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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Submit an MBA Interview Report, Win a $10 Gift Card to Amazon!

Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays, in which we highlight the latest happenings in the Clear Admit Wiki, an online repository for MBA applicants to share their experiences with admissions interviews.  We’ve received a number of interview reports this past week – for Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Dartmouth / Tuck, Georgetown / McDonough, and Northwestern / Kellogg – and we’d like to thank everyone who has been sharing their experiences this season!

For the next few weeks, any interview report submitted for an MBA program in the Clear Admit Wiki is eligible for a $10 Amazon gift certificate!  In other words, all you have to do is send us your interview field report for inclusion in the Wiki and we’ll send you a $10 Amazon gift certificate.   While any contributor can win, you must send your interview report to wiki@clearadmit.com to be eligible; we’ll post it to the Wiki and notify the winners by e-mail (Limit: one iTunes or Amazon gift card per person).

The most helpful and informative reports usually include the following information:

1. Date/Admissions Round
2. Description of visit and/or interview atmosphere
3. Type of interview (alum vs. adcom, blind vs. application-based)
4. List of interview questions
5. Commentary (What did you think of the interview? What surprised you? What didn’t surprise you? What might you conclude about the school based on this experience?)

Applicants who would like to supplement the information available on the Wiki can check out our Clear Admit Interview Guides, which provide school-specific insight and strategic about admissions interviews.  Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Clear Admit Wiki and helped fellow applicants prepare for MBA admissions interviews this season!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 3:10 pm in School: Berkeley / Haas, School: CMU / Tepper, School: Dartmouth / Tuck, School: Georgetown, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, Wiki Wednesdays

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Trivia Tuesday: On-Campus Housing at Kellogg and Tuck

Welcome to another edition of Trivia Tuesday, our weekly exploration of the special programs, interesting opportunities and unusual policies that impact the MBA experience at the leading business schools! Today we turn our attention to residential life, an important aspect of student life and campus culture. Although most of the leading business schools offer some on-campus housing options for full-time MBA students, space tends to be limited, and the rooms or apartments tend to be in residence halls shared by other graduate programs at the university.

However, two of the leading MBA programs best known for their strong sense of community are also two of the schools that have actively expanded the number of on-campus housing opportunities for MBA students. Let’s take a closer look at housing options offered by Tuck and Kellogg.

Tuck’s Whittemore Hall offers private living accommodations, social areas, group study rooms, a business resource center and an exercise facility with locker rooms. Buchanan Hall provides additional housing for first-year students, as well as group study rooms and a lounge area. Students entering Tuck with partners or children often choose to live in Sachem Village, a duplex and townhome community for Dartmouth’s graduate students.

Tuck also recently expanded its residential options with two additional residences, Achtmeyer and Pineau-Valencienne Halls. Together, these residences provide 85 single-occupancy rooms, with group kitchens and lounges on each floor. Located just west of Whittemore Hall, these buildings offer a number of places for students to gather. These halls are part of the new living and learning center that officially opened at Tuck in January 2009.

At Kellogg, of the 30% of MBA students who choose to live on campus, most settle into the seven-story McManus Living/Learning Center. Both single and married students may choose from single or double studios, and one- or two-bedroom apartments. With study rooms, a computer lab, lounges, a workout room and a game room, McManus is designed to facilitate socializing and out-of-classroom learning. The McManus Living/Learning Center is just a three block walk from the Jacobs Center, making it one of the most convenient housing options for Kellogg students.

Students at both Tuck and Kellogg report that the opportunity to live with classmates extends students’ social circles and enhances the sense of a shared campus community. For more information on the housing options at Tuck, Kellogg, or other leading business schools, be sure to check out the Life On Campus sections of the Clear Admit School Guides!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 8:05 am in School Guides, School: Dartmouth / Tuck, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, Trivia Tuesday

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Submit an MBA Interview Report, Win a $10 Gift Card to iTunes!

Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays, in which we highlight the latest happenings in the Clear Admit Wiki, an online repository for MBA applicants to share their experiences with admissions interviews.  We’ve received a number of interview reports this past week – for Berkeley / Haas, Georgetown / McDonough, MIT / Sloan and Northwestern / Kellogg – and we’d like to thank everyone who has been sharing their experiences this season!

For the next few weeks, any interview report submitted for an MBA program in the Clear Admit Wiki is eligible for a $10 iTunes gift certificate!  In other words, all you have to do is send us your interview field report for inclusion in the Wiki and we’ll send you a $10 iTunes gift certificate.   While any contributor can win, you must send your interview report to wiki@clearadmit.com to be eligible; we’ll post it to the Wiki and notify the winners by e-mail (Limit: one gift card per person).

The most helpful and informative reports usually include the following information:

1. Date/Admissions Round
2. Description of visit and/or interview atmosphere
3. Type of interview (alum vs. adcom, blind vs. application-based)
4. List of interview questions
5. Commentary (What did you think of the interview? What surprised you? What didn’t surprise you? What might you conclude about the school based on this experience?)

Applicants who would like to supplement the information available on the Wiki can check out our Clear Admit Interview Guides, which provide school-specific insight and strategic about admissions interviews.  Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Clear Admit Wiki and helped fellow applicants prepare for MBA admissions interviews this season!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 3:36 pm in School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Georgetown, School: MIT / Sloan, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, Wiki Wednesdays

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Kellogg School of Management to Host Sixth Annual Super Bowl Advertising Review

With Christmas behind us, marketing buzz now shifts toward the Super Bowl. Indeed, a 30-second advertising spot during the culminating game of the season for American football can command as much as $2.5 to $3 million. Is it really worth it?

These and other questions will be at the heart of the sixth annual Kellogg School of Management Super Bowl Advertising Review. On game day – February 7, 2010 – students at the business school widely regarded as tops in the field of marketing will pick apart the much-hyped Super Bowl advertisements, judging them based on their potential to drive sales, their impact on companies’ bottom lines and their power to improve brand awareness.

Kellogg marketing professors Derek Rucker and Tim Calkins will oversee students as they dissect this year’s Super Bowl advertising in real time. The students, including members of the Kellogg Marketing Club, will rate the advertisers using a set of academic criteria known as ADPLAN, an acronym for Attention, Distinction, Positioning, Linkage, Amplification and Net equity.

Using ADPLAN, they will examine the qualities that define a successful Super Bowl ad, identify new advertising trends for Super Bowl 2010 and contemplate how marketers can best leverage Super Bowl buzz to increase their return on investment.

Based on these and other academic criteria, the Kellogg students will produce a final ranking of the most and least effective advertisements aired during television’s most-watched event. Leading up to the event, Professors Calkins and Rucker will blog about Super Bowl advertising, providing ongoing commentary and insight, at http://kelloggsuperbowlreview.wordpress.com.

To learn more about the sixth annual Kellogg School Super Bowl Advertising Review, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Northwestern / Kellogg

Friday, December 11, 2009

University of Chicago Booth School of Business Dean to Step Down in June

Another business school will be looking for a new dean come June, according to a report yesterday in the Financial Times. University of Chicago Booth School of Business Edward Snyder will step down as dean in June 2010 after nine years in the role.

Snyder’s news comes just 10 days after Harvard Business School’s Dean Jay Light announced that he, too, will step down in June, ending a 40-year tenure on the HBS faculty. Meanwhile, officials at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management are conducting a search of their own to find a successor to Dean Dipak Jain, who stepped down in September. 

Chicago Booth’s Snyder will leave before the end of his second five-year term as dean, which would have finished in June 2011. “Given the strong state of our school and what we have accomplished, I believe now is the right time for the school to search for its next dean,” Snyder wrote in a letter to the Chicago Booth community. “On the personal side, I look forward to taking some time to reflect on the challenges facing management education, analyze some major public policy issues and consider my future,” he continued.

In a separate letter to the community, Chicago Booth President Robert Zimmer and Provost Thomas Rosenbaum praised Snyder’s dedication and all he has achieved over the past near decade. They credited him with helping to draw many of the world’s leading faculty to Chicago and doubling the number of endowed professorships at the school, while also maintaining the highest retention rate for senior faculty in five decades.

Also under Snyder’s leadership, student scholarship assistance has more than tripled, the dean and provost wrote. The school’s global footprint, too, has expanded to include a planned campus expansion in Singapore, a new campus in London and a key role in the University’s new Center in China. Meanwhile, at home on the Hyde Park campus, Chicago Booth moved its central operations into a dramatic new building.

Who will fill all of these open deans’ positions is sure to have the business school community buzzing, the FT noted. At HBS, which has always appointed its deans from within, the two current frontrunners are Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria. The dean’s search committee at Kellogg is slated to propose candidates to the president and provost in early 2010, and interim dean, Sunil Chopra, is considered a potential frontrunner, the FT reported.

Meanwhile, Chicago Booth will establish its own dean’s search committee in the next few weeks, the president and provost wrote.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Chicago, School: Harvard, School: Northwestern / Kellogg

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Top Chef Serves Up Business Advice to Kellogg Marketing Students

Sometimes experiential learning at Kellogg School of Management takes the form of a five-course meal. That was the case for 125 students in an introductory marketing class earlier this month, who got to chow down on food prepared by a celebrated chef while hearing his point of view on creativity, culinary arts and the restaurant business.

On November 11th, Chef Graham Elliot Bowles hosted Kellogg marketing professor Andrew Razeghi’s “Introduction of New Marketing and Services” class at his eponymous graham elliot restaurant in Chicago. Bowles, the youngest four-star chef in the nation and a recent contestant on Bravo TV’s “Top Chef Masters,” began his career working at renowned Chicago restaurants Charlie Trotter’s and Tru before launching his solo venture in 2008.

As he served each course, Bowles shared a little about his inspiration. “We like to reconstruct dishes,” he said as laid out a traditional Thanksgiving dinner of roasted heritage turkey with chestnut mousse, sage stuffing, creamy casserole and cranberry chutney. “We like to take an idea, knock it down and build it back up. We want to try to elevate everything that people understand,” he continued. 

Another dish, Wisconsin cheddar risotto, was inspired by a road trip to Chicago’s northern neighbor state, Bowles told the Kellogg students. Featuring a blend of artisan bratwurst, green apples, and glazed onions, it was topped with Cheez-it crackers and served with cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.

Four-star cuisine doesn’t have to be pretentious or stick to a prescribed set of rules, Bowles told the students. “It’s very much a gray area. It’s all open to personal interpretation,” he said. Another lesson he’s learned is the importance of maintaining a democratic process at his restaurant, which means taking into account the opinions and responsibilities of everyone from dishwasher to sous chef.

Razeghi, who is a close friend of Bowles, pointed out that the chef’s thoughts on business are relevant well outside the culinary field. Great marketing involves communicating a unique vision, he said. “It’s about understanding who your audience is and having a conversation with them that speaks to them. I really admire how [Bowles] does that,” he said.

The students seemed to agree. “I like that he said that everyone here matters – even the guy that sweeps the floor,” said Stephen Windsor ’11. “That idea is very relevant in business. Everyone working in your company isn’t going to be necessarily working on your team, but they still matter.”

For more on this story, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Northwestern / Kellogg

Friday, November 13, 2009

Lakefront Site Selected for New Kellogg School of Management Building

Northwestern University has selected the site where a new facility to house the Kellogg School of Management will be constructed, Northwestern President Morton Schapiro and Kellogg Interim Dean Sunil Chopra announced Wednesday.

The new building will be constructed on the northeast corner of Northwestern’s Evanston campus, bordered on two sides by Lake Michigan and affording spectacular views of the lake, the Chicago skyline and the North Shore.

“This will be an outstanding new home for Kellogg in a wonderful location on campus,” Chopra said in a statement. “The new facility will enable Kellogg to provide state-of-the-art teaching facilities, additional amenities for our students and office space for our faculty.”

The building will include classrooms, offices for faculty and administration and collaborative learning spaces. The timeline for design and construction of the new facility is contingent upon fundraising efforts, which are currently underway.

To learn more, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Northwestern / Kellogg

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

A Must-Read for Future Marketing and Brand Management Executives

So you are interested in studying the “four P’s” (product, price, place, and promotion) and can’t wait to learn about the  “three C’s” (customer, competition, and company). But first you must decide which school’s Marketing program is right for you. A resource from our new line of career-focused guides, the Clear Admit Career Guide to Marketing and Brand Management will help clarify the answer! Designed for MBA candidates seeking careers as marketers in brand or product management, market research, sales, advertising and marketing consulting, or product management, this guide focuses on the MBA programs that best prepare students to embark upon diverse marketing paths.

The Career Guide to Marketing and Brand Management is filled with comprehensive details about academics, extracurriculars, and job placement at 17 top MBA programs across the country—almost half of which offer a formal major, concentration, or specialization in marketing. Not only can this guide help prospective students narrow down which schools to apply to, it is a great resource for essays and interview preparation as well as a tool for deciding which school to attend.

Each program described in the guide is unique, with some focusing on more general marketing concepts, like Kellogg’s Marketing major, and others addressing more specific areas, as with The Johnson School’s Consumer Goods specialization. Other schools, like the Stanford Graduate School of Business, have a different structure altogether.

“Like many other leading MBA programs, Stanford requires students to complete a core curriculum, though Stanford is unusual in that the core is not structured solely by business discipline. . . . Stanford GSB students who are interested in marketing may select from among the dozen electives in the field, plus several electives that consider marketing in the context of particular industries. The school does not offer formal concentrations; instead students work with their advisers to design personalized academic programs to prepare them for their intended careers.”

Regardless of the curriculum, most graduate business schools have a student-run marketing club that provides members with career support through resume review sessions, panel discussions with alumni, events with recruiters, and other activities.

“The Kellogg Marketing Club is one of Kellogg’s largest and most active student organizations. Events are made possible by the sponsorship of numerous companies interested in recruiting Kellogg students. Platinum sponsors include Johnson & Johnson, McNeil Consumer Healthcare and S.C. Johnson; gold sponsors are Dell, Frito Lay, General Mills, Procter & Gamble and Walmart; and silver sponsors are Alberto Culver, Chevron, Clorox, Colgate-Palmolive, Del Monte, Gorton’s, The Hershey Company, ING, Kellogg’s, Kraft, Leo Burnett, Microsoft, Neutrogena, Unilever and ZS Associates. . . . The Club regularly brings Chief Marketing Officers, brand managers and other senior marketing executives to campus to discuss their experiences in the field.”

Check out the Career Guide to Marketing and Brand Management for guidance and information about a diverse array of MBA programs—available for immediate purchase and download from the Clear Admit shop!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 3:00 pm in Career Guides, School: Cornell / Johnson, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, School: Stanford

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

New Professorship Links Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, School of Law

A $3 million gift will establish a special law and business professorship shared between the Kellogg School of Management and the Northwestern University School of Law, the schools announced last week. Bernard Black, an expert in corporate law and finance and healthcare regulation, will be the first to fill the role.

The gift, from defense contractor General Dynamics Corporation, will establish the Nicholas D. Chabraja Professorship, named for the company’s retired chief executive officer and a Northwestern alumnus. The first of its type, the professorship will support both Kellogg and the School of Law, a symbol of the increasing integration of the two fields. 

The donation also will provide support to Northwestern’s JD-MBA program, the largest joint law and business program in the world and the first to introduce a three-year, rather than four-year, course of study.

“Northwestern’s JD-MBA program truly is at the cutting edge,” Sunil Chopra, Kellogg interim dean, said in a statement. “Gifts of this nature allow us to continue on our innovative path, and we are very grateful for General Dynamics’ generosity.”

Chabraja, who retired in June, remains as non-executive chairman of the board of General Dynamics. Before his career at General Dynamics, which included several leadership roles and the longest tenure as chief executive among the nation’s top five defense contractors. Chabraja was a litigation partner at the law firm of Jenner & Block for 22 years. He graduated from Northwestern’s School of Law in 1967 and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences in 1964 and is on Northwestern’s Board of Trustees.

Black will serve as the first Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor, with an appointment at the School of Law and in Kellogg’s finance department. He will join the university in September 2010 from the University of Texas (UT), where he currently holds the Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence at the School of Law and is a professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business. He also is co-director of UT’s Center of Law, Business and Economics. 

To learn more, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Northwestern / Kellogg

Working Toward a Career in Healthcare? Clear Admit’s New Guide Will Help You Choose an MBA Program!

Interested in a future career in healthcare? Choose the best MBA program for you with the help of Clear Admit’s Career Guide to Healthcare, a great resource from our brand new line of career-focused guides! This guide is directed toward prospective applicants hoping to work for companies like Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Medco Health Solutions or Pacific Healthcare; or who are thinking about healthcare-focused positions in industries like venture capital, consulting, or investment banking. Applicants looking to pursue careers in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices will also benefit from this guide, as they typically participate in MBA healthcare programs as well.

With 44 pages of detailed information on the top MBA programs with a focus on healthcare, this guide makes it easy for prospective students to:

-    Compare academic and extracurricular offerings at each school in order to narrow down where to apply
-    Write meaningful essays and prepare for interviews based on the guide’s specialized information about each program
-    Make an informed decision about which school to attend based on academics, career placement, and other deciding factors

Prospective students can also use the Clear Admit Guide to Healthcare to learn about student-run healthcare clubs at each school, recruiting for internships and jobs, and the academic offerings at the top MBA programs. Although many leading business schools do not offer a formal course of study in healthcare:

“Of those that do, Fuqua’s Certificate in Healthcare Management and Wharton’s Health Care Management Major are generally the best known. . .  The Health Management Certificate at Haas and the Health Enterprise Management Major at Kellogg are two of the other formal academic healthcare programs with strong track records of helping students secure employment in the industry.”

The guide contains sixteen school profiles with exclusive insight into academics, extracurriculars, and career services. For example, several school profiles offer a “course spotlight” describing a highlighted class, like the Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology course at University of California Berkeley’s Haas Business School:

“Associated with the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, this course is designed for both future entrepreneurs and those students interested in working for a biotechnology or medical devices startup. The course explores the challenges in starting a life sciences company, provides an overview of the industry, and teaches students to recognize the opportunities for funding. Students gain insights into working with venture capitalists, bringing ideas to the clinic, and tackling business development and strategic partnering. Students have the opportunity to work on their own entrepreneurial endeavors and meet with life-science entrepreneurs during the course.”

To find out more about the top healthcare-focused MBA programs, get the Clear Admit Guide to Healthcare, available for immediate purchase and download from the Clear Admit shop!

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# posted by lrubino @ 3:00 am in Career Guides, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Duke / Fuqua, School: MIT / Sloan, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, School: Penn / Wharton

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Global EMBA Programs Top Financial Times 2009 Rankings

Executive MBA (EMBA) programs have had trouble attracting as many students this year as they did last, with the exception of programs that feature classes taught across multiple continents. This according to data collected for the Financial Times’ 2009 EMBA ranking, released October 19th.

Among schools surveyed by the FT, overall enrollment in EMBA programs has dropped 9 percent – and it is believed to have dropped even more among lower-ranked schools. But multi-continent EMBA programs are proving the exception. They are the only programs to have increased enrollment this year, the FT reports.

Unlike regular MBA enrollment, which is often counter-cyclical to the economy, EMBA enrollment generally drops when times get tough, especially as corporate sponsorship dries up. But multi-continent programs are bucking the trend this year, and topping the FT rankings.

Each of this year’s top four programs is taught on at least two continents. They include partnerships between Kellogg and Hong Kong UST Business School (No. 1); HEC Paris, London School of Economics and NYU Stern (No.2); Columbia and London Business School (No. 3); and a program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business taught in the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore (No. 4).

Even with a price tag of more than $100,000, these and other multi-continent programs are still attracting students, including many who opt to sponsor themselves. According to Vince Frillici, a Washington, DC-based political lobbyist, his decision to pursue an EMBA now through the OneMBA program at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler school is already paying dividends. ““I feel it is adding value for my clients already,” he told the FT.
 
Taught at five schools in Brazil, China, Mexico, the Netherlands and the United States, Kenan-Flagler’s OneMBA was particularly attractive to Frillici precisely because of its global scope. “It’s a cliché, but the whole world is like a global village,” he told the FT.

A change in format for part-time EMBAs has helped support the growth of multi-continent programs. In place of the evening and weekend format of years past, EMBAs now often feature a modular structure in which students study in one-week blocks.  “We find that people will fly one hour for each day [of the module],” dean of EMBA programs at INSEAD, told the FT.

To read the full FT Global EMBA special report article, click here. To view the interactive 2009 EMBA rankings, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 2:30 pm in EMBA, Part-Time/Executive MBA, Rankings, School: Chicago, School: Columbia, School: INSEAD, School: London Business School, School: NYU Stern, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, School: UNC / Kenan Flagler

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Trivia Tuesday: Kellogg’s KWEST Program

It’s time again for Trivia Tuesday, our weekly look at the options and opportunities at some of the leading MBA programs. Today we take a peek at one of Kellogg’s unique student activities.

KWEST, which stands for Kellogg Worldwide Experiences and Service Trips, is a student-organized addition to the school’s traditional pre-term program. The trips are organized by second-year students and have become an incredibly popular way to begin the Kellogg experience, with over 75% of most incoming classes taking part. While all of the trips include a community service component, they are first and foremost a way to get to know a group of Kellogg students very well, to learn about the school from the second-year trip leaders and to begin experiencing the teamwork that is at the heart of Kellogg’s educational philosophy.

KWEST participants report that the trips are generally very social, with a focus on having fun while learning about fellow participants. Recent trips have partnered with organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, the U.N. and the World Wildlife Fund to work on projects in Maine, Montana and Yosemite National Park in the U.S., and international destinations such as Bolivia, Iceland, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago.

To learn more about Kellogg’s pre-term program, international opportunities or teamwork philosophy (all topics that make good interview fodder), be sure to check out the Clear Admit School Guide to Kellogg!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 2:31 am in School Guides, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, Trivia Tuesday

Monday, October 19, 2009

Looking to Land at McKinsey, Bain or BCG post-MBA? Read Clear Admit’s Guide for Future Consultants!

Last week you we gave you a sneak peek inside the Clear Admit Career Guide to Investment Banking. This week we are excited to highlight the Clear Admit Career Guide to Consulting, a great resource for prospective MBA students thinking about a career in this extremely popular field.

Since few business schools offer electives or majors specifically designed to prepare students for consulting careers, this guide is unique in that identifies consulting-related courses, key professors, club activities, and career support, as well as recruitment numbers for schools placing graduates into consulting jobs.  The Clear Admit Career Guide to Consulting can be used for the following purposes:

• - To assess the consulting-oriented offerings at leading schools and narrow your list of targets
• - To gather key school-specific facts that pertain to your career goals in consulting and craft application essays that shine
• - To ensure that you are 100% up to speed on your target schools’ offerings prior to an admissions interview
• - To help make the final decision as to where to attend by measuring each programs’ offerings and reputation in your target field 

For example, readers of this Career Guide can learn about how Kellogg specifically prepare students for a career in consulting via a specialized major:

“Of the twelve schools profiled in this guide, only Kellogg offers a major specifically designed to prepare students for consulting careers. The school’s Analytic Consulting Major draws from the fields of decision sciences, operation management, managerial economics and marketing to teach students how to analyze strategy using empirical models.”

If you are interested in Kellogg’s consulting major, the MBA Program Profile section of the guide includes detailed information about academics, popular professors, extracurriculars, and career services offered at the school. Each of the guide’s twelve profiles offers specialized information an applicant can use when deciding which program is best suited for them.

For example, at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business:

“A distinctive aspect of the Ross MBA program is the Multi-Disciplinary Action Program (MAP) that takes place during the second half of the winter quarter. In this course, student teams are paired with companies in the U.S. and abroad to complete a significant consulting assignment. The teams work for Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, and non-profits on projects related to business plan development, human resource planning, marketing, process improvement, growth strategies and more. Though all students participate in the course, the hands-on nature of the problem solving in this course makes it a particularly valuable experience for aspiring consultants.”

And that’s just a taste of the in-depth information included in this 43-paged guide. Find out more in the Clear Admit Guide to Consulting available for immediate purchase and download from the Clear Admit shop!

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# posted by lrubino @ 9:00 am in Career Guides, School: Michigan / Ross, School: Northwestern / Kellogg

Monday, October 05, 2009

Update on Kellogg School of Management’s Search for a New Dean

In a post to the Kellogg website last week, Janice Eberly, chair of the committee charged with nominating a new candidate to serve as dean of the school, shared details about the global search currently underway. At present, the 12-member committee is conducting forums with the extended Kellogg community in an effort to determine the qualities the new dean must possess. It has not yet begun to look at individual candidates.

“The entire community at Kellogg has a stake in the leadership of the school,” Eberly said. “We have a community that has a lot to bring to the search.”

With this in mind, the committee has reached out to tens of thousands of current students and alumni through e-mail, hosted forums on the Chicago and Evanston campuses with full-time and part-time students and conducted a forum with Kellogg’s global executive MBA students. It also has sent out a community email seeking candidate nominations and input on desired qualities for a new dean.

The search committee includes students, faculty, alumni and staff, which Eberly believes has strengthened the search process. “Each of their points of view gives us a different perspective on the role of the dean within the school,” she says. The committee expects to propose candidates for the position to Northwestern University Provost Daniel Linzer and President Morton Schapiro by early 2010.

Sunil Chopra, the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management, has been named to serve as interim dean until a new dean is found. He served as senior associate dean for curriculum and teaching from 2006-09. Dean Dipak Jain, whose leadership guided Kellogg for the past 10 years, stepped down in September to return to teaching.

For more information and a complete list of committee members, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Northwestern / Kellogg

Monday, September 28, 2009

Have You Ever Considered an Accelerated MBA Program?

In today’s challenging economic climate, some applicants are turning to accelerated programs that take only 10-15 months to complete and cost substantially less than a two-year program. These candidates argue that they don’t have the time or money to invest in a two-year program.  In light of the growing popularity of one-year MBA programs, The Wall Street Journal surveyed 1,361 recent grads and 731 alumni and reported their findings in a recent article about the one-year MBA track.

The Wall Street Journal ranked fifteen one-year programs (comprised of nine European schools, five in the U.S., and one Latin American school) and European schools clearly led the pack. IE Business School in Madrid ranks #1, Switzerland’s IMD Business School is #2, and Cranfield School of Management in the U.K. is #3. Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and Babson’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business round out the top five, but according to students, international programs offer a strong curriculum and “a much stronger international exposure.” And for 86% of students surveyed, a program’s international focus was the deciding factor in choosing a school.

Only 90 accredited schools worldwide offer a fast-track MBA, and few are located in the United States. Alumni reported that those in the U.S. tend to focus the majority of their career services and recruitment efforts on two-year students. On a positive note, women make up 35% of accelerated MBA graduate classes in the U.S. compared to 23% in international programs; and according to The Wall Street Journal, “American schools tend to excel in softer skills, like teamwork, building relationships, and managing across functions.”

These programs won’t suit everyone. They are both rigorous and time-consuming, and almost two-thirds of students reported spending more than fifteen hours a week on schoolwork outside of the classroom, leaving little time for extracurricular activities. IMD Business School is known for having six-day, 100-hour weeks!

“These students want to be taught, and then they want to move on,” said Sean Rickard, director of Cranfield’s MBA program. A very true statement, indeed—the Wall Street Journal study reported that 82% of students pursued one-year programs so they could return to the work force faster. Fortunately, most alumni reported that recruiters and managers don’t view an MBA degree from a one-year program any differently than a two-year program, and many agreed that the quick degree made their jobs safer during the recent economic crisis.

For the complete Wall Street Journal article, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 12:00 pm in MBA News, Rankings, School: Babson, School: IE, School: IMD, School: Northwestern / Kellogg

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Trivia Tuesday: Entrepreneurship at Kellogg

It’s time once again for Trivia Tuesday, our regular feature sharing special programs offered at the leading business schools. This week we take a peek into the Clear Admit School Guide to Kellogg, and share an excerpt on Kellogg’s opportunities in the area of entrepreneurship.

“Kellogg offers a number of resources for students interested in entrepreneurship.  One opportunity that students interested in entrepreneurship can take advantage of is the Venture Lab course, which Kellogg introduced in late 2007. The class is designed as an experiential learning opportunity for students who want to explore the investment landscape firsthand.

As part of the class, students design projects in conjunction with Kellogg professors and actual venture capital firms. The class is intended for students with little prior VC experience, although some pre-requisite coursework is required, and students undergo a several-hour primer course before starting work with a VC firm. In addition to the class project, students are expected to complete a set of required readings over the course of the quarter.

In 2008, Kellogg invited private equity expert and alumnus T. Bondurant French (’76) to speak on the venture capital industry. French’s lecture was intended to show Venture Lab students how the theories they are taught in class get applied in practice. ‘There is no substitute for giving them exposure to someone who is in the trenches, doing this every day,’ said Professor Yael Hochberg, who teaches the course with Mitchell Petersen, Kellogg’s Glen Basel Professor of Finance. ‘It helps to hammer home why the things we teach them are going to be so important.’

MBA students interested in learning more about the process of beginning and building a business may also take advantage of the Entrepreneur-in-Residence program. Through the program, students are able to schedule half-hour, one-on-one meetings with an experienced entrepreneur or principal investor, gaining tailored feedback and confidential answers to their questions.”

To continue reading about the entrepreneurship programs available at Kellogg, and to find out about the Entrepreneurship & Innovation major, entrepreneurship courses, entrepreneurial internship programs, and more, take a look at the Clear Admit School Guide to Kellogg.  For those who are interested in pursuing a career in entrepreneurship and want to learn more about the different programs and opportunities available at each of the leading schools, check out the Clear Admit Career Guide: Entrepreneurship.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 2:20 am in Career Guides, School Guides, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, Trivia Tuesday

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Trivia Tuesday: School-Wide Socializing

Welcome to another edition of Trivia Tuesday, our ongoing series exploring the programs, resources and opportunities available at the leading business schools.

Although most of our columns have focused on the academic options schools offer, this week we turn our attention to students’ opportunities for socializing with classmates. Since creating a strong network of friends and future colleagues is one of the lasting benefits of business school, prospective students may want to examine the ways in which schools help classmates get to know each other and build relationships. One popular method schools use to bring students together is program-wide happy hours. These events are usually held at the end of the academic week and tend to be organized by the MBA student government.

For instance, a staple of Wharton’s social life is Pub, held Thursday evenings throughout the academic year. MBA students pay a membership fee at the beginning of the year for access to all club events as well as all the rotating wines and beer, pizza and non-alcoholic drinks they desire. Other Wharton clubs take turns sponsoring the weekly pubs; previous themes included Japan Night, Pink Pub: Wharton Women in Business, and Europa Oktoberfest. With over 85% of Wharton students typically joining the Pub, it is one of the best ways to meet Wharton classmates.

MIT Sloan’s Consumption Function happy hours (C-Functions) are also a popular part of student social life. Held most Thursday evenings during the academic year, the C-Functions are a great way to get together with classmates and other members of the Sloan community in a relaxed, non-academic setting. The events are organized by the Sloan Activities Board, but are usually sponsored by other clubs on campus and have weekly themes. Past themes include the 1970s, Brazil, Meet the Faculty, Oktoberfest and the Canadian C-Function.

In a similar vein, Chicago Booth hosts weekly Liquidity Preference Functions each Friday afternoon, Columbia Business School hosts Thursday Happy Hours in the Uris Hall deli (with rotating post-Happy Hour destinations), and Kellogg students gather each Friday in the Atrium for the Kellogg TG (reputedly short for “Thank God it’s Friday”).

Most schools invite prospective students visiting campus to drop by the happy hour, and attending one of these events can be a great way to talk with current students and learn about the campus culture.

For more information on the social side of the leading MBA programs, be sure to check out the Clear Admit School Guides!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in School Guides, School: Chicago, School: Columbia, School: MIT / Sloan, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, School: Penn / Wharton, Trivia Tuesday

Friday, September 04, 2009

Conceptual Issues in Management Week Gets Underway at Kellogg School of Management

The 586 new members of the Class of 2011 at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management reported for their first day of “boot camp” this past Monday, August 31st. Part of a long-standing tradition at Kellogg, first-year students take part in an orientation called Conceptual Issues in Management (CIM) Week before classes get underway for the semester.

CIM Week is designed to help introduce students to Kellogg’s culture and community, giving them a chance to socialize and bond before diving into the curriculum. Events each year include a section cheering contest, a welcome barbeque with the deans, a Community Impact Day, the CIM Olympics and more. 

Beyond the fun and games of CIM Week, incoming students also enroll in two required courses, which they will complete before classes officially begin on September 21st. Ther first, “Leadership in Organizations,” takes place from September 3rd through 18th and is run through the Management and Organizations Department. The second, “Values and Crisis in Decision Making,” takes place from September 14th through 18th as part of the Social Enterprises at Kellogg (SEEK) program.

Kellogg interim dean Sunil Chopra welcomed the incoming class at the start of CIM Week, encouraging them to make the most of their time at Kellogg by taking advantage of and contributing to the school’s collaborative culture. “Culture is like a garden,” Chopra said. “You have to work very hard to create it, but if you don’t maintain it, it withers. You have to work to maintain it.”

Kellogg Director of Admissions Beth Flye also welcomed the incoming students, sharing some demographic information about Kellogg’s newest class. According to Flye, the students of the Class of 2011 boast an average GMAT score of 707 and represent more than 35 different countries and 240 different colleges and universities. Among this year’s new students are one who entered college at age 11, another who worked on the sub-prime lending investigation, another who has skydived 700 times, another who is a certified hypnotist, and another comes from an Italian family of winemakers.

“We are not a cookie-cutter environment,” Flye said, addressing the crowd. “We like different types of people so you can learn all different types of things.”

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Northwestern / Kellogg

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Update on Kellogg School of Management Dean Search

The committee formed to conduct the search for a new dean for the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University has begun gathering insight from the school’s faculty, staff, alumni and peer institutions about potential candidates for the post, according to an update posted on the Kellogg website earlier this week.

Kellogg finance professor Janice Eberly, who was named by Provost Daniel Linzer to chair the search committee, shared in a post on August 31st that she and the rest of the committee will begin meeting individually and collectively with a range of constituent groups within the school.

“Your counsel is enormously important, not only to inform the committee and the search process, but also to enhance our understanding of critical issues and priorities within Kellogg, which we will communicate to potential dean prospects,” she wrote.

Eberly invited members of the Kellogg community to share their thoughts regarding desired qualities for Kellogg’s next dean directly through emails sent to the committee at
deansearch@kellogg.northwestern.edu.

She pledged to keep the Kellogg community updated on the search committee’s progress, indicating that the committee hopes to make its recommendation to the provost and president early in the new year and that a new dean will be appointed by spring quarter 2010.

The new dean will replace Dipak C. Jain, who stepped down effective yesterday to return to the classroom after serving as Kellogg’s dean for the past eight years.

To learn more or to view full list of search committee members, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Northwestern / Kellogg

Monday, August 31, 2009

Admissions Tip: Off-Campus Information Sessions

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:

Berkeley / Haas:
https://ssl.haas.berkeley.edu/Admissions/Events/index.cfm

Chicago Booth:
http://www.chicagobooth.edu/fulltime/admissions/events/

Columbia:
http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/events

Duke / Fuqua:
https://www.fuquaworld.duke.edu/www/public/infosess_all_view.jsp

HBS:
http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/events.html

Northwestern / Kellogg:
http://bit.ly/Zrg7b

Michigan / Ross:
http://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/Mba/forumsreceptions/RossReceptions.htm

MIT / Sloan:
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/academic/events.php

Stanford GSB:
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mba/outreach/info_sessions.html

NYU / Stern:
http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/admissions/cgibin/sched_events.cgi

Dartmouth / Tuck:
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/admissions/events.html

UCLA / Anderson:
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x5525.xml

UNC / Kenan Flagler:
http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/News/Events/embambainfo.cfm

UVA / Darden:
https://apply.darden.virginia.edu/admissions/events/EventsSchedule.tap?sp=103

U Penn / Wharton:
http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/admissions/admission-events.cfm

Yale SOM:
http://mba.yale.edu/MBA/admissions/events.shtml

IESE:
http://www.iese.edu/aplicaciones/emba/events/events_emba.asp?lang=en

IMD:
http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm

INSEAD:
http://www.insead.edu/mba/offevents/index.cfm?fuseaction=offcampus

LBS:
http://www.london.edu/programmes/infoevents/do?progSelect=MBA&locationSelect=

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 2:48 am in Admissions Tips, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Chicago, School: Columbia, School: Dartmouth / Tuck, School: Duke / Fuqua, School: Harvard, School: IESE, School: IMD, School: INSEAD, School: London Business School, School: MIT / Sloan, School: Michigan / Ross, School: NYU Stern, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, School: Penn / Wharton, School: Stanford, School: UCLA / Anderson, School: UNC / Kenan Flagler, School: Virginia / Darden, School: Yale

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