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The Chicago Booth MBA/MPP Dual-Degree Experience
Fridays from the Frontline Today’s the day the University of Chicago Booth School of Business was slated to send out interview invitations to Round 2 applicants, but posts to MBA LiveWire suggest that some applicants began receiving them earlier this week. Have you gotten one? If you’re still waiting, why not distract yourself by... Read more »
The MBA Juggle: An Anderson Student on Balancing Social, Academic, and Career Aspects of B-School
Fridays from the Frontline Before coming to UCLA Anderson School of Management, first-year MBA student Julie Mills worked as a customer success manager at software-as-a-service provider Wrike and served in the Peace Corps in the eastern Caribbean. She’s hoping to advance her career in technology upon graduation, and in a... Read more »
Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight: Michigan / Ross
Per Ross School of Business Managing Director of Full-Time MBA Admissions and Program Soojin Kwon’s announcement earlier this month, Round 2 interview invitations have been rolling out all week. In light of this activity, we’re rounding up Twitter posts from the Midwestern b-school. For those who received an invitation to interview, we start... Read more »
DecisionWire Spotlight: Undecided about London Business School or Michigan / Ross with Scholarships
In this week’s MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights MBA candidates’ choices as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we round up responses to a candidate considering Michigan / Ross or London Business School for tech with scholarship funding. The candidate laid out the options in the initial post: Initial responses honed in on the candidate’s atypical location:... Read more »
Is the MBA Really the Best Time of Your Life? An INSEAD Student Weighs In
Fridays from the Frontline Michel Assaad describes himself as “a management consultant with an academic background in accounting and finance, fueled by an expensive hobby of collecting academic degrees.” Indeed, the MBA he is currently pursuing at INSEAD makes his fourth business degree. What made him decide that he needed... Read more »
Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight: Columbia Business School
With their rolling application process, Columbia Business School has been sending out decisions and interview invitations rather steadily. Given the several reports of admissions decisions on MBA LiveWire this week, we’re taking the cue from candidates to explore CBS on Twitter. The New Year in New York kicked off with... Read more »
Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight: #YearInReview
Welcome to the first edition of Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight in the New Year! Before we launch into 2018, we wanted to take a look back at 2017 for a “Year in Review.” Read on for the roundup of our most popular tweets among the business school community. January kicked... Read more »
What’s the Most Integral Component of the Fisher MBA?
Fridays from the Frontline According to Rajat Gugnani, a first-year MBA student at Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business, everything comes back to your core team. So, if you’ve got the Fisher MBA program in your sites, you’d do well to familiarize yourself with core teams—what they are and the... Read more »
Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight: Holiday Season
’Tis the holiday season and the business school community has been getting into the spirit; in this edition of Top #MBA Tweets of the Week, we round up posts about the holidays. For those getting their heads back in the game of MBA applications, check out our advice on preparing... Read more »
Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight: The Wharton School
A steady stream of results from MBA applicants to the Wharton School have been flowing into LiveWire this week, so we’re shining our Top #MBA Tweets spotlight on the Philly business school. To start, let’s look at the recently released employment report: In 2017, 97.1% of Wharton MBAs seeking full-time... Read more »
5 Worries I Had About Applying to HBS
Fridays from the Frontlines It’s been a busy week at Harvard Business School (HBS), with Round 1 decisions rolling out from Dillon House on Tuesday. Whether you got good news or bad, we’d wager that most of you can relate to some of the worries this week’s Fridays from the... Read more »
Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight: Harvard Business School
Round 1 candidates for Harvard Business School learned their fate this week, so we’re taking a closer look at the school’s activity via Twitter in this edition of Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight: Harvard Business School. While releasing decisions for Round 1, HBS reminded there’s still more time to join the... Read more »
Chicago Booth MBA Student Reflects on First Few Months and “First-Time Ever Experiences”
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business helped kick off an exciting if agonizing time for Round 1 applicants to leading MBA programs—Decision Week (or weeks, as the case may be). Chicago Booth released decisions on December 7th, among the first in several waves of notifications that will flow... Read more »
Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight: Chicago Booth School of Business
This week, phones were ringing and LiveWire was buzzing with reports of good news for Chicago Booth MBA applicants. In this Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight, we’re rounding up Twitter posts from the Midwestern master’s program to give new candidates and hopeful applicants a peek at this top school. We start... Read more »
Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight: INSEAD
As decisions for INSEAD MBA candidates roll in, we take a closer look at the school via Twitter in this edition of Top #MBA Tweets Spotlight: INSEAD. While some alumni looked back on their INSEAD experience… Nostalgia…. At Eiffel with my classmates after our graduation @INSEAD @INSEADAlumni pic.twitter.com/LopdxO68U7 — Smita... Read more »
