This time of year the same question comes up: is it worth applying in Round 3?. And every year students get in an go to their dream schools. But is it too risky?
Fewer Spaces, Tired Application Readers
Well, it is more competitive, as admissions committee bloggers from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business recently optined. But it is not impossible, In fact, a work - or even a life chan
The Financial Times' Global Rankings came out recently, and it looks like everyone is a winner. This is one list of several, and fortunately, there’s no one definitive list, with a definitive methodology. That’s way many schools can slice and dice the data to claim theyare highly ranked according to someone.
I, for one, am glad that there are a...
Masters Channel is pleased to announce the official launch of its first fundraising campaign, “Help America Smile Again.” The organization, founded last year by Diogo Pascoal, his sister Candice Pascoal and their long-time friend Richard Baldwin, has grown into the world’s premier provider...
I get lots of questions from students who are thinking about an MBA, and people wonder what is the "right" path to get there. In truth, there are many paths, but here's a case of a student who already had one option, and is wondering about another.
Q: I have an offer to work at a small early stage venture capital firm straight from undergrad. I am interested in working in VC...
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In the one-hour webinar, Harvard Business School graduate and Stanford GSB leadership communications coach Betsy Massar will draw upon her extensive experience working with students who have been accepted into the world’s top schools.
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Prospective MBA students often get very nervous about resumes, worrying madly if they’ve got the perfect sequence for admission to the top business schools.
Here’s the good news:
1. It’s ok if you have a gap in your resume
2. There’s no perfect work sequence
In fact, I consider the worry about a “resume gap” one of the biggest myths in business school...
I get queried all the time about entrepreneurship at business school, and after my HBS reunion, I'm going to say YES! An MBA is great for entrepreneurship. Whether you are here in Silicon Valley, or anywhere in the world. Business education is about a way of thinking, much more than it is about actual techniques. The latter is useful too, and that's why there's such a thing as a core,...
So, what do you want to when you grow up? That’s the spirit behind the goals questions on business school applications.
This prompt is partly about your ability to plan logically and partly about your ability to envision a wild future. Some schools even make their desire for you to think big quite clear--Stanford GSB asks, “What do you want...
Just about everyone, that is, other than McKinsey consultants and Goldman analysts, call themselves non-traditional candidates for business school. Why? Because they think that everyone who will populate the next MBA class comes from management consulting or finance.
We all of know a few consultants, investment banking types, and more than a few engineers at business school. And indeed, if you look at the profiles of many business schools (here’s a...
