Posted by Clear Admit on December 21, 2007, at 11:53 am
Posted in:  Fridays from the Frontline Welcome back to this week’s Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly report on current events in the MBA blogosphere. With visions of admits dancing in their heads, applicants were in a frenzy this week, while current students found themselves rather nostalgic for acceptances past. Let’s hear what all the buzz was about…
Congratulations to B-School Bound, who found himself among the ranks accepted at Wharton. On the other hand, his “now at least I know I’ll be going somewhere next year” sentiment probably found him little company! To his credit, later in the day he sounded a bit more excited… Our congratulations also go out to Power Leveler, whose “Yes” from INSEAD (complete with her first homework assignment) rescued what was otherwise shaping up to be a pretty dismal week.
Sadly, the yes/no limbo isn’t over for Bschool Diva, who got the old “hurry up and wait” from the Chicago GSB adcom, while Wannabe meditated on a ding with sting from Tuck, not to mention the future of his blog. Mbabound08 stuck to the basics regarding his Wharton news: No he didn’t get in, and no he didn’t want to go anyway, at least not to Philly. But what’s there to hate about “the city that loves you back”?!
Reminiscing on this glorious day last year, Jat congratulated Tuck’s Early Action admits, urging them to start getting to know each other through the online Tuck community. However, Forrest felt for those still in the waiting game, offering some insightful advice on escaping the waitlist at the GSB and elsewhere. Necromonger was also in an altruistic mood, continuing his resume tutorial with the top five CV dos and don’ts.
In Cambridge, AGirlsMBA checked back in after a lengthy hiatus, extolling her peers, profs, section, the case method, the social life… pretty much everything about life at HBS! In blustery New York City, Iday was also feeling pretty peachy, despite kicking off his trip to the big apple in the hotel lobby for several hours.
On the second-year front, John apprised fellow students of the many viable marketing internship opportunities knocking on the door at CBS. Meanwhile, Rahul turned 30 at Kellogg, celebrating by studying for the next day’s Bankruptcy exam. Oh, does anyone remember Mbagladiator? He reappeared after what sounds to have been a very focused absence with news that his fundraising dreams will come true as Associate Director at CCS fundraising! Also notable were some mouthwatering pics of his SOM study group’s holiday Turducken meal. Jacek returned this week, too – to ESADE after three months in Africa, that is, finding his first breaths of European winter like a cold shower on a sweltering day.
And that about wraps up this week’s wrap up! So you can get back to wrapping up your presents, but please don’t forget to . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 21, 2007, at 3:28 am
Posted in: General So far we have heard from many people interested in sharing their thoughts on MBA programs, but we would still love your input. We’ve extended the survey deadline to Sunday, December 23rd in hopes that a few more of our readers find a few moments to complete our 10-minute online survey. By completing the survey you will help shape the future content of this web site and ensure that we are providing MBA applicants with a valued resource.
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Posted by Clear Admit on December 20, 2007, at 5:11 pm
Posted in: Interview Guides , School: Berkeley / Haas , School: Chicago , School: Columbia , School: Dartmouth / Tuck , School: Harvard , School: MIT / Sloan , School: Northwestern / Kellogg , School: NYU Stern , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford With the release of NYU Stern School of Business late last week and the launch of UC Berkeley Haas today, the Clear Admit Interview Guide catalog has 10 available titles:
Chicago Graduate School of Business Columbia Buisness School Haas School of Business Harvard Business School Kellogg School of Management MIT Sloan School of Management NYU Stern School of Business Stanford Graduate School of Business Tuck School of Business Wharton School
For more information, check out our Interview Guide announcement post or visit the Clear Admit shop. Good luck to all round one applicants who are still in the midst of this process!
Posted by Clear Admit on December 20, 2007, at 1:06 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Northwestern / Kellogg In the midst of this season of holiday exchanges, MBAs at top U.S. schools are taking time out of their studies for – and, in some instances, even devoting their studies toward – giving. In a series of posts over the next few days, we’ll look at how students in management programs around the country are helping donated toys find their way to needy children, rebuilding houses in storm-ravaged communities and helping parents make informed gift-giving decisions by ranking the year’s top toys.
Kellogg Students Play Santa
At Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, the student-run organization Business With a Heart (BWAH) is in the midst of its annual Holiday Gift Drive, which will help grant the holiday wishes of approximately 500 needy children in the greater Evanston area this season.
The drive is organized in conjunction with Family Focus (a Peoria-based family services center with branches in Chicago and Evanston), Evanston’s Oakton Elementary School and area youth resources and support center Youth Organizations Umbrella. BWAH members, who this year number more than 400, volunteer their time collecting “wishes” from children, marketing the event on campus and then gathering and wrapping donated gifts.
Included among the gifts this year was a shipment of Barbie dolls and trucks donated by Mattell for Kellogg’s pre-term Complete Immersion in Management orientation week. Though the students’ appreciated Mattell’s gesture in donating the toys to the “boys and girls of Kellogg,” BWAH immediately saw their more valuable re-gifting potential, according to Kellogg Student Activities Director Wendy Metter.
Metter serves as a community liaison between BWAH and the charitable organizations it works with – providing a consistent contact as the student-run group’s members change with each new MBA class. Thanks to the efforts of BWAH, the donated dolls and trucks will find their way to a local women’s shelter and the YMCA, Metter says. “Kellogg students are not just in the business of business, they are in the business of giving back,” she adds.
Kellogg’s commitment to bettering the Evanston community it is a part of was a major draw for BWAH President Andrea Courtois. “As I was looking for an MBA program one of my key decision points was the school’s community service and emphasis on social responsibility,” she told Kellogg School of Management News. BWAH immediately caught her eye during her school search because of its breadth of opportunities and the impact it has on the larger community. “You don’t see that in a lot of other schools,” Courtois added.
Tune in again tomorrow, when we’ll turn to Tuck’s MBA Fellows to learn which of the tech toys for 2007 make the best use of technology while packing the greatest play value.
Posted by Clear Admit on December 20, 2007, at 3:43 am
Posted in: Deadlines , School: Penn / Wharton The waiting game has come to an end for many first-round applicants, as a number of leading programs – Chicago, Tuck, Cornell, UNC, Kellogg, Columbia and LBS among them – have been releasing admissions decisions over the past few weeks. With Wharton releasing final decisions today to all round one applicants who were invited to interview, we thought this would be a good occasion to say good luck to everyone eagerly expecting news from that and other schools!
For those keeping track, here’s what the final notification calendar looks like for those programs that have yet to release all of their first-round admissions decisions to this crop of applicants:
Carnegie Mellon – December 21st Cornell Johnson (R2) – January 11th Michigan Ross – January 15th Harvard – January 16th Duke Fuqua- January 18th UCLA – January 18th Stanford – January 24th MIT Sloan – January 28th Berkeley Haas- January 29th NYU Stern – February 15th
Again, best of luck to those waiting to hear, and congratulations to those who’ve already received some positive news! Stay tuned to this blog in the coming weeks for advice on a range of topics such as deciding between schools, dealing with a ding, and navigating the waitlist.
Lining up a summer internship or full-time position for after graduation tops the New Year’s resolution lists of many a current MBA student. At Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business, students get a helping hand thanks to two annual school-led tours of major job markets on the east and west coasts in early January.
Approximately 45 first- and second-year students are scheduled to depart for the West Coast on January 3rd as part of a seven-day tour that will include meetings with such top employers as Apple, Google, Cisco, HP, Intel, SAP, KLA-Tencor, Agilent and Yahoo! Additionally, the tour is scheduled to coincide with the West Coast Forum, a collaborative recruiting event with the MBA programs at Duke University, Yale University, Vanderbilt University and the University of North Carolina.
As a special feature this year, the West Coast trek will also include a Silicon Valley Technology Leadership panel at Yahoo! featuring Tepper School alumni, including Jeffrey Housenbold, CEO of Shutterfly, on the evening students arrive. Other West Coast meetings will be held at a hotel in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf.
Meanwhile, a second group of Tepper students is New York–bound instead. This tour, which takes place from January 7th through 11th, puts Carnegie Mellon’s New York City classrooms (normally used for its Master of Science Program in Computational Finance) to use for students to interview with some of Wall Street’s biggest names, including Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, UBS and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
“Since some companies interested in the quality of student we have at Tepper aren’t able to come to Pittsburgh to see our program firsthand, we make it convenient for recruiters and take our students out to seek them,” said Ken Keeley, executive director of the Tepper School’s Career Opportunities Center.
Despite some uncertainty in the economy, Keeley reports that Tepper is still seeing strong interest in its students from companies across the board. Last year, more than 85 percent of Tepper MBA students had accepted a full-time job offer by graduation, and 96 percent had done so by three months after graduation. Of first-year students, nearly 100 percent had accepted a summer internship position by the end of the academic year.
Keeley expects similar results this year. “Our unique, analytically focused brand of management education is a hot commodity among recruiters as they seek the next generation of business leaders for their organizations,” he said.
For prospective MBAs anxiously awaiting news of first-round interviews or scrambling to meet upcoming application deadlines, isn’t it nice to know that once you’re in, you can look forward to some help from schools on that next round of applications and interviews…?
Posted by Clear Admit on December 19, 2007, at 5:15 am
Posted in: School: Chicago , Wiki Wednesdays Welcome to this week’s edition of Wiki Wednesdays, where we highlight new entries in the Clear Admit Wiki, a repository of MBA applicant experiences and observations. In honor of Chicago’s Round 1 acceptance calls going out today – ahead of their initially published January 3rd decision notification date – we’re taking a closer look at Chicago GSB interviews to pass on some preparation pointers to Round 2 applicants!
Chicago grants interviews on an invitation-only basis after evaluation of a submitted application. All interview invitations are released by Chicago’s “mid-decision” deadlines, which tend to fall four to six weeks after the relative round’s deadline date. Interviews are conducted either on campus or at an alternate, more convenient location for the interviewee by admissions staff, students or alumni.
Further, all Chicago interviews are blind and, though the interviewer will have the applicant’s resume, how much he or she uses it to direct the discussion can vary considerably. According to some recent Chicago interview reports, there has been some variability among alumni-conducted interviews. For instance, one alumni-interviewed applicant in Bangalore recounts, “[the interviewer] had taken a print out [of] my resume and had thoroughly [dissected] it. I could see his notes on my resume.”
Meanwhile, in stark contrast, according to another recent Chicago interviewee in Delhi,
“[The alumni interviewer] didn’t write anything or [refer] to my resume once. He kept looking into my eyes while I was answering without any expression. He was straight faced with limited expressions which couldn’t communicate to me whether he was convinced or not with my answers.”
Despite the interviewer’s potential preference for an applicant’s resume as a guide, it’s always best to be prepared by knowing what Chicago tends to ask. For instance, Chicago frequently tends to ask where one has applied. One such applicant who did his homework recounts, “[the interviewer] asked why not some other school. I was prepared for this and answered.” This also drives home the necessity of school-specific knowledge for Chicago’s interview – especially as seen in most Wiki interview reports that conclude with the question, “Why Chicago?”
In regards to potential interviewer reactions per the report in Delhi above, though one may not be able to read any signals from the interviewer, it’s important to remain confident and clear. Thorough preparation and research (as could be carried out with the Clear Admit Interview Guides) would best support this attitude.
Thanks to all those who have added their experiences to the Clear Admit Wiki! As you can see in a recent entry about a visit to Cornell, it’s not just a place for applicants to post their interviews, but also their general application experiences as well as campus visits. If you have an experience you would like to share for the benefit of other applicants, you can add it to the Wiki either by creating an account or sending your reports to wiki@clearadmit.com. Happy researching and best of luck to those still preparing for upcoming MBA . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 18, 2007, at 5:20 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: MIT / Sloan The MIT Entrepreneurship Competition, together with the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, last week announced that the 2008 competition, which kicks off in February, will feature a new award category and $50,000 in additional prize money as part of an effort to encourage participation by entrepreneurs in the social development sector.
Beginning in the coming year, the Legatum Center will award a $30,000 Legatum Prize for the “business plan that will have the most significant impact in a developing economy,” a release from the school announced on Friday. Two $10,000 Legatum Prizes for runners up in this category will also be awarded. Business plans across all tracks of the MIT Entrepreneurship Competition will be eligible for these new prizes.
The existing $10,000 prize earmarked for the development track of the competition will continue to be available for business plans exclusively within this track. This prize will be funded through a contribution from the International Development Research Center, a Canadian aid agency that works closely with the MIT Legatum Center.
By expanding the competition and significantly increasing the prize money available for development-focused business plans, MIT hopes to help accelerate the transformation of developing economies.
An enhanced commitment toward fostering entrepreneurship in the development sector is just the latest twist in an ever-evolving competition. Coined the “granddaddy” of business plan competitions by the San Francisco Chronicle, the MIT Entrepreneurship Competition got its start in 1990 as the $10K Entrepreneurship Competition, its name reflecting the $10,000 then available for the winning plan to file for a patent. By 2004, prize monies had increased to $50,000, and by 2006, to $100,000. That year marked the launch of a new Social Impact Prize, rewarding teams focusing on improving low income communities, to complement the traditional Business Venture Prize.
Last year, the scope of the competition again widened with the addition of a new $10,000 development track award. Then, in October of this year, the MIT Entrepreneurship Competition announced its alignment with the MIT Enterprise Forum’s Ignite Clean Energy Business Presentation Competition (ICE), injecting an additional $200,000 prize, called the MIT Clean Energy Prize, for energy start-ups. Finally, last week’s announcement of additional prizes for development-focused business plans further expands the competition’s mission and reach.
The structure of the competition, though, remains relatively unchanged. Teams – drawn from each of MIT’s five schools (Sloan, Engineering, Science, Humanities and Architecture) – undergo a rigorous mentoring, coaching and selection process as the competition progresses. Competition finalists are then called on to present and discuss a full business plan before a distinguished panel of judges made up of entrepreneurs, industry experts and venture capitalists.
Since the MIT Entrepreneurship’s launch 19 years ago, more than 85 companies have been formed from teams that have participated, and these companies have gone on to employ more than 1,600 people and have a valuation of more $7 billion.
The 2008 MIT Entrepreneurship Competition will culminate in a May awards ceremony, at which the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 18, 2007, at 12:43 pm
Posted in: School: Penn / Wharton , Trivia Tuesday Welcome back to Trivia Tuesday, a weekly look at the programs and resources that differentiate the leading business schools. This week we will explore Wharton’s Lauder Program, examining what it is, what completion of the program entails, and what kind of student should consider applying.
Upon completion of 24 months of study, Wharton/Lauder students receive a joint MBA/MA in International Studies. Lauder participants begin classes three months earlier than students in the traditional MBA program, completing one month of intensive language study and a two-month study abroad/in-country immersion program before beginning Wharton classes in September. Once MBA classes begin, Wharton/Lauder students lead an especially busy life, since they must complete Wharton’s full core curriculum and course requirements alongside the Lauder M.A.’s language, elective and thesis requirements.
To apply to the program, prospective students must complete two additional essay questions and demonstrate near-fluent language proficiency in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Russian, Portuguese or Spanish. Because of the language proficiency requirement, the Lauder program is only appropriate for students who have already developed strong foreign language competencies (although the Arabic and Portuguese language tracks tend to be more willing to offer space to less proficient speakers). Once enrolled, the curriculum is tailored to MBA students who seek to develop the capacity to conduct high-level business in another language, whether in the U.S. or abroad.
Though demanding, the Wharton/Lauder joint degree program is an excellent way for students to prepare for global business leadership, integrating language and in-country immersion into the MBA experience. For more information on the Wharton/Lauder joint degree program, be sure to visit the Lauder Institute website, or check out the information in the Clear Admit School Guide to Wharton!
Posted by Clear Admit on December 18, 2007, at 2:39 am
Posted in: General Last week, we launched a survey about the factors that drive applicant’s interests and decisions in pursuing an MBA. We’ve had a strong response so far, but we still want to hear from you!
The MBA search survey should take about 10 minutes to complete, and will be available through Friday, December 21st. Once you’ve finished the questions, you may enter a drawing to win an iPod Touch or one of four new iPod Nanos as a thank you for your time and thoughts.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Posted by Clear Admit on December 17, 2007, at 12:32 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Dartmouth / Tuck Is Web 2.0 changing the boundaries of business? Let’s ask Colbie Calliet (rhymes with Ballet), the until recently unknown singer-songwriter who put a couple of her own songs up on Myspace. “Nothing much happened for a few months,” she writes. “Then I wrote this song called ‘Bubbly’ and put it up there and it got this huge reaction. I mean thousands and thousands of hits every day.”
Before long, thousands of hits morphed into more than 10 million plays, with Calliet holding the title of number one unsigned artist on Myspace for a record four months in a row. A record deal followed, and today her catchy little “starts in my toes, makes me crinkle my nose” tune plays between almost every feature on the Sundance network – an anthem, if you will, for independent artists making it big.
Indeed, websites like Myspace, Facebook, YouTube and del.icio.us are fostering a new kind of innovation and information sharing that blurs the lines between producer and consumer. And the business world is taking note.
Not surprisingly, so too are business schools. In January, the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business will host a Tech@Tuck event entitled “Web 2.0: Shifting Business Boundaries” to explore the many ways in which social networking sites, blogs, wikis and community collaboration are influencing business organizations and strategy.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place on January 16th at Tuck’s Hanover, New Hampshire, campus. The event will feature two programs, a hands-on expo featuring products from a range of Web 2.0 businesses and a series of panel discussions to explore the broad impact of social networking on business.
Present at the expo will be representatives from companies including Avenue A | Razorfish, Etelos, Joost, KnowNow, Nellymoser, Newsgator, Swaptree and more. Panelists will include executives from Boston Consulting Group, BT Group, Edmunds.com, Second Life/Linden Lab and Wachovia.
Together, the expo and panel discussions will explore how Web 2.0 promises to transform business-to-consumer relationships, influence marketing and brand management and challenge product development. They will also take a closer look at when and how firms decide implement these tools into their businesses and how to measure their success when they do.
Posted by Clear Admit on December 17, 2007, at 4:29 am
Posted in: Campus Chronicles , School: Harvard , School: MIT / Sloan This week’s round up of campus news takes us to Boston, where students at MIT Sloan and Harvard are busy with campus events and recruiting, and are eager to share their views on the student experience through the campus papers Fifteen and The Harbus.
At MIT Sloan, the Fifteen website is sporting a new look and a new editorial staff, having transitioned from a “bastion for opinionated Indian males” to a publication led by “intelligent young females.” In their farewell article, the outgoing editors urge incoming students to get involved with the paper, saying they’ve learned more about management from running the paper than from any of their management classes. Whether it’s classes or activities that are making Sloanies better managers, the results of several recent competitions make it clear that there’s a whole lot of learning going on. For evidence, readers may look to MIT Sloan’s first place finish at the 12th Annual Carnegie Mellon Operations Case Competition, or to the school’s championship performance in the 2007 Reaching Out Case Competition, sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton. Students are also finding the job market welcoming, as seen by the warm receptions members of the Retail Club and Entertainment, Media & Sports Club received during their recent treks to Estee Lauder and New York city entertainment companies, respectively.
At Harvard, students have been busy learning from guest speakers as well as from each other. Kodak CEO Antonio Perez spoke with students in the Turnaround Club about leading Kodak into the digital age, the HBS Marketing Club brought nearly 200 people to its annual conference, and members of the African-American Student Union, the Caribbean Business Club, and the African Business Club entertained a packed house in the second annual Sankofa! performance. Finally, thanks to a first-year HBS student who once worked at the British Embassy in New Delhi, the Indian sport of Kabaddi is sweeping Harvard Business School. After several months of weekly pick-up games among the members of Section 1, the school hosted its first-ever Kabaddi tournament in early December, raising over $1,000 for a New Delhi orphanage and women’s shelter. Beyond being a fun way to spend a wintery Saturday afternoon, the Kabaddi tournament served as a wonderful reminder of the many ways in which business school classmates learn from and teach each other.
That’s the news from the students papers this week. Check back in the coming weeks for more events, activities and perspectives from the business schools, as discussed in their campus papers!
Posted by Clear Admit on December 14, 2007, at 12:30 pm
Posted in: General , School: Harvard , School: Penn / Wharton As today’s Fridays from the Frontlines post attests, the MBA blogosphere is all abuzz with nervous anticipation as applicants to Wharton, Harvard and elsewhere anxiously await news about round one interviews and admissions decisions.
One applicant yesterday posted this earnest plea for information on the Wharton-hosted student2student blog. “I know that by now HBS has probably handed out 99% of its interviews for Round 1, but I am still keeping my fingers crossed. Has anyone received an interview invite since Thanksgiving?”
Hope is a good thing to have. In fact, Harvard Admissions Director Dee Leopold herself sent holiday tidings out to antsy applicants earlier this week. “We are just about finished with sending out Round One interview invitations. There may be a handful still to come — up until the last minute we are sorting and sifting and looking again and again,” she writes. Sounds kind of like Santa making his list and checking it twice.
In fact, according to Leopold, another 50 or so applicants may be placed on the waiting list without having yet been invited to interview. Developments down the line in rounds two and three will determine whether these candidates get an interview.
And just to make things even more interesting as Harvard’s January 16th notification date looms, the HBS admissions office will be closed from Friday, December 21st, at 5 p.m. until Wednesday, January 2nd, at 9 a.m.
Try to stay calm, Leopold advises. “You may be anxious about your recommenders having questions — we’ll have auto reply messages on both voice and email directing them to ApplyYourself if they have questions,” she writes. After all, even admissions staff deserve a winter break, right?
The Waiting Game Meanwhile, at Wharton, applicant anticipation has almost reached full boil as the countdown to decision day dwindles. With just six days to go until Wharton’s round one decision announcements on December 20th, some applicants are sweating the small stuff.
This posted by 6LongDays: “I recently checked my status page after the interview and noticed that the link inviting me to interview has disappeared. Also, my status still says “Complete” and not “Invited to Interview.” Why is there inconsistency between people’s status? I know, I’m probably worrying about nothing but I needed to make sure.”
Another applicant, WSI Hopeful, chimed in quickly with reassurance, writing, “That happened to everybody. Don’t worry about it.”
Meanwhile, others want to know what time, exactly, round one decisions will be announced on Thrusday. “Should I keep awake for checking e-mail?” asks one applicant in another time zone. Students2student’s Sirish Rao needles him gently in response. “Just a passing thought,” Rao writes. “I’m sure the Admit will not expire by the time u wake up…”
Student2student’s Alex Fleming, a self-avowed proponent of not having too much application angst, fesses up to having been a bit of a wreck himself the night before decisions were announced. “Even when I was applying, the night . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 14, 2007, at 2:08 am
Posted in: Fridays from the Frontline Welcome back to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly chronicle of what’s new and notable in the MBA blogosphere. For applicants, this mainly consisted of earnest interview hopes and speculations, while current students awaited the onslaught of finals with noticeably less anticipation. Let’s check in with our bloggers for some firsthand accounts…
Our congratulations go out to B-School Bound, whose interview ordeal with Stanford ended in the best possible way – an invite, of course! He also tucked a strong Wharton interview under his belt, accompanied by an admirably calm mindset with which to await their final decision. Meanwhile, Wannabe restlessly waited for an interview decision from Tuck, briefly entertaining frazzled fears that it may have accidentally been snatched by his spam filter, interspersed with fickle hopes that perhaps he’d be among the lucky few rumored to receive an admit without a face-to-face meeting. Bokaa was also hip to the spam filter situation, checking his junk mail early and often.
Achilles stepped in to offer some comic relief, posting an amusing run down of the pros and cons of the top b-schools, complete with which Office Space character each could most conceivably lay claim to. Perhaps it was this scathing write-up that finally convinced Mbabound08 to throw in the towel on Columbia, capping her application short list at four (or maybe it was the Kellogg admit already in her pocket)…
On campus, first-years had their hands full with finals this week. After a last ditch studying effort, Asiangal was just about ready to head into her first Wharton exam – Operations and Information Management – although she didn’t necessary feel quite ready. Over in Fountainbleu, Necromonger succeeded in securing the coveted Negotiations elective, but even still he couldn’t talk his way out of tomorrow’s accounting and strategy tests at INSEAD. In windy Chicago, Iday breathed an uncommon sigh of relief and offered a run-down of GSB’s finals week (finally over!), his post-finals partying schedule and winter break plans. Nearby, MaybeMBA also seemed pretty relaxed, finding the time to extol the virtues of life in Hyde Park for prospective GSBers. In the same vein, Forrest served up some good sense interview advice that surely found a large and appreciative audience.
La Laudiaria found herself in the thick of it at Wharton, gloating about the ease of her second-year exam schedule, which has allowed her to get away with a week of hard Follies-style partying, until she realized that she actually still has quite a bit of work to do, come to think of it. Enviable Nagendra retained a more celebratory spirit, soaking in the beauty of Christmastime in Slough. And finally, ever informative, John filled us in on the Media Learning Teams program offered by Columbia’s Media Management Club – it creates support networks for Media-inclined students to draw upon in doing industry . . . → Continue Reading
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