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Admissions Director Q&A
Below are links to Clear Admit's exclusive interviews with MBA admissions directors at leading programs.
Dawna Clarke (Tuck)
Rose Martinelli (Chicago)
Judith Hodara (Wharton)
Sara Neher (Darden)
Soojin Kwon Koh (Michigan)
Randall Sawyer (Cornell)
Beth Flye (Kellogg)
David Simpson (LBS)
Liz Riley Hargrove (Duke)
Linda Meehan (Columbia)
Bruce DelMonico (Yale)
Peter Johnson (Berkeley)
Isser Gallogly (NYU)
Mae Jennifer Shores (UCLA)
J.J. Cutler (Wharton)
Jake Cohen (INSEAD)
Rod Garcia (MIT Sloan)
Mary Miller (Columbia)

Clear Admit School Guides
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Clear Admit Career Guides
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Clear Admit Interview Guides
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Application Deadlines
Below are the upcoming deadlines for admission to top-tier schools.
Feb 10: INSEAD R3
Mar 1: Michigan / Ross R3
Mar 3: CBS
Mar 3: LBS R3
Mar 4: Kellogg R3
Mar 8: Cambridge / Judge R4
Mar 8: CMU / Tepper R3
Mar 9: Duke / Fuqua R3
Mar 9: Penn / Wharton R3
Mar 10: Berkeley / Hass R4
Mar 10: Chicago Booth R3
Mar 10: Yale SOM R3
Mar 15: NYU / Stern R3
Mar 17: UCLA / Anderson R3
Mar 19: UNC / Kenan-Flagler R4
Mar 30: Cornell / Johnson R4
Mar 31: UVA / Darden R3
Mar 31: INSEAD R4
Apr 1: UT-Austin / McCombs
Apr 2: Dartmouth / Tuck R3
Apr 2: Oxford / Saїd R3
Apr 7: Stanford GSB R4
Apr 8: Harvard R3
Apr 14: CBS

Essay Topic Analysis
Below are links to our comments on some of the top programs' essay topics.
The Career Goals Essay
Berkeley / Haas*
Chicago Booth*
CMU / Tepper*
Columbia*
Cornell / Johnson*
Dartmouth / Tuck*
Duke / Fuqua*
Harvard*
Indian School of Business*
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
Knewton

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.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

‘March Interview Madness:’ Submit a Report for Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School, INSEAD, NYU / Stern or Wharton to Win an Amazon.com Gift Card!

Welcome to Wiki Wednesdays, in which we pull samples from the latest interview reports added to the Clear Admit Wiki, an online repository for MBA applicants to share their experiences with admissions interviews.  We’ve received a number of great interview reports this past week, namely for: INSEAD, Northwestern / Kellogg, London Business School, UVA / Darden and Yale School of Management. We’d like to thank everyone for continuing to share their experiences in the Clear Admit Wiki!

Before getting into contest details, let’s take look at a couple of the newest reports.  An accepted applicant to INSEAD shared the following questions from an alumnus:

  1. Why entrepreneurship?  Do you think INSEAD will make an entrepreneur out of you?
  2. Is [your] wife ready to move from US to France?
  3. Why did [you] join [your] current company? Why US, Singapore and India?
  4. [Describe your] proposed venture – its business model, how to raise capital, its market segment, how much energy, what kind of source for energy.
  5. Why INSEAD? Why not some other school, like MIT or Kennedy School if [you] want to work in alternate energy?

A Round 2 applicant to London Business School shared the following questions, as posed by an alumnus:

  1. Imagine the world without an MBA. What would you do?
  2. If you can achieve your goals without an MBA why do you want to get an MBA?
  3. How would you contribute to your study group at LBS from a professional point of view?
  4. What will be your personal development after arriving at LBS?
  5. Imagine that some people in your study group are not contributing enough and your talk to them didn’t help. What would you do next? How would you handle it? How would you feel?

Thank you to everyone who has shared their interview experiences this season and helped fellow applicants!  If you’re eager to contribute, we’ll be awarding a $10 Amazon gift certificate to applicants that submit interview reports for Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School, INSEAD, NYU / Stern or Wharton through next Tuesday, March 16th!  In other words, all you have to do is send us your interview field report for the selected schools for inclusion in the Wiki and we’ll send you a $10 Amazon gift certificate.   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 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 @ 3:19 pm in School: Columbia, School: Harvard, School: INSEAD, School: NYU Stern, School: Penn / Wharton, Wiki Wednesdays

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Campus Chronicles: The Wharton Journal

In this week’s Campus Chronicles post, we’ll review Wharton’s student newspaper, The Wharton Journal, to see exciting events have been happening for b-school students on campus.

Students recently went on the India Global Immersion Program (GIP), visiting various companies including the Bharti group, and speaking with business and government leaders, such as the Chairman of the Goa Port.   In doing so, Wharton students had the unique opportunity to learn about the business environment firsthand.  The India GIP also offered students the opportunity to learn about India’s cultural offerings, as the trip including visits to several cities, including Bombay, Bangalore and Delhi.

Wharton students also recently embarked on the 8th annual Caribbean conference and trek.  Organized by the Caribbean Business Clubs at Wharton and Harvard, students and graduates from NYU Stern, Chicago, Duke, and Howard traveled to Jamaica, where they first learned from local professionals about the foreign MBA experience.  After attending a welcome cocktails event, which including a speech from Jamaica’s Prime Minster, students spend the next day and a half attending panels about localized entrepreneurship, the financial crises, and regional integration.  Students also had the chance to relax and enjoy their surroundings, playing beach soccer, jet skiing, cliff diving, and laying out on the beach.

The Secretary General of the Brazilian Olympic Committee, Carlos Roberto Osorio, recently spoke at Wharton, discussing the process of Rio de Janeiro’s successful bid for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games.  Osorio discussed how Brazil won out over Chicago, Madrid, and Tokyo, which were perceived as “further developed,” as his country campaigned aggressively for the 2016 games, after losing the bid for 2004 and 2012.  Osorio noted that the Olympics have never been held in South America, making this an unprecedented opportunity for growth in the city, country, and continent.

Do the India GIP or Caribbean trek interest you?  What Wharton-sponsored trips would you want to take?  Feel free to comment below!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 2:47 am in Campus Chronicles, School: Penn / Wharton

Friday, February 26, 2010

Deadline to Complete R2 Interviews for U Penn’s Wharton School Approaches

If you received an invitation to interview from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School as part of Round 2, don’t forget that all interviews must be completed by March 5th. That’s next Friday. So if you haven’t scheduled your interview yet, get cracking! And if you’ve tried but are having trouble, Wharton’s MBA Admissions & Financial Aid Team urges you to contact its office for help.

Some applicants have had questions about the various types of interviews that can be scheduled. At Wharton, you can choose to schedule an on-campus interview, a hub interview or an alumni interview. All interviews are weighted equally, and applicants are encouraged to choose based on whatever is most convenient for them.

As to the difference between hub and alumni interviews, hub interviews take place at a fixed time in any of a number of hub locations, whereas alumni interviews can be scheduled for whatever time and place is mutually convenient for interviewee and interviewer. Hub interviews are generally conducted by members of the admissions committee, but in times of high demand, alumni may well conduct these interviews as well.

Of course, if you haven’t scheduled your interview yet, many slots will already be taken and you’ll need to settle for whatever’s still available. But again, if you are having trouble scheduling an interview for any reason, contact the MBA Admissions Office right away and a member of the admissions team can help you set one up.

If you’ve scheduled your interview and want to know how best to prepare for it, don’t miss the Clear Admit Wharton School Interview Guide, which includes Wharton-specific interview strategies, first-hand accounts from prior applicants and dozens of sample questions that are regularly asked as part of the Wharton interview. 

Already had your interview? Don’t forget that you can share your experience and read about other applicants’ on the Clear Admit Wiki. Best of luck to everyone!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:59 pm in Deadlines, Interview Guides, School: Penn / Wharton

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Submit an MBA Interview Report for MIT / Sloan, Stanford GSB, Wharton or UCLA / Anderson, Win a $10 Gift Card to Amazon!

Welcome to Wiki Wednesdays, in which we set a spotlight on the latest submissions to the Clear Admit Wiki, an online repository for MBA applicants to share their experiences with admissions interviews.  We’ve received a number of great interview reports this past week!  Be sure to check out the latest posts for: Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, London Business School, NYU / Stern and Wharton. We’d like to thank everyone for continuing to share their experiences in the Clear Admit Wiki!

Before getting into contest details, let’s take look at a couple of the latest contributions.  A candidate for Columbia interviewed with a second-year student, who asked the following questions:

  1. Give me an example of a time when you worked in a team or as a leader.
  2. Discuss an ethical dilemma you have experienced.
  3. Talk about a time when you’ve faced adversity.
  4. What will you do if you can’t attend business school this year?

A Round 2 applicant to Wharton  shared the following questions, as posed by an alumnus:

  1. What are you most proud of?
  2. If you had 1 million dollars, what would you do with it?
  3. If you were an alumni interviewer, what would be your two most important questions to the applicant?  ([The interviewer] then asked me to answer these questions.)
  4. Give me two strengths and two weaknesses and provide actual examples.
  5. How do you imagine yourself 20 years from now?

Thank you to everyone who has shared their interview experiences this season and helped fellow applicants!  If you’re eager to contribute, we’ll be awarding a $10 Amazon gift certificate to applicants that submit interview reports for MIT / Sloan, Stanford GSB, Wharton or UCLA / Anderson through next Tuesday, March 2nd!  In other words, all you have to do is send us your interview field report for the selected schools for inclusion in the Wiki and we’ll send you a $10 Amazon gift certificate.   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 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 @ 3:21 pm in School: MIT / Sloan, School: Penn / Wharton, School: Stanford, School: UCLA / Anderson, Wiki Wednesdays

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Wharton School to Feature Free Video Lecture on Enabling Technologies

Next week, prospective applicants to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School will have an opportunity to experience a live lecture without setting foot on the Philadelphia campus.

Professor Kartik Hosanagar, who teaches “Enabling Technologies,” a class focused on technologies that help enable businesses in a networked economy, will deliver his first-ever live video-lecture, entitled “Innovation in Tech Firms: Analysis of Google, Apple, Pixar.”

The video-lecture will take place from 3 to 4:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 23rd. The lecture is free and open to prospective applicants, according to a recent post on the Wharton MBA Admissions blog.

Billed as the “first integrated social media blog/Twitter/Facebook course concept for a leading business school,” Wharton’s “Enabling Technologies” course calls on students to implement the very lessons they are learning in class regarding social media and new technologies through the class blog, Twitter feed and Facebook page.

To learn more, visit the EnableTech blog, EnableTech@Twitter or EnableTech@Facebook.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:21 pm in MBA News, School: Penn / Wharton

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Trivia Tuesday: MBA and Master’s Joint Degree Programs

Welcome to another edition of Trivia Tuesday! Today we’ll consider the options available to students interested in complementing their MBA studies with an advanced degree in another academic area. Often referred to as either joint or dual degrees, most business schools partner with other graduate programs at their home universities to offer one or more of these joint study options. Dual degree programs differ from other certificate programs in that students earn two degrees – often an MBA and a Master’s. Although studying for a dual degree typically takes 3-5 years instead of the normal two years of the MBA, it is almost always faster than completing the degrees separately.

Let’s take a look at a few of the options for students seeking a Master’s degree in conjunction with their MBA, as well as the admissions requirements governing these degrees.

Like most leading MBA programs, Columbia Business School offers dual degree programs through which students earn another degree concurrently with their MBA (e.g., Master’s in International and Public Affairs, Master’s in Social Services). Applicants are required to apply to and receive admission to both programs and may apply to both programs simultaneously or to the second program if they are less than halfway through their studies at the first school.

Students in a dual degree program at Columbia register at one school per term and may take courses in either program in each term, as long as they meet each school’s course, residence, and sequencing requirements. CBS recommends that candidates complete the first two terms of the MBA program consecutively to maintain the integrity and full benefits of the cluster system.

Similar systems are in place at Chicago, which offers two joint MBA/MA programs, at HBS, which offers concurrent degrees with the Kennedy School of Government, and at Stanford, where there are joint MBA/MA options. A few business schools offer slightly different options for students interested in joint degree study. For instance, Kellogg does not offer a set list of MBA/MA programs, instead opting to allow students to create their own joint program through application to their two programs of interest. Meanwhile, although Tuck and Wharton offer dual degrees on their own campuses, each also teams up with other universities (including Tufts, the Kennedy School, and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies) to offer a more extensive list of dual degree programs.

While dual degree students make up a relatively small percentage of the overall MBA population, some admissions officers report that combination degrees are becoming increasingly popular as students seek to customize their educations and take advantage of the opportunity to earn two degrees in less time, and for less money, than if they pursued separate programs. For MBA applicants interested in applying their business education to fields such as public policy, education, social work, the environment, public health, international policy or another specialized field, a joint degree program can offer both the area expertise and business knowledge needed for a successful career.

To learn more about MBA/MA dual degree options, be sure to check out the Dual Degrees section of the Clear Admit School Guides!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:56 am in School Guides, School: Chicago, School: Columbia, School: Dartmouth / Tuck, School: Harvard, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, School: Penn / Wharton, School: Stanford, Trivia Tuesday

Friday, February 05, 2010

Good News About Job Prospects on Business School Campuses

After two tough years, it seems like job prospects may be getting a little better for this year’s graduating class of MBAs. In a blog post Monday, the dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas shared that he’s seeing an up-tick in recruiter visits for the school’s spring Career Expo. And according to a report yesterday in Bloomberg News, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School also sees job prospects improving this spring.

Thomas Gilligan, dean of UT’s McCombs School of Business, shared some promising news in a post to the school’s blog earlier this week. As of that writing, 84 companies had registered for the school’s Career Expo, which took place on Wednesday, up from 74 last spring, and the career services director was expecting more to register in the final days before the event. Meanwhile the school’s SuperWeek for investment banking and consulting, held in mid-January, attracted 20 companies seeking MBAs. Finally, MBA Director of Career Services Stacey Rudnick reports that postings for MBA internships are also up this year over last.

“I’m not a Pollyanna, our students still face a tough career environment and it concerns me,” Gilligan wrote. “I’m just pleased we’re aggressively pursuing opportunities, and our recruiting numbers are holding steady with the best of our peer schools,” he added.

Halfway across the country, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School is also seeing improved job prospects for its students. According to a Bloomberg News report Thursday, the school has more off-campus job postings this year than last. And more second-year MBA students appear to have accepted full-time job offers than last year, Director of MBA Career Management Michelle Antonio told Bloomberg.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Penn / Wharton, School: UT Austin / McCombs

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Campus Chronicles: The Wharton Journal

With the arrival of February this week and all eyes on Punxsutawney Phil , we thought we’d take a trip to another region of Pennsylvania and check out The Wharton Journal to see what’s been going on at the University of Pennsylvania’s MBA campus.

This week Wharton hosted a celebratory open house for the newly renovated building that now houses both the Wharton Leadership Program and Center for Leadership and Change Management.  Jeff Klein, the Director of the Wharton Graduate Leadership Program, states that with both programs located in the same place, there will be increased opportunities for collaboration in programming, staff communication, and teamwork.  The center includes open cubicles, designated group work spaces, and break rooms, all of which are designed to increase the social and academic experience of students and staff.  Students, staff, faculty, and university partners attended the open house and heard speeches from various Wharton leaders, including Mike Useem, who heads the Center for Leadership and Change Management.  With the new facilities, Wharton Dean Thomas S. Robertson stated he is confident in the school’s ability to help students become leaders, not just managers, in both the public and private sectors.

The Wharton Partners Clubs, the organization of Wharton students’ significant others, has renamed itself as “Cohort P” – though obviously not an official “cohort” of the school, this organization offers support to partners of Wharton students who are interested in becoming more integrated into and involved in the Philadelphia social, academic, work, and volunteer scene.  With 167 members, this organization is an important resource for both Wharton partners and Wharton students themselves, and hosts movie nights, happy hours, cooking classes, a monthly book club, and trips around Philadelphia.

Wharton students are also getting ready to submit their photos to the Wharton Yearbook, a tradition almost 20 years old.  Every year the Wharton Yearbook chronicles the student experience, such as cohort and social activities, trips and treks, and other University events.   Students are able to reserve copies so they ensure that they get their hands on this book full of memories and potential future networking material.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 5:46 am in Campus Chronicles, School: Penn / Wharton

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Wharton Executive MBA Deadline Extended

Today, in a post on the Wharton Executive MBA blog, the admissions committee announced that those interested in the EMBA program could contact them to discuss an application extension.  While the original deadline for both the Philadelphia and San Francisco programs was this past Monday, February 1, the school is open to accommodating later submissions.

For those who did meet Wharton’s deadline, the staff is busy processing applications, ensuring each piece is present.  The admissions committee also noted that applicants have until March 1 to take or retake the GMAT.  Plus, interview slots are filling quickly, so contact them as soon as possible to secure a spot; West Coast applicants have until March 10th to complete interviews and East Coast applicants have until March 17. San Francisco program admissions decisions will be made by March 26 and Philadelphia decisions no later than April 9.

If you’re interested in applying to an Executive MBA program, send your CV to Clear Admit at info@clearadmit.com to discuss our consulting and counseling services.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 10:16 am in Deadlines, EMBA, MBA News, School: Penn / Wharton

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Director of Cambridge’s Judge Business School Leaves for Singapore Management University

Earlier this month, the director of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge announced that he plans to leave his post this summer to become president of Singapore Management  University (SMU), the Financial Times reported.

Arnoud De Meyer, who has served as Judge’s director for the past four years, will become the fourth president of SMU, which the Singapore government opened just 10 years ago. In accepting the post, he will move from one of the world’s oldest universities to one of its newest, the FT added.

Singapore, however, is not new for De Meyer. Before coming to Judge, De Meyer spent 23 years at INSEAD, including helping to set up that school’s Singapore campus and serving as its founding dean.

SMU has experienced enormous growth in its first decade, according to the FT report. In addition to its Lee Kong Chian School of Business, it boasts departments of law, accounting, social sciences, economics and information systems. The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania was instrumental in SMU’s inception and maintains strong ties with the school, the FT added.

Howard Thomas, until recently the dean of England’s Warwick Business School, will join De Meyer in Singapore, serving as the new dean of SMU’s Lee Kong Chian School, the FT reported. Meanwhile, Judge Business School has begun a search for a new dean.

To learn more, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Cambridge, School: Penn / Wharton

Monday, January 25, 2010

London Business School Tops Financial Times 2010 Rankings

London Business School (LBS) ranked number one in this year’s Financial Times global rankings of MBA programs, released today. Sharing the top spot with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School last year, LBS this year claimed the honor all for itself.

Wharton came in second this year, followed by Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and INSEAD. To view the full rankings, click here.

LBS’s strong showing was due in great part to the broad educational experience it offers, according to the FT. “One of the best decisions of my life was to go to LBS for a full-time MBA,” one alumnus reported. “[It] has enriched my life, from education to career development, to making new friends and gaining new perspectives.”

Another added: “You not only learn from the school curriculum but from the deep cultural diversity of the student population. There is no place else that can offer this advantage to the extent that London Business School does.”

In a statement announcing its second consecutive top ranking, LBS Dean Sir Andrew Likierman pledged that the school will maintain its international diversity and global reach.

LBS is one of only three schools to have held the number one spot since the rankings were launched in 1999, and it is the only non-U.S. school to do so. According to an FT report accompanying the 2010 rankings, the school’s gradual ascent from eighth place 12 years ago to first today indicates as a broader trend the diminishing dominance of U.S.-based schools over the past decade.

The number of U.S. schools in the FT rankings’ top 25 has decreased over the years, from 21 in 2001 to 11 this year. The remaining 14 schools in the top 25 for 2010 include 11 from Europe and three from Asia.

The FT attributed this shift in great part to the fact that the return on investment for studying toward an MBA – measured in terms of salary increase – has fallen since 2005, and most significantly so in the United States.

But in spite of a weaker showing in the top 25, U.S. schools still make up the majority of the top 100 ranked programs, claiming 56 in this most recent ranking. The United Kingdom, with 17 of the top 100, is the second most represented country, and overall schools from 20 different countries appear, the FT added.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 9:30 am in Rankings, School: Harvard, School: INSEAD, School: London Business School, School: Penn / Wharton, School: Stanford

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Women Are Pursuing MBAs in Higher Numbers Than Ever Before

Women today make up 37 percent of students in full-time MBA programs in the United States, up from 33 percent five years ago and 30 percent 10 years ago, according to a recent article in the Financial Times. Adding that top European schools are also closing the gender gap, the FT report attributed the increase to a concerted effort on the part of leading programs to woo more women.

Citing data from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), a global accrediting agency for business schools, the FT report noted that while schools are still far from a 50/50 split, many are much closer than ever before. For instance, New York University’s Stern School of Business has been about 40 percent female for the past five years, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania reached the 40 percent mark for the first time this year.

“In a more plural classroom you’re going to get a more well-rounded learning experience,” John Fernandes, president and chief executive of AACSB, told the FT. “Many schools have become very focused on getting more women and they’re getting good results,” he added.

European schools, too, are attracting more women. For instance, the graduating class at INSEAD this year is 34 percent women, up from 23 percent in 2000, and in the past five years female applicants to the school have more than doubled, according to the FT.

Part of the challenge of attracting women has been the traditional timeline of the MBA. The standard MBA track requires four to five years of post-college professional experience before matriculation, which can be problematic for women planning a family, admissions officers told the FT.

“For a lot of work/family reasons, business school just comes too late [for women],” says JJ Cutler, dean of admissions at Wharton. Law, medicine and other graduate degrees, which women can pursue immediately after college, don’t pose the same conflict.

“Anecdotally speaking, what we find is that when women start thinking about graduate school, business school isn’t in the mix,” Elissa Sangster, executive director of the Forté Foundation, a consortium of corporations and schools that promotes women in business, told the FT. Schools that are successful in attracting more women are those who get them thinking about an MBA “early in the process,” she said.

So that’s exactly the tactic top schools are taking. Wharton, for example, has started to recruit promising female candidates at the college level by assigning them student mentors who offer advice and application tips, according to the FT.

Harvard Business School, through its 2+2 Program, has also drawn greater percentages of women. Though not specifically designed to impact the gender gap, the deferred MBA admissions program for undergraduates – which guarantees a spot in a future HBS class for accepted applicants upon completion of two years of approved work experience – drew about half women this year, HBS Admissions Director Dee Leopold told the FT.

Schools are also working to dispel the perception that business school is male-centric and cutthroat, as well as to counter the idea that an MBA is only useful for careers at investment banking and consulting firms.

To read the FT article in its entirety, click here.

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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Campus Chronicles: The Wharton Journal

For this week’s Campus Chronicles installment, we’ll take a look at the recent events on Wharton’s campus by reviewing their student newspaper, The Wharton Journal.

Earlier this month students in MGMT 621 had a chance to be taught by Wharton alum Dave Pottruck, the former CEO of Charles Scwab and a current Director on Intel Corporation’s Board.  Pottruck also gave a speech as part of the Nonprofit Board Leadership Program, in which second year MBA students serve on Philadelphia nonprofit organization boards.  Speaking to these students, he expressed his conviction that holding such positions early in one’s career is beneficial in gaining valuable leadership experience while giving back to one’s community.  To excel in these positions, Pottruck encouraged students to value interpersonal relationships over board titles, use personal feedback to increase the board’s effectiveness, and demonstrate genuine interest and curiosity in order to be a persuasive change agent.   The NBLP has other events throughout the year, covering topics such as the role  of a nonprofit’s CEO and the challenges of running a nonprofit organization when compared to a for-profit organization.

Wharton has recently launched a website highlighting the school’s sustainability efforts.  This initiative is similar to many Fortune 500 companies that release Corporate Sustainability Reports, which outline firms’ impacts on the environment and help them engineer sustainability efforts that both add value for ,as well as improve customer’s and employee’s perception of, the companies .  Wharton’s site, “S@W,” allows visitors to view new and ongoing projects regarding energy use, recycling, water conservation, and green initiatives, among other sustainability-related topics.  Though run primarily by Wharton Operations, Emily Schiller WG ’09, was hired as the Associate Director of Sustainable Initiates to help implement this sustainability program.  Recent projects  includes implementing a three-bin recycling program to separate waste, making double-sided printing the standard setting for school computers, using energy conserving lighting settings, and shutting down elevators during light-traffic times.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Trivia Tuesday: Wharton’s Lauder Program

Welcome back to Trivia Tuesday, a weekly look at the programs and resources that differentiate the leading business schools. This week we will explore Wharton’s Lauder Program, examining what it is, what completion of the program entails, and what kind of student should consider applying.

Upon completion of 24 months of study, Wharton/Lauder students receive a joint MBA/MA in International Studies. Lauder participants begin classes three months earlier than students in the traditional MBA program, completing one month of intensive language study and a two-month study abroad/in-country immersion program before beginning Wharton classes in September. Once MBA classes begin, Wharton/Lauder students lead an especially busy life, since they must complete Wharton’s full core curriculum and course requirements alongside the Lauder M.A.’s language, elective and thesis requirements.

To apply to the program, prospective students must complete a supplemental application and demonstrate near-fluent language proficiency in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Russian, Portuguese or Spanish. Because of the language proficiency requirement, the Lauder program is only appropriate for students who have already developed strong foreign language competencies (although the Arabic and Portuguese language tracks tend to be more willing to offer space to less proficient speakers). Once enrolled, the curriculum is tailored to MBA students who seek to develop the capacity to conduct high-level business in another language, whether in the U.S. or abroad.

Though demanding, the Wharton/Lauder joint degree program is an excellent way for students to prepare for global business leadership, integrating language and in-country immersion into the MBA experience. For more information on the Wharton/Lauder joint degree program, be sure to check out the information in the Clear Admit School Guide to Wharton!

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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Trivia Tuesday: International Study Trips at Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, NYU Stern and Wharton

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 1-2 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.

For instance, the Chazen Institute at Columbia works with individual students and clubs to organize study trips to countries or regions of interest, while Chicago’s International Programs Office coordinates short-term summer exchanges to Austria, Brazil, France and Germany. Several other business schools offer students academic credit for their travel abroad. At HBS students are able to earn 1.5 credits for their work abroad over the summer between the first and second year, provided they keep a weekly journal and submit a final paper. At Wharton, however, study trips are often closely integrated into full-semester elective courses, with students participating in hands-on consulting projects with firms from outside the U.S.

At NYU Stern, the school’s one- to two-week long Doing Business In… (DBI) programs offer an appealing short-term alternative to spending an entire semester abroad. The program is usually offered in three selected locations each year and takes place outside of the normal academic calendar, usually between semester breaks or during Spring Break, making it easy for students to fit the program in at some point during their MBA. Each DBI includes one pre-trip class session and 8-10 full days of scheduled activities in the host country. Admission is by lottery, and classes are taught by the faculty of the host university; these faculty members also award the final pass/fail project or paper grades for the course.

In addition to the DBI programs, Stern also offers students the unusual opportunity to study abroad for 1-6 weeks with one of four partner universities in Argentina, Denmark, Germany, or South Korea. These courses usually take place in early- to mid-May, making it possible to arrange a summer internship start date around completion of the course. The one-, three- and six-week programs may earn students 1.5 to 6 credits toward graduation. Although many MBA programs allow students to study abroad for a full semester or to travel abroad as part of a course, few provide summer exchanges through which students can earn credit toward graduation.

As knowledge of other cultures and business practices becomes more important to the daily life of business, it will become ever more important for students to gain exposure to international business during the MBA program. Since study trips range from informal and self-directed to formal consulting engagements for academic credit, applicants may want to consider the type of study trip that would best complement their prior international experience and keep this in mind as they apply to MBA programs.

For more information on the details of schools’ study trip offerings, be sure to consult the Clear Admit School Guides! For applicants who are sure of their career goals and want to find out which MBA programs offer international study trips that best support these goals, check out the Clear Admit Career Guides!

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Clear Admit Publications On Sale Now for a Limited Time!

In honor of Thanksgiving in the U.S., we are featuring a number of on-sale items! From today through Sunday, November 29th, only, we are offering a more than 50% discount on the Clear Admit Career Guide for Consulting – get it now for the discounted price of $19.99! Also on sale this holiday weekend are the Clear Admit School Guides to Columbia, Harvard and Wharton, which you can purchase for $29.99 each!

If you are hoping to land a position with McKinsey, Bain or BCG post-MBA, the Clear Admit Career Guide for Consulting will help you determine which programs would best enable you to reach your consulting career goals. The Clear Admit Career Guide to Consulting is just one of many titles in our line of Career Guides, which also cover investment banking, entrepreneurship, marketing and healthcare.  The Career Guides outline career-specific courses, notable professors, relevant extracurricular activities and the latest recruitment data at the leading MBA programs, and help readers identify the programs that will best support their career goals. These guides also provide comparisons of the leading programs, to give you the full picture of each school’s offerings and opportunities. Whether formulating a list of target schools with strong programs in your chosen career path, looking to enrich your application materials or making an informed decision about where to enroll, these guides will serve as a valuable resource throughout the business school application process.

To check out our full line of publications and purchase any of our guides, visit the Clear Admit shop. Remember, from today through Sunday, November 29th, you can take advantage of our special holiday sale and get the Clear Admit Career Guide for Consulting for just $19.99. While in our shop, you can also fill your cart with other discounted items, like the Clear Admit School Guides to Columbia, Harvard and Wharton, which are currently available for just $29.99 each. All guides are available for immediate purchase and delivery!

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Campus Chronicles: The Wharton Journal

We return to this week’s Campus Chronicles with a perusal of Wharton’s student newspaper, The Wharton Journal, to learn about the latest events on Wharton’s campus.  Our hope is that this summary of the latest happenings at Huntsman Hall is helpful for Wharton applicants in the midst of R1 interviews as well as for candidates targeting R2!

With the culmination of the six-week Jay H. Baker Retailing Initiative Speaker Series, this fall offered ample opportunities for Wharton students to learn about the fashion and retail business.  Wharton’s campus was visited by three top executives in the field: Millard Drexler, the chief executive of J. Crew, Terry Lundgren, Macy’s CEO, President, Director, and Chairman of the Board, and Martha Stewart.  Students who participated in the Fashion & Luxury Club treks also met with industry executives during their trips to firms including J. Crew, Gilt Group, Li & Fung, and Bonobos.  Executives at these events cited creativity, mixed media, and catering to customers as integral to success, especially due to the recent economic challenges.  Despite these challenges, upcoming Wharton graduates were informed of the broad opportunities for job placements in this industry: Macy’s, for example, is looking to hire 200 MBA students this year.  Wharton treks occurring later this year include a visit to Polo Ralph Lauren as well as a week-long trip to Europe over spring break.

This past weekend Wharton students had the chance to attend the Wharton Africa Business Conference and learn about the business opportunities available throughout the continent.  Panels focused on the traditional topics of capital markets and private equity as well as the growth of African businesses, a topic previous uninvestigated.  Thierry Tanoh, International Finance Corporations’ Vice President for Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe for the Global Manufacturing Industry Cluster, was the keynote speaker in the morning session.  Citing the 200,000 bank accounts held in Congo despite its 60 million citizens, he emphasized the opportunities available in this country.  During the “Panel on the Brain Gain,” Zemedenen Negatu, an MD at Ernst & Young, and Kunbi Oguneye, the Head of Strategy at Nigeria’s Oceanic Bank, discussed the importance of African countries providing incentives for its citizens to return to Africa and use their education and experience to contribute to the country’s growth.  Others speakers included Louisa Mojela, founder of WIPHOLD, the first all-women’s investment fund in Africa as well as Anna Getaneh, a former model who recently founded her own couture African fashion line.  Both Mojela and Getaneh discussed overcoming the challenges of being a woman in the business world, both in Africa and internationally.

November has been a winning month for Wharton students engaged in business competitions.  Wharton won first place at the Cornell-Fidelity MBA Stock Pitch Competition, thanks to the efforts of first-years Victor Bonilla, Nikhil Gadia, and Joe O’Donnell.  In this 12-team tournament, each team had 12 hours to determine buy, sell, or hold recommendations on three stocks and then present their decisions to a judging panel of investment management experts.  Not only is this year the first time Wharton has won top prize, it comes off last year’s second place win, which was the first time Wharton placed in the competition.  Wharton also took the top prize at the Sixth Annual American Bankruptcy Institute (“ABI”) Corporate Restructuring Competition.  Participants in this competition have one week to use their knowledge on bankruptcy topics to solve a real-world restructuring case problem, this year prepared by Houlihan Lokey.  Teams prepared an operational and financial plan to solve the issue, ultimately presenting before a plan of judges acting as management, the board of directors, and bondholders.  Three of the 12 participating teams advanced to the final round, and Wharton’s Amit Gupta (WG ’10), Howard Levine (WG ’10), Colin McGinnis (WG ’11) and Adam Piekarski (WG ’11) ultimately won first place.  McGinnis cites his team’s ability to please the three different groups represented in the judging panel as a substantial reason for his team’s success.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Trivia Tuesday: Wharton’s Pre-Term

Welcome to another edition of Trivia Tuesday, our weekly examination of the programs and policies that help to distinguish the leading business schools. This week we turn our attention to the first experience that matriculating students have on Wharton’s campus: the Wharton pre-term program.

Wharton offers a required month-long pre-term program before the start of first-year classes. Students choose from among several levels of coursework in financial accounting, microeconomics and statistics, designed to bring all students up to the required level of understanding in these areas before fall classes begin. Placement in the pre-term courses is by self-registration; Wharton provides a CD-Rom with self-assessment tests in early summer so students may gauge the appropriate course levels for which to register. Wharton is very clear that it is the student’s responsibility to ensure an adequate level of mathematical understanding before starting classes; students who have less than a college level calculus background in mathematics are responsible for acquiring this background before arriving at Wharton. While the pre-term courses, including several optional math review courses, provide a review of quantitative subject areas, they, too, assume familiarity with college calculus.

For students who already have strong backgrounds in these fields, Wharton offers short refresher courses for the waiver exams the school offers in all but three core subjects. In addition to these refresher courses, Wharton offers special courses and seminars during pre-term on the history of business, career management, languages, communication skills and other topics. Few other business schools offer pre-term activities in such a wide range of fields. Wharton uses their online auction system, also used for elective course and job interview sign-ups, to manage enrollment in optional pre-term activities. Students use the pre-term auction as a kind of trial run of the bidding system and report that they appreciate learning bidding strategies before course and interview auctions begin.

For more information on Wharton’s pre-term or the pre-term structure at other MBA programs, be sure to check out the Academics section of the Clear Admit School Guides!

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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

Monday, October 19, 2009

Economist 2009 Business School Rankings Released

The Economist this week released its annual rankings of top business schools, with European schools IESE and IMD taking the first and second spots respectively, followed by Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School – in that order – rounding out the top five.

In an accompanying article, the Economist helps make sense of why business schools seem to fall in such different orders depending on the ranking you choose. For example, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School barely made it into the top ten in the Economist’s ranking this year (up from 17th last year) but ties for number one (with London Business School) in the Financial Times’ 2009 rankings.

Why such disparity? Because the different publications that produce rankings – which include BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal and U.S. News & World Report as well as the FT and the Economist – employ different methodologies to compile their lists. According to the Economist article, that publication’s rankings rely heavily students’ own assessment of their time at business school and how their earning power and marketability increased upon obtaining a degree. This year at IESE, 98 percent of graduates found jobs within three months of graduation with an average basic salary of $125,000, propelling the Spanish school to the top of the list.

The FT’s rankings, meanwhile, focus on academic research as well as graduates’ salaries. And BW ranks U.S. and European schools separately. Hence the wildly different rankings of schools all in a single year. But as the Economist article point, even as different as they are – or perhaps, because they are so different – the rankings still serve a valuable purpose, which is to highlight the many different ways in which business schools can excel.

As always, those of us here at Clear Admit encourage you to consider the rankings as you try to decide which business school will best help you meet your individual goals, but only as one part in a comprehensive evaluation of schools.

To view the Economist’s rankings in their entirety, click here.

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