MBA News
A collection of news items from MBA programs and about the business school admissions process.
Published: August 1, 2016
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Wharton’s Frank DeVecchis
Next up in our series of glimpses into the real people behind MBA admissions is Frank DeVecchis, who has been director of admissions for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School since March 2015. His tenure at Wharton began well before that though—he started back in 2009 as associate director for the Wharton Fund and led…
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Fridays from the Frontline: What It’s Really Like to Work at Amazon
Our Fridays from the Frontline this week comes from an MBA student at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business who has spent the summer interning at Amazon’s Seattle offices. A New York Times article last summer described the Amazon workplace in harsh terms, a “bruising” place where one employee reported seeing nearly every…
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Meet a Rotman MBA Alum Changing U.S. Literacy
There’s no doubt that the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto has an impressive list of MBA alums. The Financial Times has ranked it as the #1 Business School in Canada for the tenth year in a row, and that’s just the start. Recently, Forbes interviewed Sage Salvo, Founder of Words Liive and a Rotman MBA alum. Salvo’s story started…
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Changing of the Guard: Derrick Bolton to Leave Stanford GSB Admissions
Just as Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) welcomes a new dean of school, it will be losing its beloved, longstanding dean and director of MBA admissions. On September 1st, as newly appointed Dean Jonathan Levin takes office, it will be without Derrick Bolton at his side leading MBA admissions for the world’s most selective…
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Corrections for The Official Guide for GMAT® Review, 2017
The below information about The Official Guide for GMAT® Review, 2017 is from the Graduate Management Admission Council—the makers of the GMAT exam. This content was originally posted on The Official GMAT Blog. Official Guide for GMAT Review Corrections We recently released The Official Guide for GMAT® Review, 2017 and we have discovered that this version contains…
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Wisconsin Dean François Ortalo-Magné Heads to London Business School
London Business School (LBS) kicked off the week with an announcement that it will have a new dean beginning a year from now. François Ortalo-Magné, currently the dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will serve as LBS’s ninth dean starting August 1, 2017, succeeding Sir Andrew Likierman, who will return…
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The ROI of a Technology Management MBA from the Foster School
If you’re considering earning a Technology Management MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, there are many resources including The TMMBA ROI Blog Series to help you out. Throughout the series, the Foster School has dissected the value of the TMMBA program by interviewing a team of panelists. Technology MBA ROI Blog Series…
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New Study Shines Spotlight on Challenges Facing LGBT Entrepreneurs
Getting a startup off the ground is no easy feat, but a recent study shows that startups founded by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) entrepreneurs can face even greater odds. The study, conducted by StartOut—a national non-profit organization that supports, educates and connects LGBT entrepreneurs—found that entrepreneurs in the LGBT community are at risk for…
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Top MBA Recruiters: JPMorgan Chase
The largest bank in the United States, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a multinational banking and financial services holding company based in New York, New York. JPMorgan Chase is one of the Big Four banks of the United States, along with Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. According to Bloomberg, in October 2011, JPMorgan Chase…
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP@ CBS: Tamer Center Seeds Social Enterprise Ventures
From “shrink wrap for crap” to a “greenhouse in a box,” unique ventures tackling serious challenges around the globe were among those awarded seed funding by Columbia Business School’s Tamer Center for Social Enterprise earlier this month. The awards, announced July 7th, went to four teams of entrepreneurs from across the Columbia University community. Each…
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Discover Why You Need the Lehigh University Flex MBA
Sponsored Content The online MBA isn’t what is used to be. Just a few years ago, an online degree was considered a “fake” degree. Now, that couldn’t be further from the truth. At top schools like Lehigh University’s College of Business and Economics, an online MBA is more than a mode of study; it’s an…
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Columbia Professor Breaks Down What Brexit Could Mean Down the Road
Columbia Business School posted an article on its blog this week by Professor and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz about the potential economic fallout that the United Kingdom’s recent “Brexit” referendum could have on the global political arena in the not-too-distant future. Stiglitz referenced the “hard line” that president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker,…
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Fridays from the Frontline: One Week in Bangkok
This week’s Fridays from the Frontline has it all. A Shark Tank‒like pitch performed on live national television, a plan to help India’s smallholder farmers meet growing demand for local, fresh produce and even a Thai massage. Even though the team at its center—five MBA students from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Business—didn’t take home…
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What Brexit Means for Britain’s Business Schools
With David Cameron having officially resigned and Prime Minister Theresa May taking up residence behind “the most famous black door in the world” at 10 Downing Street, speculations abound regarding just what the full implications of the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union will be. Immediately following the Brexit vote, we reached out…
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Robin Chase, MIT Sloan Grad and Visionary of the Sharing Economy
Robin Chase, MIT Sloan Graduate School of Management MBA (1986) and co-founder of Zipcar, is a visionary in the brave new world of the sharing economy and peer-to-peer technology. It’s easy to take for granted the omnipresence of the sharing economy in our everyday lives. For some millennials, it’s hard to recall that there was…
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GMAC Launches New Online MBA Rankings Tool to Demystify Rankings
In their most recent rankings, U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg BusinessWeek named Harvard Business School the number one business school around. But wait…according to the Economist, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business gets top bragging rights. And then there’s the Financial Times, which names INSEAD number one, and Forbes, which says…
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At the University of Florida, MBA Class Size Matters
Sponsored Content When it comes to choosing an MBA program, there are many factors that matter including location, ranking, and opportunities. One area that is often overlooked is size. Smaller MBA programs such as the Hough Graduate School of Business Full-Time MBA come with many advantages, including personalized attention, direct interaction, and cohesion. While this…
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UCLA’s Anderson School Hosts Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for U.S. Veterans
This month, more than eighty post-9/11 veterans with disabilities will gather on various campuses, including at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, to pursue entrepreneurship opportunities. From July 9th through 17th, they will channel their military experience into the business world during the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV). Other participating b-schools are the Mays Business School at Texas…
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