MBA News
A collection of news items from MBA programs and about the business school admissions process.
State-of-the-Art Marion Anderson Hall to Launch UCLA Anderson into the Future
Last fall, UCLA Anderson School of Management broke ground on Marion Anderson Hall, a new state-of-the-art facility designed as a “blueprint for the future” of the school. Developed in response to the dramatic expansion in programming, student body, and faculty that UCLA Anderson has experienced in the past 23 years, Marion Anderson Hall expands the…
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Kellogg Admissions Director Shares Insights on 2019 MBA Application
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management is one of several leading business schools to release its 2019-2020 MBA application online within the last week. At Kellogg, deadlines for the upcoming admission season are as follow: September 19, 2018 January 9, 2019 April 10, 2019 To help you get started, Director of Admissions Melissa Rapp provided insight into the…
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UPenn Collaborates with Ripple on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
To support academic research, technical development, and innovation in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and ledger technology, the University of Pennsylvania earlier this month announced the launch of the Ripple Project at Penn. The project is a new collaboration between the Wharton School, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Ripple, a blockchain-based global payments leader. The reason…
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These Four Attributes Will Help You Get into Tuck’s MBA Program
Nice guys finish last? Not so if you’re an applicant to the MBA program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Tuck’s admissions director yesterday outlined new, simplified criteria for evaluating MBA applicants—part of the school’s continuing commitment to being as open and transparent in its admissions process as possible. When it comes right down to…
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Wharton: New Essay, New MBA Admissions Director?
Late last week, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School revealed its essay questions for the 2018-19 MBA admissions season, including a change to the second prompt. Instead of the prompt it has used for the past several years—in which candidates are asked to describe how they will contribute to the collaborative Wharton community—Essay 2 this…
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How These Stanford GSB Students Broke the Rules with Their MBA Summer Internships
For many business school students, there’s a simple formula where summer internships are concerned. Target a company where you aspire to work, recruit successfully for a summer internship, perform well and show your smarts. Voilá, come summer’s end, you’ve landed your post-MBA job. Especially in some industries—consulting and investment banking, for example—the path from summer…
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Chicago Booth Announces Social New Venture Challenge Winners
On Wednesday, May 23rd, the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business announced the winners of its eighth annual Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC). The center awarded $70,000 total in venture funding and an additional $30,000 in specialized awards. The SNVC is open to currently enrolled Chicago…
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Georgetown McDonough Increases Veterans Graduate Program Scholarships
Starting in fall 2018, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business will increase its funding for veterans enrolled in graduate programs as part of the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program. The increase will provide students with $15,000 per year from Georgetown McDonough (up from $10,000 in previous years), resulting in a total of $30,000 annually…
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Kellogg Introduces New Blog Series Featuring Female Kellogg Entrepreneurs
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management recently put together a blog series to address the multifaceted experience of female entrepreneurs. Over the course of four weeks, a team of female entrepreneurs unpacked what it meant for them to pitch, launch their ventures, and more. Two blog entries have already gone live on Inside Kellogg and…
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Fridays from the Frontline: Organizing MIT Sloan’s Israel Trek
Fridays from the Frontline Today’s Friday from the Frontline column comes to us from a student at MIT Sloan School of Management who helped organize the school’s largest student trek to Israel, fulfilling a promise he made when he interviewed. The piece coincides nicely with the school’s first “Sloan on the Road” event of the…
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Chicago Booth Alumnus Gives $10M to Support Priority Initiatives
University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumnus Dave Liguang Chenn (MBA ’00) recently donated $10 million to support several priority initiatives at Booth. Chenn’s donation will go toward Booth’s new Hong Kong Center, scholarships for both graduate and undergraduate students, and the UChicago Innovation Fund managed by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.…
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Get and Give Inside Advice for Great Business School Campus Visits
We’re hard at work on our next new applicant resource—the Clear Admit VisitArchive—which is designed to help MBA candidates learn more about their target schools by reading about the campus visit experience of others. Though VisitArchive is still only in beta testing—look for an official launch later in the 2018-2019 admissions cycle—we have already received…
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Washington Foster Joins the Consortium
The University of Washington Foster School of Business will become the 20th school to join the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, an organization dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in business education and corporate leadership. The Foster School’s first official day of membership will be July 1, 2018. Foster Dean James Jiambalvo Reflecting on…
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HBS Will Close Its NYC Startup Studio
Two and a half years after Harvard Business School (HBS) launched its Startup Studio in New York City, the Boston school has announced its plans to close the Manhattan working space by the end of September. According to an HBS press release, the decision to shutter the Startup Studio did not come easily. But ultimately “experiential…
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Tuck Adcom Luke Anthony Peña Blogs About May Admissions Developments
Executive Director of Admission and Financial Aid Luke Anthony Peña once again took to the Tuck360: MBA Blog to share the latest happenings on the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business campus. For Peña and the rest of the admissions team, May is one of the most demanding months of the year—one in which the future of…
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New Edition of Becoming a Clear Admit, Now Available, and FREE!
The third edition of Becoming a Clear Admit: The Definitive Guide to MBA Admissions, written by Clear Admit’s Alex Brown is now available. We have also made this edition FREE, for the months of May and June; simply use the coupon code: Freefor2019Applicants at checkout Brown brings nearly 26 years of experience in MBA admissions…
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