My Liz Claiborne shorts! How I loved them! I felt worth a million bucks when I bought them – on sale! – at Macy’s when I was in college. Liz Claiborne was usually out of my price range but the sale and...

New business school deans typically take 18 months to introduce the first changes into their schools. But Harvard Business School’s new dean, Nitin Nohria took only six months to start shaking things up at HBS since he began his tenure last July. As...

Applicants who have clear career aspirations are better able to choose the schools that will position them to succeed in the future. In this post, we share a series of questions developed by MBA Prep School to aid our clients with school selection.

Where do you begin? The foundation of a successful MBA application is self-knowledge combined with school research.  If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ve seen that concept before. To start learning about the different programs, begin at your computer.  Review the school web sites...

  This Duke Fuqua 2012 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. Check out the entire 2012 MBA Application Tips series for more valuable MBA essay advice. Duke Fuqua...

Cheating on your b-school admissions essay – that most probing, personal, and difficult-to-write account – may seem preposterous. But unfortunately, it happens, and when it does, it can be hard to detect. Business schools receive thousands of applications, and rarely have the staff to scrutinize...

We wanted to offer some general tips for the Class of 2014 applicants on getting the most mileage out of resumes in the admissions process.  As many of our readers know, the resume is not only an important component of your application package, it’s also...

Much has been written lately on the MBA hiring market, but most articles have been more concerned with how many people are being hired and not whose doing the hiring. Businessweek’s article, “MBA Jobs: Post-Crisis, A Brave New World,” looks at how...

After the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup over the Vancouver Canucks last week, many young people in Vancouver rioted.  “They were, in many instances, the sons and daughters of good, upstanding citizens,” reported The Globe and Mail.  When social media revealed...

The University of Chicago recently announced that their two economic research centers—the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics and the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory—will be joining forces to create the bigger and better Becker Friedman Institute. In the past the...