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Published: July 26, 2016

Wisconsin Dean François Ortalo-Magné Heads to London Business School

London Business School (LBS) kicked off the week with an announcement that it will have a new dean beginning a year from now. François Ortalo-Magné, currently the dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will serve as LBS’s ninth dean starting August 1, 2017, succeeding Sir Andrew Likierman, who will return to the faculty after his serving in the role since 2008. “I am delighted to be joining London Business School, an institution with an enviable reputation as one of the world’s leading business schools,” Ortalo-Magné said in a statement. “It has achieved so Read more

Published: July 24, 2016

Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Rodrigo Malta of UT Austin’s McCombs School of Business

Brazilian-native Rodrigo Malta is next up in our series designed to showcase the real people behind the MBA admissions process at leading business schools. Malta heads admissions at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where he himself got his MBA a decade ago. He went to work in marketing at Dell for a bit after graduating but was ultimately wooed back to the admissions office—where he’d also worked as a student—by mentor and then-Director of MBA Admissions Tina Mabley. He jumped at the chance to return to campus and work on something Read more

Published: July 21, 2016

Fridays from the Frontline: How to Know When You’re Ready for an MBA

Knowing whether now is the right time for an MBA depends on a host of variables that are unique to each individual trying to make the decision. We were struck by a recent post on the MBA blog for the UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business that gets at a few of the different answers that helped recent MBA students there decide that the time was right. Read on to hear how students from each of the three Berkeley-Haas programs (Full-time MBA,Evening & Weekend MBA, MBA for Executives) knew they were ready. The following post has been republished Read more

Published: July 20, 2016

The ROI of a Technology Management MBA from the Foster School

If you’re considering earning a Technology Management MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, there are many resources including The TMMBA ROI Blog Series to help you out. Throughout the series, the Foster School has dissected the value of the TMMBA program by interviewing a team of panelists. Technology MBA ROI Blog Series Blog 1 The first blog introduced the group of five panelists, all alums of the program. The panelists included: Mike McCarter: A 2014 graduate and the current Director of Online Operations at Microsoft. Amitai Rottem: A 2014 grad who became an entrepreneur after the Read more

Published: July 20, 2016

New Study Shines Spotlight on Challenges Facing LGBT Entrepreneurs

Getting a startup off the ground is no easy feat, but a recent study shows that startups founded by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) entrepreneurs can face even greater odds. The study, conducted by StartOut—a national non-profit organization that supports, educates and connects LGBT entrepreneurs—found that entrepreneurs in the LGBT community are at risk for discrimination that can affect where they locate their businesses and their ability to raise capital and build trust with investors. The study, “The State of LGBT Entrepreneurship in the U.S.,” was written by four StartOut members, two of whom work on the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The first study of its kind to shed light on the LGBT founders of high-growth companies, it was sponsored by Credit Suisse with support from Booth’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Read more

Published: July 20, 2016

John Hanke, Berkeley Haas MBA ’96: The Genius Behind Pokémon Go

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (and a very large and heavy rock at that) for the past few weeks, then you’ve probably heard of Pokémon Go. For those of you who do in fact live under a rock, Pokémon Go is the newest mobile game craze to sweep the world. The game tasks users to travel the world — yes, the real world — in search of various adorable Pocket Monsters. Using GPS technology and augmented reality, the game has created a revolutionary experience that has captivated the masses. Read more

Published: July 19, 2016

Top MBA Recruiters: JPMorgan Chase

The largest bank in the United States, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a multinational banking and financial services holding company based in New York, New York. JPMorgan Chase is one of the Big Four banks of the United States, along with Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. According to Bloomberg, in October 2011, JPMorgan Chase surpassed Bank of America as the largest American bank by assets. Read more

Published: July 18, 2016

ENTREPRENEURSHIP@ CBS: Tamer Center Seeds Social Enterprise Ventures

From “shrink wrap for crap” to a “greenhouse in a box,” unique ventures tackling serious challenges around the globe were among those awarded seed funding by Columbia Business School’s Tamer Center for Social Enterprise earlier this month. The awards, announced July 7th, went to four teams of entrepreneurs from across the Columbia University community. Each team received $25,000 in seed funding to help take their ideas to the next level, as well as access to the Tamer Center’s array of social enterprise resources. Bruce Usher, co-director of the Tamer Center and chair of the investment board for the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures, was thrilled and a little surprised when even more teams applied as part of the process this spring than in the inaugural round last fall. “This is only the second cohort, and after the first in the fall we weren’t sure how many additional ventures would apply for funding,” he says. In fact, they saw a slight uptick, from roughly 25 to 30 this spring. Read more

Published: July 17, 2016

Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Johnson Graduate School of Business’s Judi Byers

Moving right along in our new series designed to give applicants a glimpse into the real, live people who run admissions at the world’s top business schools, we’re pleased this week to feature Judi Byers. The Hawaiian-born Byers now calls upstate New York her home, where she’s overseen admissions and financial aid at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Business since 2015. (Prior to that she directed admissions at American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington, DC.) “I hope you’re getting the sense that I am very comfortable with who I am,” she said matter-of-factly as she rattled Read more

Published: July 17, 2016

Discover Why You Need the Lehigh University Flex MBA

Sponsored Content The online MBA isn’t what is used to be. Just a few years ago, an online degree was considered a “fake” degree. Now, that couldn’t be further from the truth. At top schools like Lehigh University’s College of Business and Economics, an online MBA is more than a mode of study; it’s an invaluable experience. Read more

Published: July 14, 2016

Chicago Booth to Seek New Dean as Sunil Kumar Leaves to Become Johns Hopkins Provost

University of Chicago Booth School of Business Dean Sunil Kumar is leaving to become the next provost of Johns Hopkins University, effective September 1st, the Baltimore school announced today. The Indian-born Kumar becomes the school’s 15th provost and the first-ever Asian to hold the position. Kumar just last year was appointed to a second five-year term as dean at Chicago Booth. In his tenure there, he is credited with helping raise more than $300 million, focusing on student recruitment, including increasing the female enrollment of full-time programs from 35 percent to 42 percent, and expanding courses for undergraduates, Read more

Published: July 14, 2016

Columbia Professor Breaks Down What Brexit Could Mean Down the Road

Columbia Business School posted an article on its blog this week by Professor and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz about the potential economic fallout that the United Kingdom’s recent “Brexit” referendum could have on the global political arena in the not-too-distant future. Read more

Published: July 14, 2016

Fridays from the Frontline: One Week in Bangkok

This week’s Fridays from the Frontline has it all. A Shark Tank‒like pitch performed on live national television, a plan to help India’s smallholder farmers meet growing demand for local, fresh produce and even a Thai massage. Even though the team at its center—five MBA students from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Business—didn’t take home the very top prize, we think the story’s a winner. Thanks to Jeremy Kuhre (MBA ’16) for sharing it with us! The following post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, Johnson’s Student Blogs page. One Read more

Published: July 13, 2016

What Brexit Means for Britain’s Business Schools

With David Cameron having officially resigned and Prime Minister Theresa May taking up residence behind “the most famous black door in the world” at 10 Downing Street, speculations abound regarding just what the full implications of the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union will be. Immediately following the Brexit vote, we reached out to admission directors at leading business schools in Britain to get their views on what it means for incoming MBA students in the short term, as well as what some of the longer-term impacts might entail. Read more

Published: July 12, 2016

Robin Chase, MIT Sloan Grad and Visionary of the Sharing Economy

Robin Chase, MIT Sloan Graduate School of Management MBA (1986) and co-founder of Zipcar, is a visionary in the brave new world of the sharing economy and peer-to-peer technology. It’s easy to take for granted the omnipresence of the sharing economy in our everyday lives. For some millennials, it's hard to recall that there was ever a time before they could walk outside, wave a gadget to a car windshield, and go on an unexpected road trip. Robin Chase's Zipcar gave birth to a phenomenon. Read more

Published: July 11, 2016

Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Julie Barefoot of Emory’s Goizueta Business School

Julie Barefoot of Emory’s Goizueta Business School is a self-professed foodie who loves to cook and especially enjoys trying out new recipes. She can also make the fun claim of having admitted someone who today leads MBA admissions at another top-tier business school. Darden’s Sara Neher, who kicked off our Real Humans of MBA Admissions series last month, is a Goizueta grad whose candidacy Barefoot was in charge of evaluating. “We often laugh about how I admitted her and now we’re ‘competitors,’” Barefoot says. Read more

Published: July 11, 2016

GMAC Launches New Online MBA Rankings Tool to Demystify Rankings

In their most recent rankings, U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg BusinessWeek named Harvard Business School the number one business school around. But wait…according to the Economist, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business gets top bragging rights. And then there’s the Financial Times, which names INSEAD number one, and Forbes, which says it’s Stanford Graduate School of Business. Confused yet? Many applicants to business school look to rankings as a way to make sense of the many different choices that exist for getting an MBA—but making sense of the Read more

Published: July 10, 2016

At the University of Florida, MBA Class Size Matters

Sponsored Content When it comes to choosing an MBA program, there are many factors that matter including location, ranking, and opportunities. One area that is often overlooked is size. Smaller MBA programs such as the Hough Graduate School of Business Full-Time MBA come with many advantages, including personalized attention, direct interaction, and cohesion. While this intuitively makes sense, does it make a difference in the long run? Read more

Published: July 7, 2016

UCLA’s Anderson School Hosts Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for U.S. Veterans

This month, more than eighty post-9/11 veterans with disabilities will gather on various campuses, including at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, to pursue entrepreneurship opportunities. From July 9th through 17th, they will channel their military experience into the business world during the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV). Read more

Published: July 7, 2016

Fridays from the Frontline: An Open Letter to Donald Trump from Members of Wharton’s Community

As anyone who has had even half an ear open to U.S. politics knows, presidential candidate Donald Trump has been quick to cite his affiliation with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In an open letter to Trump shared via Facebook recently, a contingent of Wharton students, alumni and faculty chose to express their thoughts on Trump’s candidacy as it relates to the school’s diverse community. Please note that the following sentiments reflect the views only of the 600 signatories to date—they are not affiliated with the Wharton School. Clear Admit also does not take a stance with regard to politics, national or international. Read more

Published: July 6, 2016

Pride@Kellogg Edges Out Columbia’s Cluster Q to Win Fourth Annual MBA Ally Challenge

LGBTQ student clubs at the Kellogg School of Management, Columbia Business School and Michigan’s Ross School of Business led the pack this year as 13 leading business schools competed in the fourth annual MBA Ally Challenge, a competition hosted by nonprofit organization Friendfactor to recognize efforts to encourage straight students to become visible and active allies in their campus communities. Pride@Kellogg won with a score of 75 out of a possible 100 points for the social, educational and community events it held promoting allyship throughout the year. Columbia’s Cluster Q was a very close second, followed by Out for Business at Ross. For its first-place showing, Pride@Kellogg will receive a $5,000 prize and on-stage recognition at the Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) Conference in October. Read more

Published: July 5, 2016

Darden Launches New “Future Year Admissions” Deferred MBA Program

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business is taking a page from the Harvard Business School (HBS) playbook and launching a deferred admissions program targeting college students. Similar to HBS’s 2+2 Program, the new program at Darden is open to current college students or students in full-time master’s degree programs who entered directly from undergrad. “Same as Harvard, we’re looking for applicants who haven’t been in the workforce yet,” explains Sara Neher, Darden dean of MBA admissions. But unlike HBS’s 2+2 program, which is based on the premise that admitted students will then spend two years working before Read more

Published: July 4, 2016

Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Bruce DelMonico of Yale School of Management

We’re moving right along with our fun new series spotlighting the real people who make those life-altering decisions of whether to admit or deny you to a given business school. At bat this week is Bruce DelMonico, assistant dean and director of admissions at Yale School of Management (SOM). We happen to know he’s a bit of a baseball fan, even though it didn’t come up in our interview. Read on to find some other lesser-known facts about the person who has helmed admissions at SOM for the past 12 years. Of course, we also talked a little Read more

Published: July 4, 2016

Summer Reading: 10 Books to Understand the Tech Revolution

In today’s world of quickly changing technology, it can be hard to stay current, especially when it comes to technologies relevant to staying afloat in the business world. Nonetheless, understanding tech and its evolution in business is imperative for staying competitive and effective. Read more

Published: June 30, 2016

Wharton School of Business Announces Groundbreaking Budget Model Tool

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s Public Policy Initiative has announced the launch of a breakthrough budget modeling tool. The Penn Wharton Budget Model Tool aims to allow transparent access to ongoing budget decisions. Accessible online, the tool is free of cost to the public and to those involved in legislation. Read more

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January 23, 2025 7:57am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, MIT Sloan, U. Washington / Foster, UT Austin / McCombs

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Technology

Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology

GMAT: 715

GPA: 6.9

Years of Work Experience: 6

Post MBA Location: Technology

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

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Double majors BS undergrad.
ORM nationality, female.

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January 23, 2025 3:33pm ET

Interview Invite to Vanderbilt / Owen

Round: Round 2

Received via email January 23, 2025

GPA: 3.8

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Denver

January 23, 2025 3:29pm ET

Interview Invite to Michigan / Ross

Round: Round 2

Received via email January 23, 2025

GPA: 3.28

EA: 152

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Entrepreneurship

January 23, 2025 3:09pm ET

Interview Invite to Michigan / Ross

Round: Round 2

Received via email January 23, 2025

GPA: 3.45

GMAT: 640

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Healthcare

Application Location: San Francisco

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12 YOE in healthcare, Consortium applicant

January 23, 2025 2:49pm ET

Interview Invite to Michigan / Ross

Round: Round 2

Received via email January 23, 2025

GPA: 3.9

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Healthcare

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January 23, 2025 2:48pm ET

Interview Invite to Michigan / Ross

Round: Round 2

Received via email January 23, 2025

GPA: 3.0

GRE: 322

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Non Profit / Social Impact

Application Location: Chicago

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