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Published: June 16, 2014

New MIT Sloan School of Management Essay Question Presents Challenging Opportunity to Applicants

MIT Sloan School of Management, like many top business schools, has recently released its essay questions for the upcoming application season, leaving prospective applicants and others in the admissions community buzzing about how this year’s prompts require more or less from applicants than in years past. Sloan put a new twist on things late last week when it revealed that its newest question invites applicants to write their own letters of recommendation. Make no mistake. These essays are not intended to take the place of actual letters of recommendation, two of which will still be required of all applicants to Sloan. Instead, the new essay prompt is designed to encourage applicants to reflect on themselves in a new and different way. Specifically, they are asked to put themselves in their most recent supervisor’s shoes and – from that manager’s perspective – offer an assessment of how they themselves interact with others, stand out from others and what they would change about themselves. Read more

Published: June 11, 2014

MBAs Find Early Job Offers in Nontraditional Sectors, GMAC Reports

A greater percentage of MBAs and other business school graduates seeking jobs in fields like technology, manufacturing and healthcare reported having early job offers than did those searching in the more traditional fields of finance and consulting, according to survey results released by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) earlier this month. GMAC released results from its 15th Annual Global Management Education Graduate Survey on June 4th. The global exit survey, conducted in February and March, polled 3,049 business school graduates at 111 universities. Of those, 57 percent had at least one early job offer, down slightly from 60 percent in last year’s survey but still a huge improvement over the 32 percent who had offers in the same time period in 2010. At the time of this year's survey, 62 percent of the graduating students were involved in a job search, and another four percent were either self-employed or intending to pursue entrepreneurship at graduation. Read more

Published: June 10, 2014

Renovation Planned for USC’s Marshall School of Business Thanks to $15 Million Trustee Gift

A $15 million gift from a trustee of the University of Southern California (USC) will fund complete renovation of a building that will serve as a new center for the Marshall School of Business’s international efforts, the school announced yesterday. The gift, from USC trustee Thomas J. Barrack Jr. and his family, will transform Bridge Hall, which served as the Marshall School’s first building when it was built in 1928. In recognition of the generous donation, it will be renamed Barrack Hall. Read more

Published: June 9, 2014

500 Harvard Business School Alumni Contribute to First Crowdsourced Article

Harvard Business Review recently published its first formally crowdsourced article, a piece entitled “The Capitalist’s Dilemma” that included contributions from almost 500 Harvard Business School (HBS) alumni. The experiment was designed to helped build on a theory put forth by renowned HBS Business Administration Professor Clayton Christensen about the flawed way that companies make investment decisions, which he first explored as part of a New York Times article in 2012. Lead authors Christensen, who is best known for his work on disruptive innovation, and Derek van Bever, a senior lecturer in entrepreneurial management at Read more

Published: June 8, 2014

Better Storytelling Leads to Soaring Application Volume at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School

The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill saw the number of applicants to its MBA program increase 28 percent this year over last, growth the school attributes to better “storytelling” and branding, according to a report in Triangle Business Journal. UNC as a whole has been working to increase brand recognition, and the increase in applicant volume at the business school is in part a result of these branding efforts, Sridhar Balasubramanian, associate dean for the MBA program, told the Triangle Business Journal. Read more

Published: June 3, 2014

Harvard Business School MBA Grad Develops Resource to Help Students Record Summer Internship Experiences

As any business school student will tell you, the summer internship between the first and second years of an MBA program can be as important a part of your ultimate career path as any class you take while on campus. And yet, amid the many pressures that confront MBAs when they return to campus in the fall, it can be easy to lose sight of experiences and impressions they may have had while interning. Now, thanks to an online resource developed by a recent Harvard Business School (HBS) graduate, current students can keep track of their goals and experiences during summer internships, creating a resource to help them gain as much from the process as possible. Called Life Guides, the website features a Summer Internship Guide to help MBAs quickly and easily record and summarize their summer internships, enabling them to better understand what they want to do with their careers as a result. Read more

Published: June 2, 2014

UPenn Study of Wharton MOOCs Suggest They Don’t Threaten Traditional MBA Programs

A University of Pennsylvania study of massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered by its Wharton School reveals the online courses present an opportunity for business schools to expand to under-served markets rather than a threat to their traditional business programs. The study findings were published today in the Harvard Business Review. The study – led by researchers Ezekiel Emanuel, Penn’s vice provost for global initiatives; Gayle Christensen, executive director of Penn Global; and Brandon Alcorn, Penn Global project manager – is the first of its kind to focus specifically on MOOCs offered by a business school. The researchers surveyed more than 875,000 students enrolled in nine MOOCs offered by Wharton. Read more

Published: June 1, 2014

Harvard Business School’s HBX Online Program Reveals Deeper Debate

As Harvard Business School (HBS) prepares to debut its new online education program on June 11th, some of its leading professors debate the strategy behind the school’s decision regarding how to respond to the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs). A New York Times article yesterday explored the thinking behind HBS’s online platform, HBX, which will attempt to preserve and extend the school’s competitive advantage by creating online courses that, unlike MOOCs, replicate HBS’s distinctive discussion-based case method teaching, but that do not compete with the MBA itself. Read more

Published: May 29, 2014

Brown University to Begin Issuing EMBA Degree as Part of Joint Program with IE Business School

The governing body of Brown University voted earlier this month to begin issuing a master’s in business administration for the first time – to graduates of a collaborative 15-month executive MBA program the school has offered since 2011 with Madrid’s IE Business School, according to a report in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Previously, graduates of the program received a degree only from the Spanish school. In conferring its own degree, Brown now leaves Princeton as the only school among the Ivy League to not issue an MBA degree of any sort. The Brown University Corporation, which governs the Rhode Island university, approved a proposal presented to the faculty earlier this year to beginning issues its own degree to students who complete the EMBA program, which Brown hopes will lead more students to apply to the program, according to the Bloomberg BW article. Read more

Published: May 27, 2014

HEC Paris Inaugurates New e-Lab

Earlier this month, leading European business school HEC Paris launched its new e-Lab, a unique space designed to support entrepreneurship, creativity, teamwork and communication through by making high-tech technology available to its students. “The ‘e’ in e-Lab signifies both ‘entrepreneurship’ and ‘electronic,’ emphasizing the close link between the two,” read a release on the HEC Paris website announcing the May 20th inauguration of the new space. Designed for use by HEC Paris students interested in entrepreneurship, the e-Lab features video-conferencing capabilities, walls completely covered in "white board" paint, and portable equipment that can be moved easily to facilitate collaboration. Read more

Published: May 22, 2014

Columbia Business School Annual Dinner Rakes in $3.2 Million

A gala event held earlier this month helped raise more than $3 million to fund financial aid, faculty research and entrepreneurial outreach at Columbia Business School, the school reports. The school’s 38th Annual Dinner drew more than 800 people to New York City’s Waldorf Astoria on Monday, May 5th. Setting a record, 60 new donors contributed 11 percent of the $3.2 million in total funds raised. There were 173 gifts in total, consistent with last year. Attendees included 120 current students from the full-time MBA, EMBA and EMBA-Global programs, as well as more than 40 alumni club leaders representing 30 regional alumni clubs, 13 countries, and two affinity clubs, the school reports. Read more

Published: May 21, 2014

UNC Kenan-Flagler School of Business Joined by Growing Number of Partners in OneMBA® Program

Kenan-Flagler was one of the four founding partner schools of the OneMBA® Program. Other founding partners include Mexico’s EGADE Business School Tecnológico de Monterrey (EGADE Business School), Brazil’s Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP) and Erasmus University's Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) in the Netherlands. This week, OneMBA announced its newest partner, the School of Management at Xiamen University. OneMBA is a global executive MBA program offered in partnership by business schools around the world. In the 12 years since its launch, OneMBA had established a reputation for itself as one of the world’s most unique and diverse international MBA programs, according to Yifeng Shen, dean of the Xiamen University School of Management (SMXMU). “OneMBA's vision and goals reflect those of Tan Kah Kee, the ‘Henry Ford of Asia,’ who founded Xiamen University and its business program in 1921 with the call to serve China while embracing world cultures,” Shen said in a statement. Read more

Published: May 20, 2014

What a Harvard Business School MBA Doesn’t Teach You

With just days to go before he graduates, Harvard Business School (HBS) student Ben Faw compiled a list of things he didn’t learn at HBS into a compelling infographic that quickly became one of the most popular blog posts on LinkedIn earlier this week. Since Clear Admit readers often have HBS in their sights, we thought we’d share some of Faw’s insights here. An army combat veteran, Faw had the idea to dispel some of the misconceptions he thinks people sometimes have about the MBA, and especially about the HBS MBA. With the assistance of fellow classmates and a local startup, he helped create an informative post to tackle the myths one by one. Read more

Published: May 19, 2014

GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey Reveals Strong Hiring Forecasts for MBAs

Good news for MBAs seeking jobs. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) released the results of its annual global survey of employers, revealing that 80 percent of business school recruiters plan to hire MBAs in 2014. That’s up seven percentage points from last year and a whopping 30 percentage points over 2009, in the midst of the economic crisis. GMAC’s annual Corporate Recruiters Survey, now in its 13th year, polled 565 employers from 44 countries in February and March, including 32 of the top 100 companies in the FT 500 and 36 of the Fortune 100. GMAC, which administers the GMAT exam, conducts the employers survey in partnership with EFMD and the MBA Career Services and Employer Alliance. Read more

Published: May 18, 2014

The Soaring Price of Business School Networking

A New York Times article this weekend examined the growing number of trips and other “lifestyle experiences” that now compete with academic ones as part of the MBA program at many leading business schools. Even those that don’t offer any form of academic credit can be viewed as valuable networking opportunities that can help position students for jobs upon graduation—worth their steep price tags in the eyes of some. As an example, the Times story lead with a February ski trip to Park City, Utah, that about a third of the MBA class from the University of Texas as Austin’s McCombs School of Business went on. The three-day trip, planned by a student-run group called the Graduate Business Adventure Team, was advertised to cost about $1,000, though final costs may have ended up higher. Read more

Published: May 15, 2014

Harvard, Wharton, Stanford Release Class of 2017 Application Updates

Following the Round 3 notification details that went out to applicants to the Class of 2016 on Wednesday, Harvard Business School (HBS) Admissions Director Dee Leopold wasted no time in looking ahead to the application season for the Class of 2017. In a post to her Admissions Director Blog yesterday, she outlined what prospective applicants should expect in the year ahead. Not to be outdone, Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School also released application updates this week. In her post, HBS's Leopold shared the optional “essay” question that applicants will encounter when they look at the application for the Class of 2017, unchanged from last year: Read more

Published: May 14, 2014

Harvard Business School Admissions Coming Soon to a City Near You

Prospective applicants in parts of Europe and Asia will soon have an opportunity to learn more about the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA program as part of a series of outreach events scheduled for June. Members of the HBS Admissions Board will be visiting Madrid, Milan, Berlin, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo between June 9th and 14th. These international events will include a presentation from current HBS students, as well as alumni and a member of the Admissions Board. In several instances, the event will be followed by a reception, giving prospective applicants an opportunity to network with one another and members of the HBS community. Read more

Published: May 13, 2014

Ithaca Mayor Praises Johnson Graduate School of Business Students’ Community Service

Community service projects led by MBA students from Cornell’s Samuel Johnson Graduate School of Business were recognized as part of a recent symposium highlighting leadership through service. Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, a 2009 Cornell graduate, praised students from his alma mater for seizing opportunities to volunteer in the community. "I believe that young people like you have the skills that we need in the nonprofit sector that we are not getting," Myrick said. "You have the energy, the creativity, and the moral authority to make change, and it's those things — not experience — that matter." Read more

Published: May 12, 2014

Haas School of Business Raises $250,000 for Socially Responsible Investment Fund

The Center for Responsible Business at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business harnessed the power of a new Berkeley crowdfunding platform this semester to raise more than $250,000 for its Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Fund, the school reports. The center blew past its $100,000 fundraising goal, soliciting donations totaling $126,209 from individuals and corporations, which was then doubled thanks to a matching gift from alumnus Charlie Michaels, BS ’78. Total funds raised came to $252,418. Read more

Published: May 11, 2014

MIT Sloan School of Management to Host Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum in Beijing

MIT Sloan School of Management later this week will host a conference in Beijing focused on the challenges facing entrepreneurs in China, including a cultural focus on efficiency over innovation. The Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum will take place on Friday, May 17th. “Entrepreneurship is critical for China’s economic development, yet entrepreneurs have to overcome many hurdles,” MIT Sloan Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs and Action Learning Yasheng Huang said in a statement. “Many of those issues are ones faced by all founders, such as retaining good employees and navigating government bureaucracy, but those in the technology sector are pioneering new territory in China.” Read more

Published: May 8, 2014

Yale School of Management to Operate New Leadership Center in Beijing

New center's floor plan; Rendering by M Moser Associates. The Yale School of Management (SOM) will launch and operate a new Beijing center to host leadership programming by schools and centers from across Yale University, the school announced late last month. To inaugurate the new Yale Leadership Center, Yale SOM will host a major conference next fall underscoring the university’s far-reaching engagement with China. The new center is located in Beijing’s central Chaoyang District and will feature advanced technological capabilities to connect Beijing with New Haven and other points around the world for meaningful dialog, the school reports. The center will be home to research, conferences and professional and executive education. It will also provide office spaces for Yale faculty use when in Beijing as well as flexible work space for SOM’s MBA, MAM and PhD students. Read more

Published: May 7, 2014

UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business to Present Silicon Valley Business Perspective to Chinese Leaders

The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley this week began a new program through which Berkeley-Haas faculty will present a Silicon Valley perspective on business, innovation and leadership topics to top Chinese leaders, the school announced. Called the Partnership for CELAP and Berkeley-Haas, the three-year pilot program between UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP) in Shanghai kicked off with its first session on May 5th. CELAP is one of three preeminent Chinese government leadership academies, providing contemporary leadership development for China’s senior officials. Read more

Published: May 5, 2014

UCLA Anderson Finance Professor Named Dean of Full-Time MBA Program

A finance professor recognized with numerous awards for teaching excellence has been named dean of the full-time MBA program at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Anderson Dean Judy Olian announced late last month. Professor Mark Garmaise will assume his new role on July 1, 2014, succeeding Senior Associate Dean Andrew Ainslie, who has been named dean of the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School. “In Mark, we have a combination of remarkable talents – an outstanding teacher who is dedicated to his MBA students, and a trailblazing scholar who infuses his teaching with relevant and emerging research findings,” Olian said in a statement. Read more

Published: May 4, 2014

UPenn’s Wharton School Awards $30K to Slidejoy for 2014 Wharton Business Plan Competition

How would you like to view beautifully designed ads every time you unlock your phone? What if you got paid to do it? Slidejoy, an intelligent Android app designed by a team of Wharton students, is built on precisely that model—and it took top honors in the 2014 Wharton Business Plan Competition last week, the school announced. The Slidejoy team won the $30,000 Perlman Grand Prize at Wharton’s annual Venture Finals on May 1st, where total cash prizes and in-kind services topped $125,000, the school reports. Read more

Published: May 1, 2014

Economist Ranks Top 20 North American MBA Programs, Chicago Booth Leads

In case you missed it, the Economist earlier this week broke out the top 20 North American full-time MBA programs, as a follow-up to its global ranking. As an introduction to this North American-specific list, the Economist calls America the “spiritual home of the MBA,” noting that the first MBA was offered there more than a century ago and that today, U.S. schools dominate the publication's global ranking. (Eight of the top 10 business schools in the worldwide ranking are located in U.S.) Among the Top 20 North American MBA programs, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business claimed the top spot (as it did in the global rankings). Among the other highest-ranking North American schools were several prestigious U.S. names, including Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, Harvard Business School, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, MIT Sloan School of Management and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Read more

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January 12, 2026 5:32am ET

Applying: Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, UCLA Anderson, UT Austin / McCombs, Washington / Foster

Intake Year: 2026

Pre-MBA Career: Consulting

Post MBA Career: Marketing

GRE: 323

GPA: 2.84

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: Chicago

January 12, 2026 4:43am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Chicago Booth, Harvard Business School, Northwestern / Kellogg, UCLA Anderson

Intake Year: 2026

Pre-MBA Career: Commercial Banking

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Bain, BCG, McKinsey, Finance, Commercial Banking

GMAT: 665

GPA: 3

Years of Work Experience: 7

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)

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January 12, 2026 10:41am ET

Interview Invite to UVA / Darden

Round: Round 2

Received via email January 12, 2026

Standardized Test: GRE

GPA: 3.4

GRE: 329

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Management Consulting

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Boston

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

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