Tag Archive | "NYU Stern"
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 [...]
Current, MBA
This NYU Stern 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 Stern’s essay questions are in blue below. Stern’s tips are italicized.
NYU Stern 2011 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Current, MBA
U.S. News and World Report has had a lot of coverage recently on the boom in GRE popularity among top U.S. business schools.
The option to take the GRE instead of the GMAT exam is a somewhat recent development. What began as a trend (started by Stanford GSB) among a few schools has exploded into an [...]
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, Career, Current, Fun Stuff, 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 NYU Stern part-time MBA student from a marketing [...]
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 [...]
Current
In an initiative to foster more diversity, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business has rejoined The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management after a seven year hiatus. “Being part of The Consortium is another way to show that UC Berkeley and the Haas School of Business are welcoming of all forms of diversity,” explains Dean [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
Last Friday, UVA’s Darden School of Business together with UVA’s Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation unveiled a special program that supports and encourages the teaching and studying of Darden’s new curriculum initiative, “design-thinking.”
This new program, reports an article in UVA Today, will take place in the innovation laboratory, or i.Lab, a creative space that [...]
