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Published: July 25, 2018

MBA News You Need: the Gender Investing Gap, MBA Students Should Prepare Early, What Drives Fake News, and More…

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of July 26, 2018. Ellevest Founder Sallie Krawcheck on Tackling Gender Investing Gap Ellevest Founder Sallie Krawcheck Once dubbed the most powerful woman on Wall Street, Sallie Krawcheck is now working to redefine investing for women with her company Ellevest. Started in 2016, Ellevest is a digital investment firm whose purpose is to help women generate wealth for themselves. It Read more

Published: July 19, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: 3 Ways Marketing at Booth Led to Summer Internship Success

Fridays from the Frontline The opportunity for internships between the first and second years of business school is one of the things that sets full-time two-year MBA programs apart from other degree options. MBA students endeavor to land the best internships they can in fields they want to explore or end up in—recognizing the value of both the experiential learning and the opportunity to make an early good impression on a future full-time employer. The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has developed a reputation for helping its students not only land coveted internships but handle Read more

Published: July 18, 2018

MBA News You Need: Oxford Offers Algorithmic Trading Course, HEC Paris Launches New Branding, USC Hosts Supply Chain Summit, and More…

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of July 19, 2018. New Oxford Saïd Course on Algorithmic Trading Shows Prevalence of AI As AI and machine learning continue to burrow more deeply into nearly every facet of our lives, algorithmic trading has become a far more prevalent form of investing. That’s why Oxford University’s Saïd Business School has launched a six-week introductory course that offers Read more

Published: July 12, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: Being Human–A Behavioral Guide to the MBA Experience

Fridays from the Frontline To say the cultural and industrial expectations of MBA graduates are demanding would be a massive understatement. MBAs must be shrewd, cunning, even omniscient when it comes to helping companies cope with change and cut through the noise to make better decisions. MBAs are also fallible human beings like the rest of us—perhaps a bit more so since new and unfamiliar situations constantly put their analytical skills to the test. In fact, many of the most complex decisions MBAs have helped companies make are rooted in the inherent volatility that comes with simply being human. Recent Read more

Published: July 11, 2018

MBA News You Need: MBA Programs Offer Math Intensive, UCLA Anderson Hosts BIT Conference, Elon Musk Talks Company Success, and More…

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of July 12, 2018. MBA Programs Offer Math Camp for Liberal Arts Students To reach more applicants from liberal arts backgrounds, Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, Yale SOM, and Columbia Business School are among several leading MBA programs that have begun to offer math-intensive coursework over the summer. These “math camps” Read more

Published: July 5, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: Preparing for the MBA Experience – 3 Things I Wish I Had Done With My Summer

Fridays from the Frontline For MBA students-to-be, the summer heat can sometimes go hand in hand with some leisure time. While the summer months are certainly useful for students of all stripes to unwind and decompress, this time leading up to the first year of business school also presents a critical opportunity for incoming MBA students to set themselves up for success in and outside the classroom. With that in mind, the Forté Read more

Published: July 4, 2018

MBA News You Need: Employers Are Hiring Fewer MBAs, CMU Tepper Readies New Building, and Georgetown McDonough Welcomes 12 New Ventures

Published: June 28, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: Cornell Business Education—Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Fridays from the Frontline The two-year full-tuition Roy H. Park Fellowship is one of the key ways in which Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management seeks to build strong leaders. The fellowship is granted each year to “up to 25 full-time Johnson MBA candidates who have demonstrated outstanding leadership potential.” Established in 1997 by the Triad Foundation as part of its mission to carry on the legacy of American entrepreneur Roy H. Park, the Park Fellowship is awarded to outstanding MBA students based Read more

Published: June 27, 2018

MBA News You Need: Washington Olin Announces Career Center Director, Columbia MBAs Help Hair Loss, Goldman Sachs Supports Women, and More…

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of June 28, 2018. Washington University’s Olin Business School Names New Career Center Director Jennifer Whitten, associate dean and director of the Weston Career Center On July 9th, Washington Olin appointed Jennifer Whitten as its associate dean and director of the Weston Career Center. As the primary driver of the Weston Career Center team, she will help Read more

Published: June 21, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: Q&A with Tuck Student Ambassador Anchit Duggal

Fridays from the Frontline The Tuck Student Ambassador Program is a unique offering that enables second-year students to work closely with Admissions to engage prospective students. According to the program page, each second-year ambassador functions as a regional captain representing Africa, Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America. Each student ambassador acts as a “liaison between prospective students from their particular region and other ambassadors.” The Tuck 360: MBA Blog recently featured an interview with Tuck Student Ambassador and India Co-Captain Anchit Duggal T’18. The following post has been republished in its Read more

Published: June 20, 2018

MBA News You Need: HBS Faculty Honored for Sustainability, Stanford GSB Hosts Seminar on Navigating Polarized Topics, INSEAD Launches Women’s Big Ideas Initiative, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of June 21, 2018. HBS Faculty Win Prize for MBA Elective on Sustainability Rebecca Henderson For 11 years, the Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business has supported sustainability curricula at business schools around the world. This year, the Page Prize honored two Harvard Business School faculty members: Professors Rebecca Henderson Read more

Published: June 14, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: Top Spots to Get Work Done at Chicago Booth

Fridays from the Frontline In a world filled with distractions, it can be tough to focus and get anything done. Sometimes, the devices and platforms we invest in to make our day-to-day lives more efficient (theoretically) are the very things making it hard to concentrate. But in other instances, it’s the actual space where we sit to work that can pose the greatest challenges. If you have the luxury of working remotely, you may have discovered that you’re most productive in a crowded coffee shop. (If this is you, here’s two hours of ambient café noise.) Or Read more

Published: June 13, 2018

MBA News You Need: Yale SOM Students Tackle Gender Disparity, Haas Delves Deep into Blockchain, and Wharton Alumni Receive Fellowships

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of June 14, 2018. MBA Students at Yale SOM Tackle Workplace Gender Disparities Gender disparity in the workplace is prevalent and impossible to ignore. So, when first-year MBA students at Yale SOM had the opportunity to unpack several issues related to the gender pay gap as part of the class “State and Society,” not surprisingly, the conversation grew Read more

Published: June 7, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: Kelley Student Writes About GLOBASE China

Fridays from the Frontline Few would debate that one of the major perks of a business school education is the opportunity to study abroad. While many students have the ability to travel to distant lands on their own dime, the true value of business school is the framework it provides MBA students to secure a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms of international business in a specific country or region of interest. The GLOBASE program at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business is a shining example of what an MBA study abroad program can be. Read more

Published: June 6, 2018

MBA News You Need: HBS Hosts Hackathon in San Francisco, LBS Professor Honored for Gender Policy Work, UCLA Anderson Awards $100k to Entrepreneurs, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of June 7, 2018. Harvard Hosts First HBS Hacks Event in San Francisco On May 18th, Harvard Business School (HBS) hosted its first “HBS Hacks” event in San Francisco, bringing together more than 70 HBS alumni to tackle local social challenges. This innovative and interactive event used the elements of a tech hackathon in conjunction with principles of Read more

Published: May 31, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: Organizing MIT Sloan’s Israel Trek

Fridays from the Frontline Today’s Friday from the Frontline column comes to us from a student at MIT Sloan School of Management who helped organize the school’s largest student trek to Israel, fulfilling a promise he made when he interviewed. The piece coincides nicely with the school’s first “Sloan on the Road” event of the season, an evening “inspired by leaders, alumni, and current students who are making their ideas matter,” which will take place in Tel Aviv on June 3rd. The evening’s TIMTalk speaker is Aaron Zucker, MBA ’09, whose distinguished career as an impact-driven leader Read more

Published: May 30, 2018

MBA News You Need: Yale and MIT Sloan Professors Recognized for Excellence, Wharton Global Forum Heads to NYC, Tuck Focuses on Global Impact, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of May 31, 2018. Three Yale SOM Profs Awarded for Excellence in Teaching Peter Schott Yale School of Management’s annual Teaching Awards recognized Professor Peter Schott, Professor Juan Trippe, and Assistant Professor Florian Ederer for their outstanding contributions to the Yale community. First-year MBA students elected the winner of the Core Curriculum Teaching award (Schott) while Second-year MBA Read more

Published: May 24, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: Michigan Ross MM Grad to Other Grads on What Future Leaders of the World Must Consider

Fridays from the Frontline When business students travel to developing countries for the first time, they’re often struck by the vast disparities in business, cultural, and political climates. Though on first glance these differences can sometimes fluster and frustrate would-be business people, the act of doing business under vastly different circumstances is an opportunity for business school students to not only gain insight into a diverse culture but also gain a new perspective on cultivating business partnerships back home. Today’s Friday from the Frontline comes not from an MBA student, but from a Master’s of Management (MM) student at Read more

Published: May 23, 2018

MBA News You Need: MBAs Benefit from Business Plan Competitions, Yale SOM Gets Gold LEED Certification, Cornell Hosts Big Red Bash, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of May 24, 2018. Business Plan Competitions Benefit MBA Student Participants in Ever-Increasing Ways With each passing year, business plan competitions offer more and more lucrative rewards to MBA students. Not only have the cash prizes escalated—Chicago Booth’s Social New Venture Challenge delivered $75,000 to the top winner, for instance—but so have the associated perks. And for many MBA students, Read more

Published: May 16, 2018

MBA News You Need: Cornell Studies the Power of Personal Endorsements for MBA Applicants, Two HBS Professors Honored for Teaching, Video Reveals Duke Fuqua Pronunciation, and More.

Published: May 10, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: A Glimpse at Lean In at Berkeley Haas

Fridays from the Frontline The University of California at Berkeley has long had a reputation as a hotbed of activism, from the Vietnam Day Committee’s march toward Oakland Base in the 1960s to its divestment campaign from South Africa during the 1980s apartheid era to the most recent protests against ultra-conservative commentator Milo Yiannopolous’ appearance on campus last year. The commitment to social justice present on Berkeley’s campus has also been infused into the curriculum of many of its schools, inspiring students to engage in direct action to shape the world they want to live. This is certainly true at Read more

Published: May 9, 2018

MBA News You Need: UNC Kenan-Flagler Supports Alumni Entrepreneurs, MBAs Talk Paris as Corporate Hotspot, HBS Names Class Day Speaker, and More

Published: May 2, 2018

MBA News You Need: Olin Recognizes Student Leaders, LBS Dean Discusses Gender Gap, Yale SOM Studies Founders, and More

Published: April 26, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: INSEAD Women in Business Club Launches “Tell Your Story” Initiative

Fridays from the Frontline INSEAD’s Women in Business Club recently kicked off a “Tell Your Story” initiative on the INSEAD MBA Experience blog. The new initiative aims to offer a platform for female students to share their insights and “inspirational life stories.” The first “Tell Your Story” guest is current INSEAD student Ann Alampi, MBA ‘18J, who offers unique takes gleaned from an interesting path to business school, first as a geology researcher and later an energy consultant for top consulting firm Bain & Company. The following post has been republished in its entirety from its original Read more

Published: April 25, 2018

MBA News You Need: Columbia Offers Scholarships to Syrians, Michigan Ross Awards $10k During Inaugural Datathon, Haas Talks Benefits of an MBA, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of April 25, 2018. Two Future HBS Students Receive Soros Fellowships for New Americans Seul Ku As notoriously pricey as a Harvard Business School (HBS) education can be, two students’ wallets just got $90,000 lighter. The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans honors exceptional immigrants and children of immigrants with a $90,000 grant Read more

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MBA Applywire

May 5, 2026 11:37am ET

Applying: ESMT Berlin, IE Business School, Illinois / Gies, Imperial

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: sustainability consulting, planning, and design

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Undecided, Technology, Undecided

GRE: 322

GPA: 3.5

Years of Work Experience: 9

Location: Washington, DC

Post MBA Location: Washington, DC

Notes:

In addition to my undergraduate degrees in landscape architecture and geography, I also have an MA in geography 3.9 gpa, and a PhD in Architecture. I am currently a VP at my company and a likely candidate for CEO in the near future. I want to continue working while pursuing my MBA to increase my chances of moving into the CEO role. Also, my goal is to start my own ClimateTech firm in the next several years. An MBA will help achieve both of these goals. For each of the selected schools, I would pursue their online MBA program so I can continue working. While I, of course, want to attend a prestigious program, I'm not willing to sacrifice my money or too much of my company's money to spend six figures on an online MBA. That is a part of the driver for the programs I have selected to look at. In the US, it is rare that online programs provide funding; a bit seems to be available at European programs.

May 2, 2026 12:39am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Startup/ Strategy Consulting

Post MBA Career: PWC Strategy&, Technology, Other, Oliver Wyman, McKinsey, Consulting

GMAT: 685

GPA: 3.6

Years of Work Experience: 6

Notes:

- International Male, 26, southeast Asian (non-Chinese/indian)
- BEng, top 15% of the class, the best local uni (but unknown outside of the country)
- (0.5Y) Global LDP program of a F500, left early to join consulting
- (2.5Y) at S&, strategy consulting in the field of fintech/ banking, top tier performance (5% of the cohort in the region, early promotion)
- (1Y) Left S&, started my own fintech for underserved teenagers, got pre-seed funding from a tier 2 Banking VC, closed after a year due to regulations change, small scale with multiple impact rewards (20k+ farmers

Goals: Join a fintech in the US (strategy div), or Financial services consulting (like OW, McK) incase i can't secure a fintech position (internationals), with a long term goal of starting another fintech

May 2, 2026 12:38am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Startup/ Strategy Consulting

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Other, Technology, PWC Strategy&, Oliver Wyman, McKinsey

GMAT: 685

GPA: 3.6

Years of Work Experience: 6

Notes:

May 1, 2026 9:23pm ET

Applying: Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School, London Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2028

Pre-MBA Career: Finance Technology

Post MBA Career: Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Investment Banking, Finance, McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Consulting

GMAT: 715

GPA: 9.16

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: India

Post MBA Location: USA

Notes:

Education: B.Tech Information Technology (Tier-2 college)
GPA: 9.16/10 (Converted equivalent: 3.91).
Standardized Testing: 715 GMAT Focus (99th percentile equivalent).

Professional Achievements (Bulge bracket investment Bank)
Role: ML Engineer , ~3 YOE now (will have 5 at the time of matriculation).

High-Impact Innovation: Awarded "Most Innovative Project" for three consecutive years (2024 ,2025 and 2026).

Secured 1st Place in 2025 and 2nd Place in 2024 in the Technology Innovation Program

Revenue Generation: Designed and implemented a scalable recommendation system for wealth management that drove a 45% increase in revenue for the targeted segment.

Operational Efficiency: Engineered an Agentic AI system for automated customer support, significantly reducing overhead and optimizing resource allocation.

System Integrity: Spearheaded a performance audit that resolved critical failure rates in cloud-native microservices, ensuring zero-downtime for high-stakes financial data.

Leadership & Civic Engagement
Youth Parliament: Recognized for leadership in simulated legislative environments; developed high-level skills in policy advocacy, structured debate, and consensus-building. Winner of District level in 2025,2026

Strategic Collaboration: Partnered with senior stakeholders to align technical roadmaps with institutional wealth management goals.

Post-MBA Goal
Short-Term: Transition into Investment Banking (IB), specifically within Technology or FinTech coverage groups, leveraging technical depth to advise on M&A and capital markets activity.

Long-Term: Executive leadership within the global financial services ecosystem.

May 1, 2026 9:29am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Harvard Business School, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Architect turned Management Consultant, working with EY Government Consulting for 1.5 y at time of applications

Post MBA Career: Consulting

GRE: 338

GPA: 3.4

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: India

Post MBA Location: USA

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May 7, 2026 5:01pm ET

Interview Invite to Indiana / Kelley

Round: Round 4

Received via email May 7, 2026

Standardized Test: Granted Waiver

GPA: 3.36

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: United States, San Antonio

Juno Member: Not yet

May 7, 2026 5:00pm ET

Interview Invite to Georgetown / McDonough

Round: Round 3

Received via email on April 15, 2026

Standardized Test: Granted Waiver

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: United States, San Antonio

Juno Member: Not yet

May 7, 2026 4:59pm ET

Accepted to Boston College / Carroll

Round: Round 4

Received via phone on April 28, 2026

Standardized Test: Granted Waiver

GPA: 3.36

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: United States, San Antonio

Juno Member: Not yet

May 7, 2026 2:12pm ET

Accepted from Waitlist to Chicago Booth

Round: Rolling Admissions

Received via email May 7, 2026

Standardized Test: GMAT

GMAT: 645

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Entrepreneurship

Note:

Admitted from Round 2 Waitlist. Entrepreneurship post-MBA industry

Juno Member: Not yet

May 7, 2026 1:25pm ET

Accepted from Waitlist to Chicago Booth

Round: Round 3

Received via portal May 7, 2026

Standardized Test: GRE

GPA: 3.2

GRE: 310

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: San Francisco

Note:

Waitlisted w/ interview in round 2. Admission offered round 3

Juno Member: Not yet

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