Search Results for: london business school (3438 results found) Meet the MBA Class of 2021: Teniola Esan, Imperial College (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 19, 2020 Teniola Esan (Preferred name: Ten) Imperial College Business SchoolImperial College Business School “Goal-oriented, disciplined leader-in-training, seeking to grow and promote sustainable business through wealth management.” Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria Fun Fact About Yourself: At age 15, my brother and I formed a rock band and put out a few songs that became hits and landed us… Meet the MBA Class of 2021: Ronald Johnson II, Imperial College (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 19, 2020 Ronald Johnson II Imperial College Business School “I’m a curious adventurer with an affinity for life.” Hometown: Orange County, California Fun Fact About Yourself: My dad was attacked by a Great White Shark and was on Discovery’s Shark Week. Yes he’s fine. Undergraduate School and Major: University of Southern California – BA, Economics Most Recent… Meet the MBA Class of 2021: Alberta Asafo-Asamoah, Imperial College (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 19, 2020 Alberta Asafo-Asamoah Imperial College Business School “An astute problem solver and a ball of energy.” Hometown: Accra, Ghana and London, UK Fun Fact About Yourself: I used to be a choreographer for a dance organisation at Syracuse University. Occasionally, I create dance videos with my family. Undergraduate School and Major: Syracuse University, Double Major: Economics,… Meet the MBA Class of 2021: Vatshalan Santhirapala, Imperial College (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 19, 2020 Vatshalan Santhirapala Imperial College Business School “On a lifelong quest for Ikigai.” Hometown: London, United Kingdom Fun Fact About Yourself: In an alternate reality. I would have been a marine biologist Undergraduate School and Major: Medicine (MBBS BSc) Imperial College London, Master of Public Health (MPH) Harvard University Most Recent Employer and Job Title: Harvard… Meet the MBA Class of 2021: Shannon Wong, Imperial College (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 19, 2020 Shannon Wong Imperial College Business School “Typical INTJ who focuses on planning and getting results, bonding with others over ideas.” Hometown: Hong Kong Fun Fact About Yourself: I am a big fan of Kevin Richardson, a wildlife conservationist who has devoted most of his life to saving big cats from canned hunting. I hope that… Meet the MBA Class of 2021: Aoife Considine, Imperial College (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 19, 2020 Aoife Considine Imperial College Business School “Irish Chartered Mechanical Engineer with a love of transport systems, ballet, dogs and mashed potato.” Hometown: Sligo, Ireland Fun Fact About Yourself: I have appeared on two engineering-based TV shows including one where I spent a week living in the Mexican mountains with four other engineers I’d never met… Meet the MBA Class of 2021: Joanne (Xueting) Long, Imperial College (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 19, 2020 Joanne (Xueting) Long Imperial College Business School “Curious about everything, especially new technologies.” Hometown: Shenzhen, China Fun Fact About Yourself: I have completed three full marathons. Undergraduate School and Major: Nanjing Normal University, Business and English Most Recent Employer and Job Title: DragonEx, Co-founder & COO Aside from your classmates, what was the key part… Meet the MBA Class of 2021: Jayshan Ratnakumar, Imperial College (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 19, 2020 Jayshan Ratnakumar Imperial College Business School “I'm creative, resilient and motivated, with a passion to be a force for positive change.” Hometown: London, UK Fun Fact About Yourself: I love to explore my creativity – I play the eastern classical flute, draw and craft and build drones. I’ve also been inside a nuclear submarine! Undergraduate… Meet Imperial College’s MBA Class Of 2021 (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 19, 2020 Imagine London as a word cloud. Chances are, it would include all the landmarks: Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, The Tower of London, and The Underground. People would cite black cabs and double-decker buses, fish and chips with ale, rowboats in Hyde Park, and clippers along the Thames. Don’t forget rain, royals, and pigeons too. Most… MBA Handicapping: How To Maximize A 320 GRE And 3.4 GPA (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 2, 2023 https://youtu.be/X5duSO8FXlo Sam is a U.S. Army Captain who is ready to make the transition to civilian life as a managing consultant. Now an assistant professor teaching leadership in the ROTC program at Washington University, this 30-year-old professional has racked up years in military service, serving in both Germany and South Korea in communications and information… Consulting Widens Gap In Chicago Booth’s Final 2020 MBA Jobs Report (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: November 25, 2020 The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has released its final MBA Class of 2020 employment report, and the impact of coronavirus on Boothies' job hunt can be seen in where they found work and for how much. In short, closer to home and for only moderately more money. The overall median base salary… MBA Handicapping: 720 vs. 740 GMAT: The Difference Can Be HUGE (NEWS) By: Sandy Kreisberg & John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 https://youtu.be/GV5gv0klBJM Many applicants will see themselves in Zack's profile. He didn't graduate from a prestigious university. He didn't get straight As on his undergraduate transcript. Instead of working at a well-known company, he is employed at a private firm many would never have heard of. And for a white male, his 720 GMAT score will… Meet the MBA Class of 2022: Patrick Flood Mauel, University of Chicago (Booth) (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: December 2, 2020 Patrick Flood Mauel University of Chicago, Booth School of Business “Curious, open-minded, resilient, creative, hungry.” Hometown: Houston, TX Fun Fact About Yourself: My first job was operating a mini-donut machine in Northwest Iowa. I have not eaten a mini-donut since. Undergraduate School and Major: Applied Math – Statistics at Harvard University Most Recent Employer and… Meet the MBA Class of 2022: Nayantara Eashwar, Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: December 4, 2020 Nayantara Eashwar Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College “Here to soak in everything I possibly can and have the most fun doing it!” Hometown: Bangalore, India Fun Fact About Yourself: I love food and will try everything once. I once mustered up the courage to try balut while on holiday in the Philippines -… MBA Handicapping: Overcoming Two Strikes: A Low GPA & A Low GMAT (NEWS) By: Sandy Kreisberg & John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 https://youtu.be/7W_dmD8hOsQ It is often said that MBA admission officials will blink once but never twice. Bitul may well be asking for the double blink during one of the most competitive MBA admission cycles ever. At Birla Institue of Technology and Science in India, he racked up a 6.15 on a ten-point scale, the equivalent of… MBA Handicapping: Average GMAT & GPA? Check. What You Need To Bust Into Booth & Kellogg (NEWS) By: Sandy Kreisberg & John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 https://youtu.be/xkUKr8jjLzU Andrew is a solid MBA candidate, with a 730 GMAT that is above the class averages for every business school he has targeted. A senior consultant at EY, this 24-year-old professional has worked at both KPMG as an auditor and EY where he is in the technical accounting advisory. He has a 3.5 GPA in… MBA Handicapping: Mexico, Mastercard, Maestro: 3 Hooks For An M7 Admit? (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 25, 2023 https://youtu.be/IrUqmAUs9gU Eduardo works as an internal consultant to Mastercard in Mexico, having helped with projects in Haiti, Nicaragua, and Spain. With a 710 GMAT and a 3.4 GPA in actuarial science from ITAM from which he was among the top 20% of the graduates, he's hoping to earn his way into the MBA programs at… MBA Handicapping: Too Young For HBS, Even With A 750? (NEWS) By: Sandy Kreisberg & John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 25, 2023 https://youtu.be/pX_3m198W4c If you had these stats--a 750 GMAT with great quant/verbal splits and a 3.64 GPA in a demanding major like engineering from Purdue--you would think you are well on your way into a great business school. But Arya would bring slightly less than two years of full-time work experience with him at matriculation. Will… COVID Quickens UK Doctors’ Embrace Of The MBA (NEWS) By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: January 13, 2021 Even before the coronavirus pandemic ravaged health systems worldwide, the healthcare sector was facing huge changes. An aging population, big data, technological breakthroughs, and videoconferencing have long been promising to revolutionize the way doctors and hospitals work, but the pandemic has exposed the fractures and fault lines in many systems, accelerated those evolutions and introducing… MBA Handicapping: Can This Band Leader Jazz His 3.3 GPA Into HBS 2+2? Working At McKinsey Helps (NEWS) By: Sandy Kreisberg & John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 2, 2023 https://youtu.be/wcsuadR1H0M If you were to adopt Sandy's rule that admissions will blink once but never twice you might give Christian slim odds for an admit to Harvard Business School's MBA program. In his senior year at a non-flagship midwestern university, he has a 3.3 GPA in jazz studies. So for one thing, his grades are… MBA Handicapping: The Basics Of Getting An MD-MBA (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 2, 2023 https://youtu.be/DuhYqDMv9vU Logan is a third-year medical student who wants to get an MBA degree. The 28-year-old has a 3.86 GPA with a pre-med major from Brigham Young University and a 331 GRE score. He was co-captain of his college rugby team, a group of players that went on to win a national championship. And his… MBA Handicapping: 40% Quant Yet High Odds For HBS 2+2. Find Out Why (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 2, 2023 https://youtu.be/ir_l7zR9TOI Nick is one of four quadruplets who are all seniors at Yale University. If that alone doesn't make him an unusual MBA candidate, there's much more. The 22-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio, is fluent in Arabic, having been awarded two State Department scholarships to study the language in both Morocco and Jordan. After a summer… MBA Handicapping: 2+2 Positioning For Finance Types (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 2, 2023 https://youtu.be/vtMPFnkWKA0 Lily is a senior at the University of Chicago majoring in economics and on her way to a sales and grading job at Citibank. She's also keeping an eye on her future, applying now for deferred admission to a group of the very best MBA programs at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Kellogg and Chicago Booth.… 2021 CentreCourt MBA Alumni: Chen Chowers, INSEAD (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 12, 2021 Chen Chowers MBA Program: INSEAD Class: 2018D Current Location: London, UK Current Company and Title: Overstone Art; Head of Operations Why did you choose to earn your MBA at this business school? The thought of INSEAD came hand-in hand with the initial thought of doing an MBA. Prior to INSEAD, my career was focused on… Meet the MBA Class of 2021: Nancy Tong, INSEAD (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 18, 2021 Nancy Tong INSEAD “Work Hard, Play Hard, Go Far.” Hometown: Beijing, China Fun Fact About Yourself: It took me 5 times to pass the driving test…. Undergraduate School and Major: London School of Economics, BSc Economics Most Recent Employer and Job Title: Project Manager at a stealth start-up Aside from your classmates, what was the… Meet the MBA Class of 2021: Etienne de Geloes, INSEAD (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 18, 2021 Etienne de Geloes INSEAD “Filling the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run.” Hometown: Versailles, France Fun Fact About Yourself: In 2007, while working in London as an intern in a private charter company, I was contacted by a band manager to organize a tour in the US and in Canada. That’s when… Cathy (CONSULTANT) By: | Last Updated: November 11, 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. 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