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Published: November 20, 2018

MBA News You Need: IESE Launches MiM Program, Prodigy Finance Helps International Working Graduates, HBS Hosts Financial Crisis Conference, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of November 19, 2018. IESE Launches New Master in Management Program IESE Business School‘s Madrid campus will offer an 11-month Master in Management (MiM) program starting September 2019. The only program of its kind at IESE, the MiM is aimed at recent graduates and young professionals preparing to enter the workforce for the first time. The program Read more

Published: November 14, 2018

MBA News You Need: Chicago Booth and Berkeley Haas Talk MBA Veterans, Tuck Announces Enhanced Curriculum, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of November 15, 2018. Chicago Booth Expands MBA Veteran Resources The University of Chicago celebrated their military-affiliated students on Friday with an annual recognition event. Chicago Booth announced a new university-wide Office for Military-Affiliated Communities during its annual event that celebrates the military-affiliated members of the Booth community. The Office for Read more

Published: November 7, 2018

MBA News You Need: Yale SOM Dean Search Continues, Berkeley Haas Discusses Value of MBA for Women Leaders, HBS Opens Lehman Brothers Exhibit, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of November 8, 2018. Yale SOM Search for New Dean Enters Interview Stage The search for someone new to lead Yale SOM began last spring when Dean Edward Snyder announced he would step down at the end of this year. A search advisory committee chaired by Finance Professor Andrew Metrick and composed of nine other faculty Read more

Published: October 31, 2018

MBA News You Need: HBS Celebrates Alumni Entrepreneurs, H1-B Visa Lottery Changes, Cornell Research on Endorsements, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of November 1, 2018. Rock 100 Summit Showcases Successful HBS Alumni Entrepreneurs According to a new survey of Harvard Business School alumni interviewed 10 to 15 years after graduation, 50 percent characterize themselves as entrepreneurs. To celebrate the many successful alumni who have launched or are launching a newly minted enterprise, HBS gathered 100 of Read more

Published: October 24, 2018

MBA News You Need: Tuck Talks Global Immersions, U Chicago Launches Alumni Venture Accelerator, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of October 25, 2018. TuckGO Faculty Director Extols School’s Mandatory Global Immersion Course Tuck’s Peter Golder and students on the ground in Shanghai during a Global Insight Expedition (GIX) course. Dartmouth Tuck Marketing Professor Peter Golder believes providing students with global immersion experiences helps transform them into one-of-a-kind leaders. Enter TuckGO, a collection of study abroad Read more

Published: October 17, 2018

MBA News You Need: Tuck Professor Recognized, Tepper School Rebrands, New Fintech Funding Model, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of October 18, 2018. Tuck Professor Recognized as Top Marketing Scholar Sharma’s research has been published in journals such as “Journal of Consumer Psychology” and “Journal of Consumer Research.” Dartmouth Tuck Associate Professor of Business Administration Eesha Sharma was one of 34 marketing researchers chosen as a 2019 Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar. The annual Marketing Science Young Scholar Read more

Published: October 10, 2018

MBA News You Need: NYU Stern & Georgetown McDonough Launch Inaugural Venture Labs, IESE Introduces Flex MBA Durations, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of October 11, 2018. NYU Stern’s Creative Destruction Lab-NYC Accepts 27 Startups for Inaugural Cohort NYU Stern received hundreds of applications for the inaugural cohort (2018-19) of the Creative Destruction Lab in New York City (CDL-NYC). After an exhaustive review of founders from some of the world’s most prestigious research institutes, Stern selected just 27 ventures to take part—9 Read more

Published: October 3, 2018

MBA News You Need: Yale Creates First-Generation Scholarship, HBS and UNC Kenan-Flagler Help Budding Entrepreneurs, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of October 4, 2018. New Yale SOM Scholarship Will Support First-Generation College Students Lise Pfeiffer Chapman For the first time at Yale SOM, an endowed scholarship has been created to help first-generation college students finance their educations. It was established by Lise Pfeiffer Chapman, a 1981 Yale MBA alumna who received a generous loan from a Read more

Published: September 26, 2018

MBA News You Need: Women Missing in MBA Case Studies, Cornell Connects Student Ambassadors with Applicants, Darden Hosts Diversity Conference, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of September 27, 2018. Women Leaders Are Nearly Absent in Business School Case Studies Achieving gender parity within the business school community is a major issue that nonprofits like the Forté Foundation have successfully begun to address. But a recent Financial Times article calls attention to the fact that MBA case studies rarely involve female protagonists. An analysis of 53 award-winning Read more

Published: September 19, 2018

MBA News You Need: CBS Research Reveals Success Requires Passion, 5 Yale SOM Students Named Kerry Fellows, FT Talks U.S. Business School Application Declines, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of September 20, 2018. CBS Research Reveals That Success Requires Dedication PLUS Passion It takes more than determination to succeed. According to the latest research published by Columbia Business School (CBS) and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, it takes grit: the combination of perseverance and passion. In fact, the key ingredient of grit is passion, which has long Read more

Published: September 12, 2018

MBA News You Need: INSEAD Receives Largest-Ever Donation, Stanford Alum Helps Businesses Prepare for the Future of Ownership, Wharton Launched the Leder Behavior Change for Good Initiative, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of September 16, 2018. André and Rosalie Hoffmann INSEAD Receives Largest-Ever Individual Donation INSEAD announced that André and Rosalie Hoffmann recently gifted the business school with the largest individual donation in its history. The gift will establish the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society, which Executive Director Katell Le Goulven explains will “forge leaders, managers, Read more

Published: August 29, 2018

MBA News You Need: Wharton and INSEAD Renew Strategic Alliance, Georgetown Institutes Receive $1 Million BoA Grant to Fund Women’s Economic Mobility Initiatives, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of August 29, 2018. Wharton, INSEAD Renew Strategic Alliance Through June 2021 Thomas S. Robertson, Whaton professor and executive director of the Wharton-INSEAD Alliance (left) and Gavin Cassar, research director of the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance at INSEAD Wharton and INSEAD, two of the most esteemed business schools in the world, recently announced a renewal Read more

Published: August 22, 2018

MBA News You Need: Tuck Launches New Center for Entrepreneurship, Simon Rochester Receives STEM Designation for MBA, LBS Announces New Masters Program in Analytics, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of August 22, 2018. These Nine African Startups Are Working Toward a More Inclusive World MIT Sloan recently announced the nine African startup finalists of the Initiative on the Digital Economy’s Inclusive Innovation Challenge, all of which use technology to “reinvent the future of work.” Initiative Director Erik Brynjolfsson writes, “If we employ inclusive innovation globally, Read more

Published: August 15, 2018

MBA News You Need: Top 10 Business Schools with Lowest Acceptance Rates, Yale SOM Welcomes Class of 2020, UNC Kenan-Flagler Breaks Giving Records, 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 business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of August 16, 2018. These 10 Business Schools Are the Hardest to Get Into, Says U.S. News To qualify getting into an elite business school as “difficult” is kind of like saying LeBron James is “pretty good” at basketball. Business schools are inundated by literally thousands of applications for the few hundred slots set aside for each incoming class—and Read more

Published: August 8, 2018

MBA News You Need: PepsiCo Names ESADE Alum CEO, Chicago Booth Begins Summer Business Scholars Program, Tuck Professors Talk Life Hacks, and More.

Published: August 1, 2018

MBA News You Need: Yale Searches for New Dean, Tuck Sets Donation Record, UCLA Anderson Welcomes Class of 2020 International Students, and More

Published: July 25, 2018

MBA News You Need: the Gender Investing Gap, MBA Students Should Prepare Early, What Drives Fake News, 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 July 26, 2018. Ellevest Founder Sallie Krawcheck on Tackling Gender Investing Gap Ellevest Founder Sallie Krawcheck Once dubbed the most powerful woman on Wall Street, Sallie Krawcheck is now working to redefine investing for women with her company Ellevest. Started in 2016, Ellevest is a digital investment firm whose purpose is to help women generate wealth for themselves. It Read more

Published: July 18, 2018

MBA News You Need: Oxford Offers Algorithmic Trading Course, HEC Paris Launches New Branding, USC Hosts Supply Chain Summit, 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 July 19, 2018. New Oxford Saïd Course on Algorithmic Trading Shows Prevalence of AI As AI and machine learning continue to burrow more deeply into nearly every facet of our lives, algorithmic trading has become a far more prevalent form of investing. That’s why Oxford University’s Saïd Business School has launched a six-week introductory course that offers Read more

Published: July 11, 2018

MBA News You Need: MBA Programs Offer Math Intensive, UCLA Anderson Hosts BIT Conference, Elon Musk Talks Company Success, 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 July 12, 2018. MBA Programs Offer Math Camp for Liberal Arts Students To reach more applicants from liberal arts backgrounds, Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, Yale SOM, and Columbia Business School are among several leading MBA programs that have begun to offer math-intensive coursework over the summer. These “math camps” Read more

Published: July 4, 2018

MBA News You Need: Employers Are Hiring Fewer MBAs, CMU Tepper Readies New Building, and Georgetown McDonough Welcomes 12 New Ventures

Published: June 27, 2018

MBA News You Need: Washington Olin Announces Career Center Director, Columbia MBAs Help Hair Loss, Goldman Sachs Supports Women, 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 June 28, 2018. Washington University’s Olin Business School Names New Career Center Director Jennifer Whitten, associate dean and director of the Weston Career Center On July 9th, Washington Olin appointed Jennifer Whitten as its associate dean and director of the Weston Career Center. As the primary driver of the Weston Career Center team, she will help Read more

Published: June 20, 2018

MBA News You Need: HBS Faculty Honored for Sustainability, Stanford GSB Hosts Seminar on Navigating Polarized Topics, INSEAD Launches Women’s Big Ideas Initiative, 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 June 21, 2018. HBS Faculty Win Prize for MBA Elective on Sustainability Rebecca Henderson For 11 years, the Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business has supported sustainability curricula at business schools around the world. This year, the Page Prize honored two Harvard Business School faculty members: Professors Rebecca Henderson Read more

Published: June 13, 2018

MBA News You Need: Yale SOM Students Tackle Gender Disparity, Haas Delves Deep into Blockchain, and Wharton Alumni Receive Fellowships

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 June 14, 2018. MBA Students at Yale SOM Tackle Workplace Gender Disparities Gender disparity in the workplace is prevalent and impossible to ignore. So, when first-year MBA students at Yale SOM had the opportunity to unpack several issues related to the gender pay gap as part of the class “State and Society,” not surprisingly, the conversation grew Read more

Published: June 6, 2018

MBA News You Need: HBS Hosts Hackathon in San Francisco, LBS Professor Honored for Gender Policy Work, UCLA Anderson Awards $100k to Entrepreneurs, 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 June 7, 2018. Harvard Hosts First HBS Hacks Event in San Francisco On May 18th, Harvard Business School (HBS) hosted its first “HBS Hacks” event in San Francisco, bringing together more than 70 HBS alumni to tackle local social challenges. This innovative and interactive event used the elements of a tech hackathon in conjunction with principles of Read more

Published: May 30, 2018

MBA News You Need: Yale and MIT Sloan Professors Recognized for Excellence, Wharton Global Forum Heads to NYC, Tuck Focuses on Global Impact, 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 May 31, 2018. Three Yale SOM Profs Awarded for Excellence in Teaching Peter Schott Yale School of Management’s annual Teaching Awards recognized Professor Peter Schott, Professor Juan Trippe, and Assistant Professor Florian Ederer for their outstanding contributions to the Yale community. First-year MBA students elected the winner of the Core Curriculum Teaching award (Schott) while Second-year MBA Read more

MBA Applywire

November 16, 2024 5:16pm ET

Applying: ESADE, IE Business School, IESE

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Tech

Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology, Pharmaceutical Companies: Apple , Facebook , Google , Microsoft , Oracle , Johnson & Johnson , Novartis , Pfizer , Roche

GMAT: 525

GPA: 2.79

Years of Work Experience: 4

Post MBA Location: Europe

Notes:

Asian, female, USA. Top 10 Undergraduate school in USA, majored in Biomedical Engineering. Worked for Salesforce, Accenture, and Microsoft within sales department. Major accomplishments within sales roles. Strong personal essays. Letters of Recommendations from direct managers. Founder and held multiple leadership positions in school clubs during Undergrad. Just a really bad test taker and cannot seem to get my scores up no matter how many times I take it specifically in the quant section. American trying to stay in Europe post MBA and only applying to European B-schools.

November 15, 2024 9:32am ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, Minnesota / Carlson, UVA / Darden, Yale SOM

Pre-MBA Career: Insurance

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

GMAT: 505

GPA: 3.44

Years of Work Experience: 3

Post MBA Location: Midwest, Northeast

Notes:

GMAT Note:
* The score is an unofficial practice test. I am beginning my studies for the real thing now.

Undergrad Majors:
* Economics
* Business Management

Work Experience Notes:
* Insurance experience is at a family business
* I implemented data analytics into business operations since that was not a practice beforehand.
* I help with sales, customer service, bookkeeping, and marketing.

Extracurriculars & Volunteer Activities:
* Worked as an economics research assistant during my undergrad where I consulted public and private entities
* Was part of an economics research project that won a national award for its work in community economic development
* Published 2 university-sponsored economics articles
* During my senior year, I was appointed to a university faculty committee to help plan university award ceremonies and delegate student scholarships
* Won a leadership award from my university
* Economics honor society member
* President of a student club (1 year) and a club's Senior Advisor (1 year)
* Started and led 2 initiatives that installed free smoke alarms in rural area homes (received a leadership award from the American Red Cross for this)
* Ironman triathlete

November 14, 2024 8:16pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Cambridge / Judge, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, emlyon, IESE, Imperial, INSEAD, London Business School, Manchester / AMBS, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Hospitality

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Consumer Goods, Other Companies: Amazon , Apple , Google , Coca Cola , LVMH , Nestle , Nike

GRE: 326

GPA: 3.46

Years of Work Experience: 6

Post MBA Location: Consultancy

November 14, 2024 6:29am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Georgetown / McDonough, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Consulting, Capital Project Development (Renewable Energy/CCS)

Post-MBA Target Industry: Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Commercial Banking, Family Business, Entrepreneurship

GMAT: 664

GPA: 2.9

Years of Work Experience: 7

Notes:

Pakistani male, looking to get into the financial services industry short term, and long-term make a significant contribution to the family business or pursue entrepreneurship. Studied engineering from UT Austin for undergrad followed by three jobs (roughly 2 years each) and a nine month break in between job 2 and 3. Planning to take the GMAT again in 3 weeks to offset GPA. Goal score is 695. Mitigating circumstances around GPA are just illness and general family/self issues but doubt they will be very convincing.

November 13, 2024 11:52am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Georgetown / McDonough, Michigan / Ross, UNC Kenan-Flagler, USC / Marshall

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Real Estate Development Analyst and Acquisitions Project Manager

Post-MBA Target Industry: Private Equity, Family Business, Entrepreneurship Companies: Other

GPA: 3.44

Years of Work Experience: 3

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MBA LiveWire

November 17, 2024 10:14am ET

Interview Invite to Stanford GSB

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 14, 2024

GPA: 3.52

GRE: 322

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Technology

Note:

Consortium applicant applied round 1

November 17, 2024 12:58am ET

Rejected at Columbia

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on November 14, 2024

GPA: 3.49

GMAT: 740

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: India

November 17, 2024 12:46am ET

Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 12, 2024

GPA: 3.49

GMAT: 740

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: India

November 16, 2024 12:19pm ET

Interview Invite to Northwestern / Kellogg

Round: Round 1

Received via email

GRE: 320

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: India

November 16, 2024 10:45am ET

Accepted to Boston College / Carroll

Round: Round 1

Received via phone on November 12, 2024

GPA: 3.91

GRE: 318

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Texaa

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