Tag Archive | "Northwestern Kellogg"
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
While charting his MBA application process, one MBA applicant blogger, KT, recently wrote in his blog, My Quest for Life, about hitting a snag when tackling Kellogg’s question on displaying teamwork. Teamwork, and its close cousin, leadership, are highly prized by MBA programs. But even if you have not worked in teams on any regular [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
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 [...]
Current, MBA
This Kellogg 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 Kellogg’s are in red below.
Northwestern Kellogg 2011 MBA Essay Questions
My comments are in red. [...]
Bschool Life, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA
Interview with current part-time Kellogg student (evening program) with an engineering background, currently working at a tech company
What is your goal for getting the MBA?
In the next five years or so, I plan to advance within my company with an increasing focus on international business. Longer-term, I’m looking to start my own consultancy with a [...]
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, Interviews, MBA
Accepted.com has started a new blog series offering our readers a behind-the-scenes look at selected MBA programs. We hope to offer you a candid picture of student life, and what you should consider as you prepare your application.
Here are some excerpts from an interview with a current Kellogg MBA student from a financial services/retail background.
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What is your goal [...]
Career, Current, MBA
A Wall Street Journal article, “State of the Job Market for M.B.A.s,” explores the ups and downs of the post-recession job search and how recent MBA grads are coping.
While graduates from top business schools like Wharton or Northwestern Kellogg are seeing a positive pick up in the job market, other graduates, like those from NYU [...]
Bschool Life, Current
As discussed in an earlier Almanac post, Kellogg School of Management has a new dean, Sally Blount, who had served as Dean of NYU’s undergrad program and Vice Dean of the university’s Stern School of Business. This is good news for Kellogg on multiple levels—Blount is expected to help the program raise money and increase [...]
