UT McCombs 2011 MBA Essay Questions This UT McCombs 2011 MBA Application tip post is one of a series of posts providing  2011 MBA application and essay advice for applicants to top MBA programs around the world. You can access the entire series at http://blog.accepted.com/acceptedcom_blog/tag/2011-mba-application-tips. My...

Top Asian business schools are “courting” leading U.S. professors as part of their strategy to strengthen their programs’ credibility, reports a Wall Street Journal article, “Foreign Schools Target U.S. Professors.” Deans at these Asian b-schools say that “nabbing ‘star’ professors is critical for building clout in...

It’s been a season of change for deans at top business schools in the U.S. Last week Sunil Kumar, Stanford GSB‘s Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, was named the new dean of Chicago Booth. According to Robert Zimmer, University of Chicago president, “[Kumar] brings the...

Here’s what you may be thinking: Since someone else will be writing your letters of recommendation, you probably don’t have to put much thought into that part of your b-school application, right? WRONG! While the actual writing of your letters of recommendation (LORs) may be beyond...

You’re a creative, innovative person, and you want that to reflect in your grad school, b-school, or college application. You want to create an audio or video application clip, but aren’t quite sure how to begin. In a day and age where these clips have...

This NYU Stern 2011 MBA Application tip post is one of a series of posts providing MBA application and essay advice for applicants to top MBA programs around the world. You can access the entire series at http://blog.accepted.com/acceptedcom_blog/tag/2011-mba-application-tips. My tips for answering Stern’s essay questions...

While charting his MBA application process, one MBA applicant blogger, KT,  recently wrote in his blog, My Quest for Life, about hitting a snag when tackling Kellogg’s question on displaying teamwork. Teamwork, and its close cousin, leadership, are highly prized by MBA programs. But even...

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, and the Indian School of Business, four rival Asian business schools, have joined forces to recruit students from North American and Europe, reports a Bloomberg Businessweek article, “Asian...

New Jersey’s Centenary College will be shutting down its Asian MBA program because of widespread plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct, reports an Inside Higher Ed article “Policing Plagiarism Abroad.” The 400 students who study at the branch programs in Taiwan,...

informative interview I had a few years ago with Stephen Sacca, Director of the MIT Sloan Fellows Program, is no longer entirely accurate because of changes that have taken place in the last four years. Mr. Sacca graciously agreed...