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Posted by Clear Admit on December 31, 2009, at 1:00 pm
As winter break draws to an end, MBA students at the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business have an exciting array of scheduled speakers and conferences to look forward to in the spring semester.
Beginning in late January, high-profile executives representing industries ranging from healthcare to motion pictures to management consulting will speak at Haas as part of the Dean’s Speaker Series. Walter Robb, chief operating officer of Whole Foods, will be the first speaker in the series, addressing the Haas community on January 26th.
Other scheduled speakers include
• Steve Ellis, worldwide managing director, Bain & Co. (Feb. 3rd),
• Bill Block, CEO of QED International, a motion picture financing, sales, and production company (March 4th), and
• Haas Marketing Professor Emeritus . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 31, 2009, at 3:34 am
Welcome back to Campus Chronicles, our weekly look at MBA student news papers to better understand the vibrant student life at MBA campuses across the US. This week we’ll travel to New York City, using The Stern Opportunity to see what’s going on at NYU’s MBA program.
Earlier this month Stern students had the chance to attend the Government Business Association’s “Regulating the Financial Markets” event, a panel discussion aimed at exploring the causes of and solutions to the financial crisis. Both Professor Eric Dinallo, former New York State Insurance Commissioner, and Frank Kelly, leader of Government Affairs and the Investment Advisory group at Deutsche Bank, offered their thoughts about how government regulation could solve . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 30, 2009, at 8:00 pm
Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at test prep firm ManhattanGMAT. In this article, ManhattanGMAT instructor Stacey Koprince offers advice on how to tackle the essay portion of the GMAT:
We all know that the essays on the GMAT are scored separately and that the schools don’t care as much about the essay scores. We also know we have to write the essays first, before we get to the more important quant and verbal sections, so we don’t want to use up too much brain-power on the essays. Still, we can’t just bomb the essay section; the schools do care about the essays somewhat. So how do we do a good enough job on the essays without expending . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 30, 2009, at 3:08 pm
Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays! As 2010 approaches, we are excited to celebrate the New Year – and new interview reports – with iTunes gift cards! Any interview report submitted for an MBA program in the Clear Admit Wiki is eligible for a $10 iTunes gift card! In other words, all you have to do is send us your interview field report for inclusion in the Wiki and we’ll send you a $10 iTunes gift certificate.
For the uninitiated, the Clear Admit Wiki is an online repository for MBA applicants to share their experiences with admissions interviews. As a free and versatile forum, applicants can recount the full list of questions they’ve been asked from alumni, adcom members or . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 30, 2009, at 1:00 pm
With Christmas behind us, marketing buzz now shifts toward the Super Bowl. Indeed, a 30-second advertising spot during the culminating game of the season for American football can command as much as $2.5 to $3 million. Is it really worth it?
These and other questions will be at the heart of the sixth annual Kellogg School of Management Super Bowl Advertising Review. On game day – February 7, 2010 – students at the business school widely regarded as tops in the field of marketing will pick apart the much-hyped Super Bowl advertisements, judging them based on their potential to drive sales, their impact on companies’ bottom lines and their power to improve brand awareness.
Kellogg marketing professors Derek Rucker and Tim Calkins will oversee . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 30, 2009, at 3:00 am
What Is Your B-School New Year’s Resolution?
My resolution is to stop thinking about business school, and start applying.
My resolution is to improve my GMAT score.
My resolution is to hold off on any more applications, no matter how terrifying, until I have heard from the schools to which I have already applied.
My resolution is to get my completed applications submitted at least 24 hours before their deadlines.
My resolution is to go to the gym or read a book every time I find myself stressing about the MBA admissions process.
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Posted by Clear Admit on December 29, 2009, at 1:00 pm
Earlier this month, professors at INSEAD released a new ranking of the world’s best-performing CEOs, with the surprising finding that many star CEOs don’t live up to their reputations. Ultimately the study raises questions about just what constitutes effective long-term leadership and whether and why the business community might place higher emphasis on reputation than performance.
To conduct the survey, INSEAD professors Morten Hansen, Herminia Ibarra and Urs Peyer created a benchmark to measure how CEOs have built value over the long term, examining CEO performance at the world’s largest companies over the executives’ entire time in office.
“The real test of a CEO’s leadership should be how the company performs over his or her tenure,’” Morten Hansen, professor of entrepreneurship and management . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 29, 2009, at 4:00 am
In this week’s Trivia Tuesday column we turn our attention to UCLA Anderson and its academic offerings. Specifically, we’ll take a look at the options Anderson offers for tailoring elective choices to an intended career path. Though if offers no formal majors or concentrations, Anderson recommends sets of elective courses the administration and faculty see as relevant to particular career paths. These Elective Emphases cover a number of popular career paths and are comprised of five to eleven strongly recommended electives.
The suggested electives are designed to create a comprehensive program of preparation for the career path, and some career path listings even include classes in other UCLA degree programs. In contrast to the subject-area specializations most other leading programs offer, these . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 28, 2009, at 1:03 pm
In some circles, the week between Christmas and New Year’s is a quiet one, for visiting with family and catching up on sleep. Not so, of course, in the world of MBA admissions. With round-two deadlines looming at many top schools, prospective applicants around the globe are busy perfecting their applications as we speak.
For applicants considering Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Sloan School of Management, there are several upcoming events designed to answer questions and provide information about the application process and the MBA program.
Today, the school is hosting MBA information sessions in Santiago, Chile, and Belgrade, Serbia. Tomorrow, December 29th, it will host another information session in Hong Kong.
On December 30th, Sloan will participate in the Israel MBA Forum in . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 28, 2009, at 3:22 am
As we prepare to bid goodbye to 2009 and greet the deadline-packed first month of 2010, we would like to take the opportunity to recap the upcoming Round Two deadlines and offer some advice for hardworking applicants.
First, a summary of this month’s deadlines along with the exact time each application is due:
Monday, January 4th
CMU/Tepper, 11:59 p.m. EST
Tuesday, January 5th
Wharton, 5 p.m. EST
Michigan/Ross, 11:59 p.m. EST
Wednesday, January 6th
Dartmouth/Tuck, 5 p.m. EST
Chicago/Booth, 5 p.m. CST
Stanford, 5 p.m. PST
UCLA/Anderson, 9 p.m. PST
Columbia, 11:59 p.m. EST
Thursday, January 7th
UCA/Darden, 11:59 p.m. EST
Duke/Fuqua, 11:59 p.m. EST
Yale, 11:59 p.m. EST
Friday, January 8th
UNC/Kenan-Flagler, 11:59 p.m. EST
Tuesday, January 12th
Cornell/Johnson, 11:59 p.m. EST
MIT/Sloan, 12 p.m. PST
Thursday, January 14th
Northwestern/Kellogg, 11:59 p.m. CST
Friday, January 15th
NYU/Stern, 11:59 p.m. . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 27, 2009, at 3:00 pm
Today’s GMAT tip comes from Veritas Prep. Earlier this week, we shared with you the first volume of their “Think Like the Testmaker Series.” In today’s article, they present their second installment to help you as you study:
The writers of the GMAT are tasked with a fairly difficult challenge — using fairly basic, high-school level math and verbal skills, they must create questions that will elicit incorrect answers from some of the most intelligent people on the planet. If you’re even interested in taking the GMAT, you’ve either graduated from or intend to shortly graduate from a four-year university, and you likely have at least a few years of quality work experience, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 25, 2009, at 3:00 pm
As many MBA applicants know, the Clear Admit School and Interview Guides are excellent time-saving tools when it comes to gathering school-specific information to prepare for each step of the admissions process. Along these lines, we are pleased to share feedback from two MBA applicants who recently offered details on their individual experiences with these publications:
In a recent post to her blog, MBA applicant ‘Madologue’ discussed her upcoming interview at Darden, praising the Clear Admit Interview Guide to the Darden School of Business for helping her prepare. In the post, Madologue expresses her need to do research before . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 25, 2009, at 3:00 am
Hi there and welcome to Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admit’s regular roll around the rollicking and rousing MBA blogosphere. With the holidays coming up and exams simmering down, this was a rather quiet week on the blogging front, with applicants having the most to say.
XLick met up with Stern and Johnson current students and alumni in the East Village and appreciated the opportunity to hear their perspectives on the MBA application process. Steve recapped his trip to Ithaca and interview at Cornell, complete with a narrow escape from the epic snowstorm of last weekend. Bizwiz completed seven of his ten GMAT prep books. Illuminati compared business school ranking systems. Madalogue . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 24, 2009, at 1:00 pm
Classes at Yale’s School of Management (SOM) have come to a close for the term and won’t resume until January 11, 2010. But over the holiday break, there are still many opportunities for prospective applicants to learn more about the school’s management program.
Beginning earlier this week and continuing through January 7, 2010, current SOM students will host a series of Winter Break
Socials in more than 15 cities. Planned locations include Beijing, Hong Kong, Kolkata, Manila, Shanghai, Monterrey and several locations in the United States.
According to admissions officials at Yale SOM, the socials are designed to bring prospective applicants together with members of the SOM community to ask questions and share experiences.
To find a Winter Break Social taking place near you, click . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 24, 2009, at 9:00 am
For this week’s Campus Chronicles installment, we’ll take a look at the recent events on Wharton’s campus by reviewing their student newspaper, The Wharton Journal.
Earlier this month students in MGMT 621 had a chance to be taught by Wharton alum Dave Pottruck, the former CEO of Charles Scwab and a current Director on Intel Corporation’s Board. Pottruck also gave a speech as part of the Nonprofit Board Leadership Program, in which second year MBA students serve on Philadelphia nonprofit organization boards. Speaking to these students, he expressed his conviction that holding such positions early in one’s career is beneficial in gaining valuable leadership experience while giving back to one’s community. To excel in these . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 23, 2009, at 8:00 pm
Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at Veritas Prep. In this article, they present the first installment of their “Think Like the Testmaker Series”:
As Veritas Prep’s Director of Academic Programs, Brian Galvin runs all of our GMAT prep courses.
Greetings, readers! In this space over the coming months, the GMAT experts at Veritas Prep want to urge you to think beyond the skills covered on the GMAT — algebra, geometry, grammar, etc.– and get inside the minds of the writers of the exam. The GMAT tests not only your academic capabilities, but also (and more importantly) your problem solving, logical reasoning, and higher-order thinking skills. To employ these skills toward success, it’s helpful . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 23, 2009, at 3:13 pm
Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays! To help spread a little holiday cheer, we are excited to announce that interview reports submitted for any MBA program in the Clear Admit Wiki are eligible for a $10 iTunes gift card! In other words, if you have interviewed at an MBA program that we feature in our Wiki, all you have to do is send us your interview field report for inclusion in the Wiki and we’ll send you a $10 iTunes gift certificate.
For the uninitiated, the Clear Admit Wiki is an online repository for MBA applicants to share their experiences with admissions interviews. As a free and versatile forum, applicants can recount the full list of questions they’ve been asked from alumni, adcom . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 23, 2009, at 1:00 pm
In a recent post to her blog, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Admissions Director Rose Martinelli answered some questions and offered some tips to prospective round-two applicants.
For starters, she cleared up one question she hears often, namely, whether applicants in the second round are at a disadvantage versus those in the first. “The answer is no,” she writes. “While your fellow Round One applicants have set the bar, so to speak, we get the majority of applications in Round Two. So overall the level of competition between the rounds is not that significant.”
Having said that, the same is not true if you’re deciding between rounds two and three, she continued. By round three, there are fewer slots left in . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 23, 2009, at 3:00 am
What Did You Consider The Most Important Aspect Of Your Application Process?
Visiting the schoool and getting a feel for campus life.
Making sure I had the strongest possible recommendations.
Presenting myself well, physically and verbally, in my interview.
Writing exceptionally detailed and compelling essays.
My alumni/business contacts from my top schools.
My winning combination of charm, professionalism and integrity.
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Posted by Clear Admit on December 22, 2009, at 1:00 pm
In an effort to help prospective international applicants prepare for its upcoming application deadline, Indian School of Business (ISB) admissions directors are currently hosting personal resume review sessions.
The 30-minute sessions, conducted via telephone or Skype, will be held now through December 31st. These one-on-one informal sessions are designed to provide prospective applicants with a better understanding of ISB, the admissions process, available scholarships and the qualities the admissions office looks for in a candidate.
ISB’s international application deadline for the class of 2010-11 is Friday, January 15, 2010. If you are interested in scheduling a personal resume review session, contact pgpadmissions@isb.edu. Review sessions are available by appointment only.
To learn more about ISB’s one-year management program, . . . → Continue Reading
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