Fridays from the Frontline
Keep abreast of the latest happenings in the business school blogosphere! This weekly column summarizes recent posts from MBA student and applicant blogs.
Published: February 26, 2016
Published: February 19, 2016
Published: February 12, 2016
Published: February 5, 2016
Fridays from the Frontline: Kellogg MBAs Gear Up for Super Bowl Ad Review
It’s time for the Super Bowl—and at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, that means it’s also time for the Super Bowl Ad Review. Brands spend more than $2 billion each year to advertise their products through Super Bowl commercials, some more effectively than others. For the 12th year running, Kellogg marketing students will apply their unique…
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Published: January 29, 2016
Published: January 22, 2016
Published: January 15, 2016
Fridays from the Frontlines: Kellogg MBAs Take Silicon Valley
Welcome back to Fridays from the Frontlines, where each week we feature the perspectives of current MBA applicants, students and recent alumni wherever they are in the trajectory of business school. Today we’re pleased to feature a post from Luke Murphy, a first-year MBA candidate at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, who recently led a…
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Published: January 8, 2016
Fridays from the Frontline: Juggling Motherhood and the MBA at HBS
How many times have you heard someone liken pursuing an MBA to drinking from a fire hose? Between the coursework, student clubs, networking, recruiting—there aren’t enough hours in the day. Now imagine doing it as mom to a three-year-old. Katie Colgary is a second-year student doing precisely that—juggling motherhood and the MBA at Harvard Business…
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Published: January 1, 2016
Fridays from the Frontline: The HEC Paris MBA Experience with Footnotes
Happy 2016 everyone! Today in Fridays from the Frontline, we’re featuring a post submitted to us by Prashant Khorana about his HEC Paris MBA experience. On Twitter, Khorana (@prashantkhorana) describes himself as a data scientist/mathematician who is passionate about analytics, economics, finance, leadership and investing and who hates unproductive activities. Titled “Brief Notes on the…
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Published: December 25, 2015
Fridays from the Frontline: Forté MBALauncher Shares Her Round 1 Application Experience
Natalie Neilson learned about the Forté Foundation’s MBALaunch program—a 10-week, hands-on workshop for promising female applicants to business school—in a somewhat backwards fashion. It all began with an interest in looking into business schools abroad, with the MBA program at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School sparking her curiosity. After researching, she realized that Oxford did…
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Published: December 18, 2015
Published: December 11, 2015
Published: December 4, 2015
Published: November 27, 2015
Published: November 20, 2015
Published: November 13, 2015
Fridays from the Frontline: Conquering FOMO at INSEAD
Watching LiveWire, we’ve seen lots of INSEAD interview action in the past few weeks, including this disappointed but determined post from an India applicant in Malta who didn’t get an invitation: “Spent all of summer in pursuit of INSEAD,” he or she wrote. “Heartbroken but not Fallen yet!!” Cue a collective “aww” in the Clear Admit…
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Published: October 30, 2015
Fridays from the Frontline: MBA Mama on Pitching as a Female Entrepreneur
This week in our Fridays from the Frontline series, we are delighted to have as our contributor Divinity Matovu, a first-year MBA student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Matovu, whose focus at Wharton is on entrepreneurial management and finance, also happens to be a mother of two and the co-founder and president of…
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Published: October 23, 2015
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Published: October 9, 2015
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Published: September 18, 2015
Published: September 11, 2015
Clear Admit Gears Up to Bring Back Fridays from the Frontlines
After a summer-long hiatus as business school students toiled away at their internships and prospective MBA applicants crammed for the GMAT, we are gearing up for the return of Fridays from the Frontlines, Clear Admit’s popular weekly feature showcasing the voices of real, live MBA applicants, current business school students and recent MBA alums. We’ve always…
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Fridays from the Frontline: Join the Ranks!
As we mentioned last week, we’re on the lookout for MBA applicants, students, and recent grads who are blogging or tweeting their b-school experiences — or who would like to start as correspondents for Clear Admit. If you don’t already have a writing platform and feel daunted by the commitment of maintaining your own blog,…
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Fridays From the Frontline: Call for Correspondents
Are you thinking about documenting your MBA application process, b-school studies, or post-grad adventures? Do you already maintain a blog about your business school experience or post-MBA career? Clear Admit wants to hear from you! We’ve always loved following the wisdom, humor, triumphs, and tribulations of the MBA blogosphere — and we want to make sure that we’re…
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