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David Simpson (LBS)
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Linda Meehan (Columbia)
Bruce DelMonico (Yale)
Peter Johnson (Berkeley)
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J.J. Cutler (Wharton)
Jake Cohen (INSEAD)
Rod Garcia (MIT Sloan)

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Application Deadlines
Below are the upcoming deadlines for admission to top-tier schools.
Jul 1: HBS 2+2
Jul 22: INSEAD Jan Intake R3
Oct 1: Harvard Business School R1
Oct 1: Penn / Wharton R1
Oct 1: Duke / Fuqua EA
Oct 7: CBS J-Term
Oct 7: CBS ED
Oct 7: Stanford GSB R1
Oct 8: Yale SOM R1
Oct 10: Michigan / Ross R1
Oct 14: Chicago Booth R1
Oct 15: Northwestern / Kellogg R1
Oct 20: Berkeley / Haas R1
Oct 27: MIT / Sloan R1
Nov 15: NYU / Stern R1

Essay Topic Analysis
Below are links to our comments on some of the top programs' essay topics.
The Career Goals Essay*
Berkeley / Haas
Chicago GSB
CMU / Tepper
Columbia
Cornell / Johnson
Dartmouth / Tuck
Duke / Fuqua
Harvard*
IESE
INSEAD
London Business School
MIT / Sloan*
Michigan / Ross
Northwestern / Kellogg*
NYU / Stern*
Oxford / Said
Penn / Wharton*
Stanford GSB*
UCLA / Anderson
UNC / Kenan-Flagler
USC / Marshall
UT Austin / McCombs
UVA / Darden
Yale SOM
* denotes '09-'10 commentary

Categories
Use categories to access all that has been written on each of the topics. We have categorized by school and by subject matter.
Interview Reports
A selection of interview field reports from fellow applicants posted to the MBA Admissions Wiki. Add your reports when you are finished with your interviews.
Chicago
Columbia
Dartmouth / Tuck
Duke / Fuqua
Harvard
Kellogg
Michigan / Ross
MIT / Sloan
Stanford
UNC / Chapel Hill
Virginia / Darden
Wharton
London Business School

GMAT Resources
MBA.com
Manhattan GMAT
GMAT Club
Princeton Review
Test Prep New York
Kaplan
Beat The GMAT

Writing Resources
Guide to Grammar and Writing
The Internet Grammar of English
English Usage, Style and Composition
The Economist Style Guide
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

School Rankings
Rankings are a good way to start your research on various MBA Programs. Keep in mind each uses a different methodology.
Business Week
Economist
Financial Times
Forbes
USNews
Wall Street Journal

Career Guides
The following resources should be useful to those who want to research the careers open to them after (or before) earning an MBA.
Vault.com
Wetfeet

Business School Resources
The following are business resources offered by a variety of leading Business Schools. It's useful to subscribe to these resources, especially for the schools to which you are applying. MBA Programs: North America
If an MBA Program is not listed, please e-mail and we will be happy to list it.
Berkeley / Haas
Boston College / Carroll
Carnegie Mellon / Tepper
Chicago
Columbia
Concordia
Cornell / Johnson
Dartmouth / Tuck
Duke / Fuqua
Emory / Goizueta
Harvard
HEC Montreal
Indiana / Kelley
Michigan
MIT / Sloan
Northwestern / Kellogg
New York / Stern
North Carolina / Kenan Flagler
Notre Dame / Mendoza
Pennsylvania / Wharton
Queens
Stanford
Syracuse / Whitman
Texas / McCombs
Thunderbird
Toronto
USC / Marshall
UCLA / Anderson
Vanderbilt / Owen
Virginia / Darden
Washington University in St. Louis / Olin
Western Ontario / Ivey
Yale

MBA Programs: Rest of the World
As there is some variety in the length of international MBA programs, we have denoted the length of the program next to its name (1 = one year; 2 = 2 years). If an MBA Program is not listed, please e-mail and we will be happy to list it.
AGSM (Australia) 2
Cambridge / Judge (UK) 1
CIEBS (China) 2
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (China) 1
Cranfield School of Mgmt (UK) 1
ESADE (Spain) 1 or 2
HEC (France) 2
Hult (UK) 1
IESE (Spain) 2
IMD (Switzerland) 1
INCAE (Costa Rica) 2
INSEAD (France) 1
IPADE (Mexico)
ISB (India) 1
London Business School (UK) 2
Manchester Bus. School (UK) 2
Melbourne (Australia) 2
Oxford / Said (UK) 1
Rotterdam (Netherlands) 1
Tsinghua IMBA (China) 2
University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) 1

Additional Resources
Here we link a host of additional resources available across the web. E-mail info@clearadmit.com to have resources added to this list.
AACSB International
Association of MBAs
Beyond Grey Pinstripes
EFMD
gradschools.com (worldwide)
Infozee
International Student Loans
mba.com (GMAT Scores)
MBAInfo
mbaleague.blogspot.com
MBAzone
MBA Jungle
TOEFL
Top MBA


MBA Tipline
We encourage admissions officers, students and applicants to alert us of interesting news and developments, please send an email to news@clearadmit.com so we can blog it.

Blog Archive

CATEGORY - SCHOOL: INSEAD

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

INSEAD/Kellogg Research Reveals Link Between Study Abroad and Creativity

According to recent research from INSEAD and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, the experience of living outside your home country and adapting to a new culture may enhance creative thinking.

From El Greco to Ernest Hemingway, many artists have sought out experience in a foreign culture as a means of stimulating their imaginations and enhancing their work. But does living abroad really stimulate creativity? “It’s a longstanding question that we feel we’ve been able to begin answering through this research,” said the study’s lead author, INSEAD assistant professor of organizational behavior William Maddux, in a statement.

Together, Maddux and Kellogg’s Adam Galinsky conducted five studies to test the links between the two. Their findings were published in the May issue of the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Using MBA students as test subjects, two of the studies presented problems of logic and negotiation designed to test creative insight. The results of both studies showed that the longer students had spent living abroad, the more likely they were to come up with the most creative solution. In both instances, time spent traveling abroad didn’t impact creativity the way living abroad did.

After conducting the five test studies, Maddux and Galinsky then ran a follow-up study to better understand the link. With a group of MBA students at INSEAD, they determined that those students who had adapted themselves to the foreign cultures when they lived abroad were those most likely to solve the classic creative insight challenge.

But while the studies did show a strong link between living abroad and greater creativity, they don’t prove that adapting to a new culture actually causes increased creativity. “We just couldn’t randomly assign people to live abroad while others stay in their own country,” Maddux said in a statement.

So instead, they tried a technique called “priming” to try to understand what causes someone to be creative. In two experiments, they primed students at the Sorbonne to mentally recreate their past experiences living abroad and then measured whether doing so caused them to be more creative, at least temporarily. Another group of students were asked instead to recall experiences that didn’t involve adapting to another culture, such as going to the supermarket.

The results revealed that students primed to recreate past experiences of living abroad then drew space aliens and solved word games more creatively than those primed to recreate domestic experiences.

According to Maddux, the research findings could have something to show about the increasing impact of globalization on the world. “Knowing that experiences abroad are critical for creative output makes study abroad programs and job assignments in other countries that much more important, especially for people and companies that put a premium on creativity and innovation to stay competitive,” he said.

To read the full article, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 9:37 am in General, MBA News, School: INSEAD, School: Northwestern / Kellogg

Thursday, May 07, 2009

INSEAD Deadlines 2009-2010

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 3:19 pm in Deadlines, General, School: Harvard, School: INSEAD, School: MIT / Sloan

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Wiki Wednesdays: INSEAD and NYU / Stern Interview Reports

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 12:00 pm in Interview Tips, School: INSEAD, School: NYU Stern, Wiki Wednesdays

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Wiki Wednesdays: INSEAD and UCLA / Anderson Interview Reports

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 4:00 pm in Interview Tips, School: INSEAD, School: UCLA / Anderson, Wiki Wednesdays

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Wiki Wednesdays: Submit an Interview Report for Berkeley / Haas, Duke/Fuqua, INSEAD or London Business School and Win a $10 Gift Card to iTunes!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 11:30 am in Interview Tips, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Duke / Fuqua, School: INSEAD, School: London Business School, Wiki Wednesdays

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Wiki Wednesdays: Submit an Interview Report for Berkeley / Haas, INSEAD, London Business School or NYU / Stern and Win a $10 Gift Card to iTunes!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 10:30 am in Interview Tips, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Harvard, School: INSEAD, School: London Business School, School: NYU Stern, School: Stanford, Wiki Wednesdays

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Admissions Director Q&A: INSEAD MBA Program Dean Jake Cohen

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 11:35 am in Admissions Director Q&A, School: INSEAD, Uncategorized

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Wiki Wednesdays: Submit a Report for Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Yale SOM, INSEAD or IESE, Receive $10 iTunes Gift Card!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 11:30 am in Interview Tips, School: CMU / Tepper, School: Columbia, School: Cornell / Johnson, School: IESE, School: INSEAD, School: Stanford, School: Yale, Wiki Wednesdays

Monday, January 26, 2009

London Business School Joins Wharton to Top Financial Times MBA Rankings

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 11:31 pm in General, MBA News, Rankings, School: IMD, School: INSEAD, School: London Business School, School: Penn / Wharton

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Wiki Wednesdays: Submit a Report, Win an iTunes Gift Card!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 7:37 am in Interview Tips, School: Chicago, School: INSEAD, Wiki Wednesdays

Monday, December 01, 2008

Mumbai Terrorist Attacks Impact Planned MBA Admissions Events in India

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 5:00 pm in Events, MBA News, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Emory / Goizueta, School: INSEAD, School: London Business School, Uncategorized

Saturday, October 18, 2008

New Initiative Underscores INSEAD’s Commitment to Promoting Women’s Participation in Business

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 5:19 am in General, MBA News, School: INSEAD

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

INSEAD School Guide Released!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 12:32 pm in School Guides, School: INSEAD

Monday, August 25, 2008

INSEAD Names New MBA Program Dean

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 2:30 pm in General, MBA News, School: INSEAD

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Trivia Tuesday: The Wharton/INSEAD Alliance

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 3:29 am in School: INSEAD, School: Penn / Wharton, Trivia Tuesday

Friday, May 23, 2008

Upcoming Info Sessions Introduce International Students to INSEAD’s One-Year Accelerated MBA Program

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 12:51 pm in MBA News, School: INSEAD

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

INSEAD Deadlines for 2008-2009 - September and January Intakes

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 11:04 am in Deadlines, Essay Topics, School: INSEAD

Monday, May 05, 2008

Wharton School of Business, INSEAD Renew Alliance for Four More Years

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:29 pm in General, MBA News, School: INSEAD, School: Penn / Wharton

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Wiki Wednesdays: School Choices

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 8:52 am in School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Cornell / Johnson, School: Dartmouth / Tuck, School: IESE, School: INSEAD, School: London Business School, School: MIT / Sloan, School: Stanford, School: UCLA / Anderson, School: Yale, Which School Wednesdays, Wiki Wednesdays

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Wiki Wednesdays: School Choices

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 8:37 am in School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Cornell / Johnson, School: Dartmouth / Tuck, School: INSEAD, School: London Business School, School: MIT / Sloan, School: Stanford, School: UCLA / Anderson, School: Yale, Which School Wednesdays, Wiki Wednesdays

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