Posted by Clear Admit on March 30, 2012, at 2:00 pm
Posted in:  MBA News , School: Chicago , School: Northwestern / Kellogg The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University yesterday announced a new initiative to combine its centers for entrepreneurship and private equity and venture capital, as well as a new executive director to lead the initiative.
The new Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative (KIEI) will combine the strengths of the Levy Institute for Entrepreneurial Practice and the Heizer Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital. It comes as an outgrowth of Envision Kellogg, a new strategic framework for the school announced last month. Linda Darragh will return to Kellogg from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to serve as KIEI’s executive director. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 21, 2012, at 2:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , Rankings , School: Berkeley / Haas , School: Chicago , School: Columbia , School: Georgetown , School: Harvard , School: MIT / Sloan , School: Northwestern / Kellogg , School: NYU Stern , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford , School: Yale Our post yesterday about the rosy employment outlook for current MBA grads was drawn in great part from data collected by U.S. News & World Report for its annual ranking of best business schools, released last week. In case you missed it, Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business once again tied for first, marking the fourth time in five years those two schools have shared the top spot. Last year, Stanford edged ahead enough to bump HBS down to number two, but no such luck this year.
In a now crowded field, U.S. News has been in the business school rankings business since before most everyone else. Its rankings are based on a weighted average of several indicators, including overall program quality, peer assessments, recruiter assessments, placement success, mean starting salary and bonus, average GMAT score and GPA and more. » Continue reading
As applications to two-year, full-time MBA programs declined for a third consecutive year, more U.S. schools are beginning to offer one-year programs to attract a different type of student, the Financial Times reports. Though one-year programs have been standard at most European business schools for some time, some industry experts worry about their limitations in the United States, the FT continued.
“European programs for the most part require significant pre-enrolment work experience,” John Fernandes, president and chief executive of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business AACSB), told the FT. “With this, a one-year program may be fine for some students who are mostly interested in returning to and advancing within their current company. For students with little or no professional experience, it is a stretch to get all they need in one year.” » Continue reading
Check out the latest addition to the Clear Admit Wiki, a free online resource for MBA applicants to share their experiences with the admissions process! A Round 2 candidate for Northwestern / Kellogg had the following interview experience with an alumnus:
“I completed my Kellogg on campus interview on 9th Feb 2012. I am a R2 candidate. I had scheduled my appointment at 2 PM. I flew to Evanston Illinois on 6th Feb to visit the school and interact with the students. This experience definitely helped me in my interview. I reached my destination well before time and I was chatting with other candidates while I was waiting to be called. This interaction definitely took some pressure off my mind.
My interview began at 2:00 PM sharp and my interviewer was a 2010 Kellogg alumni. He was very friendly and he made every attempt to make me feel comfortable throughout the interview process. Here are the list of questions he asked me, not necessarily in the order he asked me.
- Why and how did you choose you undergraduate major?
- What were my extra curricular activities in college?
- What are my short term / long term goals? » Continue reading
Check out the latest addition to the Clear Admit Wiki, a free online resource for MBA applicants to share their experiences with the admissions process! A Round 2 candidate for Northwestern / Kellogg had the following interview experience with an adcom member:
“List of interview questions:
- Walk me through your resume.
- Follow-up questions of why transition from job X to Y.
- [Tell me about your] career goals.
- Why MBA?
- [Tell me about] a teamwork experience. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 7, 2012, at 2:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Northwestern / Kellogg The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University yesterday announced a new comprehensive strategy that includes shrinking its two-year MBA program, enlarging its one-year MBA program, expanding its global footprint and sharpening its brand. The plan, coined Envision Kellogg, follows from an in-depth strategic review led by Dean Sally Blount, who assumed leadership of Kellogg in July 2010.
“There are times in history when transformational change becomes imperative for an organization — because the world in which that organization has thrived fundamentally changes,” Blount said on a website launched yesterday to communicate the new strategy. “Now is one of those times for Kellogg. The nature of business and how it operates in the 21st century requires that we rethink who we are and how we do what we do.” » Continue reading
Welcome to this week’s edition of Wiki Wednesdays, in which we feature MBA interview reports that have recently been added to the Clear Admit Wiki! We’ve received several new interview reports this past week, including ones from interviews at NYU / Stern, Duke / Fuqua, and Berkeley / Haas. In addition, a Round 2 applicant to Northwestern / Kellogg shared this experience of interviewing with a member of the Kellogg admissions committee:
“Came to the interview early to prep and get comfortable. Got a chance to sit in on a class and some other activities day-of. Interviewer was very nice and direct. Here are the questions I can recall:
- Walk me through your professional career starting with undergrad (Standard)
- Handful of follow-up resume questions (Standard)
- Define your current role and responsibilities (Standard)
- Describe an example of professional leadership experience (Standard)
- Why an MBA, why now, why Kellogg (Standard)
- What three adjectives would your co-workers use to describe you (Unexpected) » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 5, 2012, at 10:43 am
Posted in: School Guides , School: Harvard , School: Northwestern / Kellogg , School: Stanford With less than one week until the Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management and Stanford Graduate School of Business Round 2 deadlines, it is crunch time for MBA applicants! (For a complete list of R2 deadlines, see this blog post.) If you’ve waited until the last minute to begin your application or plan to put the finishing touches on it this weekend, be sure to check out the Clear Admit School Guides. Inside, you’ll find all the school-specific details you need to write a well-informed application.
From now until Tuesday, January 10 at 9am EST, purchase our School Guide titles to HBS, Kellogg and Stanford for just $19.99. Not applying to these programs? You’ll find 27 titles to leading MBA programs in the U.S. and abroad available for immediate download in the Clear Admit Shop.
Clear Admit wishes the best of luck to Round 2 applicants!
A Round 1 MBA candidate for Northwestern / Kellogg faced the following admissions interview questions from a first-year student: “When I showed up for my Kellogg interview, I was asked to present my resume and fill out some paper work regarding my career goals, short and long, and my intended concentrations at Kellogg. My assumption was that the interviewer would quickly look a this in advance of the interview along with my resume. There will likely be several students in the lobby preparing to interview. I would suggest getting to know them and making conversation as a way to ease nerves before the interview.
My interviewer was a 1st year student. She started the interview by telling me it would be a blind interview and that the fact that she was a 1st year student did not put me at any disadvantage. Then the questions began as follows.
- Walk me through your resume. (there were no pauses, so be prepared to cover your resume from start to finish).
- What is your favorite aspect of your job?
- Why MBA now and why now? Incorporated why Kellogg and why I am applying to the 1-year program.
- What has been your most significant leadership experience? » Continue reading
In the midst of Round 1 interviews, some hopeful candidates have been posting accounts of their interview experiences to the Clear Admit Wiki, a free resource for MBA admissions applicants to share information on their experiences. This week, a candidate for Northwestern / Kellogg shared the following interview experience with an adcom member:
“I had mine on campus. Interviewer was an admissions [officer] and very friendly. Handed my resume and a sheet, which i had just filled out upon arrival, which asked to write ST/LT goals (space given to answer each is limited so i think they just expect the highlights)
Questions i got:
- Tell me about yourself.
- Describe professional accomplishments, why important.
- What is leadership style? » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on November 1, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: Events , School: Northwestern / Kellogg Earlier this month, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University hosted a daylong social impact conference featuring Seth Goldman, Honest Tea co-founder and president, as keynote.
“The Next Generation of Social Impact” was the theme of this year’s Innovating Social Change Conference, which took place at Kellogg on October 15th. The annual conference, now in its 12th year, is one of several student-led events at Kellogg. » Continue reading
As the Round 1 interviewing cycle heats up, some hopeful candidates have been posting accounts of their interview experiences to the Clear Admit Wiki, a free resource for MBA admissions applicants to share information on their experiences. This week, a candidate for Northwestern / Kellogg shared the following interview experience:
“My interview was conducted by two people: a Kellogg admissions officer and a first year student who was training to be a part of recruiting. The interview was pretty conversational and the interviewers were very friendly. Here is an overview of the of the questions I was asked:
Background: Associate at a healthcare strategy consulting firm
Duration of interview: 30-35 minutes
Note: this is not the actual flow of the interview. I have just listed the questions as I remembered them.
- Your background is very interesting – how come you did not think about medicine. Tell me about yourself and your undergrad and grad school.
- Career progression from analyst to associate
- Talk about team experiences and what you have learnt from them?
- How many people do you supervise?
- Tell me about a time you experienced team conflict. » Continue reading
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Columbia Business School (CBS), Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and Spain’s IE Business School are among top MBA programs that are introducing a combined admissions process in which students who get rejected from a full-time MBA program can more easily be offered admission to a part-time or executive MBA offering instead, the Financial Times reports.
Through combined admissions, schools can look for applicants whose profiles may not be strong enough to secure a spot in the full-time MBA program but who might be well suited for the part-time or executive MBA programs. For example, students with low GMAT scores but valuable work experience could be admitted to the EMBA cohort at certain programs instead of the full-time MBA program, admissions officials told the FT. » Continue reading
Several Clear Admit Fridays From the Frontline featured contributors recently shared their thoughts about the Clear Admit School Guides on their blogs. Here are some highlights from these MBA applicant reviews:
“Wow!” was Sanket‘s first reaction to the Stanford School Guide, which he praises for its use as a comparative tool for MBA program research:
“USP [Unique Selling Proposition] of the guide – Comparative study…The graphical presentation of the information in comparison with other programs makes it easy to understand how GSB is different…In fact, this is very good tool for school selection.”
My MBA Dreamz, who frequents the Clear Admit MBA Admissions Blog for school research, wished he had read the Darden guide earlier:
“I had attended the Darden Info Session, and thought I was fully equipped to apply to Darden. But I was wrong. I can see that after reading the Clear Admit guide, which explains in great detail, the various aspects of Darden. I wish I had read this guide before attending the info session.”
Roller Coaster had this, and more, to say about the Clear Admit School Guide to Kellogg:
“I had always read that such guides are just a summary of what can be found on the website. While this guide largely conforms to this assertion, it gives you some nuggets of information which are more than worth the price of the guide…I would highly recommend Clearadmit’s guides if you are looking for information on schools in a clear and concise form.”
With Round 1 interview invitations coming out over the next few weeks and Round 2 deadlines on the horizon, it’s the perfect time to do school research. All 27 Clear Admit School Guides are available for immediate download in the Clear Admit Shop. If you’re using an iPad or iPhone, be sure to check out the App versions of seven of our School Guides in the iTunes Store.
|
