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To HBS From Randolph-Macon? (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 21, 2021

If you did your undergraduate degree at Randolph-Macon College, a small liberal arts school in Ashland, Virginia, what are the chances that you would be accepted by the Harvard Business School? Or how about Kettering University in Flint, Michigan, or the University of Cincinnati in Ohio? If you said you have a snowball’s chance in…

Scenes From Harvard’s Super Rich MBAs (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 26, 2023

Michael Hess isn’t an ordinary member of Harvard Business School’s Class of 2013. After all, he’s a legacy graduate of both HBS and Harvard University and the son of John Hess whose net worth is estimated at north of $600 million. His father is chairman and CEO of the Hess Corp. which was founded by…

The Obvious & Not-So-Obvious Reasons To Get An MBA (NEWS)

By: JustinTime | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

Earlier this year when I had little over a year of professional experience, I decided it was time for a change. I knew I wanted international experience and that it would take six to eight months to figure it all out. I reached out to the human resources department at my company and started looking…

Most Promising Startup Ideas From Harvard (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

A website to plan bachelorette parties? A new way to help small businesses find and land federal contracts? And an online network for mental health, allowing physicians, case managers, and counselors to coordinate patient care? Those are just three of the nine new startup ideas from Harvard Business School MBA students that have won $5,000 each…

Meet The Dog Who Got An MBA (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

BBC Busts University For Awarding An MBA To A Dog It’s official: Higher education has gone to the dogs! You might believe that after the BBC exposed the American University of London (AUOL) for awarding an MBA to “Peter Smith,” a dog living in a London kennel. Talk about rags-to-riches! This “Shady and The…

Best Of Sandy’s HBS & Stanford Ding Report (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

This 28-year-old Marine Corps intelligence officer seemed on the path to Stanford. A Phillips Exeter grad, he went to the U.S. Naval Academy and once in the Marines led teams as large as 150 soldiers in Iraq and the U.S. With a 730 GMAT and a 3.5 grade point average, his goal is to pursue…

The MBA Gatekeeper At MIT Sloan (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 23, 2013

Dawna Levenson made a lot of people very happy on Friday (Dec. 20)—and an even greater number of people disappointed and sad. As director of admissions at MIT’s prestigious Sloan School of Management, Levenson notified round one applicants whether they were admitted, dinged or wait listed just before the Christmas holiday. If all went according…

The MBA Triple Jump: Using The Degree To Reinvent Yourself (NEWS)

By: Lauren Everitt | Last Updated: June 18, 2020

The MBA triple jump is the most difficult thing an MBA student can pull off. For many, it might well be the hardest challenge they'll tackle over a lifetime. Just a select few attempt it--and even fewer succeed. It is the ultimate act of reinvention. Instead of leveraging the MBA to make one or even…

Where Harvard MBAs Live & Work (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 18, 2020

If you want to work for one of the world's most elite and prestigious organizations, a Harvard Business School MBA is your ticket to entry. McKinsey & Co., the global consulting company, leads all employers of HBS grads, with 573 MBAs. That's considerably more than the next major employer of Harvard MBAs, surprisingly IBM, with…

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The Second Round Ding Report (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 11, 2020

He’s a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at a Fortune 100 company where he has worked in a process improvement consulting role for the past two years. With a hefty 760 GMAT and a 3.8 grade point average from a Top 20 university, this 26-year-old professional also has spectacular extracurricular activities to his credit, from…

Yale SOM Ups Ante On Global Strategy (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 11, 2020

When The Financial Times’ ranking came out in January, one of the biggest winners of all was Yale University’s School of Management. The school climbed four places to finish in the world’s Top Ten for the first time in seven years. The reason for the upswing? Dean Edward “Ted” Snyder’s highly successful efforts to make…

Saïd MBA To Row In Oxford Cambridge Boat Race (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 10, 2020

More often than not, getting an MBA is a fairly grueling experience--particularly in the first year curriculum when business school professors love to throw so much work at their students they can't possibly do it all. Yet for Storm Uru, an MBA at Oxford University's Saїd Business School, his homework isn't enough to deter him…

Savvy Advice For MBA Applicants In India (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 21, 2014

It’s no secret that the world’s top business schools have been flooded by applications from Indian candidates in recent years. In the 2012-2013 GMAT testing year, applicants from India took the GMAT 25,268 times, third in the world behind only the U.S. at 90,541 and China at 53,005. But it may be less known that…

How Essay Reductions Impact Applicants (NEWS)

By: Jana-Blanchette | Last Updated: June 2, 2020

Two years ago, the Harvard Business School made a bold move by reducing the application requirements for potential MBA applicants. They moved to one essay, technically optional, and reduced the number of required letters of recommendation. It didn’t take long for their rivals to follow suit. Top MBA programs like HBS, Stanford, Wharton, Ross, Sloan,…

Advice To The Next Generation Of MBAs (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 8, 2020

Advice to the Next Generation of MBAs “Too many tears were shed last year at the GSB,” Shirzad Bozorgchami wrote after his first year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “Many of my classmates and I went through what I would now consider to have been unnecessary pain and hardship – both academically…

A Day In The Life Of A Stanford First Year MBA (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 8, 2020

You don’t really know what it’s like until you get there. That’s certainly true of business school. Sure, you can meet with alumni and second years over coffee. And those encounters will give you a snapshot of MBA life. Like all snapshots, they only capture the sentiments of a passing moment. Some chats will frame…

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What Employers Really Think About Online MBAs (NEWS)

By: Sandy Khan | Last Updated: April 6, 2020

THE VALUE OF AN ONLINE MBA FOR STUDENTS IS CLEAR If you are looking to advance your career but don’t have the time or money for classroom study, then an online MBA might be the right choice. There’s increasing sophistication and variety among online and distance-learning options (e.g. blended MBA programs, MOOCs, SPOCs, etc.), which…

Hult: A Powerhouse Or A Pariah? (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: July 2, 2020

This is the second of a two-part series on Hult International Business School. The first part ran yesterday under the headline "The Story Behind The Remarkable Growth Of The World's Largest Graduate School Of Business." Depending on who's talking, Hult International Business School can be a money-sucking educational cesspool or a plucky, innovative rising star. …

What Ever Happened To The MBAs On The Apprentice? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 2, 2020

“You’re hired to be fired.” That mantra certainly applied to Donald Trump’s The Apprentice. Ten years ago, the tacky show replaced Friends as the staple of NBC’s Thursday night lineup. If you were a business student, The Apprentice was truly must-see TV! You remember the premise. Each season, the producers would pick 18 often…

Harvard MBAs Create A Youthful OpEd Site (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: October 1, 2014

Four globally focused Harvard Business School students including a former White House national security director have launched an international news and opinion website aimed at young professionals. The group say they want to educate peers, broaden and deepen dialog about global affairs, and help prepare the next generation of leaders - rather than rake in piles…

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Did You Get Good News From HBS? (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 8, 2014

It was 6 p.m. in Egypt for me. I was on a work phone call when I heard a tiny beep in the middle of the call meaning that I got an email. I instantly hung up, checked the email, said "HELL YEAH!" at the top of my voice, then called back the technical…

Face Time Key To Hybrid MBA Battle (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: October 16, 2014

Business schools have fought each other for students ever since Grok opened the Paleolithic Commerce Institute right next door to Trog's well-established School for Counting Rocks. Eventually, the teaching and learning moved from caves into classrooms, and students and professors became a bit more, well, evolved, but for millennia, not a whole lot changed…

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Who HBS Dinged In The First Round (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 20, 2014

This 28-year-old captain in the U.S. Marine Corps has been a prosecutor for the past three years, having been recently promoted as U.S. attorney for his air station. He grew up in Singapore and has an undergraduate degree from New York University and his J.D. from William & Mary. With a 720 GMAT, he applied…

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Wharton’s Trick-Or-Treat Ding Day (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 31, 2014

Thousands of hopeful round one applicants to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School got a trick-or-treat experience from the school today. On Halloween, Wharton told its early bird candidates whether they would be given a treat--an invitation to interview with the school--or a trick and were dinged. Wharton is the second highly selective school to…

Recruit Foreign Students More Selectively: Rochester Dean (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: December 12, 2014

It happens so often: it turns out that the easy fix is not really a fix at all. For business schools competing strenuously for students, a pool of very bright, high-performing potential applicants appears to offer salvation - and rankings glory. And when that pool contains millions of individual saviors, why, it makes sense to…

Handicapping Your MBA Odds: Ms. Automotive, Ms. Finance, Mr. Auditor, Mr. NGO, Ms. Financial Analyst (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne and Sandy Kreisberg | Last Updated: July 6, 2023

Our highly popular MBA handicapping series is back, with a new video and four great legacy assessments of real candidates who want to get into a top business school. After focusing on his round one and round one clients, Sanford “Sandy” Kreisberg, founder of MBA admissions consulting firm HBSGuru.com, is returning to analyze these and a…

December 10, 2014 (CALENDAR)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: November 20, 2014

University of Oxford | London Information Session December 10, 2014, 6:45 p.m., 116 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5ED, United Kingdom We are pleased to invite you to an information session in London on Wednesday 10 December at the Institute of Directors where Jonathon Reynolds, Associate Dean of Degree Programmes at Saïd Business School, will deliver a…

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