Part-Time/EMBA News
A wealth of news, guidance and tips for applicants interested in studying for a part-time or Executive MBA.
Georgetown McDonough Announces New Flex MBA Program
In response to market research and student requests, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business is adding greater flexibility to its part-time MBA program. The updates include technological innovations for the inclusion of hybrid courses, new course delivery options, and a more adjustable program duration. The idea behind the new Georgetown Flex MBA is to ensure that working professionals can better balance their career commitments with their personal commitments.
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Published: December 27, 2017
Indonesians Can Attend Darden Tuition-Free—Find Out How
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business now offers a new Indonesia Endowed Fellowship Fund for full-time MBA and Executive MBA applicants. The fellowship is a full scholarship to Darden that covers the total cost of attendance for academically qualified Indonesian students who prove a need for financial support.
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Published: December 20, 2017
Volunteer Fever Strikes Georgetown McDonough MBA Students
During the Month of Volunteerism at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, MBA student volunteers logged more than 710 hours of community service. For the month of November, full-time and evening MBA students divided into their cohorts to engage in a friendly competition to see which cohort could log the most volunteer hours. The winning cohort—FT19 Hoya—logged more than 203 hours with a 63 percent participation rate.
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Published: October 25, 2017
Beyond Business School: Meet the Cambridge EMBA Who Is Rebuilding Libya
As an Executive MBA (EMBA) student, you don’t have to choose between your career and your studies, which was exactly the case for Roland Friedrich, who worked as a senior political affairs officer for the United Nations while pursuing his EMBA at Cambridge Judge Business School. Friedrich graduated with his EMBA in 2016, but through his studies he was involved in the rebuilding of Libya as part of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). This mission, established in 2011, supports the country’s transitional authorities and institutions after the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi.
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Published: October 8, 2017
LBS Alumni Gather for Worldwide Alumni Celebration in London
On September 28th, the same week that London Business School (LBS) officially opened its new Sammy Ofer Centre, LBS alumni from around the world gathered together for a Worldwide Alumni Celebration (WAC) event. This was just one of approximately 85 WAC events that take place around the globe in locations such as Madrid, Melbourne, Jakarta, Lima, and Los Angeles. The recent London WAC drew 300 alumni from multiple industries to discuss innovation in a new world environment. The London WAC event was covered in a university press release, which discussed the three main speakers who kicked it off.
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Published: September 10, 2017
UVA Darden Class of 2019 Profile Reveals Diverse and Talented Students
The official University of Virginia Darden School of Business Class of 2019 profile is now out, revealing one of the most diverse groups of MBA students the school has ever welcomed to campus. This record-setting incoming class helps underscore Darden’s core values of diversity, inclusion, and respect against the backdrop of the recent violence in Charlottesville. As Dean Scott Beardsley encouraged the new class in a welcoming speech, “I’d ask all of you, no matter where you were born, go out of your way to support your colleagues and get to know each other one level deeper.” While only
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Published: August 29, 2017
Rotman Launches New Healthcare & Life Sciences EMBA Program
Healthcare is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing industries. Globally, it represents more than 10 percent of the gross domestic product of most developed nations—around $6 trillion overall. And the World Health Organization estimates that there are 9.2 million physicians, 19.4 million nurses and midwives, 2.6 million pharmacists, and over 1.3 million community health workers worldwide.
In response to this trend in healthcare growth, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has launched its new Global Executive MBA in Healthcare and Life Sciences. This addition complements the major in Health Sector Management that is currently available to Rotman full-time, morning, and evening MBA students.
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Published: August 16, 2017
Michigan Ross EMBAs Create Successful Subscription Box Business
In recent years, the subscription box business has boomed. From Blue Apron for food delivery to the Dollar Shave Club for men and women’s grooming, there’s a way to get anything you want in a box delivered on schedule every month or week. And now there are two more subscription box options—Proudbox and CraftX—thanks to a few enterprising University of Michigan Ross School of Business Executive MBA (EMBA) graduates. Proudbox Developed by Carrie Thorpe, an ’16 EMBA graduate, Proudbox is a monthly subscription box for anyone who loves the University of Michigan. The concept is “Michigan
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Published: January 4, 2017
Stanford Ignite Program Celebrates 10 Years, With No Signs of Slowing
The final weeks in December for many mean last-minute gift shopping, overindulgence with friends and family, a winding down of work and the culmination of another year. All of that may well have been afoot at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) last month, but so, too, was a celebration of a 10-year-old program that has helped foster innovation and entrepreneurship around the globe—one that shows no signs of slowing down.
On December 20, 2016, Stanford GSB marked the 10th anniversary of Stanford Ignite, a unique certificate program that sets out to help non-business graduate students—those in medicine, science or engineering, for example—get a crash course business education, learning the business fundamentals they need to transform an innovative idea into a real company from renowned Stanford GSB professors and alumni.
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Published: December 22, 2016
Fridays from the Frontline: Navigating Complex MBA Decision-Making Process
Pierre Girard, a 2016 graduate of the Weekend MBA program at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, shares his tips for the complex decision-making process that can accompany choosing to pursue an MBA. For Girard, a father to two small children who planned to continue working while getting his MBA, a part-time MBA program was the best way to meet all of his goals. And some of his tips—such as hiring a maid if your budget allows it—seem perhaps less geared toward traditional full-time MBA students than others.
But at its core, the bulk of Girard’s advice is applicable no matter what kind of MBA degree you’re planning to pursue. The support of your network, setting realistic expectations about your schedule, and knowing how to prioritize are just as critical for full-time, two-year MBA students as they are for full-time employees who are working toward their MBA in the evenings or on the weekends.
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Published: October 17, 2016
October MBA Mama of the Month: Anna Nordstrom
As part of our continuing partnership with MBA Mama, an online platform that provides ambitious women with tools and resources to leverage an MBA and strategically navigate family/career planning, we are pleased to feature the following post spotlighting Anna Nordstrom, a student in the evening MBA program at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Undaunted by a challenge, Nordstrom embarked upon her MBA as part of a plan to change careers—her first was as an elementary school teacher. Oh, and did we mention that she gave birth to her second child three
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Published: September 19, 2016
Cornell’s Business, Medical Schools Debut EMBA/Healthcare Leadership Masters Program
It can be nearly impossible for today’s medical students to stay up to date with the ever-evolving healthcare industry. Now, a new two-year executive MBA/M.S. healthcare leadership dual-degree program offered by the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences offers a way to meet that challenge. “This new program will enable medical professionals to innovate as hospitals and healthcare systems face increasing challenges to their business model,” Cornell College of Business Dean Soumitra Dutta said in a statement. “The key lies in providing a unique blend
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Published: September 8, 2016
New Court Decision Allows MBA Tax Deductions
Thanks to a recent court decision in the case of Kopaigora v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, students enrolled in an MBA program—particularly an Executive MBA (EMBA)—can now deduct more education expenses from their taxes. While the case can’t be appealed or formerly cited as precedent, there’s no doubt that the outcome will be influential for the IRS and MBA students all over the United States.
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Published: August 31, 2016
Bloomberg Contributes $32 Million to Launch New Initiative at Harvard for City Leaders
Michael Bloomberg—three-term New York City mayor, philanthropist and Harvard Business School (HBS) alumnus—has committed $32 million to Harvard to design a comprehensive leadership program for mayors and senior aides to advance leadership, management and innovation in cities across the United States and around the globe, the university announced last week. On August 25th, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University jointly announced the launch of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, a unique collaboration between the HBS and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Executive Education programs designed to equip city leaders to confront the increasingly complex challenges facing city governments.
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Published: April 25, 2016
So, You’re Terrible at Integrated Reasoning…
Since its release on the June 2012 exam, the Integrated Reasoning portion of the GMAT has had some test takers stumped. This 30-minute, 12 question section is oddly scored on a 1 to 8 scale, and no partial credit is given, even for multi-part, multi-answer questions. For the past several years, it was a matter of debate on whether business schools evaluated applicants on the basis of the Integrated Reasoning section. Admissions offices can be slow to adapt to changes in standardized tests, waiting for enough points of comparison to consider whether the change corresponds with other ways that applicants
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Published: March 14, 2016
GMAT Critical Reasoning Tip: Mind the Gap
Let’s start this post with a critical reasoning question: When a group of people starts a company, the founders usually serve as sources both of funding and of skills in marketing, management, and technical matters. It is unlikely that a single individual can both provide adequate funding and be skilled in marketing, management, and technical matters. Therefore, companies founded by groups are more likely to succeed than companies founded by individuals. Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument? Before we dive into the answer choices, let’s start by wrapping our heads
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Published: March 13, 2016
GMAC Debuts New Executive Assessment Test Designed Specifically for EMBA Candidates
Six leading business schools are piloting a brand-new entrance exam designed specifically for applicants to executive MBA (EMBA) programs. Called the Executive Assessment test (EA), it was developed by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), maker of the GMAT, as an alternative to the GMAT or GRE that would require less preparation time while still allowing EMBA programs to effectively evaluate applicants’ business school readiness.
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Published: January 18, 2016
Stanford to Offer LGBT Executive Program to Business Leaders
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
Stanford University's Graduate School of Business (GSB) has announced that it will offer an LGBT Executive Program.
Beginning in late July 2016, the week-long program is described as the first of its kind. The program is designed for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered leaders who are seeking to rise to the C-suite level in their careers.
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Published: December 27, 2015
LBS Alum Explores the Next Frontier as Part of International Space Mission
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
A 2013 graduate from London Business School’s EMBA program blasted off on December 15, 2015, as part of the International Space Mission.
Colonel Tim Kopra is a NASA astronaut whose path to business school was somewhat rocky. In 2011, he was training for an upcoming space mission when a biking accident thwarted his plans.
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Published: December 7, 2015
GMAT Tip: Don’t Let Misplaced Modifiers Derail Your Score
It’s getting to be that time of the year. For the sake of being somewhat politically correct, it’s the slightly-chillier-time-of-the-year-that’s-directly-proportional-to-increased-gift-giving. If you work most 9-to-5 jobs, there’s likely some type of end-of-calendar-year celebration planned which can be make or break time in office social circles. You want to sit next to Brad from Marketing who is super dreamy and knows more about The Walking Dead and Shark Tank than the producers while avoiding Mark from Finance who can be heard a mile away because he jingles orange Tic-Tacs in his shirt pocket. Wait, is it Marketing who is dreamy or
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Published: December 1, 2015
UCLA Anderson School of Management Trains Head Start Heroes
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Price Center) will partner with the University of Massachusetts’ Donahue Institute in training executive leaders and managers for excellence in Head Start programming.
As part of a $6 million per year, five-year award, the Price Center will strengthen its Head Start Management Fellows Program. UMass Donahue will apply its share of this funding to lead the Head Start National Center on Program Management and Fiscal Operations (NCPMFO).
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Published: November 29, 2015
Saïd Business School Bestows Second MBA Scholarship for Women
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
María Belén Muñoz Toro, a Chilean student who will enter Oxford University’s Saïd Business School in January 2016, was awarded the second Oxford Executive MBA Scholarship for Women.
Oxford Saïd offers the scholarship in association with the 30% Club, an organization that works to promote gender diversity on corporate boards. Toro is a product supply manufacturing site leader and initiative manager at Proctor and Gamble’s Prestige Fragrances.
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Published: November 22, 2015
The Big Decision: Choosing an Evening MBA Program
Anjali Shahani, Full-time MBA, Class of 2017Hometown: Monterrey, MexicoPre-MBA career: International DevelopmentPost-MBA goals: FinanceStudent involvement: Cohort Representative; Finance Club; Emerging Market Club
As decision time neared for her MBA enrollment, Anjali Shahani was leaning toward the MBA Evening Program at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She was originally pursuing a part-time program to retain her position at the highly coveted World Bank Group. Like any good researcher, she attended information sessions and joined various club events—all of which provided her new insights that shifted her plan.
“I’m generally passionate about what I do and active in my community,” says Shahani. “I decided if I was going to be a part of Georgetown, I wanted to be an active member. Participating in extracurricular activities—although not impossible—is definitely more challenging when you are combining studies and a full-time job. I realized I would not be able to fully commit to both, plus maintain the balance I wanted in my personal life.”
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Published: September 21, 2015
MBA Application Volume Up Around the Globe, According to Latest GMAC Survey
At the annual Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) conference in Denver this past June, the admissions directors we talked to from leading business schools were almost giddy. It was still early in the cycle, but application volume had been high—and applicants had been strong—making preliminary profiles for the Class of 2017 look very exciting.
As students have come to campus and schools have shared their actual Class of 2017 profiles, the cause of that excitement has become clear. The average GMAT score for this year’s first-year students at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management jumped from 716 last year to an all-time high of 724. At Wharton, the mean score for the incoming class this year is 732, up from last year’s record-setting 728. At Harvard Business School (HBS) the median GMAT score rose from 724 last year to 730 this year. (HBS does not publish mean GMAT scores.)
Today, GMAC, which owns and administers the GMAT, released figures from its 2015 Application Trends Survey , revealing that the giddiness at last June’s conference was warranted—MBA application volume was indeed up around the globe, with a majority of full-time MBA programs reporting an uptick in applicants. GMAC consulted 641 graduate business programs at 306 universities worldwide to arrive at its findings.
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New Certificate Program at NYU Stern Lets Working Professionals Sample the MBA
Not sure you’re ready for a complete MBA? Why not try out a quarter of an MBA? A program introduced earlier this year at New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business lets you do just that. The new Advanced Professional Certificate (APC) program lets participants take five courses in either finance, marketing or general business taught by Stern’s world-class faculty, alongside students in the school’s part-time MBA program. Upon completion of any of the three tracks, participants receive a certificate registered with the New York State Department of Education.
The program is great for working professionals who want to quickly build knowledge in a specific area as well as for those who already have an MBA but want to refresh or supplement their expertise. Qualified candidates can apply for admission to the program and take courses on a part-time basis in MBA classes where there is capacity. Enrolled students will have up to two years to complete the five courses, or 15 credits, required for certification in any of the three tracks.
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