Campus Chronicles
Clear Admit’s weekly perusal of business school events as chronicled by MBA student newspapers.
Campus Chronicles: The ChiBus
Welcome back to Campus Chronicles, Clear Admit’s weekly roundup of the news at top business programs. This week we look to the Midwest and crack open the pages of the ChiBus, written by students at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
A group of Chicago Booth students recently returned from a pilgrimage to Omaha, Nebraska, home of investing guru Warren Buffet. The aptly named WBG—or Warren Buffet Group—enjoyed a two hour Q&A session with Buffet followed by lunch at one of Omaha’s most esteemed steakhouses, Piccolo Pete’s. Currently the world’s fourth wealthiest individual, Buffet owns Berkshire Hathaway, a former textile firm that now serves as a holding company for a multitude of other investments. During the Q&A and lunch, Booth students were able to pick Buffett’s brain on topics ranging from value investing to career advice; on the latter topic, the business tycoon’s advice was simple: do what you love. Continue reading…
Campus Chronicles: The CBS Bottom Line
Welcome back to Campus Chronicles, our exploration of the student news at top business programs. This week we find out what’s new at Columbia Business School by scanning its student-run publication, The Bottom Line.
In early April, Columbia Business School students joined colleagues from Wharton Business School and the Yale School of Management to participate in the second annual CBS MBA Innovation Summit. Nearly 300 students, entrepreneurs and company representatives attended the event, which was held at Studio450 in New York City. The summit featured panels on generating ideas, spotting ideas, transforming good ideas into business realities and evaluating why some good ideas fail. John Heath, the senior vice president of Chobani—one of the first companies to popularize Greek yogurt in the United States—concluded the event with a keynote address, speaking about how his company always seeks to align their product innovations with the core messages of their brand. Continue reading…
Campus Chronicles: The Monroe Street Journal
Welcome back to Campus Chronicles, Clear Admit’s weekly peek inside the news at top business programs. This week we bring you a hard-copy special feature highlighting the Monroe Street Journal, printed by students at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
Ross’s Black Business Students Association (BBSA) recently hosted the annual BBSA Alfred L. Edward Conference, focused on the theme “On the Shoulders of Giants: Leaving a Lasting and Impactful Legacy.” The keynote speaker for the event was distinguished Columbia University Professor Marc Lamont Hill, whose address focused on the responsibility MBA students have towards the less fortunate. This year’s conference also featured panels on the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in business, the impact of President Barack Obama on business leaders, and entrepreneurship. The conference’s namesake, Dr. Alfred Edwards, was a Professor at Ross for over 40 years and a champion of the school’s participation in the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a nonprofit that aims to correct the underrepresentation of African American, Hispanic, and Native American students at business schools across the country. Continue reading…
Campus Chronicles: The Harbus
Welcome back to Campus Chronicles, where we get the student perspective on the news at top business programs. This week we flip open The Harbus and find out what’s new for students at Harvard Business School.
HBS students Amanda Burlison and Alexandra Daum were recently elected to lead the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA), the largest student group on campus. The two have already organized hundreds of students to participate in “lean in” sessions across campus in the coming weeks, small group discussions of 10-12 people about women and business intended to foster female success in the workplace. The “lean in” groups are advocated by prominent author and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in her book “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” which was published earlier this year. Recently, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria announced that the WSA will endow the Women’s Student Association Fellowship—which awards up to $20,000 each year to a second-year student who has promoted the female community at HBS—marking the first time a fellowship will be endowed by a student group at HBS. Continue reading…
Campus Chronicles: The Wharton Journal
Welcome back to Campus Chronicles, Clear Admit’s weekly perusal of the events chronicled by business school student newspapers. This week we check in on students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and their student publication, The Wharton Journal.
Over 300 second-year Wharton students congregated at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to celebrate the denouement of their business school careers at the Wharton Graduate Association’s “Night At the Museum” event. The WGA is the student government organization for Wharton graduate students, and hosts numerous events for both first- and second-year students. This night, however, was specifically geared towards second-year MBA students, featuring a “classy” atmosphere and open access to all of the museum’s collections. Jackson Dunlap, the WGA President-elect for the Class of 2014, reported that positive student response to the event has inspired him to push for even greater opportunities for Wharton students to explore Philadelphia landmarks and cultural institutions. Continue reading…
Campus Chronicles: Chicago Business
Welcome to Campus Chronicles, Clear Admit’s weekly snapshot of the news at top business programs. This week we turn our attention to The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business by exploring the digital pages of Chicago Business, the school’s student newspaper.
Last month, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson at Chicago’s Paulson Institute. Paulson, who chairs the Institute, was at the helm of the federal government’s response to the financial crisis in 2007-2008. Before an audience of hundreds of Chicago students, the two engaged in a wide-ranging discussion that covered many of today’s prominent political and business issues, including gun control, obesity, and the nation’s fiscal strains. Bloomberg, a prominent businessman and philanthropist as well as public servant, also offered his insights on the difference between leading in the public and private sectors. Continue reading…
Campus Chronicles: The Bottom Line
Welcome back to Campus Chronicles, Clear Admit’s weekly perusal of the news at top business programs. This week we find out what’s new at Columbia Business School by taking a peek inside its student publication, The Bottom Line.
CBS hosted the 20th anniversary of its annual Women in Business Conference this February, which centered on the theme “Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Building Our Presence at the Top.” Diane Von Fürstenberg, the popular contemporary fashion designer and entrepreneur, gave the keynote address to an audience of 400 students, faculty, alumni and guests. The day was arranged around panel discussions hosted by CBS students and faculty, including a session entitled “Social Impact Investing: Doing Well by Doing Good.” The Columbia Women in Business club (CWiB) fosters a sense of community for female professionals at CBS. Continue reading…
Campus Chronicles: The Harbus
Hello and welcome back to Campus Chronicles. Each week, Clear Admit gets the run-down of the news at a top MBA program by taking a peek inside the pages of its student newspaper. This week, we turn our attention to Allston, Massachusetts and check in on students at Harvard Business School by reading their student-produced paper, The Harbus.
A group of HBS students from section H are using the final module of their social innovation FIELD course to launch a publishing company, Inspired Reading, that publishes children’s books for youths with developmental challenges. The venture’s first eponymously titled book focuses on a young boy who overcomes the educational difficulty of a speech impediment. Written and published by the students themselves, the group’s first book was inspired by their own personal backgrounds. The HBS FIELD Course: Social Innovation Lab is open to students from all Harvard and Boston-area graduate programs, intending to promote students with diverse educational backgrounds and goals to come together to launch their own social ventures.
Campus Chronicles: The Wharton Journal
Welcome back to Campus Chronicles, our weekly perusal of the news pages at top business school student newspapers. This week we explore what’s new for students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business by scanning their student-produced paper, The Wharton Journal.
Wharton students recently concluded their last ever round of course auctions, as the 17 year-old course selection method will be replaced by a new “Course Match” system in the fall of 2014. The Wharton administration notes that the new system, which they deem will be “the most sophisticated” and “technologically advanced” course selection system at any top business school, has been in development for over a year and a half. Under the new system, Wharton students will simply rank their course preferences and an advanced algorithm will produce their optimal schedule, eliminating the time and energy previously spent on multiple rounds of auctions. While noting that the new system bears a striking resemblance to Wharton’s pre-auction selection system, students who beta-tested Course Match claim that it did produce more satisfactory schedules than this semester’s auctions. Continue reading…
Campus Chronicles: The Cold Call Chronicle
Welcome back to Campus Chronicles, our weekly perusal of the news at top business programs. This week we check in on students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business via their student newspaper, The Cold Call Chronicle.
A group of Darden women travelled to Washington, DC to attend the TEDxWomen conference, organized by the Paley Center for Media. Students were selected for the conference after submitting mock TED talk proposals centered on the theme of promoting women and diversity in business. The extensive lineup of speakers at the conference included Emily Bazelon, a senior editor at Slate and a contributor to the New York Times Magazine; Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, a foundation that invests in women-led organizations worldwide; Charlotte Beers, the former Chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide and former Bush Administration official; Rosie Rios, the current Treasurer of the United States; and Eve Ensler, a Tony-Award-winning playwright and activist. Darden students unable to make the trip to Washington were still able to watch the event via live stream from the United States Institute of Peace. Continue reading…
Campus Chronicles: The ChiBus
Welcome back to campus chronicles, where we take a peek each week inside the pages of business school student newspapers to get the latest on campus developments. This week we open The ChiBus and read about recent campus events at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
Over 800 Booth students recently attended the school’s Winter Formal. This year the black-tie event had a rather unconventional ambiance, as students danced and socialized alongside blue tanks teeming with marine life at Chicago’s Shredd Aquarium. Many students, who were shuttled to the event from the Harper Center, Booth’s campus hub, took advantage of exclusive access to many of the aquarium exhibits, including the Abbot Oceanarium and Sea Otter Cove. Booth’s semi-formal dance, the Spring Fling, will be held in May in a boat that ferries students around Lake Michigan. Continue reading…
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