Tag Archive | "MIT Sloan"
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, MBA
MIT and ISB signed an agreement in early April that will establish collaboration between the two top international business schools.
The following plans have resulted from the partnership:
In about a year and a half from now, two professors from the ISB campus in Hyderabad, India will join the Sloan faculty for a year of teaching in [...]
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MBA programs are overhauling their curricula to reflect the needs of the modern student. According to a recent Forbes article, that student is “one who increasingly looks to do good while also doing well.”
Current courses now include more hands-on, problem-solving components. (These are offered in addition to “the basics” of accounting, finance, etc.)
Here are the [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
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 [...]
Bschool Life, Current, Interviews, MBA
The MIT Sloan Fellows program is a dynamic, constantly evolving program. The 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. [...]
Blog, MBA
2011 MIT Sloan Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) – hear from those in the program
Has anyone who completed their MBA regretted it?
Advice for Class of 2013 Applicants
Asian School Tour in a city near you (CEIBS, HKUST, ISB, and NUS)
Current, MBA
MIT Sloan 2011 MBA Essay Questions
This MIT Sloan 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 Sloan’s essay questions are in blue below.
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Please prepare [...]
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 [...]
Current, MBA
This MIT EMBA 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. Our tips for answering the MIT EMBA essay questions are in blue below.
Looking at the 2011 MIT [...]
Current
By Cindy Tokumitsu, co-author of The Finance Professional’s Guide to MBA Success, The Consultants’ Guide to MBA Admission, The EMBA Edge, and author of several articles and the free, email mini-course, “Ace the EMBA.” Also author of the NEW online mini-course, Best MBA Programs: A Guide to Choosing the One for You.
