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Published: January 19, 2014

$10 Million Alumni Gift Establish New Family Business Initiative at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management

An alumnus who credits his own MBA with the fact that his family business remained in the family and prospered has given $10 million to Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management to establish a new family business initiative at the school. The gift, from John Smith, MBA ’74, and his spouse Dyan, will create the John and Dyan Smith Family Business Initiative, which will be housed in Johnson’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute. Read more

Published: January 16, 2014

MIT Sloan School of Management Announces New Scholarship for Technology-Focused MBAs

MIT Sloan School of Management and London-based global telecommunications company Zamir Telecom last week announced a new scholarship program for promising MBA students planning to pursue careers in the technology sector. The new Zamir Telecom fellowship is open to students from emerging economies in Africa, Asia or the Middle East, as well as to students interested in technological advancements in those regions. Read more

Published: January 14, 2014

Tuck School of Business Annual Conference Highlights Diversity for Prospective Applicants

Each November, students at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business host a conference designed to showcase the school’s diversity to prospective applicants. Called Divco for short, the student-run Diversity Conference has been bringing together prospective students from around the United States and the world for the past 20 years. Tuck first-year student Ryan Golden attended Divco last year as a prospective applicant, learning enough about the school to feel like it was the right place for her. “It just showed me this is a good place to be and that if I came I’d be really well supported and have a good experience,” she said in an article about the conference on Tuck’s website. Read more

Published: January 13, 2014

New Website Showcases ESADE’s Presence and Growth in Latin America

As part of a strategy for growth in the Americas, Spain’s ESADE last week launched a new website showcasing all that it has to offer in Latin America. Since September 2013, the school has increased its direct presence in the region through the appointment of regional directors in each Mexico, Colombia, Lima, Brazil and Argentina. The new website, which launched on January 7th, shares details about the five directors: José Miguel Hartasánchez in Mexico City, Emilio del Castillo in Bogotá, Andrea Asencios in Lima, Xavier Sánchez Casademunt in São Paulo and Alejandro Bernhardt in Buenos Aires, as well as programs ESADE offers in Read more

Published: January 12, 2014

INSEAD MBA Scholarship for Students from Developing Countries

If you are a Round 2 applicant to INSEAD Business School from a developing country, you could be eligible for a €10,000 (~$16,448) scholarship. The INSEAD MBA ’91 June Endowed Scholarship, created by the Class of 1991 on the occasion of its 20th Class Reunion, will be awarded once a year to a disadvantaged candidate from a developing country who can demonstrate financial need. Applications for the scholarship’s second round open tomorrow, January 14th, and the deadline for submission is January 31st. To be considered, prospective applicants must complete an online scholarship application, which includes providing answers to the following essay questions: Read more

Published: January 7, 2014

Harvard Business School Round 2 Applicants: What’s Next?

You got your application in on time – phew. Now what? Imagining that you may be wondering exactly that, Harvard Business School (HBS) Admissions Director Dee Leopold devoted her most recent blog post to giving you a sense of what to expect. Round 2 interview invitations – in the form of an email from HBS – will go out in two waves, the first on January 29th and the second on February 5th, Leopold wrote. “Nothing will happen on any dates before, after or in between!” she noted. Read more

Published: January 6, 2014

Kellogg School of Management Extends Round 2 Deadline Due to Cold Temps

Extremely cold temperatures have forced the Kellogg School of Management Office of Admissions to remain closed until tomorrow – and spurred the school to extend its Round 2 deadline by two days, from today to Thursday, January 9th,,at 5 p.m. CST. According to a message on the Kellogg website, the Round 2 deadline for all applications has been extended until January 9th, and both on-campus and off-campus interview requests will also be accepted until this date. The dangerously cold weather has caused Kellogg to remain closed yesterday and today, and Round 2 applicants have been sent an email today letting them know about the extended deadline, Poets&Quants reported. Read more

Published: January 2, 2014

Fuqua School of Business MBA Demystifies Week-in-Cities

Advice to prospective MBA students: Be prepared for lots of acronyms. This from Fuqua School of Business first-year MBA student Trevor McKinnon in a recent post to the school’s Daytime MBA Student Blog. “Apparently, MBA students are so busy that we don’t have time to speak in complete sentences and rely on acronyms and abbreviations to save us precious seconds in conversation,” he writes. One such acronym at Fuqua is WIC, which stands for Week-in-Cities. WIC are mini trips organized by various student clubs to cities across the country during school breaks. Each Week-in-Cities trip is focused on a particular industry and includes scheduled visits for participating students at several companies and firms that might have internships or full-time job opportunities. Read more

Published: January 1, 2014

Registration Open for Winter Campus Visits to Stanford Graduate School of Business

Registration is now open for winter information sessions and class visits at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). In a recent post to the Stanford GSB admissions blog, Admissions blogger Ari Chasnoff invited prospective applicants to the MBA program to come see campus for themselves when the Class Visit Program resumes on January 13th. Weekly information sessions will resume even sooner, on January 6th. Held each Monday and Friday, these 90-minute-long sessions feature MBA admissions officials providing an overview of the Stanford GSB MBA program and admissions process. Registration for information sessions is required. Read more

Published: January 1, 2014

The MBA Tour Winter 2014 Events

If you’re considering pursuing an MBA degree, attending an MBA fair is a great place to start. The MBA Tour is hosting six events across North America this winter. What are the benefits of attending an MBA Tour conference? Hear from students who have attended here! The MBA Tour conferences help attendees collect information, easily compare programs, and interact with admission representatives. The MBA Panel Presentations cover valuable business school admissions topics and answer a wide range of MBA applicant questions. The panels are hosted by professionals with expertise spanning several topics, including: Preparing Your MBA Application, Financing Read more

Published: December 30, 2013

Tax Deductions and the MBA

The U.S. Tax Court recently ruled that an MBA student who deducted $17,000 in tuition expenses from his 2009 tax return owes more than $2,500 in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports. Ouch. As follow up, Bloomberg BW offers a few things to keep in mind regarding tuition deductions. “The rules for deducting educational expenses sound simple enough: Tuition is deductible when it pays for coursework that enhances skills necessary for an established job or business, as well as any courses required by an employer,” reads the Bloomberg BW article. Of course, even the simplest rules can quickly grow complex. For instance, what if the skills you gain through an MBA not only enhance your ability to perform your current job but also qualify you to pursue a new career? Read more

Published: December 29, 2013

Latin Americans Flock to Spain to Pursue an MBA

In growing numbers, Latin Americans are turning to top business schools in Spain – notably ESADE, IE and IESE – to obtain their MBAs before returning to careers in Latin America, the New York Times reports. Spain’s own economy is still faltering, but business schools there say they are attracting more and more Latin Americans, many with international career experience, who plan to return to Latin America when they graduate, according to the Times report. They are drawn to Spanish MBA programs, according to the report, because the classrooms are more diverse than at schools in the United States and the business culture is a more familiar one. Read more

Published: December 26, 2013

Teamwork, Listening Skills Essential for MBAs – and Prospective Applicants

Team assignments have become de rigeur as part of the MBA curriculum at many leading business schools, with some schools assigning students to teams when they first arrive and requiring them to work together in multiple classes and others having students shift between several different teams as part of a single course or semester. Why such a focus on teamwork? Experts believe that learning to work in small groups will pay off when the students graduate and look for jobs, according to a recent article in U.S. News & World Report. Read more

Published: December 22, 2013

Round 2 Update from Harvard Business School Admissions

As Harvard Business School (HBS) Admissions prepares to close for the holiday season, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Dee Leopold shared some updates and reminders for Round 2 applicants working toward the January 6th Round 2 deadline. All offices at HBS will be closed from tomorrow, Tuesday, December 24th, through Wednesday, January 1st, re-opening at 9 a.m. EST on Thursday, January 2nd, Leopold shared in a post to her From the Admissions Director’s Blog. Read more

Published: December 18, 2013

Anonymous $6 Million Gift to Fund Student Scholarships at USC Marshall School of Business

An anonymous gift to the University of Southern California (USC)’s Marshall School of Business will support scholarships for both undergraduate and MBA students, the school announced earlier this month. The Marshall School will receive $6 million, part of a $20 million gift to the university made by a married couple described as longtime USC supports but whose identities were not revealed. The Marshall School portion of the gift will go to the James G. Ellis Endowed Scholarship Fund, a challenge fund established by Tyler Muse ’07 and his family and named for Marshall’s current dean. Read more

Published: December 17, 2013

UNC Kenan-Flagler, AACSB to Co-Host Seminar for Business Schools on Leadership Curriculum Development

The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, together with business school accreditation organization the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB), will take the lead in helping business schools think about how best to develop a leadership curriculum as part of a seminar in late January. The Curriculum Development for Leadership seminar, which will take place January 23rd and 24th in Chapel Hill, will prepare participants from a range of business schools to tailor leadership development experiences according to their schools’ specific capabilities and resources. Read more

Published: December 15, 2013

Job Market Looks Good for MBAs, GMAC Employer Survey Finds

More than three-quarters of employers that plan to hire business school graduates in 2014 expect to maintain or increase their hiring levels over last year, according to a year-end survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). Annual base salaries will also rise, GMAC reports. “Actual hiring for 2013 and projected hiring for 2014 are much improved from a few years ago, despite persistent uncertainty in the global economy,” GMAC Survey Manager Rebecca Estrada said in a statement. “In addition, between 45 percent and 58 percent of employers plan to increase annual base salaries at or above the rate of inflation, another indicator that demand for talent remains strong.” Read more

Published: December 12, 2013

Try a Taste of UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School with A Class in Portuguese or Mandarin

The University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School will offer two new online courses for business professionals and MBA students, on in Portuguese and another in Mandarin, the school announced last month. “Working Portuguese” and “Working Mandarin,” each taught at the beginner level, will be offered Jan. 27-April 7, 2014. The fee for MBA students will be $575; working professionals will pay $775. The cost will cover 10 weekly online sessions with the professor and a weekly online conversation hour with native speakers of the languages being studied. For prospective applicants with an interest in languages who are Read more

Published: December 11, 2013

Columbia Business School Announces New Dong-Bin Shin Fellowships

Columbia Business School (CBS) has announced four two-year, full-tuition fellowships open to international students entering in August 2014. Announced late month, the Dong-Bin Shin Fellowships will be awarded, one each, to students from four different regions: the Middle East or Africa, Europe, Latin America and South Korea. Applications are due by January 6, 2014. The fellowships are named for CBS alumnus Dong-Bin Shin ’81, chairman of the Lotte Group, a diversified company based in South Korea and Japan that includes more than 70 companies across a range of industries. Shin, who also serves as a member of the CBS Board of Overseers, recently made a $4 million gift to the school, part of which will support the fellowships. Read more

Published: December 10, 2013

McKinsey Outpaces All Other Employers in Hiring MBAs from Kellogg, Chicago Booth

Consulting firm McKinsey & Co. hired more 2013 MBA graduates from both Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business than any other employer, Crain’s Chicago Business reports. Forty-six of Kellogg’s 750 graduates headed to post-MBA jobs at McKinsey, and 41 of Booth’s 579 graduates did the same, Crain’s reported, citing annual employment records from the schools. McKinsey has been the largest employer of Booth graduates for five years running. Kellogg can almost make the same claim, except that Boston Consulting Group hired three more graduates than McKinsey in 2010. Read more

Published: December 9, 2013

Yale School of Management Expands EMBA to Include Asset Management, Sustainability Focuses

Students in Yale School of Management (SOM)’s Executive MBA (EMBA) program will soon be able to select asset management or sustainability as a focus for their studies, the school announced yesterday. Yale SOM is now enrolling students interested in either of these specialties for fall 2014. The EMBA program at Yale launched in 2005, initially targeting students from the healthcare sector. The program is designed to provide students with a strong business foundation complemented by in-depth study of a particular industry or sector. Read more

Published: December 8, 2013

Updates from Ross School of Business Director of Admissions Soojin Kwon

Prospective applicants to the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business are busy working toward Round 2 and 3 deadlines, and Director of Admissions Soojin Kwon has been sharing lots or relevant information on her Director’s Blog recently. In a post late last week, she reminded second- and third-rounders not to miss a Webinar she and her colleague, Senior Associate Director Diana Economy, hosted online on December 4th. Anyone can access the recorded presentation, which includes a range of advice and tips on the Ross MBA application, including specific information useful Read more

Published: December 5, 2013

Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School Begins at Arthur Rock

The Wall Street Journal this week featured an article focused on the ways top business schools are touting how many successful start-ups they spawn. At Harvard Business School (HBS), the success of entrepreneurial MBAs is credited in great part to the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. The Rock Center provides a range of support and resources to would-be HBS entrepreneurs, including the Rock Accelerator Program and the New Venture Competition, which both offer guidance and funding to promising ventures. The Rock Center also provides students with early-stage feedback and features an Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program. Read more

Published: December 4, 2013

Cornell’s Johnson School Unveils Curriculum for New One-Year MBA Program on NYC Tech Campus

Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management yesterday unveiled the curriculum for its new one-year MBA program, which it will offer on its New York City tech campus beginning in May 2014. The full-time program will include condensed courses, company-hosted projects and a January global trek to Israel. The new degree has a strong technology focus, and 90 percent of the roughly 20 applicants who have been admitted to date have strong quantitative backgrounds or hold science-related degrees, said Christine Sneva, Johnson executive director of admissions and financial aid. Read more

Published: December 3, 2013

Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business Sends Student Delegation to Climate Change Conference

Four of the past five years, Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business has been the only business school to send a delegation of students to an annual summit focused on climate change. Three second-year Tuck MBA students traveled last month to Warsaw, Poland, for the 19th Annual Conference of the Parties (COP19), sponsored by the United Nations. “Climate change is not only one of the central issues of our time, but it’s one in which businesses are front and center, both as the cause and the solution,” finance professor Anant Sundaram, who teaches the Business and Climate Change elective at Tuck, said in an article on the school’s website. Recognizing this, Tuck believes it is crucial to bring MBAs into the conversation and expects other business schools will follow its lead, Sundaram added. Read more

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December 20, 2024 5:17pm ET

Applying: Columbia, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Healthcare

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

GRE: 332

GPA: 3.5

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: Florida

Post MBA Location: Consulting

Notes:

25F, lgbtq, 3 years as a registered nurse. also have started working for an early stage VC in the past several months.

December 19, 2024 4:44pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Insurance

Post-MBA Target Industry: Entrepreneurship

GRE: 318

GPA: 3.59

Years of Work Experience: 3.5

Location: Georgia

Post MBA Location: Southeast

Notes:

Looking to launch a tech startup post MBA, without any background in tech. Come from a quant heavy background and undergraduate coursework. I regularly attended admissions events, in person and online at my schools. I hope that focusing energy on my few top schools and spending a lot of time on essays will help me overcome the less than average test score (164 quant 154 verbal) and GPA.

Serial entrepreneur with a history of profitable small businesses. Was promoted twice in 3.5 years. Involved in many extracurricular activities in and outside of work. My background is very centered around financial services/insurance, is this a red flag for a pivot to Tech Entrepreneurship?

Transferred between two state schools in the southeast. School I graduated from is a top 25 undergrad business program. Obtained a few professionals designations post grad.

December 18, 2024 11:38am ET

Applying: Michigan / Ross, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Held various positions in Finance and Accounting in a healthcare institution

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Other Companies: BCG , Deloitte , Other

GPA: 3.0

Years of Work Experience: 11

Location: International

Notes:

I am passionate about healthcare enhancing patient quality care. So exploring in that field is what I would love. Got a 72k scholarship from Vandy and named Forte Fellow. UNC 50k. I'm having a hard time deciding though my heart is leaning towards Owen

December 18, 2024 10:23am ET

Applying: Arizona State / W.P. Carey, Indiana / Kelley, Ohio State / Fisher

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Facility management

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting

GRE: 309

GPA: 2.8

Years of Work Experience: 3

Notes:

Graduate GPA -3.869

December 18, 2024 2:57am ET

Applying: IESE, INSEAD, MIT Sloan, U. Chicago Booth

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Engineering

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Undecided Companies: Amazon

GMAT: 690

GPA: 3.26

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: Chile

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December 21, 2024 8:37am ET

Accepted to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via phone on December 11, 2024

GMAT: 675

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

December 21, 2024 2:38am ET

Waitlisted at Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via phone on December 10, 2024

GPA: 3.27

GMAT: 760

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: CA

December 20, 2024 11:16pm ET

Accepted to Babson / Olin

Round: Round 1

Received via email on December 17, 2024

GPA: 3.9

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: South Asia

December 20, 2024 7:50pm ET

Accepted to Columbia

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on December 10, 2024

GMAT: 750

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: India

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$100k scholarship

December 20, 2024 3:21pm ET

Accepted to Yale SOM

Round: Round 1

Received via email December 20, 2024

GPA: 4.0

GMAT: 750

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

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100% scholarship

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