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LBS Debuts Masters In Financial Analysis (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: June 30, 2015

It’s no secret that millennials aren’t banging down Wall Street doors. Despite signs of renewed interest in investment banking, recent grads, generally speaking, aren’t too interested. Truth is, being an investment banker at Morgan Stanley is not as sexy as a job at Apple or Google. Nor is being a financial advisor at Goldman Sachs as meaningful as…

Top 10 Programs For Entrepreneurship? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 3, 2015

Top 10 Programs For Entrepreneurship East Coast vs. West Coast. Talk about a rivalry that has defined America! Traditionally, the east has represented power and heritage. With the right pedigree, you could open any door and live a life of privilege. As Americans grew restless, the west harkened the dreamers and inventors seeking freedom and…

Class Of 2015: The Toughest Part Of The MBA Experience (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 8, 2015

You thought getting into business school was hard? Just wait until you step onto campus. Used to working 70 hour weeks? Start preparing for 90-100 hours. Graduate near the top of your class? So did most of the members of your cohort. In fact, you’ll probably be muttering, “So much, so fast” after your first…

The MBA Gatekeeper At UT McCombs (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: July 10, 2015

For applicants at the University of Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business, there's such a thing as "too much" -  but not always. A would-be McCombs MBA might badger the admissions office too much, crossing the line from diligence to harassment. An applicant may spend too much time applying at too many other schools, diluting the power of…

A Boot Camp Pitch For Getting An MBA in China (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: July 21, 2015

Hurtling into Shanghai at more than 200 miles per hour on a bullet train to attend a pre-MBA boot camp at a leading Chinese business school gave international participants a striking welcome to China’s breathtaking ascendance. And for the boot campers--prospective applicants and students from Asia, the U.S., Latin America, and Europe--the first lecture was…

The MBA Gatekeeper At Cornell Johnson (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: July 30, 2015

If you’re thinking about an MBA, you need to start getting your finances in order - before you even start applying to business schools. So says Judi Byers, executive director of admissions at the Cornell University Johnson School of Management. Byers recommends putting your dollar signs in a row because taking care of that allows more…

An LBS Master’s Student’s Bumpy Road To A Peer-To-Peer Financial Startup (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: July 30, 2015

Sometimes just a few words can shape our lives forever. For Norah Prida Bay, that happened at a childhood Christmas dinner in her home in Mexico City. The entire family was gathered around the table. It was a male-dominated table in a male-dominated world. Her grandfather had four sons and all of those sons had…

The MBA Gatekeeper At NYU Stern (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: September 13, 2023

Isser Gallogly doesn’t want to hear you drop the F-bomb, but when it comes to your personal Kryptonite, he’s all ears. Gallogly, assistant dean of MBA admissions at the New York University's Stern School of Business, estimates he’s read more than 50,000 application essays during his dozen years at the school. While he and his colleagues assess…

The MBA Gatekeeper At McDonough (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: September 13, 2023

When going through the application process for a top business school, it's a good idea to avoid annoying those who are making the ultimate decisions. It's best not to spam the entire dean's suite during a holiday break asking for an admissions response. And it's advisable to avoid stalking the LinkedIn accounts of 50 alums from your top school…

The MBA Gatekeeper At UNC Kenan-Flagler (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: September 13, 2023

The ancient Greek exhortation “know thyself” predates business schools by a couple thousand years, but MBA program applicants would do well to take it as timeless advice. Because if you’re striving to get into a highly selective business school, the committee responsible for deciding whether or not to admit you will want to know all…

Is Amazon’s Culture Really That Bad? (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 19, 2015

Few companies have been more aggressive at recruiting MBAs from highly ranked business schools than Amazon in recent years. The company has been hiring MBAs in the hundreds annually and typically brings in more than 200 MBA students as summer interns. Last year, the dozen or so of Amazon HR officials who screen MBA candidates…

How To Manage Your Recommenders (NEWS)

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

How To Manage Your Recommenders When it comes to asking for something, the cardinal rule is, “The worst they can say is no.” However, that can be dangerous advice when you ask for a letter of recommendation. With MBA admissions, no letter is often better than a bad letter. Think about everything that could possibly…

The MBA Gatekeeper At Yale SOM (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: October 11, 2019

Here are three important rules to follow in an admissions interview for the Yale University School of Management MBA program: 1. Sit up straight 2. Be yourself 3. Don’t throw pencils at the interviewer Easy, yes? Maybe not. But there’s no need to worry, necessarily, about a little misstep in the application process. Maybe you…

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How A Father And Son Ended Up At LBS (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: August 26, 2015

When Matthew Vatcher stepped onto London Business School's campus to begin the year-long Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy Program, he was quite literally following in the footsteps of his father. Three decades earlier, his dad, David Vatcher, entered the same program on a full scholarship from Britain's Royal Navy. When the younger Vatcher began the…

The Highest Paying MBA Concentrations (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 6, 2015

The Highest Paying MBA Concentrations Choosing the right school isn’t the only big decision you must make. You’ll also need to consider where you want to work (and where you want to live). And those decisions are dictated, to an extent, by the concentration you choose in business school. School networks and prestige matter, no…

Meet INSEAD’s Incoming Class of 2016 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 10, 2015

INSEAD brands itself as the “business school for the world.” When it comes to the Class of 2016, you won’t find a more diverse collection of global-minded professionals anywhere. How diverse? This August, 490 full-time MBA students arrived on the school's campuses in France and Singapore (Another group of some 500 students will join the…

HEC Paris & Cambridge Score Ranking Gains (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 10, 2015

INSEAD and London Business School topped all of the other international MBA programs in the 2015 best business school ranking published yesterday by Forbes magazine. INSEAD delivered the best return-on-investment of any MBA in the world, even edging out Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, to take first place in its one-year MBA international category.…

Reaching Out Grants 22 MBA Fellowships (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: September 17, 2015

When the United States Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriages nationwide with its June 26th ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, it was another big step forward for LGBT rights and equality in this country. And this week marked another step forward towards inclusion in the MBA and business communities. Reaching Out, Inc. (largely known in the MBA…

Nepal’s Earthquake: An MBA’s Account (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: September 17, 2015

Many probably can’t remember what they were doing on April 25, 2015. For most, it was just another day. Daria Danilina remembers it well. She was perched atop the bamboo terrace of a home in the Makalu village in the northeast corner of Nepal’s Himalayan region. And she barely felt a shake. Soon after, she…

GSB Scandal A Non-Issue For Applicants (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 21, 2015

When tomorrow’s round one deadline for applications at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business ticks off at 5 p.m., Paul Wyper will be among the nearly 3,000 hopeful candidates. Like most of those applicants, he has read the scandalous stories that led to the resignation of Stanford Dean Garth Saloner. But those stories, detailing allegations…

Meet The HEC Paris MBA Class of 2017 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 2, 2015

There’s something romantic about returning to business school – meeting new people, exploring fresh haunts, and reverting to those fall rhythms. And it’s only amplified when you take a pilgrimage to Paris to study. Like many, you probably picture strolling down the artist’s square to discover the next Picasso or flirting with a stranger in…

Meet The IESE MBA Class of 2017 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 7, 2015

Historically, the image of a ‘city upon a hill’ has inspired Western artists and politicians. It conveys a sense of serenity and success, the embodiment of our aspirations for community and culture. That symbolism isn’t lost on the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra. From here, you can marvel at Barcelona’s mix of…

Booth Tops 2015 Economist Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 15, 2015

Here we go again! The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business emerged the No. 1 MBA program in The Economist's 2015 global ranking of the best business schools (today) for the fourth consecutive year. But if you're looking for any consistency out of this ranking, you'll be deeply disappointed. Even among the Top 25…

The Economist’s 2015 Big MBA Rankings’ Winners & Losers (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 16, 2015

Rankings give and they take. That's why business schools have a love-hate relationship with them. They love a ranking when their MBA programs do better. And when their programs fall, the love affair ends rather abruptly. The Economist's 2015 ranking of the best MBA programs in the world, published yesterday (Oct. 15), has plenty of…

Canada’s Ivey Tops 2015 BW International MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 13, 2023

For the second consecutive year, the Richard Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario captured the top spot in Bloomberg Businessweek's ranking of the best MBA programs outside the U.S. In taking first place, Ivey beat out such big guns in international business education as London Business School, INSEAD, Cambridge and Oxford. Though…

Meet The Oxford Saïd MBA Class of 2016 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 25, 2015

Tradition and privilege. That’s what some associate with Oxford University. They imagine prim-and-proper students, following manners and mores out of a Jane Austen ball. Versed in Plato and Milton and pointed to the past, Oxford grads are supposedly destined to hold ceremonial posts in the House of Lords – living out their days holding tea…

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

My MBA admissions consulting clients have been admitted to Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, Columbia, INSEAD, London Business School, Duke Fuqua, NYU Stern, UVA Darden, Yale SOM, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Indiana Kelley, Georgetown McDonough, Washington Foster, Arizona State Carey, USC Marshall, Maryland Smith, Nanyang, Thunderbird, Rutgers, Boston College Carroll,…