Tag Archive | "Yale SOM"
Bschool Life, Current
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 right blend of vision, entrepreneurial energy and academic leadership that [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
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 are from the U.S., 11 are European, and three [...]
Blog, MBA
- Storytelling – how it will help you write great essays
- Not Many Takers for Yale? – why many don’t apply to Yale
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 [...]
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 [...]
Current, MBA
This Yale School of Management 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 comments are in red.
Yale SOM 2011 Essay Questions
SHORT ANSWERS:
Please answer each of the four [...]
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 [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
The Financial Times published today its 2010 ranking of global MBA programs. Its ranking attempts to “assess the effect of the MBA on … subsequent career progression and salary growth.” Consequently it draws its data from the schools themselves and from surveys of graduates at least three years after earning their MBA degree. In [...]
