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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in almost every industry in the business world today. And there’s plenty to chew on, particularly when it comes to its ethical and financial implications. Some intrepid MBA students at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business have set out to tackle a few of the biggest issues head on with an all-day conference this month called AI: Shape the Future. The April 13th event will take a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding AI, encompassing computer science, business, and policy. The day will feature presentations from industry professionals, faculty, and school administrators
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Five years ago, UCLA Anderson students, professors, and alumni first got together for a week-long conference about creating positive social change. Now, Impact Week is an annual event that features talks and workshops from some of the world’s leading business experts examining what the future will hold, particularly as it relates to having a positive impact. The goal of the Impact Week conference is to help attendees rethink the role of social impact—it’s not just for non-profit organizations. Instead, attendees will be introduced to many different ways that for-profit businesses can make an impact across industries. To make
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On Friday, March 9th, an eager audience gathered at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management to hear what wisdom Joe Biden might have to impart from his distinguished political career to the world of business. Speaking the day after observations of International Women’s Day around the world, the former vice president opened his talk with with a message about inclusion. He cautioned the crowd that “in order for a country to succeed… it has to husband all its assets. It cannot leave half its initiative, half its brain power, half of its courage, half of its capability, half of its
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As stateside opportunities wax and wane, MBA students at U.S. business schools have become increasingly interested in emerging markets in developing countries around the globe. Though they can present greater risks, there are career opportunities unique to these often overlooked economies that appeal to many sides of the MBA in training—particularly the part that longs to get in on the ground floor of the next big thing.
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Join CEIBS Admissions Director Christina Mou – along with several CEIBS students – for an interactive webinar. In the webinar, we’ll talk through the following topics: Why the Financial Times and Forbes both rank CEIBS the #1 MBA in Asia How more than 80% of CEIBS MBA graduates in 2017 achieved a career switch to their desired industry, with many successfully pivoting their careers to Asia The impact that international alums have had in China as the country continues to transform from the world’s factory to the world’s innovator The Immediate and longer-term implications of developing your career backed by an
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The 2017-2018 academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the MBA program at London Business School (LBS). Since 1968, the school has offered a two-year Master of Science (MSc) in Business Studies degree program—the original MBA—and has continuously refined its offerings since that time. In celebration of the 50-year mark, LBS is looking back at how far the program has come.
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More than 10,000 MBA students, business school representatives, recruiters, and business executives filled the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia late last month for one of the largest career conferences serving minority professionals. The conference has been around since 1970, but for the first time this year the National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) and Prospanica, the association of Hispanic professionals, joined forces to present it. The result was an incredible opportunity for attendees to network with companies and each other, take advantage of career development programming, and interview for and secure job offers from hundreds of companies spanning multiple industries.
Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management had a group of approximately 55 students attend, a mix of first-year and second-year students, according to Cynthia Saunders-Cheatham, executive director of Johnson’s Career Management Center. “It was double what we have had in recent years, and perhaps the largest attendance we ever had for an MBA diversity conference,” she said. "Having a joint NBMBAA/Prospanica conference, in addition to the Philadelphia location that was driving distance away [from Ithaca, NY, where Johnson is located], helped to drive attendance." The connections that students made while there have already resulted in multiple job offers, she added.
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The ROMBA LGBTQ MBA and Graduate Student Conference, the largest annual gathering of LGBTQ graduate school students in the world, takes place Boston this week, running from October 12th through 14th. It is presented by Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping create the next generation of out business leaders by educating, inspiring, and connecting the student and alumni LGBTQ MBA and graduate studies communities. The 20th annual three-day conference offers thousands of attendees an incredibly unique opportunity to connect and expand their careers with a close-knit and inclusive community. Included in the ever-expanding
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Tuesday, September 26th, marked the first day of the annual National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Annual Conference & Exposition, held at the Philadelphia Convention Center. The five-day event, stretching to Saturday, September 30th, brings together entrepreneurs, business leaders, students, and other seasoned professionals into an immense, collaborative atmosphere that helps introduce next-level vision to the business world. The centerpiece of the event is the two-day Career Exposition. Touted as the “largest diversity career fair in the country” by the NBMBAA, the event brings together more than 300 companies, government entities, nonprofits, and more to take part in on-site stations and
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When the Trump administration formally announced yesterday that it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA)—putting a six-month expiration date on legal protections granted to approximately 800,000 people who entered the U.S. illegally as children—universities and business leaders were quick to condemn it. Indeed, vocal defense of the “Dreamers,” as those in the DACA program are called, resounded from Silicon Valley to the Ivy League.
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On Monday, August 14th, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business community came together to discuss racism, hatred, and violence. The dialogue took place in response to the “Unite the Right” rally, which saw white supremacists descending on the city of Charlottesville in a series of violent clashes with counter-protesters. The goal was to help “plot a path forward” for the school, explained the press release.
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Sure, some MBA students get wined and dined on the company dime as part of sweet summer internships at top consulting and i-banking firms. Tech firms, too, have become pretty coveted summer internship landing pads. While there’s nothing at all wrong with that—indeed, there’s plenty to be learned in a more traditional internship position—a group of Haas MBA students this year decided to take a very different tact.
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It's August, which means it's almost time for the Forté Forums. These free events are hosted by the Forté Foundation, a nonprofit consortium of leading companies and top business schools committed to advancing the role of women in business. Scheduled for 10 U.S. cities as well as Toronto and London beginning on August 14th, they are designed to help women learn more about the value of the MBA.
Whether you are a college student looking to explore options for the future, have been in your job for a few years and are thinking about a change, or are looking for a way to catapult yourself to the next level in your career, the Forté Forums are for you.
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At MIT Sloan School of Management, advancing women in leadership is a core commitment. For starters, the student-led group MIT Sloan Women in Management offers female MBA students a range of opportunities to help propel their careers. Sloan also puts on an annual Women’s Week to showcase for prospective female applicants just what the Sloan MBA student experience is like, as well as the many paths its accomplished alumnae pursue.
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Women-led businesses were once relatively rare, but that is no longer the case. According to the 2016 Kauffman Index of Startup Activity, women make up 40 percent of new entrepreneurs in the United States: a nearly 30 percent increase from 2007.
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Yale basketball isn’t one of the more celebrated collegiate athletic programs. Neither the men’s nor women’s teams earn much hardware beyond Ivy League conference titles. In fact, the most famous moment in Yale basketball history was big man Chris Dudley getting tormented in the post by a young Shaquille O’Neal during a now-infamous nationally televised game in 1999. Dudley, drafted into the league in 1987, was angry after being dunked on and knocked to the ground and chucked the ball to the turned back of the future NBA Hall-of-Fame player. At the April 12th Swersey Cup
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MBA students are back on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia Business School (CBS), shuttling to and from class, gathering to work on group projects and heavily involved in student clubs—much as they were in the first term. But close to 100 of those students have an expanded perspective of West Coast career opportunities thanks to their participation in career treks to a wide range of startups and established firms stretching from Los Angeles to Seattle. January marked the 20th anniversary of CBS’s Career Management Center (CMC) West Coast Treks, and in the two decades since they have
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Tomorrow, February 1st, female graduate business students and industry leaders from across Canada will have a chance to come together and discuss the most pressing matters facing the business community as part of the inaugural Canadian Graduate Women in Management Conference.
Organized by the Rotman Women in Management Association (WIMA) and hosted by the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, the conference will focus around the theme of “Men as Allies and the Parity Proposition,” highlighting the role of gender inclusivity in expanding the discourse on gender equity. Scheduled speakers include Bruce Simpson, director and senior partner at McKinsey & Company; Jennifer Reynolds, head of Women in Capital Markets, the largest network of professional women in the Canadian capital markets industry; and Barbara Annis, founding partner of the Gender Intelligence Group, a a global leader in creating "gender intelligent" organizational cultures.
To get more insight, we spoke with Alex Walker Turner, Rotman MBA ’17 and WIMA vice president of communications. Here’s what she had to say.
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To commemorate the 20th anniversary of its New Venture Competition (NVC), the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced that prizes for the annual entrepreneurial venture contest will exceed $300,000 across the three competition tracks. In each—the student business track, student social enterprise track and alumni track—a grand prize of $75,000 will go to the winning team—up from the $50,000 prize awarded in past years. Runners up in each track will get $25,000, and a $5,000 prize will be awarded to the venture in each
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Next month, the British Council—the United Kingdom’s international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities—has planned a U.S. roadshow to help promote graduate management education in the United Kingdom in general while also raising the profile of 14 U.K. business schools.
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Imagine joining a competition against 1,300 applicants and 182 teams, and then taking home first place. That’s exactly what happened during Creative Shock 2016; four MBA students from the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School took home the grand prize—€1,500 and airfare from Turkish Airlines.
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For MBA students looking to head into investment management, pitching stocks is one of the top skills they'll be looking to strengthen while in business school. The 12th Annual Alpha Challenge, hosted last month at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, gives participating students hands-on opportunity to do precisely that.
MBA students at the University of Texas’s McCombs School of Business took home first place at this year's event—which took place November 17th and 18th—but students from more than a dozen participating schools honed their skills, made valuable connections and, in many cases, even interviewed with potential recruiting firms.
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Indiana University's Kelley School of Business is today kicking off a two-day celebration marking 50 years of participation as a member school of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management. Kelley was one of just three founding member schools—but the Consortium’s ranks have since grown to include 18 of the best business schools in the country.
In anticipation of this important milestone, Ruby Jones, a Kelley School first-year MBA student and Consortium Fellow penned a beautiful essay explaining the Consortium to those who are unfamiliar, describing her journey from a nonprofit career to business school and sharing how she hopes—with her MBA—to assist the next generation of diverse leaders. Our thanks to Jones for granting permission for us to republish her essay here.
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The world’s largest gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) graduate business school students is taking place now through October 8th in Dallas as Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) hosts its 2016 LGBT MBA & Business Graduate Conference. The three-day conference, which this year centers around the theme of “Authentic Disruption,” aims to be much more than simply a career fair for LGBT MBA students. Indeed, with a jam-packed schedule of keynote addresses, community initiatives, company visits and more, the event seeks to promotes broader visibility and transparency of the LGBT business community, create
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Applying:
Babson / Olin,
Berkeley / Haas,
Carnegie Mellon / Tepper,
Columbia Business School,
Cornell / Johnson,
Harvard Business School,
HEC Paris,
INSEAD,
Northwestern / Kellogg,
NYU Stern,
Oxford / Saïd
Intake Year: 2027
Pre-MBA Career: Digital Marketing
Post MBA Career:
Consulting,
BCG,
Ernst & Young,
Kearney,
Energy,
Undecided,
Marketing
GPA: 3.69
Years of Work Experience: 8
Location: Pakistan
Notes:
Hi! I have 8 years of professional experience broken down to internships, community work, full-time and part time roles.
I have worked briefly in the public sector, but mostly private followed by development sector.
Applying:
Columbia Business School,
Duke / Fuqua,
Georgetown / McDonough,
Michigan / Ross,
NYU Stern,
Penn / Wharton,
UCLA Anderson
Intake Year: 2027
Pre-MBA Career: Home Services, Marketing Analytics & Operations
Post MBA Career:
Paypal,
Visa,
Mastercard,
American Express,
FinTech,
Finance
GMAT: 675
GPA: 3.73
Years of Work Experience: 5
Location: Bay Area, CA
Post MBA Location: New York or Bay Area
Notes:
Hi all, finalizing my applications for 7 schools - worked with a great consultant for essays. Just wanted some overall thoughts on my profile.
BACKGROUND & STATS
- Demographics: 26M, Asian, Bay Area CA
- Education: B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Entrepreneurship from a Top 15 US Public University (Top 40 overall)
- GPA: 3.73
- GMAT: 675 Focus Edition (Q86 / V85 / DI79)
- Years of Experience: Will have 5 YOE at matriculation
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Current Role (2+ years): Marketing Data Analyst (functioning as Marketing Operations Lead) at a PE-backed home services portfolio company. Originally joined as a Social Media Specialist and pivoted into a heavy data/ops role.
- Corporate Impact: Optimize an $8M annual marketing budget. Built granular attribution models that successfully convinced PE leadership to override generalized portfolio benchmarks and reallocate spend. Negotiated with PE parent's CTO on attribution methodology adopted across 26 portfolio companies.
- Entrepreneurial Venture (4+ years): Founder & Executive Producer of a digital media business. Scaled to 500K+ subscribers and 350M+ views, generating $170K+ in cumulative net profit at 80% margins. Built an autonomous content pipeline using Python and AI APIs, and negotiated promotional partnerships with major record labels (Sony, Capitol, etc.). Manage a remote team of 4.
EXTRACURRICULARS
- Volunteer Consulting: Act as an AI Advisor for an education nonprofit (training staff on AI workflows for grant writing) and a Marketing Automations Consultant for an environmental nonprofit (audited their CRM/email programs to cut SaaS costs by 36%).
- Eagle Scout: Led a team to build and donate computers to a local youth club to provide after-school tech access.
- Podcasting: Hosted and produced a video podcast focusing on sports and culture; managed a 5-person team and scaled the audience to 15K followers.
- Undergrad: Intramural sports captain (Basketball, Flag Football).
MBA GOALS & TARGET SCHOOLS
- Short-Term Goal: Pivot into a Product Marketing Manager role at a major payments/fintech company (Visa, Mastercard, Amex). I want to combine my CS background with my marketing ops experience and apply that to the payments space.
- Long-Term Goal: Build a vertical SaaS company that fixes payment infrastructure for home services businesses, which is an industry I know from the inside and one that's still running on tools built for somebody else.
- Target Schools: Stern is my top choice, along with CBS, also applying to Wharton, Ross, Fuqua, Anderson, and McDonough.
ESSAY DIRECTION
- Core arc: I came in with a CS degree, got hired to run social media, and ended up in the data seat because I kept finding money leaking out of stuff nobody was tracking. That's how I got interested in payments.
- Throughline: I learn a tool and then teach it to everyone around me. Automating my venture's content pipeline, training nonprofit staff on AI workflows, bringing up my direct report.
- Why MBA: I've picked up the operator skills by doing them. I want the finance and strategy foundation, plus the network, to go from running marketing to actually owning product decisions.
Pre-MBA Career: Chemical Engineering Graduate. Mainly Oil & Gas Upstream Industry experience. Currently diversifying into Advertising, Educational and Environmental consultant as a freelancer.
Post MBA Career:
Management Consulting,
Other Industries,
Manufacturing/Automotive/Aerospace,
Manufacturing,
Healthcare,
Technology
GPA: 3.75
Years of Work Experience: 11.5
Location: Pakistan
Post MBA Location: USA
Notes:
*Pakistani National, M, 37, single.
*Planning to apply in R1 2027 to Tuck, Darden, Ross, Rice, Emory and Georgetown with Test Waivers if granted.
*Scheduled for GRE in Dec'26 to be able to apply in R2 to Consortium and other universities that do not offer test waivers.
*Short-Term Goal: Operations, Program Management or Strategy Roles at Amazon, Tesla or likes. Pivot from Oil & Gas into Manufacturing, healthcare or Tech Industries.
*Long-Term Goal: Reach C-suit level at a Corporate or be a Consultant. Start a Food business and launch a Non Profit for Stray animals.
*Wish to pursue MBA to pivot from Oil Gas industry and land USA job market.
Professional Timeline:
Graduation Year: 2012 (7 months Internship with General Electric)
First Employer: May-June 2013 as Application Engineer with a Firm in UAE. (Resigned duration probation)
Second Employer: Dec 2014 to Sep 2024 with a Fortune 500 Oil & Gas Service Company in Pakistan. Roles Served: Trainee Field Engineer, Engineer-1, Engineer-2, General Field Engineer and finally Product & Resources coordinator in Planning & supply chain function before Termination. Then went on a career break while being actively involved in Stray animal welfare as volunteer. Currently working as a freelancer in 3 different areas. 1. Setting up a education consultancy firm along with a foreign friend. 2. Involved in family outdoor advertising business and 3. consultant with a private environmental agency.
Please do comment on my extensive work experience and above average age, career break and Pivot as justification into a MBA program.
Applying:
Carnegie Mellon / Tepper,
Harvard Business School,
INSEAD,
MIT Sloan,
Penn / Wharton,
Stanford GSB
Intake Year: 2027
Pre-MBA Career: Manufacturing
Post MBA Career:
Tesla,
Microsoft,
Google,
Management Consulting,
Manufacturing,
Manufacturing/Automotive/Aerospace,
Technology,
Amazon,
Apple,
Facebook/Meta
GPA: 3.94
Years of Work Experience: 11
Location: Philippines
Post MBA Location: US
Notes:
Background: Pakistani national, Senior Manager. 11 years at top FMCG manufacturing excellence, operations leadership, and digital transformation. #1 Pakistani University Gold Medalist, 3.94 GPA, Electrical & Electronics Engineering. Gold Medal for undergraduate final year project (intelligent systems / hardware-software integration).
Career highlights:
Acting Plant Manager: drove facility from #15 to #2 globally in 18 months; 98% workforce retention through full plant divestiture with 100% supply continuity
Currently an expat in Philippines
Co-Founded on (digital marketing agency) alongside full-time expat role, $20K MRR
Post-MBA goals: Short-term: MBB consulting (Operations or Digital/Technology practice) or Operations Technology/Strategy role at Amazon, Microsoft, Google, or Tesla. Long-term: build or lead an AI-native automation venture.
School list (R1, Fall 2027): MIT Sloan (LGO joint MBA/MS if possible), HBS, Stanford GSB, Wharton (joint MBA/MS Penn Engineering), UC Berkeley Haas. Considering adding CMU Tepper for the MBA/MS ML or Robotics combination. INSEAD as a backup option for Middle East / SEA Work.
Visa: Pakistani national, prioritizing STEM-designated programs for 3-year OPT.
Weaknesses I'm aware of:
GRE not yet taken, sitting August 2026, targeting 325+. Deadlines are tight (HBS/Wharton Sep 3)
Heavy manufacturing background pivoting toward consulting and big tech, narrative work needed
South Asian male engineer applicant pool is highly competitive and quite a common stereotype
No US work experience
Questions for consultants:
Is my school list calibrated correctly given the manufacturing-to-consulting/big tech pivot, or am I reaching too broadly?
Does the joint MBA/MS angle (LGO, Penn Engineering, CMU ML) strengthen or complicate the application narrative at this stage?
How do I frame 11 years of manufacturing as an asset rather than a liability for MBB and big tech recruiting?
Is a 325 GRE realistic enough to keep HBS and Stanford on the R1 list, or should I be planning for R2 at the reaches?
