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Posted by Clear Admit on August 30, 2010, at 3:00 am
For all those applicants who have recently opened a calendar to plot out the next few months only to realize they can’t possibly fit in campus visits on top of full time jobs and essay writing, never fear! It’s true that traveling to a school’s campus is the ideal way to learn about their MBA program, but visiting is often not a viable option for applicants who are located remotely or unsure of their level of interest in a given school. The good news is that business schools might very well come to them. Many b-schools are getting ready to hit the road and embark on worldwide tours to dispense information and recruit qualified applicants. Such events offer a great opportunity for interested students to meet with admissions staff (and sometimes with current students and/or alumni), learn about the program and ask specific questions.
Some of the top schools are already on the road, so we recommend looking into the travel schedules for programs of interest and planning accordingly. Keeping in mind that these schedules are updated and amended throughout the fall, here are some of the top programs’ itineraries for the months ahead: » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 24, 2010, at 3:00 am
Welcome back to Trivia Tuesday, our weekly exploration of the details, distinctions and developments of the leading MBA programs.
Over the last decade, most business schools have sought ways to provide relevant, hands-on international business exposure within the confines of a two-year degree. The solution that many schools have arrived at is study trips, which allow students to spend a few weeks exploring the business environment of another country over the summer or during a mid-semester break. Depending on the school, these trips may be organized through an elective course, by an administrative office, or through a campus student group. » Continue reading
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 August 17, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Do you have your sights set on the upper echelon of MBA programs? Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond shares valuable tips on how to target top schools Harvard, Stanford and Wharton as part of a recent video by MBA Podcaster.
The video, entitled Navigating the Business School Trilogy, aired on August 9th as part of MBA Pod TV, MBA Podcaster’s YouTube video channel. In this most recent episode, Richmond offers a comparison of what many consider to be the top three MBA programs in the country: Harvard Business School (HBS), Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He examines what sets the schools apart and provides insight to prospective applicants on how to approach the application process at each school. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 13, 2010, at 7:00 pm
MBA applicant blogger “MBADreamz” recently shared with us a blog post he wrote detailing his thoughts on the Clear Admit Harvard Business School Guide. MBADreamz acquired the Harvard Business School Guide as a prize for winning Twitter Trivia, our weekly contest in which we ask our Twitter followers a question based off of our latest Trivia Tuesday blog post.
In his review, MBADreamz explains the structure of the guide, providing brief summaries of the chapters featured in the guide and sharing his reactions to them. Before diving into this concise breakdown of the sections, MBADreamz begins by declaring the School Guide “an amazing resource, no doubt.” He also speaks to the comprehensive nature of the guide when he states that the Harvard Business School Guide is “almost like an encyclopedia in one pocketbook.” » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 6, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Harvard Business School (HBS) announced on its admissions blog yesterday that it will not hold admissions information sessions on August 20th or August 23rd. The sessions, which generally take place at 1 p.m. every Monday and Friday during the summer months, will resume on Friday, August 27th. Applicants who are planning campus visits are encouraged to take this under advisement.
The group information sessions are designed to provide prospective applicants with an overview of the HBS MBA program. They are conducted by members of the MBA Admissions team, who also can answer any questions applicants may have about the admissions process. Registration for these sessions is not required. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 4, 2010, at 1:00 pm
After last year’s dismal predictions of a job market meltdown, the landscape for new MBA graduates is experiencing an encouraging recovery, according to a recent Forbes report. According to the MBA Career Services Council, 60 percent of career departments at U.S. and European schools recently surveyed report more job postings this year than last. And some schools, such as New York University’s Stern School of Business, say that job postings in some sectors are up by as much as 70 percent, according to Forbes.
Hidden within these encouraging statistics are some interesting new trends, the Forbes report continued. Specifically, more and more Fortune 500 companies are now hiring international MBA students from top Western schools to run operations not in the United States or Europe but rather back in their home countries. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 3, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Despite huge demand for business education from students in Asia, Harvard Business School (HBS) does not plan to open fully fledged campuses in the region, the school’s new dean told the Wall Street Journal in an interview Monday.
A native of India, Nitin Nohria became the first non-North American born dean of HBS when he assumed the role last month. He is known for championing the idea of a global 21st century, and one of his first actions as HBS dean was to embark upon a trip around the world, including several stops in Asia. But according to his interview with WSJ’s Duncan Mavin, HBS’s strategy for the future does not include opening an Asian campus. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 2, 2010, at 1:43 pm
At least six top business schools have added courses focused on internet marketing and social media to their MBA curricula in the past year as part of an effort to help students stand out to employers in a tight job market, a recent Bloomberg BusinessWeek article reports.
Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School and the Carroll School of Management at Boston College each will offer one or more social networking courses this fall, according to the report. And in Europe, INSEAD, London Business School and the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC Paris) also have added or soon will add related course offerings of their own. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 19, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Last month, five leading U.S. business schools joined together to form the Business School Alliance for Healthcare Management (BSAHCM), an organization focused on fostering management education in the healthcare sector as part of an effort to improve healthcare overall.
Charter members of BSAHCM include Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Harvard Business School, the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
“The Alliance aims to help the public understand the capacity of our institutions to bring about solutions to many of the management and leadership issues arising in the health sector on a global basis,” Fuqua’s Health Sector Management Director Kevin Schulman said in a statement announcing the organization’s . . . → Continue Reading
Harvard Business School (HBS) earlier this week released preliminary profile information for the Class of 2012. Though many of the stats this year are very close to last year’s, the information does reveal some interesting admissions trends taking place at the school.
Overall class composition remained relatively constant year over year. This newest class is 36 percent women (down 1 percent from last year), 23 percent U.S. ethnic minorities (unchanged) and 34 percent international students (down 2 percent, but representing more countries, 73 compared with 70 last year).
Notably, the school received almost 500 more applications this year – 9,524 compared to last year’s 9,093. Of these, 11 percent were admitted, and HBS projects a total MBA enrollment of 910 students. Last year proved . . . → Continue Reading
Available for immediate purchase and download are the 2010-2011 versions of the Clear Admit School Guides to Chicago Booth, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, Ross, Stanford and Wharton. These 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 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 . . . → Continue Reading
John Wells, who has served for the past two years as president of IMD in Switzerland, has stepped down, the Financial Times reported last week. IMD has named Dominique Turpin, a French professor of management and strategy at the school for the past 20 years, as interim dean. Turpin is expected to assume to role on a permanent basis after the interim period, the FT added.
Wells’ departure from IMD after so short a stint calls to mind the effective ouster of Dean Robin Buchanan by faculty at London Business School in December 2008, the FT noted. Buchanan, who like Wells was deemed a “non-academic” dean, was forced out after just 16 months on the job. Meanwhile, INSEAD, a third top European . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 30, 2010, at 1:00 pm
For applicants to the 2+2 Program at Harvard Business School (HBS), Admissions Director Dee Leopold provided updates about upcoming steps in the current admissions cycle in a recent post to her Director’s Blog.
Interview invitations will go out on July 19th, she wrote. Her team expects to invite roughly 200 applicants to interview at that time, and detailed instructions will be communicated then.
Interviews are scheduled to take place on the HBS campus from August 18th to 24th. Candidates should plan to be available to travel to Cambridge during this week, Leopold advised. “There are no options for other dates or places,” she wrote.
Candidates who will not receive an invitation to interview will also learn of their fate on July 19th, Leopold . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 28, 2010, at 1:00 pm
In a recent post to her Director’s Blog, Harvard Business School (HBS) Director or Admissions Dee Leopold shared a few important updates for prospective international applicants who are beginning to think about applying for Round 1.
If English was not your primary language of instruction as an undergraduate, you will need to take an English test as part of your application process, Leopold wrote. HBS accepts scores from the TOEFL, IELTS or PTE (Pearson Test of English) for this purpose. To be considered for entry in September 2011, your scores must be dated January 1, 2009, or more recently, Leopold added.
“The Admissions Board will not accept or review applications without scores from one of these tests,” she wrote. “There are . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 23, 2010, at 4:20 pm
Although Harvard Law School released its Round 1 and 2 deadlines and essay topics quite some time ago, the school only recently announced its third and final round deadline. The Round 3 deadline is below:
Round 3
Deadline: March 31, 2011
Notification: May 5, 2011
For more information, visit the program’s website. To read the Clear Admit Essay Topic Analysis of the Harvard Business School essay topics, click . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 22, 2010, at 3:00 am
It’s time again for another edition of Trivia Tuesday, our weekly examination of the programs and opportunities that differentiate the leading MBA programs. This week we take a peek into the Clear Admit School Guide to Harvard Business School, and share an excerpt on HBS’s Healthcare Initiative.
“The Healthcare Initiative was established in 2005 in response to rapid changes in the healthcare field. In addition to driving faculty research on the subject, the Initiative facilitates networking and recruiting for internship and full-time positions through its relationships with more than 50 healthcare organizations. Harvard’s Healthcare Club is billed one of the largest clubs on campus, and hosts an annual conference open to students and industry professionals, and two others to which alumni are . . . → Continue Reading
Harvard Business School (HBS) has extended offers to 53 of its waitlisted candidates so far this year, according to Admissions Director Dee Leopold. Leopold shared this and other assorted admissions updates earlier this week in a post to her Director’s Blog.
In other news, the application for the Class of 2013 is scheduled to go live during the week of June 21st, Leopold wrote. Expect further updates as to the exact date in the weeks ahead, she added.
Leopold also reminded applicants to the 2+2 Program that its application deadline is June 15th. Though candidates must have taken the GMAT or GRE by that date, HBS does not need to receive your official score report in order to begin reading your . . . → Continue Reading
On Tuesday, June 29th, the Harvard Alumni Club of the San Francisco Bay Area will host a panel discussion on MBA admissions featuring representatives from Harvard Business School (HBS), Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
The panel, entitled “MBA Admissions: The Experts Speak,” is open to all aspiring MBA candidates interested in the MBA program at any of the three schools. Panel presenters include Wharton alumni interviewer Archana Ravichandran (MBA ’08), Stanford GSB Director of Admissions Kirsten Moss and HBS Admissions Board Member Hilary Caplan Somorjai (HBS ’96). They will discuss a range of topics including curriculum enhancements, job market prospects, global exchanges and admissions trends.
The event will take place at the University . . . → Continue Reading
Graduates from top MBA programs in the United States can expect to earn $2.5 million, on average, in base pay and bonuses over the course of a 20-year career, with graduates from the very top programs earning even more, according to recent research commissioned by Bloomberg Businessweek.
For the second year, Bloomberg BusinessWeek asked PayScale, a salary data collection company, to calculate median cash compensation for graduates from top business school upon graduation and again after 5, 10, 15 and 20 years of work. PayScale, which uses online pay comparison tools to collect individual salary data, has a database of 23,000 MBA grads at the top 45 U.S. business schools.
According to PayScale’s data, Harvard Business School graduates can expect to earn the . . . → Continue Reading
For the 2010-2011 admissions season, HBS applicants will need to respond to a total of four essay questions. Candidates are required respond to the two initial questions on the list and may then choose two of four additional questions – one less than last year – to round out the set. Applicants must be clear and concise to fit their essays within each of the essay’s 600- or 400-word limits. Let’s take a look at the essay questions for this year:
1. What are your three most substantial accomplishments and why do you view them as such? (600-word limit)
This essay question has been a hallmark of the HBS application for many years. Due to . . . → Continue Reading
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