Posts Tagged ‘wharton’
MBA Admissions News Round Up
Last week Wharton launched a new educational website geared towards high school students, Knowledge@Wharton High School. The site will teach high schoolers about business practices and keep them up-to-date with relevant business news. Wharton professors will also have a space on the site to post...
MBA Specialty Rankings Unveil Possibilities for All
Fact: Not everyone can go to a top 10 business school. Businessweek‘s new MBA specialty rankings give the other 90% of us a solid place to begin research when you know what you want to do but can’t attend or afford a top 10 program. Such...
MBA Hiring on the Rise on Wall Street
Banks and brokerages on Wall Street have increased their MBA hiring, reports a Fins.com article from last week. Maryellen Reilly Lamb, senior associate director of MBA career management of Wharton, explains, “Two years ago, I couldn’t get a bank to take our calls, last year they...
MBA Admissions News Round Up
Businessweek recently published an interview with INSEAD’s dean-to-be, Dipak Jain, former dean of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. The Q&A reveals insights into who Jain is, why he chose this top European b-school as his next post, and what he plans to contribute to the...
2011 Wharton Executive MBA Essay Tips
Wharton 2011 Executive MBA Application Essay Questions The Wharton EMBA adcom shows a very clear focus in its set of essay questions (in black font). It wants to understand your goals and how executive business studies support them (essay 1), it wants to get a glimpse...
Wharton Interview Questions Leaked
A 25-minute slideshow coaching Wharton alum on this year’s new interview questions was leaked. According to John Byrne of Poets & Quants, these slides were also accessed by top admissions consultants whose clients then had an advantage in their interview preparation. According to Byrne, applicants...
INSEAD Interviews, Booth vs Wharton, Private Wealthy Management, B-School Dashboard
INSEAD Interviews – September 2011 Intake Booth vs Wharton – pros and cons for each school Private Wealth Management – what are the career prospects? Business School Dashboard – all admissions info in one Excel file
MBA Admissions News Round Up
U. Penn’s Wharton School of Business received a $15 million gift from Jay H. and Patty Baker to endow a new center for the study of the retail industry. The money will go towards curriculum development, research tools, and industry outreach for both graduate and...
2010 MBA Rankings Released by Businessweek
Businessweek just released its biannual full-time MBA rankings. There were some minor shifts in this year’s U.S. top 30 compared to those of 2008, and some more significant changes in the international rankings, as you’ll see below. Top 30 U.S. Business Schools of 2010 (2008 rankings...
MBA Admissions News Round Up
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) released sample “integrated reasoning” questions for the new GMAT. According to a Businessweek article on the subject, some GMAT test-takers will receive sample reasoning questions at the end of their exam; results won’t be scored, but will be used...