Tag Archive | "Michigan Ross"
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 [...]
Career, MBA
This Michigan Ross 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 Ross’ essay questions are in blue below.
MICHIGAN ROSS 2011 MBA ESSAY QUESTIONS
Although Ross’ [...]
Bschool Life, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
Bschool Life, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA, Other
The winners of this year’s Beautiful B-School photo contest are…
The First Prize ($200 Amazon gift certificate) goes to BizWiz for his shot of Stanford GSB’s Oval Park:
Second Prize ($100 gift certificate) goes to Matt Thieleman for his picture of Tappan Street and Michigan Ross amidst some stunning fall foliage.
Third Prize ($50 gift certificate) goes to [...]
Current
On April 16, 2010 the business community lost a teacher, mentor, and a leading management thinker when C.K. Prahalad passed away at the early age of 69. Prahalad was an incredibly prolific writer; his thoughts were far reaching, highly penetrative, and will leave an indelible impression on those who have read his work or who [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
Dean of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, Kenneth B. Dunn, announced that he’d be stepping down from his post as dean on January 1, 2011. This information was released in a CMU Tepper press release on Tuesday. Deans at Harvard Business School, Michigan Ross, Chicago Booth, and Northwestern Kellogg have also [...]
Current, MBA
Dean Bob Dolan of Michigan’s Ross School of Business announced that his term that ends in the summer of 2011 will be his last, reports The Michigan Daily. Dolan has served as dean of Ross for two terms, since 2001, and has had a huge impact by changing the b-school’s curriculum to focus on “real [...]
Blog, MBA
Long-Term vs Short-Term Goals - which should you focus on in your application process?
WSJ Article - which business leaders were dinged?
INSEAD Campus Visit - debrief
London Business School - waitlist advice
Booth (Waitlist) vs Ross ($$$) - would you wait for Booth?
“Going Nowhere” in 2010 – what I’ll do to improve my application next year
Health Insurance in [...]
