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Current, MBA

MBA Admissions News Roundup: New Test Prep, NYU Stern Application Tips, and New B-School Rankings for ConsultingSep 2

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, MBA

HBS’ Dean Nohria Rules Out Harvard Campus in AsiaAug 17

Harvard Business School’s new Indian-born dean, Nitin Nohria, recently announced that the top business school would not be opening new campuses in Asia, despite the overwhelming demand from Asian students, reports a Wall Street Journal article last week. Dean Nohria’s first public gesture as dean had been a trip to Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Mumbai, causing [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA

MBA Admissions News Round UpAug 16

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be joining the Stanford GSB faculty next month as co-director of the school’s Center for Global Business and the Economy, reports a Businessweek blog post last week. The center “aims to be the leader in developing and disseminating curriculum materials, research, and conceptual frameworks on global issues.” This [...]
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Business Schools Report Decrease in 2010 ApplicationsAug 13

Along with the deterioration of the economy came a huge boom in b-school applications. According to a Businessweek article yesterday, “Business School Applications Sputter,” that two-year boom now appears to be softening. Top MBA programs in the U.S., including Wharton and UC Berkeley Haas, have reported that they received either an equal or lower number of [...]
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Asian Business Schools Team Up to Strengthen Appeal to WesternersAug 5

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 [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA

MBA Applicants: What McKinsey (and HBS) WantsJul 26

They were looking for four things. I didn’t know until I’d made it to the third and last round of interviews, but McKinsey and Company, the strategy consulting firm perennially ranked among the top “dream” employers of MBA students, was looking for four specific qualities in the candidates they hired. By my calculations, McKinsey made [...]
Bschool Life, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA

2010 AIGAC Conference in BostonJul 2

I will run out of superlatives if I attempt to describe the 2010 AIGAC Conference in Boston. Suffice it say that it was extraordinarily illuminating.  MIT Sloan and Harvard Business School graciously and generously hosted the event, which was kicked off by MIT Sloan’s Dean David C. Schmittlein, who discussed the reasoning behind MIT Sloan’s [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, GMAT, MBA

B-School Class of 2010 More Confident, Job-Wise, than Class of 2009, Despite Fewer JobsJun 8

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, [...]
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MBA Admissions News Round Up: Innovation All AroundJun 4

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 [...]
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The MBA Oath: Where Business and Ethics Meet…MaybeMay 31

Business professionals are working to combat the blatant, unapologetic amorality in the business world. The government is taking measures by enforcing firm new regulations, the media is keeping a closer eye on corporate action, and, perhaps most impressively, business school students are taking initiatives to “chang[e] business itself by changing the way its leaders think [...]

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