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High Noon For HBS Round One Applicants (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 5, 2015

For nearly 4,000 hopeful applicants to Harvard Business School, it’s high noon. The school will begin sending out interview invitations to round one candidates tomorrow (Oct. 6) and on two other days, Oct. 8th and Oct. 14th. The Oct. 14th date also will be the bad news day when HBS issues its first dings of…

Meet Emory Goizueta’s MBA Class of 2017 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 16, 2015

Ever wonder why some second years can’t stop smiling when they arrive on campus? Chances are, they bagged the elephant, turning their internship into a six-figure job after graduation. Talk about a sense of liberation. Say goodbye to the uncertainty of slogging from interview-to-interview. Now, they can focus on leading clubs, following passions, and turning…

Meet The Ivey MBA Class of 2016 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 22, 2015

Conventional wisdom says you should head to London for the best business education. London, Ontario, that is. Sandwiched between Toronto and Detroit, the “Forest City” is home to the world’s most unheralded one-year MBA program: The Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario. In 2014, Ivey made headlines when it reached #1 in…

Meet The Toronto Rotman MBA Class of 2017 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

When students evaluate business schools, they tend to quantify their decisions. They pore over GMAT scores, placement rates, and starting salaries – not to mention rankings – to justify their choices. It’s perfectly natural; numbers drive business. In measuring any business’ health, people look closely at data like net income, working capital, and assets. With…

Meet USC Marshall’s MBA Class of 2017 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 10, 2019

Most people don’t worry about their network – until they need it. Maybe they lose their ‘safe’ job – or they find doors shut to them. In these times, they quickly learn that experience is trivialized, skills are commoditized, and can-do attitudes only impress at entry level. Talent may give them a quick start, it…

Dean Of The Year: The Three-Peat Change Agent (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 29, 2015

It is not an overstatement to say that when Yale University announced that Edward 'Ted' Snyder would become the new dean of its School of Management expectations were extraordinarily high. After all, Snyder would be coming to his position with two successful deanships already behind him, at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business…

Handicapping: Ms. Analyst, Ms. Social Sector, Mr. Startup, Ms. Finance, Mr. Sovereign Fund, Ms. Ed Tech, Ms. Marketing, Mr. Banking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne & Sandy Kreisberg | Last Updated: July 8, 2023

After gaining her undergraduate degree from a top New England college in 2012, this 25-year-old woman landed a job with a global consulting firm. But her true love is the social sector and more recently she began working for a small consulting firm to mission-driven organizations. With a 720 GMAT and a sterling 3.92 GPA,…

Foreign MBAs: Boost U.S. Job Odds (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: January 14, 2016

When universities including Harvard and Stanford need a trainer to provide international students with hope and a strategy to achieve their job-search goals, they call on Marcelo Barros. The former associate director of MBA career coaching for international students at the University of Maryland Smith School of Business provides students with data, insights, and a strong dose of tough love - all leading, ideally, to…

How Not To BLOW Your HBS Interview (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 26, 2016

https://youtu.be/PsCWa64xxEQ It's D-Day today (Jan. 27) for thousands of Harvard Business School round two applicants. The school plans to send out the first wave of interview invitations at exactly high noon EST. Dee Leopold, managing director of admissions and financial aid, says that a second wave of invites will go out on Feb. 3rd, along…

The MBAs Leading FT 500 Companies (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

An MBA isn’t required to get admission. But it sure helps you get a better seat. That’s especially true of the corner office. To land the big gig, it takes a mix of experience, skills, networking, and political savvy. Make no mistake: Aspiring CEOs get a head start with an MBA. It is a stamp…

Behind Chicago Booth’s 97.4% Employment Rate (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 4, 2016

How do you define success? For most, you look at the numbers. By that measure, few schools can match the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Some 13 years ago, the incoming class averaged a 687 GMAT. This fall, the 2017 Class entered with a 726 score – behind only Stanford and Wharton and…

Hult Out Of Financial Times Ranking Again (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 20, 2016

For the second year in a row, Hult International Business School failed to make The Financial Times's ranking of the top 100 MBA programs in the world. For Hult, the second consecutive disappearance from the updated 2016 FT list is something of a public relations disaster. The school, which appeared on the list for six years…

An MBA’s AirBnB For The Disabled (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: October 10, 2019

Srin Madipalli is a builder. He's an adventurer. He's very well-educated and traveled. He also has spinal muscular atrophy and has been in a mechanical wheelchair since birth. But that hasn't slowed or thwarted his ambitions in the slightest. Quite the contrary, in fact. the Oxford MBA grad has been a corporate lawyer, dived in deep, blue…

MBAs And Tech: Open Arms Or Détente? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

MBAs And Tech: Open Arms Or Detente? The art of politics is saying one thing while deftly doing another without anyone noticing. By that standard, the tech sector has the political touch of a Ronald Reagan. Forget Stephen Curry and the Warriors. Considering the rhetoric, MBA bashing is no doubt the Bay Area’s favorite sport.…

A Place For Over 30 MBA Applicants? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 25, 2016

Is There A Place For Over-30 MBA Applicants? Is 40 the new 30? Not if you want to start a full-time MBA program. That’s the stereotype, I’m afraid. Once you pass the 30 year mark, the academic world supposedly looks at you differently. Suddenly, you’re out of touch and set in your ways, unable to…

IESE MBAs Storm Startup Epicenter (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: April 6, 2016

The mutual infatuation between MBAs and the tech and startup world continues to blossom. Over the past few years, Amazon has emerged as one of the biggest employers of elite MBAs. Google and Apple now top McKinsey, Deloitte and other MBA-centric firms as the "most desirable" places to work for MBAs. And increasingly, MBAs from…

How NOT To Blow Your HBS Interview (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: April 20, 2016

https://youtu.be/PsCWa64xxEQ Harvard Business School today (April 20) sent its last batch of interviews for 2015-2016 applicants, letting round three candidates know if they are moving forward to the next stage toward a possible admit letter or an outright ding. The school said it will be interviewing on campus on April 29 and May 2 and…

Other Things You Could Buy For The $141K Cost Of An MBA (NEWS)

By: Paul Ollinger | Last Updated: March 26, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Exp8Rj1JI88 Does the MBA pay off? Me: Hell yes it pays off. You: Is that a guarantee? Me: Yeah, man. Haven’t you been paying attention? You: So it will absolutely, positively have a positive financial ROI? Me: Well … While attaining an MBA will move you down the road to enlightenment, getting an MBA is…

Translating Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ Manifesto For Young Girls (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: April 28, 2016

Long before Ching-Ching Chen and Preeya Sud knew that they would be going to Harvard Business School as first-year MBA students, they shared a common passion even though they were worlds apart. Both women had read and devoured Sheryl Sandberg’s bestselling manifesto of female empowerment, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead. To…

2016 Best MBAs: Dipika Sawhney, Cambridge Judge (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 14, 2016

Dipika Sawhney Cambridge Judge Business School "I want to create and run a social-retail platform that could help rural entrepreneurs back home in India. I have been a journalist and travelled to some of the remotest riot-torn, militant affected and poor regions of India. I have also volunteered extensively for over seven years, working with some…

2016 Best MBAs: Jordan Selva, USC Marshall (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 15, 2016

Jordan Selva University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business “Jordan is a natural leader. He invests deeply in his team, and is always willing to go the extra mile to help anyone who needs his assistance or encouragement. But for as heavily involved as he is, he is also the calm center of the…

2016 Best MBAs: Mikayla Hart, University of Rochester (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 15, 2016

Mikayla Hart Simon Business School, University of Rochester "Where is Mikayla going next? Wherever she is needed, wherever is new, wherever she wants.” Age: 27 Hometown: Hanalei, HI Undergraduate School and Degree: University of Hawaii, Finance and International Business Where did you work before enrolling in business school? Rip Curl, Senior Financial Analyst Where…

2016 Best MBAs: Pedro Filipe Tavares Ramos, INSEAD (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 15, 2016

Pedro Filipe Tavares Ramos INSEAD (With exchange at Wharton, through the Wharton–INSEAD alliance) "In school, I remember always smiling during International Political Analysis classes realizing that we were 75 people from 50-60 nationalities discussing the most prominent issues of our generation – that’s special!" Age: 29 Hometown: Lisbon, Portugal Education: Warwick Business School (UK),…

November 18, 2015 (CALENDAR)

By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: October 26, 2015

Harvard Business School is hosting an information session in London, Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at Impact Hub Westminster, 1st Floor New Zealand House 80, 80 Haymarket, London, UK. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA program at Harvard Business School. The event will…

Laura Freedman (CONSULTANT)

By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: October 22, 2015

Uncommonly strong INSEAD experience: 10+ years as an INSEAD alumni interviewer, 20+ years of INSEAD alumni leadership roles on three continents (my name is even on an amphi). Deep experience career counseling: Career coach for INSEAD MBA Asia Campus Career Development Centre, National University of Singapore's (NUS) MBA and Lee Kwan Yew School of Public…

Krista Nannery (CONSULTANT)

By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: July 18, 2025

mbaMission is the world’s leading MBA admissions consulting firm and the only one exclusively recommended by Manhattan Prep and Kaplan GMAT. Our dedicated, full-time Senior Consultants work one-on-one with business school candidates to identify and showcase their strongest attributes in their applications. When applying to an elite MBA program, you need elite experience on your…

Amanda (CONSULTANT)

By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: November 13, 2024

The trailblazer in MBA admissions consulting is the team at Stacy Blackman Consulting (SBC). No other firm has demonstrated not only staying power for over two decades but also built a top-tier team of consultants with bios that would impress even the most discerning MBA applicant. Their real-world MBA admissions committee expertise enables SBC consultants…

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