Five leading business schools in Europe joined forces to host a career fair for companies seeking MBA graduates for work in Asia, the Financial Times reports. London Business School (LBS) hosted the November 2nd Asia Career Fair, together with HEC Paris, IESE, IMD and the Rotterdam School of Management. The event included company presentations, interviews…
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Columbia Business School (CBS) yesterday launched a branding campaign designed to showcase the things that make it one of the best business schools in the world, including its New York City location. Touting a new tagline – “At the Very Center of Business” – CBS kicked off its new brand with a print and digital…
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Hello and welcome to Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly round up of the highs and lows of the b-school applicant and student experience. With Halloween only just behind us, there were not to many costumes to behold, but applicants received their figurative ‘treats’ in the form of additional interview invitations. HammO asserted that his…
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MBA students interested in careers in the luxury sector can now take advantage of a specialized program launched this week by London Business School, in partnership with Walpole British Luxury. The new “Luxury Management” program, designed to complement LBS’s MBA curriculum, will include a series of lectures developed and delivered by leaders in the luxury…
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Tuck School of Business accounting professor Philip C. Stocken stepped into a new role as the associate dean of the MBA program on July 1st, replacing M. Eric Johnson, who left to become dean of Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Business. In a recent interview published on the Tuck website, Stocken provides a glimpse…
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The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley this week launched a new iPad-based mobile learning platform for students in its Berkeley MBA for Executives Program. Following a successful pilot program with technology partner EmpoweredU, Haas yesterday announced that it is rolling out the new mobile capabilities for all students in…
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Clear Admit recently interviewed Admissions Counselor Heidi Granner, who has conducted over 200 interviews of top business school applicants and students in her roles at Chicago Booth, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Roll Global. Can you describe the basic protocol or format of the typical Booth on-campus interview? Was this the same as when you…
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The focus of this week’s column in the Trivia Tuesday series, in which we cover the unique program elements that differentiate the leading MBA programs from their peers, is the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Today we’re sharing a passage from the Clear Admit School Guide to McCombs that describes the…
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New York University (NYU)’s Stern School of Business has received a $10 million gift from an alumnus to establish a new scholarship program supporting exceptional college seniors seeking to pursue their MBA at Stern directly following graduation. William R. Berkley, chairman of the NYU Stern Board of Overseers and vice chairman of the NYU Board…
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Social entrepreneurship is becoming a more prevalent facet within the graduate management curriculum at several leading business schools, driven in great part by growing student demand, according to a recent New York Times article. “We are putting down the tracks as the train is coming,” Pamela Hartigan, director of the Skoll Center for Social…
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Hello and welcome to Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admit’s persistent perusal of the MBA blogosphere. This week was a prolific one for applicants, as they generally reported interview invitations from a range of R1 schools. Students were a far quieter bunch, perhaps busy dealing with exams or planning their Halloween costumes? Sarah was determined to…
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The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management will now collaborate on an executive leadership program offered by the nonprofit Corporate Leadership Center in Chicago, according to a recent report in Crain’s Chicago Business. Chicago Booth is joining the CEO Perspectives program, a 12-day executive leadership program taught…
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VK Menon has served as director of Career Advancement Services at the Indian School of Business (ISB) since 2004, a role in which he helps to build and strengthen relationships between the school and the corporate world. He leads a team of 30 executives who help ISB’s class of 770 students secure top jobs in…
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Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) welcomed 406 students this year, the largest class in the school’s history, according to Class of 2015 profile statistics the school shared earlier this month. “Not only are there more students in the class, but also greater diversity of experience and background,” read a post on the Stanford MBA…
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GMAT test prep firm Manhattan Prep this week launched a beta version of a new integrated digital learning platform to help students prepare for the Integrated Reasoning (IR) section of the exam. Added in 2012, GMAT’s IR section requires test-takers to analyze complex, real-world data. The video-based GMAT INTERACT for Integrated Reasoning, available for free,…
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Derek Walker has been leading the Oxford MBA Careers Services for the last four and a half years. He came on board a few weeks after the financial crisis, which he says can be viewed as either a terrible or a fantastic time to start. (He views it as the latter.) Before coming to Oxford,…
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Round 1 applicants to the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business can expect to receive invitations to interview today, according to Ross Director of Admissions Soojin Kwon. In a recent post to the Ross Admissions Blog, Kwon shared that all Round 1 interview invitations will go out today, including for those applying through the…
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In response to growing demand, the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) has added testing centers in four new cities in China to increase access to the GMAT exam for prospective applicants to business school. New GMAT test centers are now available in Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Chongqing and Tianjin, in addition to test centers already located in…
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Hello and welcome to Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly pursuit of the hottest news in the b-school blogosphere. This week bloggers covered topics including information sessions, job searches and future trips. Timbob spent an evening at NYU Stern. MBA The Nonprofit Way described how his opinion on Anderson changed for the better after sitting in…
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MBA graduates from some top schools are finding jobs in less time and at higher starting salaries than they have in years, according to a recent article in Forbes. Despite the undeniably adverse effect of the economic crisis on MBA hiring, especially in the financial services, careers in consulting remain strong, and today’s graduates are…
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Harvard Business School (HBS) is at work on a new online learning initiative called HBX, though it is sharing few details about the effort so far, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the Chronicle of Higher Education report. Other top business schools like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business have been…
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In the United States today, nearly four times as many students earn an MBA as earn a law degree, a ratio that was one to one a mere 40 years ago. Even as American demand begins to level off, students in emerging markets, especially India and China, are flocking to the degree in growing numbers.…
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This week as part of our continuing Career Services Director Q&A Series, we touched down in Texas. Stacey Rudnick, director of MBA Career Services at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, took time to participate, and we’re so glad she did. Rudnick has been the MBA Career Services Director…
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Two professors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, together with a third professor from Yale School of Management (SOM), have been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored Booth Professors Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen and Yale…
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We often stress that, to present oneself effectively in one’s application essays, it is critical to think carefully about what a given question is asking and what this might indicate about a specific school’s admissions priorities. Of course, it’s also imperative to communicate clearly and appropriately regardless of the target program or particular inquiry. Today,…
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Notified of acceptance via email / Zoom webinar on 3/27. Checked decision letter via portal and was awarded $80K in scholarship - so grateful and excited!