MBA News
A collection of news items from MBA programs and about the business school admissions process.
Summer Reading: 10 Books to Understand the Tech Revolution
In today’s world of quickly changing technology, it can be hard to stay current, especially when it comes to technologies relevant to staying afloat in the business world. Nonetheless, understanding tech and its evolution in business is imperative for staying competitive and effective. Understanding both how technology has changed throughout history as well as its…
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Wharton School of Business Announces Groundbreaking Budget Model Tool
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s Public Policy Initiative has announced the launch of a breakthrough budget modeling tool. The Penn Wharton Budget Model Tool aims to allow transparent access to ongoing budget decisions. Accessible online, the tool is free of cost to the public and to those involved in legislation. A team…
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Friday from the Frontlines: A DIY Guide to Career Growth
Today’s Friday from the Frontlines is a bit of a departure from the norm in that it comes from a professor, instead of the current MBA applicants, students and recent alumni we usually spotlight as part of this regular feature. But the advice offered by Kellogg professor of entrepreneurship and marketing Carter Cast seemed so…
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Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Darden’s Sara Neher
We know. Admissions directors at top-tier business schools can seem all but omnipotent, charged with assessing your worth and charting the course of your future with the decisions they dole out. To be sure, there are admissions directors who have truly changed individuals’ fates with the calls they make. But here’s something else we know.…
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Professor Profile: Adam Grant, Wharton
When attending Ivy league schools like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, students are guaranteed to have professors with impressive resumes leading lectures and projects. One such professor at Wharton is Adam Grant, 34, who is a New York Times bestselling author as well as the youngest tenured professor at the renowned business school.…
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Friday from the Frontline: First-Year Project for PayPal France
This week’s post comes to us from Tuck rising second-year Ashley Cahill, a Connecticut native who spent the five years before business school working in Shanghai, China, in public relations roles for the American Chamber of Commerce, Weber Shandwick and a sustainable agriculture startup. As you’ll read, her international experiences have extended right into the…
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Summer Reading: 10 Essential Books About Leadership
Some say leaders are born, not made. But any successful entrepreneur will tell you that a deep knowledge of how to engage and inspire a team trumps innate charisma more often than not. In many ways, it simply boils down to finding creative ways to adapt to a marketplace in constant flux while staying true to…
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MBA Veterans Find Jobs Thanks to the MBA Veterans Network
Veterans and business school go hand in hand. While it might not be the most obvious connection, the truth is that military applicants tend to blow their competitors out of the water regarding experience, leadership skills and other unique qualifications. It’s no wonder that veterans at top-tier business schools comprise about 5 percent of each…
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MBA Hiring Going Up, Up Up, Survey Results Reveal
Things just keep getting better when it comes to MBA hiring, according to the most recent survey of corporate recruiters, released today by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). Some 88 percent of recruiters surveyed plan to hire MBA graduates in 2016. That’s an eight percentage point jump over last year and a whopping 33…
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6 Things That Make Being an MBA Dad the Best
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there, and especially to those who have decided to bite the bullet and tackle the MBA and fatherhood simultaneously. It can be done, albeit with some sacrifices, and students both male and female seem to be pairing parenthood with the rigors of business school more and more…
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Friday from the Frontlines: How to Be an Ally After the Orlando Tragedy
The devastating attack on an Orlando nightclub earlier this week drew responses of support and unity from MBA students and professionals around the globe, as showcased in yesterday’s Top MBA Tweets of the Week. We also took note of this insightful piece on LinkedIn posted by NYU Stern alumna Rachel Hurnyak (MBA ’15), who now…
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Bain & Company and MBAs: A Love Story
There’s no doubt that a career in consulting is a top draw for many MBA grads. The median pay for a management consultant in 2015 was $81,320 and for an MBA grad from a top school, that median pay jumps up to $120,000 or more. Let’s face it; With six-figure median starting salaries and sign-on…
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Stress Around Standardized Tests, Tuition Costs Looms Large for Current MBA Applicants
Entrance exams generate more angst than any other part of the MBA admissions process for the majority of applicants to business schools, according to a survey released today by the Association of Independent Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC). Sixty-one percent of respondents cited standardized tests as the most challenging application component, while 46 percent pointed to written…
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MBAs and Google: How to Get an Inside Track
We all know about Google. We use it in our everyday lives to accomplish all sorts of tasks. Finding out what time the NBA Finals are on tonight, discovering a new recipe to cook or learning more about an interview subject all are made possible thanks to the world’s most powerful and user-friendly search engine. But…
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Two Rotman MBAs Named as Canada’s Top Female Entrepreneurs
The PROFIT/Chatelaine W100 ranking of Canada’s Top Female Entrepreneurs has recognized two Rotman School of Management MBA graduates. A third Rotman MBA was ranked as a rising entrepreneur to watch and a fourth company, co-founded by a Rotman MBA, placed #1 in the ranking. The PROFIT/Chatelaine W100 ranking and awards program is Canada’s largest celebration of women entrepreneurs. Each year, it…
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Friday from the Frontlines: Pride@Kellogg Celebrates LGBT Ally Week
It’s June, and that means it’s also LGBT Pride Month. June was chosen to celebrate the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan considered to be a pivotal moment in the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In honor of LGBT Pride month, we’re pleased as this week’s Friday from the Frontlines to feature a piece…
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How These Haasies Landed Jobs at McKinsey, BCG, Apple, Facebook and Google
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business hasn’t yet released employment statistics on its Class of 2016 graduates, which makes sense since barely a week has passed since they walked across the stage to collect their diplomas. Like most peer schools, Haas’s Career Management Group will share those details in the fall when they have complete data. Source: UC…
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Why McKinsey and Company Loves to Hire MBAs
When it comes to careers MBAs are likely to land, working for a management consulting firm like tops the list. McKinsey and Company is one such firm that conducts qualitative and quantitative analysis for companies around the world in order to evaluate management decisions across the public and private sectors. McKinsey is considered one of the…
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Friday from the Frontlines: Tuck’s Global First-Year Project
This week’s Friday from the Frontlines comes to us from Nicholas Ritter, a second-year MBA student at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business who is spending the summer interning with IBM Watson’s Life Sciences team in New York. Prior to business school he worked as an electrical and product engineer for Nabsys, a biotech startup developing genomic…
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