Part-Time/EMBA News
A wealth of news, guidance and tips for applicants interested in studying for a part-time or Executive MBA.
Published: August 1, 2018
Georgetown McDonough Announces New Flex MBA Program
In response to market research and student requests, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business is adding greater flexibility to its part-time MBA program. The updates include technological innovations for the inclusion of hybrid courses, new course delivery options, and a more adjustable program duration. The idea behind the new Georgetown Flex MBA is to ensure that…
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Published: December 28, 2017
Indonesians Can Attend Darden Tuition-Free—Find Out How
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business now offers a new Indonesia Endowed Fellowship Fund for full-time MBA and Executive MBA applicants. The fellowship is a full scholarship to Darden that covers the total cost of attendance for academically qualified Indonesian students who prove a need for financial support. The scholarship was made possible…
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Published: December 21, 2017
Volunteer Fever Strikes Georgetown McDonough MBA Students
During the Month of Volunteerism at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, MBA student volunteers logged more than 710 hours of community service. For the month of November, full-time and evening MBA students divided into their cohorts to engage in a friendly competition to see which cohort could log the most volunteer hours. The winning…
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Published: October 26, 2017
Beyond Business School: Meet the Cambridge EMBA Who Is Rebuilding Libya
As an Executive MBA (EMBA) student, you don’t have to choose between your career and your studies, which was exactly the case for Roland Friedrich, who worked as a senior political affairs officer for the United Nations while pursuing his EMBA at Cambridge Judge Business School. Friedrich graduated with his EMBA in 2016, but through his…
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Published: October 9, 2017
LBS Alumni Gather for Worldwide Alumni Celebration in London
On September 28th, the same week that London Business School (LBS) officially opened its new Sammy Ofer Centre, LBS alumni from around the world gathered together for a Worldwide Alumni Celebration (WAC) event. This was just one of approximately 85 WAC events that take place around the globe in locations such as Madrid, Melbourne, Jakarta, Lima,…
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Published: September 11, 2017
UVA Darden Class of 2019 Profile Reveals Diverse and Talented Students
The official University of Virginia Darden School of Business Class of 2019 profile is now out, revealing one of the most diverse groups of MBA students the school has ever welcomed to campus. This record-setting incoming class helps underscore Darden’s core values of diversity, inclusion, and respect against the backdrop of the recent violence in Charlottesville.…
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Published: August 30, 2017
Rotman Launches New Healthcare & Life Sciences EMBA Program
Healthcare is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing industries. Globally, it represents more than 10 percent of the gross domestic product of most developed nations—around $6 trillion overall. And the World Health Organization estimates that there are 9.2 million physicians, 19.4 million nurses and midwives, 2.6 million pharmacists, and over 1.3 million community…
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Published: August 17, 2017
Michigan Ross EMBAs Create Successful Subscription Box Business
In recent years, the subscription box business has boomed. From Blue Apron for food delivery to the Dollar Shave Club for men and women’s grooming, there’s a way to get anything you want in a box delivered on schedule every month or week. And now there are two more subscription box options—Proudbox and CraftX—thanks to…
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Published: January 5, 2017
Stanford Ignite Program Celebrates 10 Years, With No Signs of Slowing
The final weeks in December for many mean last-minute gift shopping, overindulgence with friends and family, a winding down of work and the culmination of another year. All of that may well have been afoot at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) last month, but so, too, was a celebration of a 10-year-old program that…
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Published: December 23, 2016
Fridays from the Frontline: Navigating Complex MBA Decision-Making Process
Pierre Girard, a 2016 graduate of the Weekend MBA program at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, shares his tips for the complex decision-making process that can accompany choosing to pursue an MBA. For Girard, a father to two small children who planned to continue working while getting his MBA, a part-time MBA…
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Published: October 18, 2016
October MBA Mama of the Month: Anna Nordstrom
As part of our continuing partnership with MBA Mama, an online platform that provides ambitious women with tools and resources to leverage an MBA and strategically navigate family/career planning, we are pleased to feature the following post spotlighting Anna Nordstrom, a student in the evening MBA program at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Undaunted by a…
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Published: September 20, 2016
Cornell’s Business, Medical Schools Debut EMBA/Healthcare Leadership Masters Program
It can be nearly impossible for today’s medical students to stay up to date with the ever-evolving healthcare industry. Now, a new two-year executive MBA/M.S. healthcare leadership dual-degree program offered by the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences offers a way to meet that challenge. “This new program…
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Published: September 9, 2016
New Court Decision Allows MBA Tax Deductions
Thanks to a recent court decision in the case of Kopaigora v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, students enrolled in an MBA program—particularly an Executive MBA (EMBA)—can now deduct more education expenses from their taxes. While the case can’t be appealed or formerly cited as precedent, there’s no doubt that the outcome will be influential for…
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Published: September 1, 2016
Bloomberg Contributes $32 Million to Launch New Initiative at Harvard for City Leaders
Michael Bloomberg—three-term New York City mayor, philanthropist and Harvard Business School (HBS) alumnus—has committed $32 million to Harvard to design a comprehensive leadership program for mayors and senior aides to advance leadership, management and innovation in cities across the United States and around the globe, the university announced last week. On August 25th, Bloomberg Philanthropies…
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Published: April 26, 2016
So, You’re Terrible at Integrated Reasoning…
Since its release on the June 2012 exam, the Integrated Reasoning portion of the GMAT has had some test takers stumped. This 30-minute, 12 question section is oddly scored on a 1 to 8 scale, and no partial credit is given, even for multi-part, multi-answer questions. For the past several years, it was a matter…
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Published: March 29, 2016
Integrated Reasoning Tip: More Integral Than You Think
The newest section of the GMAT, the Integrated Reasoning, is often discounted by students as “less important” that the bigger beasts of the exam, the Verbal and Quantitative sections. But many MBA programs have become more familiar with what the Integrated Reasoning examines and more than half of programs, particularly those that accept only 90th…
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Published: March 15, 2016
GMAT Critical Reasoning Tip: Mind the Gap
Let’s start this post with a critical reasoning question: When a group of people starts a company, the founders usually serve as sources both of funding and of skills in marketing, management, and technical matters. It is unlikely that a single individual can both provide adequate funding and be skilled in marketing, management, and technical…
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Published: March 14, 2016
Published: January 19, 2016
Stanford to Offer LGBT Executive Program to Business Leaders
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) has announced that it will offer an LGBT Executive Program. Beginning in late July 2016, the week-long program is described as the first of its kind. The program is designed for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered leaders…
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Published: December 28, 2015
LBS Alum Explores the Next Frontier as Part of International Space Mission
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. A 2013 graduate from London Business School’s EMBA program blasted off on December 15, 2015, as part of the International Space Mission. Colonel Tim Kopra is a NASA astronaut whose path to business school was somewhat rocky. In 2011, he was training for…
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Published: December 8, 2015
GMAT Tip: Don’t Let Misplaced Modifiers Derail Your Score
It’s getting to be that time of the year. For the sake of being somewhat politically correct, it’s the slightly-chillier-time-of-the-year-that’s-directly-proportional-to-increased-gift-giving. If you work most 9-to-5 jobs, there’s likely some type of end-of-calendar-year celebration planned which can be make or break time in office social circles. You want to sit next to Brad from Marketing who…
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Published: December 2, 2015
UCLA Anderson School of Management Trains Head Start Heroes
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Price Center) will partner with the University of Massachusetts’ Donahue Institute in training executive leaders and managers for excellence in Head Start programming. As part of a $6 million per…
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Published: November 30, 2015
Saïd Business School Bestows Second MBA Scholarship for Women
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com. María Belén Muñoz Toro, a Chilean student who will enter Oxford University’s Saïd Business School in January 2016, was awarded the second Oxford Executive MBA Scholarship for Women. Oxford Saïd offers the scholarship in association with the 30% Club, an organization that…
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Published: November 23, 2015
The Big Decision: Choosing an Evening MBA Program
Anjali Shahani, Full-time MBA, Class of 2017Hometown: Monterrey, MexicoPre-MBA career: International DevelopmentPost-MBA goals: FinanceStudent involvement: Cohort Representative; Finance Club; Emerging Market Club As decision time neared for her MBA enrollment, Anjali Shahani was leaning toward the MBA Evening Program at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She was originally pursuing a part-time program to retain her…
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Published: September 22, 2015
MBA Application Volume Up Around the Globe, According to Latest GMAC Survey
At the annual Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) conference in Denver this past June, the admissions directors we talked to from leading business schools were almost giddy. It was still early in the cycle, but application volume had been high—and applicants had been strong—making preliminary profiles for the Class of 2017 look very exciting. As…
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