Posted by Clear Admit on July 19, 2011, at 3:00 am
Posted in:  School Guides , School: CMU / Tepper , Trivia Tuesday It’s time for this week’s edition of Trivia Tuesday, in which we spotlight the elements that differentiate the leading MBA programs from their peers. Today we’re taking a peek into the Clear Admit School Guide to Tepper to tell you about the final hurdle Tepper students must clear before graduation: the capstone course.
“In the spring of their second year, students must complete a capstone course – Tepper’s term for a culminating project – either in their chosen track or in General Management. These courses usually span Minis [mini-semesters] 3 and 4 and frequently consist of both classroom and practical components. The capstone course requires students to draw on the knowledge they have gained throughout their time at Tepper and apply it to a relevant practical situation. Students following the General Management curriculum do so by taking part in the Management Game, a practical simulation in which teams of students run competing virtual consumer goods companies with the goal of securing the greatest market share. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 7, 2011, at 4:38 pm
Posted in: Deadlines , School: CMU / Tepper The 2011-2012 CMU / Tepper deadlines have been released! The five rounds of deadlines are below:
Round 1
Deadline: October 24, 2011
Notification: December 19, 2011
Round 2
Deadline: January 3, 2012
Notification: March 16, 2012
Round 3
Deadline: March 5, 2012
Notification: April 30, 2012
Round 4
Deadline: April 23, 2012
Notification: May 25, 2012
Round 5
Deadline: June 1, 2012
Notification: Rolling
International applicants should note that they are required to apply by the Round 3 March 5th deadline. For more information, visit Tepper’s admissions website.
Posted by Clear Admit on March 16, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: CMU / Tepper Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business has named Robert M. (Bob) Dammon, an associate dean of education and professor of financial economics at the school, to serve as its ninth dean, the school announced this week. Dammon will assume his new role on May 1, 2011, succeeding Kenneth Dun, who stepped down on January 1st of this year after nine years at the post.
Dammon is regarded as a world-class academic researcher and leading expert on the implications of taxation on asset allocation and corporate finance. He also has strong direct ties to industry through consulting roles and executive education programs, having taught customized financial management programs for more than two dozen corporations in industries ranging from financial services to telecommunications and consumer packaged goods.
“We are fortunate to have Bob assume leadership of one of the world’s great business schools,” CMU Provost and EVP Mark Kamlet, who has served as interim dean since Dunn’s departure, said in a statement. “The analytical approach to solving complex business problems was invented at Carnegie Mellon’s business school and serves as an important framework for business. Our expectation of a leader for the school’s academic and research priorities is extremely high, and Bob’s experience is unmatched,” he continued.
Kamlet went on to praise Dammon’s research and teaching abilities as well as his administrative skills. Other members of the Dean’s Search Committee, charged with finding Dunn’s replacement, called particular attention to Dammon’s clear thinking. “He instinctively understands the centrality of both education and research to our school’s mission and the tight connection between these elements,” said finance professor Chester Spatt, who chaired the search committee.
Dammon, for his part, is looking forward to working within the Carnegie Mellon community to continue the school’s innovative teaching and research. “ I am inspired by the successes of my predecessors, the school’s rich history in revolutionizing management education and its unwavering commitment to academic and research excellence,” he said.
Dammon, who holds an MBA and Ph.D. in financial economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, joined the Tepper faculty in 1984. He became associate dean for education at the Tepper School in 2008, and he is the only three-time winner of the Tepper School’s George Leland Bach Teaching Award (1989, 1997, 2007).
For more on Dammon’s appointment as the next dean of the Tepper School of Business, click here.
As interview experiences continue to pour in on the Clear Admit Wiki, an online resource for MBA applicants to share their experience with the admissions process, we continue to report them here. Today we’re focusing on a Round 2 candidate’s phone interview with an admissions committee member for Carnegie Mellon / Tepper’s MBA program:
“I was interviewed by a member of the admissions committee. It was a telephonic interview, as I am based out of India. The interviewer had not reviewed my file before. It was one of the friendliest and nicest interviews I had ever given. Within the first 2 minutes, I was made to feel completely at ease.
I was asked the normal questions like:
- Why Tepper?
- Why MBA now?
- Short term and long term goals?
- What did I best like about Tepper?
- Examples of something I had done as a leader and as a team player.
 » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 17, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: CMU / Tepper The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) announced yesterday that Mark Kamlet, CMU provost and executive vice president, will serve as acting dean of the business school effective January 1, 2011. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 10, 2010, at 3:00 am
Posted in: Interview Tips , Interview: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper , School: CMU / Tepper In the heat of the Round 1 interview season, we are pleased to share another interview account, courtesy of the Clear Admit Wiki, a free resource for MBA applicants to share their thoughts on the admissions process. This interview report comes from a Round 1 applicant to CMU / Tepper.
“Having been in Pittsburgh for over 5 months, I decided to initiate my interview after submitting the app. I had visited the school before and found the place to be pretty exciting with a lot of talented students. My interview was at 12:00 PM and I drove straight after an office meeting. I was scheduled to interview with Devin Bownes. After meeting her, I realized that I had met her during my previous visit and conveyed the same. I also met Mr. Linwood Harris, who recognized me and wished me luck.
So the interview started in a casual manner and Devin asked me to walk her through my resume and said she would be taking notes and I shouldn’t feel uncomfortable with it. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on November 15, 2010, at 12:56 pm
Posted in: Interview Guides , Interview Tips , School: CMU / Tepper As we get further into the Round 1 interview season, the Clear Admit Wiki is receiving more posts from applicants sharing their MBA admissions experiences. Recently, a candidate for CMU / Tepper shared this Round 1 phone interview with a member of the admissions committee:
“The questions for my interview (11th November, 2010) were:
- Discuss your profile, work & responsibilities.
- How does a typical work day look for you?
- Why MBA? Why now?
- Why Tepper? » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 26, 2010, at 1:30 pm
Posted in: Admissions Director Q&A , School: CMU / Tepper We’re excited this year to add Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business to our Admissions Director Q&A Series. Last week we caught up with James Frick, recently named MBA director of admissions, whose interview follows.
Frick has been with the Tepper School since 1998. Initially he worked on the program side with students once they became part of the Tepper community. “But the more I did of admissions, the more I loved it,” he says. “So I jumped in with both feet in 2003.” » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 12, 2010, at 3:00 am
Posted in: School Guides , School: CMU / Tepper , Trivia Tuesday Welcome to another edition of Trivia Tuesday, our weekly look at the policies and practices that differentiate the leading business schools. This week we turn our attention to the pre-term and orientation programs at Tepper School of Business.
Tepper offers both pre-term and orientation programs. As part of its pre-term offerings, Tepper conducts an academic course called the Quantitative Skills and Review Program (QSRP). This math course is a mandatory admissions provision for some students who do not have significant quantitative experience, though Tepper invites the entire incoming class to attend to get to know their classmates and explore the campus before the official orientation begins. In the summer of 2008, Tepper added an additional pre-term program for the benefit of first-year students who are interested in entrepreneurship. During the Swartz Entrepreneurship Boot Camp, veteran entrepreneurs and faculty members from the school’s Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship present lectures on topics such as growing a business, conducting due diligence and pitching ideas to investors. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on September 9, 2010, at 3:00 am
Posted in: Essay Topic Analysis , School: CMU / Tepper The essay topics for the 2010-2011 CMU Tepper application are the same as last year’s prompts. Although there is no prescribed word limit, the school advises that applicants write approximately two double-spaced pages per essay.
Essay A: What are your short-term and long-term goals? How will a Tepper MBA help you to achieve these goals? (Please include any information regarding what steps you have taken to learn more about the Tepper School.)
Tepper has taken the fairly typical approach of leading off with a standard career goals essay, and at two double spaced pages they allot a reasonable amount of space to this subject. The key for Tepper applicants will be to formulate a directed discussion that speaks to the question, making judicious mention of one’s career to date where appropriate in explaining one’s motivation and preparedness for his or her goals. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on September 2, 2010, at 10:44 am
Posted in: Essay Topics , School: CMU / Tepper CMU / Tepper’s online application for the 2010-2011 admissions cycle has gone live! For interested applicants, the essay topics are as follows:
A) What are your short term and long term goals? How will a Tepper MBA help you achieve these goals? (Please include any information regarding what steps you have taken to learn more about Tepper.) (Suggested length: 2 double-spaced pages)
B) The Tepper School’s culture relies on all members to be active contributors to our community. With your values, experiences, and interests, how will you make a unique contribution to the Tepper community? Your examples may include: classroom interaction, student activities, career development, community service, etc. (Suggested length: 2 double-spaced pages)
C)Please answer two of the following three questions or statements. Please clearly specify which questions you are answering. Your two answers should equal a total of two pages or less.
1. Describe an obstacle you have faced in your professional or academic life. How did you overcome this obstacle and how did it foster your development?
2. Describe a time in which your ethics were challenged. How did you deal with the situation and what did you learn from it?
3. One thing people would be surprised to know about me is…
Posted by Clear Admit on August 17, 2010, at 3:00 pm
Posted in: Interview Guides , School Guides , School: Berkeley / Haas , School: Chicago , School: CMU / Tepper , School: Columbia , School: Cornell / Johnson , School: Dartmouth / Tuck , School: Duke / Fuqua , School: Harvard , School: INSEAD , School: London Business School , School: Michigan / Ross , School: MIT / Sloan , School: Northwestern / Kellogg , School: NYU Stern , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford , School: UCLA / Anderson , School: UNC / Kenan Flagler , School: Virginia / Darden , School: Yale We are pleased to announce the release of the 2010-2011 Clear Admit MBA School Guides to Darden, INSEAD, Johnson, Kenan-Flagler, London Business School and Tepper! As previously announced in this space, also available are the updated versions of the Clear Admit MBA School Guides to Chicago Booth, Columbia, Fuqua, Haas, Harvard, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Ross, Stanford, Tuck, UCLA Anderson, Wharton and Yale, which were released earlier this summer.
All twenty of the 2010-2011 Clear Admit MBA School Guide titles feature the most current information from the programs, including the latest admissions guidelines, class demographics and placement statistics, and offer insight into year-over-year trends.
Applauded by admissions officers and applicants alike, the Clear Admit MBA School Guides are informative and detailed profiles of leading business schools that combine the views of faculty, students, alumni and the popular press. They are available electronically (in PDF format) to help you meet your tight time constraints.
» Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 29, 2010, at 4:12 pm
Posted in: Deadlines , School: CMU / Tepper The Carnegie Mellon / Tepper deadlines for the 2010-2011 admissions season have just been released. The five deadlines are below:
Round 1
Deadline: October 25, 2010
Notification: December 20, 2010
Round 2
Deadline: January 3, 2011
Notification: March 14, 2011
Round 3
Deadline: March 7, 2011
Notification: April 29, 2011
Round 4
Deadline: April 25, 2011
Notification: May 27, 2011
Round 5
Deadline: June 1, 2011
Notification: Rolling
Applicants should note that the Round 4 deadline is reserved for U.S. citizens and permanent residents; international applicants must apply by the Round 3 deadline. The Round 5 deadline is exclusively for FlexTime and FlexMode candidates.
For more information, be sure to visit the school’s website.
Posted by Clear Admit on May 24, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Chicago , School: CMU / Tepper , School: Columbia , School: Duke / Fuqua , School: Georgetown , School: Michigan / Ross , School: MIT / Sloan , School: Northwestern / Kellogg , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund will partner with 10 top MBA programs across the United States as part of a new fellowship program designed to support promising students who demonstrate academic excellence and social leadership during their first year of MBA studies.
The fellowships, which will be presented to one student from each of the ten partner schools, will cover the full cost of tuition for the second year of MBA studies. Partner schools include Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business, Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Duke University Fuqua School of Business, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Business, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Michigan Ross School of Management and University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.
“This unprecedented program seeks to support future leaders who can influence their companies to advance a financially viable environmental and societal agenda,” McGowan Fund Executive Director Diana Spencer said in a statement announcing the new fellowships.
As part of the program, the fellows will present a case study in business to the McGowan Fund Board of Directors at a conference each fall. The McGowan Fund hopes that the conference, which will be open to alumni of the fellowship program in future years, will help build a network honoring William McGowan, who was a successful entrepreneur and founder of MCI Communications.
The initial class of McGowan Fellows will be announced in July 2010.
To learn more, click here.
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