Questions to Ask in Your MBA Admissions Interview
In the MBA admissions interview, the questions applicants ask are as important as those they answer.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In
GMAT Tip: What Geometry Questions Really Measure
You may not use geometry every day, but GMAT measures it to see how creatively you solve problems.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
GMAT Tip: Avoiding a Common Critical Reasoning Trap
The GMAT’s “plan/strategy” questions trip up test-takers more often than most. Here’s a tip for making sure that doesn’t happen to you.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
GMAT Tip: Simplifying the GMAT’s ‘Hard’ Math
GMAT test makers have a number of tricks for making simple math difficult. The key is to see through the ruse.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
T-Minus 30 Days and Counting: Getting Ready for B-School
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
How to Navigate the Dreaded MBA Wait List
It may seem like a lost cause, but there are things you can do to increase your chances of getting off the B-school wait list.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In
GMAT Tip: Becoming a Sentence Correction ‘MVP’
Modifiers, verbs, and pronouns will allow you to eliminate most answer choices on GMAT sentence correction questions.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
MBA Admissions Interviews: A Numbers Game?
New research suggests interview order, as well as time of day, may factor into MBA acceptance.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Erin Zlomek | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In
The Business of Change
Stanford Dean Garth Saloner discusses why and how business schools must change if they are to serve their students and society well.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Garth Saloner | Source: EFMD | Subject: About the MBA Degree
Tough Decisions: Choosing Among MBA Programs
Choosing among B-school offers isn’t easy, but potential career outcomes, financial aid, and the impact on loved ones should all factor into the decision.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Rose Martinelli | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Choosing a Program
Is B-School Research an Expensive Waste?
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
GMAT Tip: The Most Common Wrong Answer
The GMAT sets numerous traps for the unwary test-taker. Answer choices frequently appear to be correct but are utterly wrong.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
MBA Alumni Networks by the Numbers
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
GMAT Tip: Becoming a Sentence-Correction Pro
A key clue to GMAT sentence-correction questions is often hidden in plain sight-as an humble pronoun.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
GMAT Tip: Making the Abstract Concrete
Fear not: All those GMAT problems loaded with strange subscript notations are pretty easy, once you see how simply they are structured.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
Columbia B-school’s Glenn Hubbard: Is an MBA worth it?
Hubbard discusses the anxiety in MBA programs, Columbia’s MBA application plunge, and why alum Warren Buffett has not donated.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Sources: FORTUNE, Poets & Quants | Subject: About the MBA Degree
Can Globalization Be Taught in B-School?
As companies seek individuals who can work anywhere in the world, plenty of U.S. business schools claim they’re “going global,” adding weeklong jaunts to China, Korea or Brazil and increasing the share of international students in their classes.
But that’s not enough to train tomorrow’s leaders, argues Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor of global strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Melissa Korn, Pankaj Ghemawat | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: International MBA Issues
Extra Help for Foreign M.B.A.s
U.S. business schools have spent years courting international students. Now that they’ve arrived—more than a third of M.B.A. students at many top schools hail from overseas—the institutions are struggling to keep up with their diverse demands.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Melissa Korn | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: International MBA Issues
GMAT Tip: The Weighted-Average Tug of War
To solve the GMAT’s weighted-average problems, just think back to a game you played in third-grade gym class.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
Inside MBA admissions: How a top school decides
A look at what happens behind closed doors as the University of Toronto’s Rotman School’s separates the B-school applicant wheat from the chaff.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Getting In