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We asked top graduates the following question: “Looking back over your MBA experience, what is the one thing you’d do differently and why?” Wondering what mistakes you should avoid as you begin preparing for business school? From pursuing perfection to skipping case competitions, here are the biggest regrets of the top MBAs from the Class of 2020.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Jeff Schmitt | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources, Prospective

Tuition and fees for top programs in the US and abroad continue to rise. For many, paying for school means taking on debt, which can linger for five to ten years or longer. For full-timers, there’s also a huge opportunity cost associated with taking time off from work (usually during prime working years) to pursue an advanced degree.

Unless you’re already an Excel wiz, determining the … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Nathan Crabtree | Source: Loan Lab | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many. And I should know – I’ve taught in them for 20 years.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Martin Parker | Source: The Guardian | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources, Prospective

For some of you, despite having been admitted to one or more schools, you may not feel sure that are ready to matriculate – at least not to those programs. If this sounds familiar, you might be considering asking for a deferral. Here is insight into what business schools really think when you ask for a deferral.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Georgina Hannah, Karen Marks | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: Getting In, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Jeff Kavanaugh, a managing partner at Infosys and adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas Jindal School of Management, dropped a bombshell on big-headed business students everywhere with the results of a sweeping survey that covered 10,000 recruiters, 3,000 business students, and 500 B-school career center leaders. Kavanaugh found that all three constituencies had very different perceptions of what’s important and where they … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Jeff Schmitt | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

To get the best pay out of your MBA, you have to graduate within a narrow age window.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

A peek into the ambitions and anxieties of prospective MBAs.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Natalie Kitroeff | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

A student’s survival guide from the 1980s is still quietly being forwarded to first-year students at some business schools.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Natalie Kitroeff | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Compared with MBA students from other global regions, more Americans say they’d rather not collaborate on projects with peers.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Cory Weinberg | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

About 95% of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business’s 809 students opt to take at least one entrepreneurship class. A look at how the school teaches students to start their own businesses.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Kim Girard | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Wharton is now offering four core courses from its highly ranked full-time MBA program on the online learning platform Coursera.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources, Online & Distance MBA

The transition from worker bee to MBA student can be challenging. That’s why business schools offer programs and advice over the summer to help newbies maximize the MBA experience. If you’re among the first-year students heading back to school in the fall, here are some ways you can train to sit in a classroom again.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Larry Zicklin says B-schools should put less emphasis on research, and students shouldn’t be footing the bill.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

If you just graduated from business school, it’s time to get to know your MBA alumni network-and you may be surprised what you find.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Don’t you wish your university had helped you figure out how to get a job at the same time they were teaching you about finance? College career centers tend to give advice about resume-writing, hold practice interviews and arrange on-campus interviews. These are good things. But one school is doing something better.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Suzanne Lucas | Source: CBS News | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

This year’s top teachers have withstood the tests of time, taught through bear and bull markets, and have consistently imparted life-changing lessons to MBA students year after year.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Andrea Carter | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

MBAs are more interested than ever in becoming entrepreneurs. The question is: why?

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Barbara Bierach | Source: MBA Channel | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Some Schools Shake Up Academic Rite of Passage by Requiring Students to Confront Nuts-and-Bolts Demands of a Start-Up

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Melissa Korn | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Why study for an MBA? Which school to choose? And by which criteria? There is no one better qualified to answer these questions than the programme directors of business schools who observe the industry, its trends and its relative competitive advantages. Therefore the English national daily newspaper “The Independent” and Audencia Nantes School of Management in France asked the heads of 58 business schools in … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: MBA Channel | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

To diminish the role of admissions consultants, B-schools need to change the application process. For starters, they should downplay essays.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Alex Fleming | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Getting In, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources