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