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Hello and welcome to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s ongoing perusal of the latest happenings in the b-school blogosphere. This week applicants and students rang in the new year, and those working on their R2 applications felt the pressure rise. Domotron asserted that more went right than wrong in his 2013, and wished all… Read more

Registration is now open for winter information sessions and class visits at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). In a recent post to the Stanford GSB admissions blog, Admissions blogger Ari Chasnoff invited prospective applicants to the MBA program to come see campus for themselves when the Class Visit Program resumes on January 13th. Weekly information sessions… Read more

The U.S. Tax Court recently ruled that an MBA student who deducted $17,000 in tuition expenses from his 2009 tax return owes more than $2,500 in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports. Ouch. As follow up, Bloomberg BW offers a few things to keep in mind regarding tuition deductions. “The rules… Read more

In growing numbers, Latin Americans are turning to top business schools in Spain – notably ESADE, IE and IESE – to obtain their MBAs before returning to careers in Latin America, the New York Times reports. Spain’s own economy is still faltering, but business schools there say they are attracting more and more Latin Americans,… Read more

Team assignments have become de rigeur as part of the MBA curriculum at many leading business schools, with some schools assigning students to teams when they first arrive and requiring them to work together in multiple classes and others having students shift between several different teams as part of a single course or semester. Why… Read more

Hello and welcome to another edition of Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admit’s ongoing dive into the depths of the b-school blogopshere. This was an especially lean week for b-school students checking in, perhaps due to the recent holiday or the winter break. Sarah shared her ideas and approach to making sure that she keeps her… Read more

As at many schools, classes at Yale School of Management (SOM) are out for winter break, and administrative offices, too, will be closed through January 1st. But current MBA students will be hosting events for prospective students in their home countries around the world in the weeks ahead. Yale SOM’s Winter Break Socials series kicked… Read more

A majority of business school admissions officers report that an applicant’s score on the GMAT’s new Integrated Reasoning (IR) section is not currently an important part of their evaluation of a prospective student’s overall GMAT score, according to a recent survey by Kaplan Test Prep. In its 2013 survey of business school admissions officers, Kaplan… Read more

Welcome to our weekly edition of Trivia Tuesday, in which we take an in-depth look at the specific offerings that differentiate the leading MBA programs from their peers. This week we’re taking a peak into the Clear Admit School Guide to the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business to share with you an excerpt about… Read more

As Harvard Business School (HBS) Admissions prepares to close for the holiday season, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Dee Leopold shared some updates and reminders for Round 2 applicants working toward the January 6th Round 2 deadline. All offices at HBS will be closed from tomorrow, Tuesday, December 24th, through Wednesday, January 1st, re-opening at… Read more

MIT’s Sloan School of Management will offer its first massively open online course (MOOC) free to the general public in the spring semester, a data analytics class called Analytics Edge, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports. The online course will feature the same curriculum as the popular on-campus offering, which includes case studies of the Oakland A’s “moneyball”… Read more

Hello and welcome to Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly round up of the latest happenings in the b-school blogosphere. This week applicants continued to get news about how their R1 applications fared while current students were finishing up their studies and jetting off to far flung destinations for their winter breaks.  TimBob questioned… Read more

An anonymous gift to the University of Southern California (USC)’s Marshall School of Business will support scholarships for both undergraduate and MBA students, the school announced earlier this month. The Marshall School will receive $6 million, part of a $20 million gift to the university made by a married couple described as longtime USC supports… Read more

The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, together with business school accreditation organization the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB), will take the lead in helping business schools think about how best to develop a leadership curriculum as part of a seminar in late January. The Curriculum Development for Leadership seminar,… Read more

Last week’s column considered the relative value-add of hiring full-time MBA candidates, as opposed to high-achieving undergraduates or Executive MBAs. The goal in adopting a wider horizon regarding the recruiting playing field and a greater appreciation of the alternatives and constraints employers face when hiring MBAs, is not to draw inferences about which professional profile… Read more

For the fourth year running, a professor of strategy and leadership at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business has released his picks for worst CEOs – adding a new twist this year by also sharing the five CEOs he deems the best of 2013. Tuck Professor Sydney Finkelstein has become an expert on CEO failures. Since… Read more

 More than three-quarters of employers that plan to hire business school graduates in 2014 expect to maintain or increase their hiring levels over last year, according to a year-end survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). Annual base salaries will also rise, GMAC reports. “Actual hiring for 2013 and projected hiring for 2014… Read more

The University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School will offer two new online courses for business professionals and MBA students, on in Portuguese and another in Mandarin, the school announced last month. “Working Portuguese” and “Working Mandarin,” each taught at the beginner level, will be offered Jan. 27-April 7, 2014. The fee for MBA students… Read more

Hello and welcome to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly blog post focusing on the frights and triumphs of the b-school admissions and student experience. This week found applicants reporting even more news from their R1 schools, both positive and negative.  Poetic Quant didn’t have to wait long to learn his LBS fate, which was… Read more

Columbia Business School (CBS) has announced four two-year, full-tuition fellowships open to international students entering in August 2014. Announced late month, the Dong-Bin Shin Fellowships will be awarded, one each, to students from four different regions: the Middle East or Africa, Europe, Latin America and South Korea. Applications are due by January 6, 2014. The… Read more

Consulting firm McKinsey & Co. hired more 2013 MBA graduates from both Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business than any other employer, Crain’s Chicago Business reports. Forty-six of Kellogg’s 750 graduates headed to post-MBA jobs at McKinsey, and 41 of Booth’s 579 graduates did the same,… Read more

Last week’s column highlighted the extent to which having a ‘hard work’ ethos and a mindset focused on seeking out tough challenges after graduation (rather than expecting immediate gratification and a big payout from one’s business school efforts) can be a driving factor in students’ post-MBA success rates. As part of that focus on appropriate… Read more

Students in Yale School of Management (SOM)’s Executive MBA (EMBA) program will soon be able to select asset management or sustainability as a focus for their studies, the school announced yesterday. Yale SOM is now enrolling students interested in either of these specialties for fall 2014. The EMBA program at Yale launched in 2005, initially… Read more

Prospective applicants to the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business are busy working toward Round 2 and 3 deadlines, and Director of Admissions Soojin Kwon has been sharing lots or relevant information on her Director’s Blog recently. In a post late last week, she reminded second- and third-rounders not to miss a Webinar she… Read more

The Wall Street Journal this week featured an article focused on the ways top business schools are touting how many successful start-ups they spawn. At Harvard Business School (HBS), the success of entrepreneurial MBAs is credited in great part to the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. The Rock Center provides a range of support and… Read more