MBA News
A collection of news items from MBA programs and about the business school admissions process.
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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Stanford University MBA Applies Peer-to-Peer Model to Small Business Lending
A Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) MBA saw a great opportunity to apply the efficiency of the sharing economy to an area into which it hadn’t yet emerged—small business lending—through Funding Circle. Sam Hodges, along with a group of Oxford University grads, teamed up to form the company in 2010. Funding Circle has expanded from…
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Best Business Schools for Consulting, Banking, Tech and More
What should your very first step be when preparing to apply to business school? In a word: research. Yes, you do need to prepare for and take the required entrance exams. But an even better place to start is by learning as much as you can about the business schools best suited to your career…
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Clear Admit Launches New Strategic Partnership with MBA Mama
Clear Admit’s own roots stretch back to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School—where co-founders Graham Richmond and Eliot Ingram both received their MBAs and Richmond went on to work in the Wharton Admissions Office. Continuing to hone their expertise in the MBA admissions process at top-tier schools, the two Wharton MBAs would soon launch Clear…
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Darden Invites Reapplicants to Sign Up for Feedback Sessions
The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has long stood out for the resources it devotes to helping unsuccessful applicants understand how they can strengthen their candidacy and reapply. This year is no exception. In a blog post late last week, Darden announced that its admissions committee is currently offering 15-minute phone sessions with…
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Mobile App from MIT Sloan Alum Facilitates Loans For Pakistani Farmers
MIT Sloan recently published an article on its blog about Ricult, a new startup aimed at giving “the world’s poorest farmers direct access to credit and supplies through a mobile platform.” According to co-founder and ’15 Sloan Fellow Usman Javaid, many of the world’s poorest farmers often “can’t afford seed, pesticide and fertilizer,” let alone…
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Admissions Director Q&A: SMU Cox’s John Roeder
As the latest addition to our Admissions Director Q&A Series, we recently connected with John Roeder, assistant dean of graduate admissions at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University (SMU). Roeder is a graduate of the Cox MBA program, so he knows the school and its offerings inside and out. Roeder oversees all…
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Career Services Director Q&A: NYU Stern’s Beth Briggs
An English major with a master’s degree in social work, Beth Briggs brings an array of resources to her role as senior director of the Office of Career Development at NYU’s Stern School of Business. After devoting the first portion of her career to various forms of social work, she transitioned to a more formal…
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Dean-to-Be Q&A: Ross’s D. Scott DeRue
Last week, the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business announced that a new dean has been appointed to succeed Alison Davis-Blake when her term comes to an end on June 30th. Taking the reins is 39-year-old D. Scott DeRue, who joined the Ross faculty in 2007 as an assistant professor of management and has…
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Jones School Rises in Ranking of Top MBA Programs
The Rice University – Jones Graduate School of Business MBA program has ranked No. 25 of the best full-time MBA programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. Over the last decade, Rice has seen a tremendous rise in ranking, increasing from below the top 40 to top 25 in all three top…
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Michigan’s Ross School of Business Appoints Insider as New Dean
A celebrated professor who helped lead the school’s executive education program to its best performance in a decade will be the next dean of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, effective July 1st, the school announced today. The school’s Board of Regents today approved a five-year appointment for D. Scott DeRue, who is…
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Why Is Goldman Sachs Hiring So Many MBAs?
If you are looking for a career in finance, it’s likely that industry giants like Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley are already on your wish list of potential employers. As it turns out, the same companies you are looking for may just be looking for you. Even though an MBA doesn’t guarantee you an…
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Push-Up Throw Down Sweeps Business Schools, Raising Awareness of Veteran Suicide
Veteran organizations at leading business schools are getting in on the latest challenge to sweep the internet—this time to raise awareness of the incidence of suicide among veterans. The #22PushupChallenge is so named to reflect statistics that suggest that 22 veterans, on average, commit suicide each day. Untreated or inadequately treated mental health issues such…
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Fridays from the Frontline: Welcome Weekend at Vanderbilt Owen
Continuing our series of posts from applicants sharing how they arrived at a decision on where to enroll for business school, this week we hear from Dylan Bright about the admitted students’ weekend he attended at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. As you’ll read, the well-planned weekend helped him know that the Nashville…
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UCLA Anderson Takes on Gender Inequality in Faculty Promotions
To address perceived gender inequality, faculty and staff at the UCLA Anderson School of Management will soon vote to implement revisions to the faculty promotion process, according to a recent article in the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s campus newspaper. Suggested revisions, which include changes to the tenure and evaluation processes for Anderson professors, come in response…
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MIT Sloan Alum Connects Hard-Up Nonprofits With Deep-Pocketed Millennials
This post has been republished in its entirety from original source, metromba.com. MIT Sloan’s blog recently published an article on 2013 MBA graduate Isa Watson’s giving company Envested, which connects local Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based nonprofits to philanthropic millennials. According to Watson, older generations, particularly Baby Boomers, have grown accustomed to writing a check once…
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