Posts Tagged ‘Yale SOM’
MBA Admissions News Round Up
CMU Tepper‘s Provost and Executive Vice President, Mark S. Kamlet, was recently appointed Acting Dean of the business school effective January 1, 2011. The current dean, Kenneth Dunn, will be stepping down on that date, and Kamlet will serve in his place until a new...
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 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...
Michigan Ross and Yale SOM Admissions Directors Interviews
Over the course of the last few weeks we’ve had the privilege of speaking with admissions directors from Michigan Ross and Yale SOM about admissions policies, student life, job recruiting, and other vital information relating to getting in at these two top business schools. We highly...
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
A Businessweek article reports on the increased phenomenon of helicopter parents…not at preschools, middle schools, or even colleges, but at business schools. “Helicopter parents,” a term used to describe hovering parents, have taken an active role in their children’s b-school application process. And when we...
MBA Admissions News Round Up: What’s Going On in the World of Top MBA Admissions
Large, elaborate b-school campuses don’t just attract more applicants and professors, but help a school climb higher in the rankings, reports a Businessweek article, “Elite B-Schools Keep on Building.” According to Yale professor Matthew Speigel, “Elite business schools in the U.S. are locked in an...
Chicago Booth Announces its New Dean, Sunil Kumar
It’s been a season of change for deans at top business schools in the U.S. Last week Sunil Kumar, Stanford GSB‘s Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, was named the new dean of Chicago Booth. According to Robert Zimmer, University of Chicago president, “[Kumar] brings the...
Financial Times Reports on Changing B-School Trends in the U.S.
Some facts: When the Financial Times began their global MBA rankings in 1999, 20 out of the 25 top business schools on the list were from the U.S. The remaining five were European b-schools. In 2010, of the 25 top international business schools, 11...
Storytelling – how it will help you write great essays, Not Many Takers for Yale? – why many don’t apply to Yale
- Storytelling – how it will help you write great essays - Not Many Takers for Yale? – why many don’t apply to Yale