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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 27, 2010, at 1:00 pm
In a post earlier this month to the Booth Insider, the admissions blog for the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Admissions Director Kurt Ahlm shared his surprise at finding himself bombarded by questions about the school’s marketing program at recent MBA fairs.
This proved the case at an MBA fair August 12th hosted by Kaplan Test Prep in Chicago, Ahlm said. He noted that Chicago Booth had a table at the event directly across from the region’s other top MBA program, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 23, 2010, at 2:00 pm
Sally Blount, the new dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, plans to blog her way through her first 100 days on the job. Her posts, which began in mid-July when she first assumed her new role, provide insight into her background, her passions and her vision for the school.
Blount took the reins at Kellogg on July 15th, replacing Sunil Chopra, who has served as interim dean since Dean Dipak Jain stepped down last September. As she shares in her introductory blog post, the decision to say yes to Kellogg’s invitation was her second – her first was as a graduate student. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 17, 2010, at 3:00 pm
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.
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Posted by Clear Admit on August 13, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Construction work began this week on a new 70-acre campus for the Indian School of Business in Mohali, Punjab, the Financial Times reported.
The campus, the school’s second, will enroll 200 students when completed in spring of 2012. ISB’s first campus was established in Hyderabad in 1999 with the help of top international business schools including the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and London Business School. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 3, 2010, at 11:59 am
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2010-2011 Clear Admit School Guides to Fuqua, Haas, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Tuck, UCLA Anderson and Yale! As previously announced in this space, also available are the updated versions of the Clear Admit School Guides to Chicago Booth, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, Ross, Stanford and Wharton, which were released earlier this summer. All of the 2010-2011 titles feature the most current . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 28, 2010, at 1:00 pm
A generous family gift to the Kellogg School of Management will create a new chaired professorship in marketing, the school announced earlier this week.
The donation will establish the Bernice and Leonard H. Lavin Professorship, founded through a generous gift from the Lavin family, co-founders of the Alberto Culver Company, which they built into a $1.5 billion enterprise. Kent Grayson, a member of the Kellogg marketing department since 2002, will hold the newly created chair position, the school’s first since 2007.
Grayson, who teaches Kellogg’s core marketing course and researches the role of fact and fabrication in the marketplace, was deeply honored by the appointment. “It’s not only an amazing honor to be asked to hold a chair on the Kellogg . . . → 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
Posted by Clear Admit on July 12, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Dipak Jain, the former dean of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, has been tipped to replace outgoing Dean Frank Brown at INSEAD, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
INSEAD, with campuses in France; Singapore and Abu Dhabi, is currently in the process of naming a replacement for Brown, one that is complicated given that it requires the approval of faculty across the school’s multiple campuses. But according to the FT report, a decision is expected in the next couple of weeks, and Jain has emerged as the front-runner.
Jain stepped down as dean of Kellogg in September 2009, having served as a marketing professor at the school since 1986 and dean since 1994. Though his academic career has largely been in the United States, the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 7, 2010, at 2:30 pm
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
Posted by Clear Admit on June 29, 2010, at 3:00 am
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 80% 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, to learn about the school from the second-year trip leaders and to begin experiencing the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 28, 2010, at 2:00 pm
We’d like to take some time today to offer some guidance on Kellogg’s essay prompts for the 2010-2011 admissions season. With most questions remaining identical to last year’s application, Kellogg continues to show an interest in an applicant’s potential contributions to the community, encouraging candidates to discuss what makes them unique and how they would be a valued and active member in the program.
Essay #1
a) MBA Program applicants – Briefly assess your career progress to date. Elaborate on your future career plans and your motivation for pursuing an MBA. (600 word limit)
This is a fairly standard career goals/why MBA essay. As usual, it’s important to remember . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 14, 2010, at 9:16 am
After releasing its deadlines for the 2010-2011 application season on Friday, Northwestern / Kellogg has also announced its 2010-2011 essay topics. The essays are as follows:
Essay #1
a) MBA Program applicants – Briefly assess your career progress to date. Elaborate on your future career plans and your motivation for pursuing an MBA. (600 word limit)
b) MMM Program applicants – Briefly assess your career progress to date. How does the MMM Program meet your educational needs and career goals? (600 word limit).
Essay #2
Describe your key leadership experiences and evaluate what leadership areas you hope to develop through your MBA experiences (600 word limit).
Essay #3
Assume you are evaluating your application from the perspective of a student member of the Kellogg Admissions Committee. . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 11, 2010, at 4:18 pm
The Northwestern / Kellogg deadlines for the 2010-2011 admissions season have been released. The three deadlines are as follows:
Round 1
Deadline: October 14, 2010
Notification: December 20, 2011
Round 2
Deadline: January 11, 2011
Notification: March 28, 2011
Round 3
Deadline: April 7, 2011
Notification: May 16, 2011
All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. CDT on the day of the deadline. The Northwestern / Kellogg application will be available later in . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 28, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Sally Blount, who will become the first woman dean of a top-tier U.S. business school when she assumes the role at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management this summer. is one of a rush of female appointments at business schools in North America in the past few years, the Financial Times reports.
Business schools at the Universities of Miami and South Carolina and Loyola’s Sellinger School have recently appointed women to the top position, where they join a list of experienced women who have been running schools such as UCLA Anderson, Ivey, Minnesota, Notre Dame and Pepperdine, the FT reports.
But according to Carolyn Woo, who has served as Notre Dame’s dean for the past 13 years, business schools are behind the curve in . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 24, 2010, at 1:00 pm
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 . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 5, 2010, at 10:24 am
Harvard Business School (HBS) announced late yesterday that is has named current professor Nitin Nohria as its new dean. Nohria, a professor of leadership and organization, will serve as the school’s 10th dean, assuming the role on July 1st. He replaces Dean Jay Light, who announced his plans to step down seven months ago.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Nohria said that he intends as dean to focus on business ethics, a cause he has championed vigorously, especially during the recent financial crisis. Together with HBS professor Rakesh Khurana, he co-authored a 2008 Harvard Business Review article suggesting that managers and management had lost its legitimacy in the past decade and calling for an MBA code of ethics similar . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on April 22, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Outgoing and incoming student government presidents of seven major business schools convened earlier this week at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School for a three-day President’s Summit, where they announced the formation of a new MBA Peer School Forum.
The forum, a student government coalition with representatives from the Wharton School, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Columbia Business School, Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, Harvard Business School, MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Stanford Graduate School of Business, was developed to help create inter-school cohesion and collaboration and support student-led initiatives designed to positively impact business and society. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on April 15, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) have once again tied for first in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report MBA rankings, released late yesterday. While the major players in the top 15 remain largely unchanged from previous years, there were some notable shifts up and down the ranks.
Stanford, for its part, showed a slight rebound. After a slip to number two last year, the Palo Alto school this year once again forced HBS to share the number one spot, as it had in 2009. MIT’s Sloan School of Management also gained some ground to come in at number three, advancing from the number five spot.
MIT Sloan displaced the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on April 13, 2010, at 1:07 pm
Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management will host its fourth annual Women’s Leadership Workshop later this week, a two-day event targeting high-potential women early in their careers to show the value of an MBA in industries beyond the corporate world.
The student-run event, which will take place April 16th and 17th, features sessions on leadership and career skills led by Kellogg faculty and alumni. Kellogg alumna Dorothy Coyle ’01, director of the Chicago Office of Tourism, will deliver the keynote address. Coyle, who was named one of the city’s “40 Under 40” by Crain’s Chicago Business, has presented at the U.S. Cultural and Heritage Travel Summit, the Illinois Governor’s Conference on Tourism and numerous travel industry meetings.
“Attendees are provided tangible leadership skills and . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 30, 2010, at 9:00 am
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management has named a new dean, Provost Daniel Linzer announced today. Sally Blount, the dean of the undergraduate college and vice dean of the Stern School of Business at New York University, will assume the deanship at Kellogg beginning in July.
Blount, 48, joined the Stern faculty in 2001 as a professor of management and organizations and became dean of the undergraduate college in 2004. She was appointed by NYU’s president and provost in 2007 as their special advisor for global academic integration. An expert in the fields of negotiation and behavioral decision making, she also was a highly rated member of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business faculty from 1992 to 2001. Before that . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 16, 2010, at 2:00 am
Welcome back to Trivia Tuesday, our regular examination of the offerings and opportunities at the leading business schools.
Today we turn our attention to options for studying healthcare in business school, with a particular emphasis on Wharton’s Health Care Management Major and Duke’s Health Sector Management Program, the two oldest and best known healthcare programs among U.S. business schools.
Wharton’s major draws its faculty from the business, medical and nursing schools, as well as from practicing healthcare professionals, ensuring an interdisciplinary approach to the issues in the field. The Health Care Management major differs from other majors at Wharton in that students must choose the major in their initial application to the school instead of in their second year. Health Care Management further . . . → Continue Reading
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