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Published: August 10, 2014

Cambridge Judge Business School Staff Obtain Social Media Driving Licenses

Staff at the Cambridge Judge Business School recently completed an innovative course designed to educate them in all aspects of social media. Thirty participants now have Social Media Driving Licenses demonstrating their proficiency, the school announced. The inaugural Social Media Driving License (SMDL) course took place over eight consecutive weeks between May and July 2014. Thirty participating staff members took part in a combination of classroom and online exercises providing a comprehensive introduction to social media, including its professional application, value, scope and limits. Read more

Published: August 6, 2014

Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Hosts Demo Day for Student Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs developing startup ventures got to pitch their ideas as part of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI) Demo Day late last month, part of a host of events and programming supporting entrepreneurial studies at the Yale School of Management. At Demo Day, YEI’s managing director Jim Boyle noted that the YEI Fellowship Program – a 10-week summer program that provides funding and support to startup teams from across the university to develop their ventures – has grown dramatically since it launched in 2007. Teams raised $600,000 to fund their ventures in the program’s first year, compared to $104 million raised by fellows in 2014. Read more

Published: August 5, 2014

MBA Recruiting Now Starts Before Classes at Many Top Business Schools

First-year students at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business are gathering this week in San Francisco for a tour of area tech firms, UVA’s Darden School is conducting “career kickoff” meetings with two-thirds of its incoming first-year class and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business has added four days of career services programming to its orientation—and this is all taking place before those MBA students attend a single class. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal highlights these instances as evidence of several shifts in business education, including that recruiters are eager to meet with future talent earlier than ever before, MBA students have a growing interest in tech careers and traditional on-campus MBA recruiting is no longer sufficient. Read more

Published: August 4, 2014

The Economist Group Launches $25,000 MBA Scholarship Contest

The Economist Group’s business education division, Which MBA?, yesterday launched its second Brightest Minds MBA Scholarship Contest, which will award a $25,000 scholarship to the prospective MBA or EMBA student who scores highest on a simulated GMAT exam. The first Brightest Minds MBA scholarship ran earlier this year, drawing more than 4,500 entrants, The Economist Group reports. The winner, Rishabh P. from India, is currently applying to several business schools, with plans to begin an MBA program in fall 2015. Read more

Published: July 30, 2014

MIT Sloan to Host Women’s Week, August 4th – 7th

The MIT Sloan School of Management is gearing up for a week filled with events designed to increase awareness about the school among women who are considering a graduate management degree. MIT Sloan Women’s Week, which will take place from August 4th through 7th, will include a webinar open to prospective applicants anywhere in the world, as well as three alumnae panels in cities around the country. “There are so many opportunities for women to contribute while they are here on campus as well as after they graduate and become part of our alumni network,” Sloan Admissions Director Dawna Levenson said as part of an article about the week’s events. “MIT Sloan women are making an impact in the world, and these panels will showcase just that,” she added. Read more

Published: July 28, 2014

Stanford Graduate School of Business to Break Ground on New $75 Million Residential Building

First-year Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) MBA students will live in a brand new residential building by 2016, the school reports. Design concepts for the new $75 million project were approved by the Stanford Board of Trustees last month, and the school plans to break ground on the new facility in fall 2014. The four-story, 146,000-square-foot residential building will be adjacent to the school’s state-of-the-art Knight Management Center, which opened in 2011. The new facility will include 200 single-living units. The addition of this new housing to the existing 280 units in the school’s Schwab Residential Center will enable Stanford for the first time to offer on-campus housing to its full first-year class. It will also provide space for up to 80 visiting executive education participants. Read more

Published: July 27, 2014

Wharton Social Impact Initiative to Pay Down Student Loans for MBAs Who Pursue Nonprofit, Public Sector Careers

For MBAs who pursue careers in the nonprofit and public sectors, paying back staggering student loans they took out to finance their degree can be incredibly challenging. At the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, a social impact‒focused fund managed by the Wharton Social Impact Initiative comes to the rescue. The John M. Bendheim Loan Forgiveness Fund for Public Service was created in 2005 by a 1940 graduate of the school, John Bendheim, and his son Tom, WG/Lauder ’90. The fund will grant up to $20,000 per year to pay down selected candidates’ student loans. Read more

Published: July 23, 2014

IESE Launches Corporate Finance MOOC

IESE, like many other leading business schools, is embracing technology to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and has just launched its latest, called Corporate Finance Essentials. Designed for executives anywhere in the world who want to understand key financial issues related to companies, investors and their interaction with capital markets, the new course will be taught by IESE Javier Estrada. Over the course of a series of six lectures lasting between 45 and 60 minutes each, Estrada will help participants increase their financial literacy and gain a better understanding of what is written in the financial press. Recommended readings will complement the lectures. Read more

Published: July 22, 2014

Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business Hosts 17 Ventures in Summer Startup Incubator

Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business this summer is hosting 17 entrepreneurial ventures as part of its startup incubator program, the school reports. Called the “Startup Hoyas Summer Launch Program,” the incubator was designed specifically for current Georgetown students and recent graduates who want to launch a new venture. Participating students enjoy a range of benefits, including dedicated support from Georgetown faculty, mentors and experienced entrepreneurs. Read more

Published: July 20, 2014

Tuck School of Business Alumni Set Record with Annual Gift

Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business has long been known for the generosity of its alumni, and this year total funds raised broke all previous records, the school reports. Tuck Annual Giving (TAG) raised $6.35 million in the last fiscal year and drew the participation of 70.9 percent of alumni, more than ever before at Tuck or any other business school for that matter. This year marks the fourth in a row that more than 70 percent of Tuck graduates have contributed to the TAG campaign, which is more than double the average giving rate of other business schools, the school notes. Read more

Published: July 16, 2014

Yale School of Management Implements Sliding Scale Application Fee Structure

Yale School of Management (SOM) yesterday announced that its 2014-2015 MBA application is now live. While the application itself features no major changes from last year’s, the school is implementing a new sliding scale application fee structure designed to increase access for applicants from lower-wage regions and industries or who are still in school or at the beginning of their careers. Most applicants will pay the standard $225 application fee, but applicants whose total compensation is less than $20,000 a year will pay $175, and those with a total compensation of less than $10,000 will pay $125. Compensation information Read more

Published: July 15, 2014

Yale School of Management to Host First Global Network Week for Faculty

Yale School of Management (SOM) next week will welcome faculty members from the 27 business schools that are members of the Global Network for Advanced Management as part of a four-day program designed to foster collaboration around issues of sustainability. The program, organized by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, will begin on July 21st. The faculty event is an outgrowth of the network’s successful Global Network Weeks, which drew together students from the various member schools for weeklong courses with colleagues from peer schools. Read more

Published: July 14, 2014

Coding Finds Its Way Into Top Business School Curriculums

Harvard Business School (HBS) plans to offer a computer programming elective within the next couple of years, and other top business schools may be moving in the same direction as more companies seek MBAs with strong technical skills, according to a recent report in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Paul Gompers, who chairs the MBA elective curriculum at HBS, notes that MBA students there have formed coding clubs or head across to Harvard’s Cambridge campus to take introductory computer science, but that a course specifically tailored to business students is needed at the school. “This is the changing nature of the workforce, and this is what our graduates are going on to be doing in the next five to 10 to 20 years,” Gompers told Bloomberg BW. Read more

Published: July 9, 2014

MBA Students from Leading Global Business Schools to Help Child Cancer Charity

A United Kingdom charity focused on helping children with cancer in developing countries will receive an infusion of expertise and energy this summer as more than 40 students from top business schools in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas develop plans to tackle business problems faced by the organization. The students, working in teams as part of the Financial Times MBA Challenge, will assist the FT’s seasonal appeal partner, which this year is World Child Cancer (WCC). Seven teams of students – who hail from schools including Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Oxford Saïd Business School, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, London Business School, ESADE and IE Business School, among others – will each be partnered with a mentor and required to submit a business plan in September on a set topic. Read more

Published: July 8, 2014

New Johnson Graduate School of Management Application Permits LinkedIn Submissions

Applicants to Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management can now incorporate their LinkedIn profiles as part of the school’s redesigned application. Johnson is using LinkedIn’s open platform to allow MBA applicants to pre-fill employment history, educational background and other parts of their application with information from their LinkedIn profiles. Candidates who submit information in this way are asked to grant the school access to their full LinkedIn profiles as part of the application process. Read more

Published: July 7, 2014

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Announces Second Online Degree Program

The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School will offer a second online degree, its top-ranked Master of Accounting (MAC) Program, the school announced this week. Pending approval, the new program, called Accounting@UNC, is scheduled to launch in July 2015. The decision to offer this second degree was driven both by the school’s successful track record in delivering quality online education and by strong hiring demand for the school’s MAC graduates, Kenan-Flagler reports. The school launched its first online degree program, MBA@UNC, in 2011. It has grown from 19 students in the first class to 550 students today. Read more

Published: July 6, 2014

Alumni Gift to Fund Construction of New Conference Center at Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) last month announced plans to build a new center on its Boston campus that will serve as a place for students, faculty, alumni and business leaders to convene and share ideas. Called Klarman Hall in recognition of a generous alumni gift, the new building will feature a large conference center, a performance space and a community gathering space and is expected to open in 2018. A gift from Seth Klarman (MBA 1982) and his wife Beth will make the construction of the new facility possible. Klarman is president and CEO of Boston-based investment management firm the Baupost Group, his wife is president of the Klarman Family Foundation and both serve as members of HBS’s Board of Dean’s Advisors. Read more

Published: July 6, 2014

The MBA Tour Summer 2014 Events

If you’re considering pursuing an MBA, attending an MBA fair is a great place to start. The MBA Tour is hosting nine events across the U.S. this July, starting in Chicago on July 16. What are the benefits of attending an MBA Tour conference? Hear from students who have attended here! COLLECT INFORMATION AND EASILY COMPARE PROGRAMS MBA Panel Presentations cover valuable business school admissions topics and answer a wide range of MBA applicant questions. The panels are hosted by professionals with expertise spanning several topics, including: Preparing Your MBA Application, Financing Your MBA, and GMAT Strategy. School Presentations highlight unique program features in a 30-minute session given by admission representatives. These presentations are ideal for candidates to learn detailed information, compare different programs, and prepare for speaking with representatives during the MeetUp Sessions or MBA Fair. Read more

Published: July 1, 2014

Meet MIT Sloan School of Management Admissions Team Members Around the Globe

Members of the admissions team at the MIT Sloan School of Management are hitting the road in a big way, with admissions events scheduled in every corner of the globe over the next few months. The global trek starts tomorrow with events in Madrid and Bogota and will continue throughout the summer months and into the fall. The tour, called “MIT Sloan on the Road,” includes more than three dozen events in cities throughout North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. So regardless of how far you live from Sloan’s campus, you’ll have the opportunity to hear first-hand about the school’s MBA program, admissions process and more. Read more

Published: June 30, 2014

UCLA’s Anderson School of Management Becomes Self-Supporting

Beginning today, the University of California at Los Angeles’s Anderson School of Management will give up state funding and instead become self-supporting, the school announced. Anderson’s dean last week signed a three-year deal with the university provost through which the school’s full-time MBA program will turn down state subsidies in exchange for greater control over faculty recruitment and salary levels and the ability to determine its own tuition, among other things. Anderson hopes to make up for the loss in state funding through donations and likely higher tuitions, reports Inside Higher Ed. In recent years, only about 18 Read more

Published: June 29, 2014

McDonough School of Business Admissions Director Reveals New Essay Question to Clear Admit

The Fall 2015 MBA application for Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business will feature only one required essay, Clear Admit learned today as part of an interview for our Admissions Director Q&A Series. Though the new application has not yet gone live – it will be available to applicants early next month – McDonough Associate Dean of MBA Admissions Shari Hubert shared that her team has decided to reduce the number of required essays to just one. The question will be as follows: Read more

Published: June 24, 2014

Some Business Schools Adopt Tracking Software in a Bid to Increase Yield

A number of top-tier business schools have begun to use software to track prospective applicants’ interactions with their school in an effort to gauge how interested they are in attending, according to a recent article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The data points – which can include whether a student has emailed admissions staff, how many admissions events they’ve attended and whether they requested program information – are now included in candidate profiles alongside test scores and essay responses, Bloomberg BW adds. Most schools report that student interest isn’t a main factor in admissions decisions, but the fact that increasing numbers of schools are using the tracking programs suggest that the data gathered counts for something. Read more

Published: June 23, 2014

UPenn’s Wharton School to Host MBA Admissions Events in Europe, Africa, South America

Having just concluded a series of events in cities throughout Asia for prospective applicants interested in the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, the Admissions team is preparing now to host additional admissions events in Europe, Africa and South America. This week, members of the Admissions team will host events in Paris, London and Madrid, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively. Read more

Published: June 22, 2014

A Glimpse Inside the Lives of Nine Stanford Graduate School of Business MBAs

You can learn what it’s like to be an MBA student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) straight from students themselves thanks to a cool feature earlier this month on the school’s MBA Blog. Called, aptly, “A Week in the Life,” the feature includes nine profiles of students from the Class of 2015 sharing their day-to-day experiences over the course of a normal week at business school. The group includes four men and five women who came from around the country and the globe to pursue their MBA at Stanford. More than half of the students profiled are international, hailing from Brazil, Zimbabwe, China, India, South Korea and Argentina. Read more

Published: June 18, 2014

Ross School of Business MBAs Win Global Sustainability Challenge

A team of MBA students from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business defeated finalists from Yale School of Management and Rollins School of Business earlier this week to win the 2014 Nespresso Sustainability MBA Challenge, the school reports. In total, 59 teams from business schools in 19 different countries took part in the challenge, in which Nespresso invited them to develop innovative solutions to issues surrounding its supply chain of high-quality coffee. Read more

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MBA Applywire

January 11, 2026 8:51pm ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, Harvard Business School, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton, Toronto / Rotman, UCLA Anderson, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Business Planning in leading MNC in home country

Post MBA Career: Marketing

GRE: 316

GPA: 3.58

Years of Work Experience: 6

Post MBA Location: USA, Canada

Notes:

Work Experience
• Strategy- and analysis-focused role at the country’s leading company
• Commercially launched and drive new technologies, business streams with direct positive revenue impact.
• Previously worked on budgeting, revenue planning, forecasting, and national target setting
• As a student, worked at the country’s leading startup, contributing to new business launches; the company later became the first local startup to raise Series B funding.
• Closely worked with CXOs who will be willing to write LORs

Leadership & Volunteering
• Trained 100+ high school students on leadership and community impact projects at a leadership training center.
• Founded a platform connecting students with volunteering opportunities; secured funding.
• Started a digital marketing agency employing 8 team members and serving 15+ clients (closed due to employer policy).
• Represented my country as a selected delegate at multiple international conferences.
• Founding board member of an alumni organization for a Youth Leadership Center with 5,000+ members.
Life:
• My parents passed away by the time I was 10yrs old and I grew up with severe financial and social difficulties. I have worked since school. I bear the cost of my younger siblings’ hence I could not plan to pursue MBA earlier. I have always hustled and tried to do most of the opportunities I could get. I have now reached a comfortable phase in life which may have seemed impossible given the life journey I have had.
I have 316 GRE score (162 Q), I plan to retake it.

January 11, 2026 2:55pm ET

Applying: MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Software Engineer

Post MBA Career: Finance, FinTech, Private Equity

GMAT: 720

GPA: 4.0

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: Online 2023

Notes:

- Planning to take GMAT FE in ~6 months, looking for 99th percentile if possible
- Already accepted to UVA Darden deferred admissions program ($), reapplying to a select number of M7 programs
- Undergraduate degree in applied physics with emphasis in computer science and a double minor in computer science and Spanish from a #100-120 school in the US; 2024 grad
- 2 years academic research with name on a couple publications in physics during undergrad
- 1 year as independent contractor data analyst post-graduation
- 1 year currently + next 1 year before matriculation as web developer at a large, public, financial services/brokerage firm (3 years of post-graduation work experience total before 2027 matriculation)
- Self-taught Spanish while living in Argentina for ~1 year, taught English classes there also
- Summer internship in Madrid, Spain in IT consulting
- From US, spent several years of secondary school in UK/Australia
- Hobbies: skiing, recreational sports, guitar, mobile app development

January 10, 2026 5:11pm ET

Applying: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Cornell / Johnson, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, NYU Stern, UCLA Anderson, UT Austin / McCombs

Intake Year: 2026

Pre-MBA Career: Data Engineer

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Management Consulting

GRE: 313

GPA: 77.5

Years of Work Experience: 8

Location: Charlotte

Notes:

From India completed my MS in business analytics from UT Dallas 3.48/4 class of 2020.
168Q/145V - applied to above univ via test wavier (wavier got accepted except Duke)

January 9, 2026 8:02pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2026

Pre-MBA Career: Corporate Venture Capital

Post MBA Career: Other Industries

GMAT: 645

GPA: 3.7

Years of Work Experience: 10

Location: SF

Post MBA Location: US

January 8, 2026 10:05pm ET

Applying: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Cornell / Johnson, Northwestern / Kellogg, UCLA Anderson, Washington / Foster

Intake Year: 2026

Pre-MBA Career: Sports

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Management Consulting

GRE: 325

GPA: 3.72

Years of Work Experience: 8

Location: India

Post MBA Location: USA

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January 12, 2026 5:06am ET

Applied to Yale SOM

Round: Round 2

Received via portal

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 8.9

GMAT: 715

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Finance, Investment Banking

Application Location: India

January 12, 2026 3:11am ET

Waitlisted at Columbia Business School

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 14, 2025

Standardized Test: Executive Assessment (EA)

EA: 166

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: Japan

January 12, 2026 2:11am ET

Applied to Stanford GSB

Round: Round 2

Received via portal

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 3.59

GMAT: 715

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Other Industries

Target Career: Entrepreneurship

Application Location: Seattle

Note:

Applied 1/6

January 12, 2026 2:10am ET

Applied to Northwestern / Kellogg

Round: Round 2

Received via portal

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 3.59

GMAT: 715

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Other Industries

Target Career: Entrepreneurship

Application Location: Seattle

Note:

Applied 1/6

January 12, 2026 2:09am ET

Applied to MIT Sloan

Round: Round 2

Received via portal

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 3.59

GMAT: 715

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Other Industries

Target Career: Entrepreneurship

Application Location: Seattle

Note:

Applied 1/11

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