Tag Archive | "Chicago"
Current, MBA
Test prep companies have a busy season ahead of them; test prep traffic is bound to increase as future b-school applicants scramble to prepare for the Next Generation GMAT, reports a Businessweek article, “GMAT Test Prep: Changes on the Way.” The new GMAT, which will launch in 2012, will include a new integrated reasoning section [...]
Bschool Life, Current
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 right blend of vision, entrepreneurial energy and academic leadership that [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
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 B-Schools Target Western Students.” Collaborative initiatives include traveling to target [...]
Career, MBA
This Chicago Booth 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 Chicago’s essay questions are in blue below.
Chicago Booth 2011 MBA Essay Questions
It’s an [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
First up, Dean Rich Lyons from UC Berkeley Haas has set a lofty fundraising goal: He’d like to raise $120 million by 2014. The money will be used to build a new non-degree executive education center, new research centers, and more faculty fellowships.
Next, Dean Blair Sheppard from Duke Fuqua is working to expand Duke’s global [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, GMAT, MBA
According to the Global Management Education Graduate Survey, graduate optimism is particularly impressive, especially since only 40% of full-time MBA students had job offers prior to graduation this year, down from last year’s 50%. For part-time students, the percent of pre-graduation job offers was at 22%, as compared to 38% in 2009. For EMBA graduates, [...]
Books, Bschool Life, Current, GMAT
A recent Wharton alum and former user of Accepted.com resources, recently sent me information about an interesting blog he’s working on. Check out Mate, I C Bill’s new blog that tracks his “extended recruiting efforts.”
Harvard Business School, Yale SOM, Northwestern Kellogg, Chicago Booth, and Michigan Ross are all either in the midst of searching for [...]
Career, Current, Fun Stuff, Interviews, MBA
Harrah’s, and other big Las Vegas casinos, are recruiting new MBAs to work behind-the-scenes to improve their businesses, reports a Bloomberg Businessweek article entitled “Viva Las Vegas: MBAs Catch the Gaming Bug.” With extensive knowledge and experience in marketing, refinancing, human resources, and management, these fresh-out-of-school MBA grads fit the casino job specs perfectly.
B-schools, and [...]
Career, Current, MBA
According to new Bloomberg Businessweek research, graduates from top business schools (which are also the most expensive programs) earn more straight out of school and down the road than do grads from lower ranked, less expensive schools. And they don’t just make a little more…but a lot.
Robert Dammon, CMU Tepper associate dean and professor, explains [...]
Books, Bschool Life, Career, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA
Wharton will host the first official “MBA Peer School Forum,” a gathering of top MBA student government leaders. The three-day President Summit will focus on “inter-school cohesion and collaboration” as well as initiatives that will “bring positive impact to business and society.” The event will include the collaboration of outgoing and incoming student presidents from [...]
