The Nuances Of An MBA Resume

One Liners:

 

How to Get Yourself Ready For Business School

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek

12 Things MBA Recruiters Really Look For

Source: Nick Thibault

Online Degrees Getting Big and Expensive

Source: CNBC.com

Should B-School Rankings Give Greater Weight to Entrepreneurship?

Source: Koalab.com

The Value of an MBA: A Veterinarian’s Story

Source: The Financial Times

5 Tips for Veterans Applying to Business School

Source: Veritas Prep

Tips for Video MBA Essay Questions

Source: Accepted.com (For more in-depth analysis of video essays, click on Poets and Quants’ take: Kellogg To Require Video Essay).

MBA Humor:

“To value your company, add $1 million for each engineer, and deduct $500,000 for every MBA.”

Editor’s Note: This quote is the opening for an insightful column by Kia Davis, “Why Hiring an MBA – or Getting One – Isn’t a Bad Idea.”

Source: wamda.com

Tweets of the Week:

Jesse Colombo ‏@TheBubbleBubble21h

Ivy League MBA students think they’re “mavericks” by going into tech startups now…but they’re simply moving from one bubble to another.

Jane Randall ‏@JaneRandall1515h

“Less NBA, more MBA.” Thanks for the dating advice, mom.

Nick DeLessio ‏@NDeLessio10h

It’s MBA orientation day in the business school. Better known to student workers as Free Food Day.

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