Tag Archive | "UVA Darden"
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
Developing leadership skills is an essential requirement for all MBA students. U.S. News describes some of the most innovative leadership courses at top b-schools today:
UVA Darden’s “Leadership and Theatre: Ethics, Innovations and Creativity”
Duke Fuqua’s Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics
University of California Riverside School of Business Administration’s “Leadership, Communications, Ethics and Teamwork” [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
UVA Darden 2011 MBA Essay Questions
This UVA Darden 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 Darden’s essay questions are in blue below.
1. The [...]
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 [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
First up, Dean Rich Lyons from UC Berkeley Haas has set a lofty fundraising goal: He’d like to raise $120 million by 2014. The money will be used to build a new non-degree executive education center, new research centers, and more faculty fellowships.
Next, Dean Blair Sheppard from Duke Fuqua is working to expand Duke’s global [...]
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, 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 [...]
Current, Fun Stuff, MBA
As top universities strive to become more affordable, many have agreed to maintain their no-loan pledges again this year. (52 schools made no-loan pledges last year; 50 have committed to renew that pledge again this year.) This decision saves low-income (and some middle- and upper-class families) from receiving unreasonable student loan offers in their financial [...]
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 [...]
Career, Current, MBA
Current MBA students and graduates are experiencing a totally different job market than they did last year, reports the New York Times in an article entitled “Job Market Stabilizes for Business Students.” While last year students and graduates scrambled for internships and full time positions, often getting turned down over and over again, this year’s [...]
