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Published: May 16, 2018

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. Read more

Published: May 15, 2018

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 Read more

Published: May 14, 2018

The Financial Times List of Top MBAs for Finance 2018

While big tech has started to attract top MBA talent over the last few years, the finance sector is still holding its own. Although the types of jobs students are gravitating toward within the industry has shifted some. While banking is still a big draw, there are also new opportunities to work for fintech companies or as part of in-house teams developing digital strategies. And so the question on many prospective applicants’ minds remains: What’s the best MBA program for a finance-minded student? And the second annual Financial Times ranking of Top MBAs for Finance 2018, released last week, Read more

Published: May 14, 2018

Harvard Business School Drops Round 3 for MBA Admissions

Beginning this application season, Harvard Business School (HBS) will no longer feature a Round 3 for applicants to its MBA program, the school’s admissions director announced in a post to his blog this morning. “After careful consideration, we have decided to focus our MBA application process on two rounds—with deadlines in September and January—and to focus our spring round on 2+2 applications,” Chad Losee, HBS managing director of admissions and financial aid wrote on his Direct from the Director blog. “To be considered for the Harvard Business School Class of 2021, you need to apply Read more

Published: May 13, 2018

Real Humans of the Columbia Business School MBA Class of 2019

As first-year MBA students at Columbia Business School (CBS) finish up their finals and head off to their summer internships, we’re excited to feature a handful of the MBA Class of 2019 reflecting on what led them to choose CBS for business school and how their experience so far has met—or exceeded—their expectations. Though still in Uris Hall on the main Columbia University campus, CBS will occupy state-of-the-art facilities as part of the Manhattanville campus currently under construction a little farther uptown within the next few years. But even with its new home still a few years Read more

Published: May 10, 2018

Lessons Shared and Learned at the Kellogg Global Women’s Summit

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management hosted its first-ever Global Women’s Summit last week on May 8th and 9th. This landmark event brought more than 800 Kellogg alumni, students, guests, and community members together to discuss the numerous obstacles that women face in the corporate world—and how to overcome them. What set the summit apart from similar women-focused events was its unique structure. While many such events present attendees with a random, often chaotic buffet of activities, the Global Women’s Summit was deliberately organized into three career tracks corresponding to different stages of a woman’s career. Each session was labeled based on what a group at a particular career stage would find most valuable, which made it easy for women to attend sessions that fit their specific professional needs. From more than two dozen different sessions, we've highlighted a few of our favorite topics as well as two of the events we were able to live stream. Read more

Published: May 10, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: A Glimpse at Lean In at Berkeley Haas

Fridays from the Frontline The University of California at Berkeley has long had a reputation as a hotbed of activism, from the Vietnam Day Committee’s march toward Oakland Base in the 1960s to its divestment campaign from South Africa during the 1980s apartheid era to the most recent protests against ultra-conservative commentator Milo Yiannopolous’ appearance on campus last year. The commitment to social justice present on Berkeley’s campus has also been infused into the curriculum of many of its schools, inspiring students to engage in direct action to shape the world they want to live. This is certainly true at Read more

Published: May 9, 2018

Our Latest Podcast: From HBS to Saving Lives—an MBA Student’s Venture to Help People Breathe

Last month, Harvard Business School (HBS) announced the winners of its 21st annual New Venture Competition (NVC), which has attracted more than 5,000 participants and awarded more than $2 million in cash prizes to student and alumni startups over the past two decades. Hosted by the school’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and its Social Enterprise Initiative, in partnership with HBS Alumni Clubs & Associations, the NVC features three separate tracks, a student business track, a student social enterprise track, and an alumni track. The social enterprise track has attracted more Read more

Published: May 9, 2018

MBA News You Need: UNC Kenan-Flagler Supports Alumni Entrepreneurs, MBAs Talk Paris as Corporate Hotspot, HBS Names Class Day Speaker, and More

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: May 9, 2018

Meet Leading Admissions Directors, Clear Admit Editor-in-Chief at May 16th Event in Washington, DC

Admissions directors from seven leading business schools will convene for a second multi-school MBA admissions event on Wednesday, May 16th, in Washington, DC. Moderated by Clear Admit Editor-in-Chief Jeanette Brown, the DC event will feature representatives from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Duke’s Fuqua School, Michigan’s Ross School, NYU Stern School, UVA’s Darden School, and Yale School of Management (SOM). The first event, which took place in San Francisco on May 10th, filled up completely. Dozens of alumni from participating programs now working in the Bay Area were also on hand to share their first-hand experiences as students with participants. Read more

Published: May 7, 2018

Dartmouth Tuck Unveils New Inclusive Leadership Initiative

Increasing inclusion and diversity has been a decade-long mission at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. Now, Director of Strategic Initiatives Dia Draper is broadening the scope of that work with the launch of the Inclusive Leadership Initiative (ILI). The new framework will bring together principles of diversity and inclusion to educate leaders across the university. Read more

Published: May 7, 2018

Why McKinsey & Company Loves Hiring MBAs

McKinsey & Company is considered one of the most prestigious management consultancy firms in the world, with a clientele that includes 80 percent of the world’s largest corporations, along with an extensive list of governments and non-profit organisations. The firm is also a prestigious landing spot for MBAs following graduation. About McKinsey Founded in 1926 by James O. McKinsey, the firm developed an “up or out” policy, where consultants who are not promoted are asked to leave, developed by Marvin Bower. He served as managing director of McKinsey from 1950 to 1967, and remained a leadership figure at the Read more

Published: May 3, 2018

Our Latest Podcast: Reapplying to Business School

If your dream of attending a top-tier business school was dashed by a rejection this year, we know how hard that can be. To work so tirelessly toward a goal that you don’t achieve can be spirit-crushing. And yet, we’re here to tell you that it does happen. You are not alone. We’re also here to tell you that you might want to think about reapplying. Did you know—one out of every 10 students in most Harvard Business School MBA classes applied more than once and was rejected the first time. That’s right. On average, a tenth of the HBS Read more

Published: May 3, 2018

Kellogg Hosts Landmark Global Women’s Summit

Women now make up more than half of all incoming students to the top U.S. universities, but only a small fraction of those women go on to work as CEOs, board directors, or NGO and government leaders. To start to tackle the problem, next week, Northwestern Kellogg's School of Management will host the first-ever Global Women’s Summit on May 8th and 9th. The landmark event will bring together more than 800 alumnae, students, guests, and community members to spark meaningful conversations about the roadblocks that women face on their way to the C-suite. Read more

Published: May 2, 2018

Record-Breaking LiveWire Discussion Highlights Room for Improvement in Johnson Adcom Process

Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management has the dubious distinction of producing some of the longest discussion threads in the history of Clear Admit’s MBA LiveWire. Last month, one thread drew more than 100 comments and another racked up 82. What gives? Johnson’s admissions process is divided into four rounds, with application deadlines in October, November, January, and April. But unlike many of its peer schools, which issue decisions by round in accordance with stated notification deadlines, Johnson informs its applicants of final admission decisions on a rolling basis. Early Round Applicants Kept Read more

Published: May 2, 2018

MBA News You Need: Olin Recognizes Student Leaders, LBS Dean Discusses Gender Gap, Yale SOM Studies Founders, and More

Published: May 1, 2018

Action Learning: Setting the University of Illinois Gies College of Business MBA Apart

Sponsored Content Imagine you lived in a bubble and had never seen or heard of bicycles until one fateful day when someone handed you a book entitled How to Ride a Bike. After two years of intensively studying the mechanics of bicycles and the theory of balance, you’re then hand-delivered a bike and told to ride 100 miles. Regardless of how intimate you became with the theory, you’d probably fall flat on your face within seconds. This scenario is similar to the approach that many MBA programs take with their business curricula. For two years, programs pile on Read more

Published: April 30, 2018

Wharton Partners with Morgan State’s Graves School for Education

Last month, Wharton announced a new collaboration with Morgan State University’s Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management. The partnership, which will allow both schools to share faculty and student conferences, curricular development, and research, marks the first time Wharton has collaborated with a Historically Black College or University (HBCU). Read more

Published: April 29, 2018

Yale SOM Poaches 4 Finance Faculty Members from Chicago Booth

Over the last two years, the Yale School of Management (SOM) has recruited four new finance faculty members, all accomplished researchers who previously worked at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. These new hires were attracted to Yale SOM's collaborative culture and rich legacy of research in service of real-world finance. Each professor brings a unique perspective to the school within the areas of empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, and financial econometrics. Read more

Published: April 27, 2018

Tuck Announces $250 Million Capital Campaign for Tomorrow’s Wise Leaders

Tuck School of Business has unveiled a new $250 million capital campaign designed to support “people, programs, and places” through increased financial aid resources for students and significant investments in the business school’s faculty, as well as program innovation and campus upgrades. Called “The Tuck Difference: The Campaign for Tomorrow’s Wise Leaders,” the fundraising campaign is part of a Dartmouth-wide initiative. Key supporters have already pledged $132 million, surpassing an earlier goal. People “Our most cherished asset is talent,” Tuck Dean Matthew Slaughter said in a press release. “The dynamism and diversity of our students and Read more

Published: April 26, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: INSEAD Women in Business Club Launches “Tell Your Story” Initiative

Fridays from the Frontline INSEAD’s Women in Business Club recently kicked off a “Tell Your Story” initiative on the INSEAD MBA Experience blog. The new initiative aims to offer a platform for female students to share their insights and “inspirational life stories.” The first “Tell Your Story” guest is current INSEAD student Ann Alampi, MBA ‘18J, who offers unique takes gleaned from an interesting path to business school, first as a geology researcher and later an energy consultant for top consulting firm Bain & Company. The following post has been republished in its entirety from its original Read more

Published: April 25, 2018

HBS Crowns Its Latest New Venture Competition Winners

Last week Harvard Business School (HBS) announced the winners of its 21st annual New Venture Competition. Hosted by the school’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and its Social Enterprise Initiative, in partnership with HBS Alumni Clubs & Associations, the NVC offers cash prizes to both students and alumni for outstanding entrepreneurial and social enterprise ventures. The competition is open to all students and alumni who aspire to start their own businesses. Since its inception 21 years ago, NVC has awarded more than $2 million in cash prizes to student and alumni business ventures and has attracted more than Read more

Published: April 25, 2018

MBA News You Need: Columbia Offers Scholarships to Syrians, Michigan Ross Awards $10k During Inaugural Datathon, Haas Talks Benefits of an MBA, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of April 25, 2018. Two Future HBS Students Receive Soros Fellowships for New Americans Seul Ku As notoriously pricey as a Harvard Business School (HBS) education can be, two students’ wallets just got $90,000 lighter. The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans honors exceptional immigrants and children of immigrants with a $90,000 grant Read more

Published: April 24, 2018

Our Latest Podcast: Clear Admit’s 12-Step Program for Early Bird MBA Applicants

Looking to get an early start on your MBA applications for the 2018-2019 application season? Don’t miss our latest podcast episode, in which Clear Admit Co-Founder Graham Richmond outlines a 12-step program for early bird MBA applicants. By getting the ball rolling this far in advance, you’re already setting yourself up for success. Richmond’s suggested steps can help ensure that you stay on track and take full advantage of your great head start. Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast Episode 11: Clear Admit's 12-Step Program for Early Bird MBA Applicants Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Read more

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MBA Applywire

January 22, 2025 9:55pm ET

Applying: Indiana / Kelley, Notre Dame / Mendoza, UCI Merage, USC / Marshall

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Accountant

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Investment Banking Companies: Accenture , Deloitte , Ernst & Young , KPMG , McKinsey , PWC , Bank of America , Citibank , Amazon , Google

GPA: 3.61

Years of Work Experience: 8

Location: Ghana

Post MBA Location: Midwest

January 22, 2025 9:19pm ET

Applying: London Business School, Oxford / Saïd

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Investment Banking

Post-MBA Target Industry: Investment Banking, Private Equity

GMAT: 700

GPA: 3.6

Years of Work Experience: 4

Post MBA Location: London

January 22, 2025 10:27am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Cornell / Johnson, Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, Georgia Tech / Scheller, Harvard Business School, Indiana / Kelley, NYU Stern, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UVA / Darden, Vanderbilt / Owen, Washington U. / Olin

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Finance

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG

GRE: 329

GPA: 3.49

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: Africa

Post MBA Location: North America

January 22, 2025 4:42am ET

Applying: Columbia, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Supply Chain, major blue chip healthcare company

Post-MBA Target Industry: Pharmaceutical Companies: Amgen , Pfizer

GRE: 329

GPA: 3.46

Years of Work Experience: 5.5

Location: US

Post MBA Location: Boston/NYC

Notes:

Double majors BS undergrad.
ORM nationality, female.

January 21, 2025 7:55am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, Rochester / Simon, SMU Cox, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Washington U. / Olin

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Data and Business Operations

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Asset Management, inc. HF, Commercial Banking, Media, Consumer Goods Companies: Bain , BCG , Deloitte , Ernst & Young , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan Chase , Amazon , Apple , Accell Partners , Charles River , First Round Capital , Goldman Sachs , Goldman Sachs , Walt Disney , PepsiCo , Proctor & Gamble

GRE: 328

GPA: 3.0

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: Lagos

Post MBA Location: New york

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January 23, 2025 6:55am ET

Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 2

Received via email January 23, 2025

GPA: 3.52

EA: 163

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: Bangkok

January 23, 2025 1:40am ET

Interview Invite to Yale SOM

Round: Round 2

Received via email on January 21, 2025

GPA: 3.27

GMAT: 685

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Non Profit / Social Impact

Application Location: US Citizen (abroad)

Note:

Absolutely stoked. Good luck everyone!

January 23, 2025 1:14am ET

Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 2

Received via portal on January 21, 2025

GPA: 3.2

GRE: 318

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: DC

January 23, 2025 12:19am ET

Interview Invite to Dartmouth / Tuck

Round: Round 2

Received via email January 22, 2025

GRE: 332

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: India

January 23, 2025 12:00am ET

Interview Invite to Northwestern / Kellogg

Round: Round 2

Received via email on January 08, 2025

GPA: 3.11

GRE: 316

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Non Profit / Social Impact

Application Location: Los Angeles

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