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Beyond Business School: Two Goizueta Grads Turned Up-and-Coming CEOs
At Emory’s Goizueta Business School, one of the MBA program’s goals is to develop and support entrepreneurship in its students at every stage of their careers and venture creation. “This includes those not only supporting those who plan to start a business but also enhancing entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial thinking amongst all Goizueta... Read more »
Fridays From the Frontline: A Foster MBA Grad’s Journey from Appalachia to Accenture
This week’s Fridays from the Frontline first appeared on the MBA blog of the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Its protagonist, Steve Tomick, is a recent MBA graduate of the program headed off to a management consultant role at Accenture in Seattle in the firm’s communications, media, and... Read more »
Darden Debuts MBA Application Tip Video Series Amid MBA Program Leadership Changes
Sara Neher, long-time assistant dean of admissions at UVA’s Darden School of Business, recently announced the debut of a 12-part MBA application tip video series for the 2017-18 admissions season. The brief videos—each between three and five minutes long—cover individual components of the application and are designed so that applicants... Read more »
Adcom Director on MIT Sloan Application Changes: Video Essay, GMAC Common Recommendation Letter, Increased Word Count for Cover Letter, More
The 2017-18 MBA application to MIT Sloan School of Management went live last week, featuring a range of changes from last year’s. The debut of a new video statement (required of all applicants), the implementation of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) Common Letter of Recommendation form, and an increased... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Haas Dean Rich Lyons
Though we usually feature admissions officers in this space, we recently had a chance to sit down with Dean Richard Lyons of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and couldn’t resist learning a little bit more about who he is as a person and how that influences the school he... Read more »
Yale Faculty Discuss the Global Network for Advanced Management
What happens when leading business schools join forces to increase their resources for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and stakeholders? This is what the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) set out to discover in 2012. GNAM is a collection of 29 leading business schools from around the world working together to connect... Read more »
Fridays from the Frontline: A Wharton MBA Techie Shares Six Strategies for Recruiting
Recent Wharton/Lauder graduate Victoria Cheng left Philadelphia for Hangzhou, China, where she’ll complete a one-year rotational program at e-commerce giant Alibaba. She came to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School MBA program and Lauder Institute East Asia program with the goal of working in China upon graduation. But that doesn’t... Read more »
Kellogg Admissions Director Dishes on Essay Questions, Application Volume, More
Mugs and glasses clinked all around and the smell of bacon and freshly brewed coffee was enough to awaken even the sleepiest of senses as Melissa Rapp, director of admissions for the full-time MBA and MSMS programs at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, and I sat down to breakfast last... Read more »
Making the Most of MBA Admissions Events? Ross Adcom Director Shares Dos and Don’ts
If you’ve met Soojin Kwon, who leads admissions at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, you know that she doesn’t pull punches. She’s whip-smart, no nonsense, and gets right down to business, whatever the business at hand happens to be. Most recently, on her Admissions Director’s Blog, she... Read more »
Forté Foundation Power Pitch Competition Gives Women the Floor
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. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that women entrepreneurs get the same... Read more »
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