s highest valued cloud computing companies, is actively looking for promising MBA graduates, offering diverse opportunities in tech, business, and sales. Since it’s founding in 1999, Salesforce has been growing wildly, becoming the first enterprise cloud company tor each $10 billion in revenue as of August 2017. And Salesforce isn’t just remarkable for its product’s success—the company was also rated as the “#1 Best Company to Work For” by Fortune. The Salesforce culture is centered around the idea of “Ohana” (Hawaiian for “family”) and earned its place at the top Read more

Published: February 26, 2018

7 Top Takeaways from Leading Business School 2017 Employment Reports

There’s been a steady stream of salary and employment data from leading business schools over the past several months as one after another has released 2017 employment reports. We’ve shared a lot of it along the way, including special reports on Kellogg, McDonough, NYU Stern, Tuck, and Stanford. With results from nearly every top school now in, prospective MBA students can take heart that the news is pretty universally encouraging. Overall, data gathered about the Class of 2017 reveal growing salaries across all industries 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 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: December 29, 2017

Hidden Gems for Top Tech MBAs: Schools You Shouldn’t Overlook

As promised follow-up to our piece earlier this fall on top business schools for technology, today we’ll examine an additional handful of schools that are similarly training MBA students for success in the burgeoning tech sector. Though they are sending a smaller percentage of their graduates to work at leading tech firms than the five we previously featured, the following schools are either not far behind, quickly gaining, and/or launching new initiatives specifically focused on training the next generation of tech leaders. MIT Sloan School of Management With technology in its very name, you would imagine that Read more

Published: December 4, 2017

Top Tuck 2017 Employment Stat Takeaways: Salaries Up, Tech Growing, West Beckons

Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business today became the latest leading business school to share details from its Class of 2017 MBA Employment Report, revealing an all-time high average first-year base salary and signing bonus of $158,194. To get there, the mean base salary climbed to $127,986 from last year’s $123,934, and the mean signing bonus increased 4 percent to $30,208. The median salary and signing bonus, meanwhile, remained constant year over year, at $125,000 and $25,000 respectively. Eighty-five percent of the Class of 2017 received a signing bonus, down from 87 percent of the Class of 2016. Strong Read more

Published: November 27, 2017

Latest Kellogg Employment Statistics Reveal Rising Interest in Tech

A record one in four—25 percent—of graduates from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management Class of 2017 headed off into jobs in the technology field, according to the school’s most recent employment report, released earlier this month. That’s up from 22 percent last year and just 15 percent the year before and echoes a trend at many leading business schools this year. Amazon hired 32 Kellogg grads, making it the third largest recruiter in 2017, behind only McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group (BCG). But Amazon was far from the only tech firm Read more

Published: November 16, 2017

How Six Foster MBA Students Helped Amazon with Sustainability

The University of Washington’s Foster School of Business leads all other business schools in terms of the percentage of its class it sends into the technology industry. As highlighted in our recent “Best Business Schools to Jumpstart Your Career in Tech,” it sent an astounding 52 percent of the Class of 2016 to tech firms. It’s Seattle location—near headquarters for both Amazon and Microsoft—no doubt contributes to its stellar record at placing graduates in plum tech jobs. In fact, Foster students get access to the Seattle tech scene well before graduation, as Read more

Published: November 13, 2017

Amazon Talks About Its Success and Recruiting at LBS

It's not that surprising to hear about Seattle-based Amazon recruiting from top U.S. MBA programs such as the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, where it was the number-one recruiter in 2016, hiring 31 of the school's MBA grads. What might be more surprising is the fact that Amazon is also a big recruiter at London Business School (LBS), where it snapped up 13 Class of 2016 MBA graduates, right behind BCG, McKinsey, and Bain. When speaking to students and alumni at an LBS event, Doug Gurr, Amazon’s U.K. country manager, said, “The U.K. is an amazing location to recruit great talent, and LBS is somewhere we find the talent we need.” Read more

Published: November 6, 2017

What’s Facebook Looking for in MBA Hires?

These days, it seems like everyone and their mother is on Facebook—no, really, your mom sent me a friend request last week. Your family vacation looked like a blast! As more and more people subscribe to the undisputed king of social media, Facebook seems to hire more and more MBAs to continue to move the company forward into the future. Read more

Published: October 18, 2017

Wharton MBA Students Lend Brain Power to Philly Bid for Amazon HQ2

Philadelphia is one of dozens of cities wooing Amazon with bids designed to entice the Seattle-based e-commerce giant to build its second headquarters in their backyards. Today is the deadline to get those bids in. Some cities—like Austin and Albuquerque—chose to highlight their 300+ days a year of sunshine as a lure. Others—like Louisville and Denver—played up their booze, Kentucky bourbon and craft beer respectively. The City of Brotherly love played to its strengths as well, turning to the super-smart business school students of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School as it honed its pitch. Wharton Amazon HQ2 Case Read more

Published: February 26, 2017

Johnson Women in Tech to Host Upcoming NYC Conference

Later this week, students from Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business will host a conference in New York City aimed at bringing more women into the tech industry. Johnson Women in Technology (JWiT) co-chairs and second-year MBA students Tejaswini (TJ) Marathe and Kathryn Ruth Bartlett led the organization of the JWiT Conference, which will take place on Friday, March 3rd, at the Microsoft Technology Center in midtown Manhattan. “Our theme, ‘Tech Together,’ is a call to action for men and women to support women’s success in the tech industry through partnership and mentorship,” the duo said in a press release about the event. Read more

Published: February 6, 2017

Columbia West Coast Treks: Bigger, Better Than Ever in 20th Year

MBA students are back on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia Business School (CBS), shuttling to and from class, gathering to work on group projects and heavily involved in student clubs—much as they were in the first term. But close to 100 of those students have an expanded perspective of West Coast career opportunities thanks to their participation in career treks to a wide range of startups and established firms stretching from Los Angeles to Seattle. January marked the 20th anniversary of CBS’s Career Management Center (CMC) West Coast Treks, and in the two decades since they have 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 29, 2016

Stanford 2016 MBAs Have Banner Year for Employment

Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) recently revealed data that cemented 2016 as a banner year for MBA graduates when it comes to both employment and salaries, demonstrating how in demand the talent and flexibility of its graduates are in the marketplace. The mean compensation for graduating MBAs from Stanford's most recent class was $179,345, a figure that includes the mean $23,636 starting bonus reported by 55 percent of the class and the record-breaking mean other guaranteed compensation of $74,665 reported by 35 percent of the class. Median total compensation, meanwhile, was $163,827. This figure puts Stanford GSB grads ahead of Class of 2016 Harvard Business School graduates, whose median total compensation was $158,080, as well as every other leading business school that has reported its 2016 employment figures. Read more

Published: November 8, 2016

A Johnson MBA Student on What It’s Like to Intern at Amazon

A native of Israel who spent three years performing audits for PwC—mostly on pharmaceutical firms and hedge funds—Ran Rabinowitch was really looking for a change. “I knew I wanted to go work for one of the tech companies, and most are headquartered in the United States, so I began looking at U.S. MBA programs,” he says. Married, he wanted a school known for its community and smaller class size—where he thought his wife would fit in well. “I was also a little afraid that at schools in large cities, all the Americans would just maintain existing friendships, so it would Read more

Published: October 9, 2016

Harvard Life Lab to Open on Allston Innovation Corridor in November

Building on the successes of the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-Lab), established in 2011, and the Harvard Launch Lab, a start-up incubator that welcomed its first ventures in 2014, Harvard University will add another facility to the growing innovation corridor along Allston's Western Avenue with the forthcoming Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab, scheduled to open next month. The new facility will provide a space for students, faculty, alumni and postdoctoral scholars from schools across the university, including Harvard Business School (HBS), to incubate high-potential startups in biotech and future-minded life sciences. It will also provide the necessary equipment needed for these often costly science-focused startups to scale. 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 18, 2016

Top MBA Recruiters: Apple

Okay, let’s take a second to think about something: How many Apple products do you own? Macbook Pro, check; iPhone, check; Apple Watch, check; the list goes on and on. Apple has created, produced and innovated such great products over the years that the company has really changed the face of the consumer electronics industry. The late Steve Jobs—a college dropout—gets a lot of the credit for Apple’s industry success, but there’s also a team of MBAs working for the Cupertino-based company, each making sure that the innovation doesn’t stop. Read more

MBA Applywire

November 4, 2024 6:49pm ET

Applying: Harvard Business School, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Pre-MBA Career: Financial Auditor - Public Accounting

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Non Profit/SI Companies: Accenture , Bain , BCG , Deloitte , McKinsey

GRE: 326

GPA: 4.0

Years of Work Experience: 2

Location: Florida

Notes:

I graduated with dual degrees in accounting and business analytics with minors in economics and writing from a local school. I currently work for a Big 4 firm in financial audit, and I'll have three years of full-time work experience when I apply in 2025. I work on multiple clients throughout the year so I've sat through multiple busy seasons. I'm a high performer at my firm and will have strong recommendations, but I don't plan on getting my CPA license. Post MBA, I would like to work in consulting for a few years and then transition full time to nonprofit and social impact work.

Outside of work, I serve as a program manager or lead in initiatives that provide pro bono services to local nonprofits, work with diverse students from low income areas to encourage them to pursue college and careers in business, and volunteer at an animal shelter. I'm very involved with new hires and students, and frequently facilitate trainings, serve as a coach and advisor, and participate in recruiting events for the school I graduated from. I was also heavily involved during undergrad.

November 4, 2024 6:32am ET

Applying: Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Northwestern / Kellogg, U. Chicago Booth, UT Austin / McCombs, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Consulting

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: AT Kearney , Bain , BCG , Deloitte , Ernst & Young , McKinsey

GMAT: 720

GPA: 3.33

Years of Work Experience: 6

Notes:

Have been working in public sector consulting for four years, with two additional years of experience in public policy.

Looking to transition to commercial management consulting with the big 3.

November 4, 2024 2:27am ET

Applying: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Georgetown / McDonough, Georgia / Terry, Georgia Tech / Scheller, Northwestern / Kellogg, U. Chicago Booth, UCI Merage, UCLA Anderson, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: FinTech, Entrepreneurship

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Family Business, Entrepreneurship Companies: AT Kearney , Bain , Booz Allen Hamilton , Deloitte , KPMG , PWC , Amazon , Google , Hewlett Packard , Oracle , Tesla

GMAT: 720

GPA: 6.18

Years of Work Experience: 4

November 4, 2024 1:45am ET

Applying: Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Notre Dame / Mendoza, NYU Stern, Rice / Jones, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Investment Banking

Post-MBA Target Industry: Investment Banking Companies: Bank of America , Barclays , Capital One , Citibank , Credit Suisse , Deutsche Bank , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan , Merrill Lynch , Morgan Stanley , Wells Fargo Securities

GRE: 324

GPA: 3.32

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: Pakistan

Post MBA Location: Anywhere in USA

Notes:

Applied to all in R1 except Darden. GPA is out of 4.00 at the top business school in Pakistan. Chance me, please.
Was very active in student leadership during undergrad, made extensive contribution to disability inclusion initiatives and student politics. Debate team member of my undergrad team to a foreign competition. Have a very progressive career in high finance, currently serving at a position that requires 4-5 YOE typically.

November 3, 2024 6:55am ET

Applying: Northwestern / Kellogg, U. Chicago Booth

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Military

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Investment Banking, Media, Consumer Goods, MF, Auto, Aerospace Companies: Accenture , JP Morgan Chase , Amazon , Apple , Facebook , Google , Walt Disney , General Mills , Nestle , Nike , PepsiCo , GE

GRE: 325

GPA: 3.63

Years of Work Experience: 8

Location: Maryland

Post MBA Location: Chicago

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November 4, 2024 10:27pm ET

Interview Invite to UNC Kenan-Flagler

Round: Round 1

Received via email November 4, 2024

GPA: 3.6

GRE: 330

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Marketing

Application Location: India

November 4, 2024 9:58pm ET

Accepted to UVA / Darden

Round: Early Decision

Received via phone on October 14, 2024

GPA: 3.8

GRE: 331

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Entrepreneurship

November 4, 2024 7:45pm ET

Interview Invite to NYU Stern

Round: Round 1

Received via email November 4, 2024

GMAT: 695

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Korea

Note:

submitted right before the deadline. no update on portal.

November 4, 2024 4:49pm ET

Interview Invite to UNC Kenan-Flagler

Round: Round 1

Received via email November 4, 2024

GMAT: 655

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: TX

November 4, 2024 4:08pm ET

Interview Invite to MIT Sloan

Round: Round 1

Received via email on October 27, 2024

GPA: 3.84

GRE: 327

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: New York

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