MBA News
A collection of news items from MBA programs and about the business school admissions process.
MBATube Killed the SEO Star
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
It feels positively Philip K. Dick–esque to think that from the mid-20th century until roughly five to 10 years into the new millennium, moving images delivered across cathode ray televisions were the medium de rigeur to communicate information to a large audience.
Although the advent of Google Glass and Oculus Rift suggest that virtual reality (VR) advertising could be just around the corner (think of the possibilities for fabric softening bears!), video remains, according to the Amsterdam-based MBATUBE, the “medium of today’s generation.” According to the site, “approximately 80 percent of all internet traffic will be video” by 2019.
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Forté Announces New Self-Paced MBA Admissions Prep Program for Women Targeting Fall 2017 Enrollment
Building on the success of its MBALaunch program—a series of targeted webinars and other resources designed to help prospective MBA applicants successfully navigate the admissions process—the Forté Foundation has just announced the debut of MBALaunch On Demand. Based around the same in-depth webinars that make up the popular MBALaunch program, this new format will give participating women the flexibility to work at their own pace. Applicants who choose to participate in MBALaunch On Demand can be ready to apply for the MBA by fall 2016 or spring 2017—ideally gaining admission for fall 2017 enrollment.
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McDonough to Offer Scholarships to Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Pursuing an MBA
The Peace Corps has selected Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business to join a fellowship program that provides financial support to returned Peace Corps volunteers pursuing graduate degrees at a select number of U.S. schools, McDonough announced today. Through the Paul D. Coverdell Fellowship Program, returned Peace Corps volunteers who apply and are admitted to McDonough’s full-time MBA program receive significant tuition scholarships, can apply for additional graduate assistantships and will complete internships in underserved American communities, where they can put to use and expand upon the skills they learned as volunteers.
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Social Impact Nonprofit Founder to Speak at Harvard Business School Class Day
Harvard Business School (HBS) today announced that alumnus Tom Tierney, cofounder and chairman of the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit organization that helps social sector leaders and organizations accelerate their social impact, will be the keynote speaker for the school’s annual pre-commencement Class Day. Planned and conducted by second-year MBA students, Class Day will be held on HBS’s Baker Lawn on May 25th, the day before Harvard University Commencement exercises.
Tierney’s selection as Class Day keynote speaker comes amid rising interest in social impact among MBA students worldwide, with growing numbers of students looking to enter the social impact field immediately upon graduation.
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Published: March 31, 2016
Fridays from the Frontline: So You Want to Live in a French Villa for Business School?
A few weeks back in this space we included tips from a Harvard Business School (HBS) student on where to live on campus. This week, an INSEAD MBA student shares her dream of living in a French villa for business school and how she made it come true.
Much like INSEAD itself, the villa sounds like an international melting pot, home to 11 students speaking 15 different languages. As you might expect, Fontainebleau offers a range of accommodations for INSEAD students, but snagging a villa or chateau takes a little more work. Have no fear: In the post that follows INSEAD December ’16 MBA student Winnie Van tells you exactly what steps to follow.
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Published: March 29, 2016
Dare to Share: MBAs and the Sharing Economy
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
From ride-sharing services like Uber to fashion websites like Rent the Runway, it should come as no surprise that these so-called “sharing economy” companies are changing the face of business. Of course, when business changes, so does business education. In today's changing world, understanding the sharing economy and how to best use it could be key for new MBAs as they navigate the workplace.
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Published: March 28, 2016
Round 2 Admissions Updates from “Holy Trinity” of MBA Programs
If you applied in Round 2 to Harvard Business School (HBS), Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) or the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania—the so-called “holy trinity” of MBA programs—are your nails bitten down to the quick by now? Tell the truth. It’s decision week at all three schools, and anxious applicants all over the world have been awaiting word today and tomorrow.
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Published: March 27, 2016
Admissions Director Reveals Record Darden Round 1 Results, Encourages Round 3 Applicants
Sara Neher, who heads admissions for the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, took to her video blog a few weeks ago to share details about Round 1 results, talk about Round 2, which was then still underway, and encourage applicants considering Round 3 to apply. “We are very excited about those of you who have paid a deposit and decided to come to Darden,” she said in the February 29th post. The group is very diverse, she continued, including students from Chile to China, Indonesia to Finland and all over the United States. Record Darden Round
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Published: March 24, 2016
HBS MBA Executive Director Weighs In On Hiring Of New Gatekeeper
Harvard Business School (HBS) yesterday announced Chad Losee (HBS MBA ’13) as the next managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid—succeeding Dee Leopold, who has held the position since 2006. Make sure to check out our initial coverage from yesterday for information on Losee’s credentials and background. To learn more about Losee and Harvard’s decision to select him as Leopold’s successor, we spoke with Jana Kierstead, executive director of HBS’s MBA program. Clear Admit: Dee Leopold has done such a wonderful job with the MBA admissions process at HBS, building a reputation for innovation, transparency and fairness
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Published: March 24, 2016
Fridays from the Frontline: A Recent HBS Alumna Reflects on Her Business School Experience
The paths that people follow to business school can be remarkably diverse—as can those they follow once they’re done. Mallory Dwinal’s interesting course to Harvard Business School (HBS) and beyond caught our attention. The recent HBS alumna (pictured above, far left) wound her way to the Boston business school only after picking up a PhD in education from the University of Oxford and working for Teach for America as a middle and high school Spanish teacher at a charter school in Washington, DC. The former Rhodes Scholar is now hard at work founding a school of her own—Oxford Day Academy—a
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Published: March 23, 2016
HBS Announces New Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid
Harvard Business School (HBS) today announced the appointment of Chad Losee (HBS MBA ’13) as the next Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. Losee earned his undergraduate degree in International Relations from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 2008. He then spent the next three years working as a consultant for Bain & Company – the Boston based global management consulting firm – in their Dallas office. In 2011, Losee left Bain & Co. to pursue his MBA at HBS, where he graduated in 2013 in the top 5% of his class, earning him the distinction of Baker
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Published: March 20, 2016
Admissions Director Q&A: Maria Pineda of UMD’s Smith School of Business
In response to our readers’ interests, we are excited to have recently added a handful of new schools to the line-up of MBA programs we cover regularly on Clear Admit. The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is one of them. As part of our expanded coverage of Smith, we caught up recently with Full-Time MBA Admissions Director Maria Pineda.
A 10-year veteran of the Smith School’s admissions office, Pineda worked in undergraduate admissions in New York City before that. “I wanted a change of scenery, so I was initially attracted to the Smith School’s location, with its traditional campus setting nestled next to a metropolitan city,” she says. She’s also a big believer in Dean Alexander Triantis’s vision of cultivating students to experience transformative change and then applying lessons learned to the workforce.
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Published: March 17, 2016
Fridays from the Frontline: An INSEAD Student Shares the Diverse Start to His MBA
With so much buzz around this week’s release of the 2017 U.S. News ranking of top business schools, we decided to devote this week’s Fridays from the Frontline to a student perspective from one of the schools not even mentioned. Because U.S. News ranks only U.S. business schools, some great schools elsewhere in the world get left out of the conversation. Case in point: INSEAD.
INSEAD, with campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, boasts a remarkably diverse class made up of more than 70 nationalities. Its accelerated 10-month program also appeals to students looking to gain an MBA skill set without taking a full two years out from the work force. While not perfect for every prospective MBA applicant, current student Rayan Dawud shares in the following post some of why INSEAD, so far, feels just right for him.
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Published: March 17, 2016
Social Impact and the MBA: Business Schools Where the Two Are Synonymous
“Oh, God yes!” replied Stacey Rudnick when asked if interest in social impact is on the rise among the MBA students she counsels. Rudnick leads career services for the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, but her emphatic reply is a standard refrain at any number of leading business schools when asked the same question. Student participation in McComb’s annual “Business for Good Summit,” held each February, has been steadily growing, Rudnick shares, as has Net Impact chapter membership and overall career interest in social impact. “And the higher interest is not
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Published: March 15, 2016
7 Things You Need to Know About the 2017 U.S. News Business School Ranking
Harvard Business School (HBS) reclaimed the number one spot in this year’s U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation’s best MBA programs after a two-year stint in second place. Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), which has passed the crown back and forth with HBS for more than a decade, took second this year, tying with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
In addition to the subtle movements of programs rising or losing a rank, there were quite a few surprises in this year's list. The Clear Admit team of admissions experts has sifted through the data and compiled a summary of seven key things to note this year:
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Published: March 14, 2016
Professors Address Cuban American Relations at Merage School
Newly forming Cuban American business relations were aided by a collaboration between UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business (Merage School) faculty and Cuban professionals during a recent two-day program held on February 15-16, 2016. The workshop addressed issues of negotiation, encompassing differences in economic thinking between the countries, in addition to communication styles which are embedded within each culture. Professor William Hernández Requejo from the Merage School said, “In everyday talk, Cubans interrupt one another frequently. Americans, not so much. Interruptions are off-putting to Americans and limit the information that can be gathered by Cuban negotiators in face-to-face
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Published: March 13, 2016
Clear Admit and Prodigy Finance Host Webinar on Financing Your MBA Abroad
Late last month, Clear Admit teamed up with community-funded loan provider Prodigy Finance to share information and answer questions as part of a free webinar for prospective MBA students looking to study outside of their home country.
We were pleased to draw 70 registrants for the February 24th webinar, and participants took part in a lively Q&A session at the conclusion of the presentation. Today we’re going to recap some of the key points for anyone who may have missed out.
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MBA LiveWire Lights Up with Stanford GSB Dashed Hopes
MBA LiveWire has shown interview invitations trickle in from Round 2 applicants to Stanford Graduate School of Business over the past couple of days. But it was today when the flood gates opened to let a wave of disappointed applicants spill forth sharing their news of rejection.
Despite some grumblings about how mean it was of Stanford to reject people on March 8th—International Women’s Day—the school, in fact, was simply adhering to the date it had always said it would release Round 2 applicants from consideration. Had that date been a week later, applicants of Irish descent might just as well have grumbled, and a week earlier could have upset the Welsh.
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The Growth of International Indian MBA Students
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
Increase in Indian MBA Students
It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that top MBA programs are being flooded with applications from Indian candidates. According to the Graduate Management Admission Council, the number of Indians taking the GMAT increased by nearly 20 percent from 2010 to 2012, and more than half of those GMAT scores were sent to American business schools. In fact, from 2012 to 2013 a total of 25,268 Indians took the GMAT, third in the world behind the United States (90,541) and China (53,005).
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Fridays from the Frontline: Kellogg Student Reflects on MBA Recruiting Process
This week’s Fridays from the Frontline comes to us from Kellogg School of Management second-year MBA student Rohan Rajiv, a regular contributor to Kellogg’s full-time MBA student blog. In a series called MBA Learnings, Rajiv has chronicled his progress through Kellogg’s MBA program. In today’s post, he shares candidly about MBA recruiting, which he says “is probably the single hardest piece of the graduate school puzzle.” Peer pressure and self doubt can combine to make the process of landing a post-MBA job fraught with stress. Read on to learn some of Rahiv’s tips for staying cool under pressure.
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Published: February 29, 2016
Round 4 at Kenan-Flagler School of Business: Admissions Director Weighs In
For the right candidates, applying in Round 4 to the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler School of Business is by all means a worthwhile endeavor, the school’s admission director assures us. We spoke yesterday with Sherry Wallace, who has led admissions at the Chapel Hill business school for close to two decades. “Every year we get as many as 10 to 15 percent of our applicants in Round 4, and we fully intend to admit from this round,” she says.
UNC Kenan-Flagler Director of MBA Admissions Sherry Wallace
In fact, the school will continue to accept applications beyond the March 11th Round 4 deadline if the class is not set at that time, and most of the time it’s not, Wallace says. “We don’t want to discourage anyone who happens to find us late to apply even then,” she says. To be clear, there are not a ton of seats still available after the Round 4 deadlines, she says. “But for the right candidate who finds us late, there can definitely still be a spot.”
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Published: February 28, 2016
USC Marshall Hosts Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem
The following post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
The USC Marshall School of Business’ Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies recently hosted author, activist and American icon Gloria Steinem for a talk as part of Professor David Belasco’s course “Entrepreneurial Mindset: Taking the Leap.”
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Published: February 28, 2016
There’s No Biz Like Demographically Diverse Show Biz
The following post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
Columbia Business School (CBS)’s website recently published new research that offers tangible solutions for increasing workplace diversity. This is an especially hot-button topic in the realm of show business ever since the 2016 Oscars contenders were widely decried throughout the media as demographically homogeneous.
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Published: February 25, 2016
Fridays from the Frontline: Goizueta MBA Student Shares Emory’s Many Healthcare-Focused Opportunities
Earlier this week, we featured an article highlighting some of the best MBA programs for students interested in the intersection between business and healthcare. In reporting that piece, we came across a terrific recent blog post by a student working concurrently toward her MBA at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and her Master of Public Health (MPH) at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. Claire Cooper (MBA/MPH ’17) with classmate on a trip to visit Genentech That student, Claire Cooper, has generously given us permission to republish her piece here for the Clear Admit audience. Read
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