MBA News
A collection of news items from MBA programs and about the business school admissions process.
State-of-the-Art Marion Anderson Hall to Launch UCLA Anderson into the Future
Last fall, UCLA Anderson School of Management broke ground on Marion Anderson Hall, a new state-of-the-art facility designed as a “blueprint for the future” of the school. Developed in response to the dramatic expansion in programming, student body, and faculty that UCLA Anderson has experienced in the past 23 years, Marion Anderson Hall expands the existing cluster of five interconnected buildings that comprise the UCLA Anderson campus. As the new primary entrance to the UCLA Anderson campus, the building will serve as both a symbolic and functional gateway to the school. Its design seeks to complement the
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Kellogg Admissions Director Shares Insights on 2019 MBA Application
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management is one of several leading business schools to release its 2019-2020 MBA application online within the last week. At Kellogg, deadlines for the upcoming admission season are as follow: September 19, 2018 January 9, 2019 April 10, 2019 To help you get started, Director of Admissions Melissa Rapp provided insight into the 2019 MBA application along with some great advice on how to prepare. We’ve shared some of the most pertinent details below. Written Essay Questions Remain Unchanged The Kellogg written essay questions remain the same this year as last. Applicants will need to
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Leading Business School Admissions Directors Share Pro Tips for Applicants in Unique May Events
Admissions directors from seven leading business schools convened last month for MBA admissions events in San Francisco and Washington, DC, giving prospective applicants an unusual opportunity to learn more about how to navigate the admissions process directly from the people who know best. Clear Admit Editor-in-Chief Jeanette Brown peppered representatives from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Duke’s Fuqua School, Michigan’s Ross School, NYU Stern School, UVA’s Darden School, and the Yale School of
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UPenn Collaborates with Ripple on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
To support academic research, technical development, and innovation in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and ledger technology, the University of Pennsylvania earlier this month announced the launch of the Ripple Project at Penn. The project is a new collaboration between the Wharton School, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Ripple, a blockchain-based global payments leader.
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These Four Attributes Will Help You Get into Tuck’s MBA Program
Nice guys finish last? Not so if you’re an applicant to the MBA program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Tuck’s admissions director yesterday outlined new, simplified criteria for evaluating MBA applicants—part of the school’s continuing commitment to being as open and transparent in its admissions process as possible. When it comes right down to it, Tuck wants students who are a combination of the following four attributes: nice, smart, accomplished, and aware. As part of a news story on the school’s website outlining the new evaluation criteria, Tuck Executive Director of Admissions and
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NYU Stern Reinstates November Deadline Amid Other Slight Shifts, Maintains Popular “Pick Six” Essay
NYU Stern School of Business today becomes the latest school to share its 2018-2019 MBA admissions deadlines and essay questions, including a few changes from last year. We caught up with Isser Gallogly, Stern associate dean, MBA admissions and program innovation, to get the latest. Here’s what we learned. For starters, Gallogly and his team have decided to reinstate the November deadline they eliminated last year for the full-time, two-year MBA program. This means a return to a four deadlines: October 15th, November 15th, January 15th, and March 15th. “Last year we gave it
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Wharton: New Essay, New MBA Admissions Director?
Late last week, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School revealed its essay questions for the 2018-19 MBA admissions season, including a change to the second prompt. Instead of the prompt it has used for the past several years—in which candidates are asked to describe how they will contribute to the collaborative Wharton community—Essay 2 this year is more specific. “Describe an impactful experience or accomplishment that is not reflected elsewhere in your application. How will you use what you learned through that experience to contribute to the Wharton community?” Clear Admit will soon release its
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How These Stanford GSB Students Broke the Rules with Their MBA Summer Internships
For many business school students, there’s a simple formula where summer internships are concerned. Target a company where you aspire to work, recruit successfully for a summer internship, perform well and show your smarts. Voilá, come summer’s end, you’ve landed your post-MBA job. Especially in some industries—consulting and investment banking, for example—the path from summer internship to full-time offer is certainly the most common and, in some instances, all but required. But what if you want to find out what it’s like to work for a startup? Or for a nonprofit focused on social impact? Or to try to get
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Chicago Booth Announces Social New Venture Challenge Winners
On Wednesday, May 23rd, the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business announced the winners of its eighth annual Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC). The center awarded $70,000 total in venture funding and an additional $30,000 in specialized awards. The SNVC is open to currently enrolled Chicago Booth students. Teams that include unaffiliated individuals may apply if they have at least one current Chicago Booth student as an integral member of the team. First Prize for Autism Services The first-place winner and recipient of
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Georgetown McDonough Increases Veterans Graduate Program Scholarships
Starting in fall 2018, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business will increase its funding for veterans enrolled in graduate programs as part of the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program. The increase will provide students with $15,000 per year from Georgetown McDonough (up from $10,000 in previous years), resulting in a total of $30,000 annually thanks to a matching gift from the Department of Veterans.
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Kellogg Introduces New Blog Series Featuring Female Kellogg Entrepreneurs
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management recently put together a blog series to address the multifaceted experience of female entrepreneurs.
Over the course of four weeks, a team of female entrepreneurs unpacked what it meant for them to pitch, launch their ventures, and more. Two blog entries have already gone live on Inside Kellogg and readers can expect two more entries in as many weeks.
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Fridays from the Frontline: Organizing MIT Sloan’s Israel Trek
Fridays from the Frontline Today’s Friday from the Frontline column comes to us from a student at MIT Sloan School of Management who helped organize the school’s largest student trek to Israel, fulfilling a promise he made when he interviewed. The piece coincides nicely with the school’s first “Sloan on the Road” event of the season, an evening “inspired by leaders, alumni, and current students who are making their ideas matter,” which will take place in Tel Aviv on June 3rd. The evening’s TIMTalk speaker is Aaron Zucker, MBA ’09, whose distinguished career as an impact-driven leader
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Chicago Booth Alumnus Gives $10M to Support Priority Initiatives
University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumnus Dave Liguang Chenn (MBA ’00) recently donated $10 million to support several priority initiatives at Booth. Chenn's donation will go toward Booth's new Hong Kong Center, scholarships for both graduate and undergraduate students, and the UChicago Innovation Fund managed by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
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Get and Give Inside Advice for Great Business School Campus Visits
We’re hard at work on our next new applicant resource—the Clear Admit VisitArchive—which is designed to help MBA candidates learn more about their target schools by reading about the campus visit experience of others. Though VisitArchive is still only in beta testing—look for an official launch later in the 2018-2019 admissions cycle—we have already received great responses from early users sharing tips guaranteed to inform future visits. For example, one visitor who took an Uber to Georgetown’s McDonough School campus offered this advice: “On a hot day, do not let them drop you at the main gate. It’s a
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Washington Foster Joins the Consortium
The University of Washington Foster School of Business will become the 20th school to join the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, an organization dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in business education and corporate leadership. The Foster School’s first official day of membership will be July 1, 2018.
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HBS Will Close Its NYC Startup Studio
Two and a half years after Harvard Business School (HBS) launched its Startup Studio in New York City, the Boston school has announced its plans to close the Manhattan working space by the end of September. According to an HBS press release, the decision to shutter the Startup Studio did not come easily. But ultimately "experiential insights" revealed that demand was limited.
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Women Leaders Headline 2018 MBA Commencement Addresses at Many Top Business Schools
Spring has sprung, which means that classes have come to an end on many leading business school campuses, and commencement activities fill weekend after weekend from now through much of June. The roster of speakers top schools invite to send their MBA graduates off into the world can be revealing. Graduation speakers are typically invited to impart hard-earned wisdom and present words of encouragement to MBA classes, and this year is no exception in that regard. More exceptional, though, is the number of women delivering the headlining speeches. Instagram COO Marne Levine at Michigan Ross One of
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Wharton MBAs, Including Former NFL Player, Challenge Classmates to Pledge One Percent to Charity
“If every MBA pledged just 1 percent of their post-MBA salary to charitable giving, what might be the potential social ramifications?” That was the question Kate Epstein and Josh McCann sought to answer when they were MBA students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The 2014 graduates would go on to found One for the World in an effort to make philanthropic giving easier. McCann first proposed the idea as part of speech assignment, and Epstein came on board to help grow it into an organization with chapters at universities all over the country
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If Your MBA Program Doesn’t Offer Pre-MBA Travel Opportunities, BSchool Travel Has Got You Covered
Sponsored Content The following content was submitted by Dale Jarosz, a first-year MBA student at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and co-founder of BSchool Travel. The MBA application journey is a grueling one, marked by countless essays, campus visits, and interviews. The opportunity to reflect was certainly rewarding, but even more valuable were the relationships I built with my fellow students via interviews and MBA admitted student events. Our personal network helped us find our footing in nearly every aspect of our business school journey, from securing business partners to
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New Edition of Becoming a Clear Admit, Now Available, and FREE!
The third edition of Becoming a Clear Admit: The Definitive Guide to MBA Admissions, written by Clear Admit’s Alex Brown is now available. We have also made this edition FREE, for the months of May and June; simply use the coupon code: Freefor2019Applicants at checkout Brown brings nearly 26 years of experience in MBA admissions industry, as an admissions officer, teacher and consultant, including 7 years as senior associate director of admissions at the Wharton School. With Becoming a Clear Admit, he has crafted a concise, insightful book that provides fascinating background and an in-depth overview of why
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Our Latest Podcast: HBS MBA Student Team Venture to Combat Insect-Borne Disease Takes Top Honors at New Venture Competition
Last week’s episode of the Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast was focused on the winner of the student social enterprise track of Harvard Business School (HBS)’s New Venture Challenge (NVC). This week, as promised, we’re following up with an episode dedicated to the winner in the student business track. This year, the $75,000 grand prize in the student business track went to Hour 72+, which proposed a non-toxic, odor-free insect repellent that lasts for three days instead of just a few hours. The Hour 72+ team articulated its product’s goal as fighting insect-borne illness across the globe.
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Healthcare Tech Teams Dominate 2018 Wharton Startup Challenge
Just a few weeks ago, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School held its 2018 Startup Challenge, which awarded cash prizes to outstanding student entrepreneurs whose startups all have the potential to become “the next big thing.” Billed as the school’s most significant entrepreneurship event of the year, the Wharton Startup Challenge saw 27 semifinalist teams compete for $135,000 in cash prizes. Eight teams made it to the finals on April 27th, where their ideas were assessed by six top-level executives from companies including Joor, Karlin Asset Management, the Charian Group, Monetate, Examworks, and Orasure. The
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