Who Came Up With That? How MBA Essay Questions Get Written
B-schools ask creative questions and test new formats to push candidates to loosen up and be real.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Cory Weinberg | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In
Business Schools Get Smarter About Weeding Out Uninterested Applicants
B-schools from the University of Chicago to Duke keep tabs on which events and interviews applicants attend to gauge their interest in the school.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Cory Weinberg | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In
MBA Essentials: A free online curriculum to learn skills taught in top MBA programs
The MBA is a famously expensive degree. But most of the academic learning you’ll get in an MBA program can now be had through free online resources. SlideRule ran a detailed study of the “core” curricula of some of the world’s top business schools to determine the essential components of an MBA. Then, we curated the best online resources that teach each of those essential … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Subjects: Career, Education, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources, Personal Development
Mold Yourself Into a Great MBA Candidate in Three Years
If you have the time, there are plenty of things you can do to strengthen your MBA application.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Stacy Blackman | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In
Give Yourself the Benefit of the Doubt on Problem Solving
Making assumptions and choices is often necessary on Problem Solving questions.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
Avoid ‘Outside Information’ on Sentence Correction
Work exclusively with the information provided in the argument or passage and don’t bring in anything additional
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
Why American B-School Students Can’t Stand Teamwork
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
The Simple Equation for Success at Sentence Correction
Eliminate the clutter of modifiers to simplify the sentence.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
Use a ‘Pilot’s Checklist’ to Soar on Quantitative
Find it difficult to know when you can safely hit “submit?” Devise a checklist to cover the bases.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
Data Sufficiency: Lean toward A B D, and Jump to C vs. E, Part 2
When the statements are each clearly insufficient, ruling out A, B, and D from the start, the answer can only be C or E.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
B-schools’ Love-Hate Relationship with Rankings
The good: B-schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third-party guide for students, and a marketing tool. The bad: They are potentially flawed and unquestionably a resource drain. Oh, and they’re a potential PR disaster in the making.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Lauren Everitt | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: MBA Program Rankings
In B-School, Is That a Syllabus, or an Itinerary?
In many M.B.A. programs, lifestyle experiences are gaining on academic ones in importance.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Hannah Seligson | Source: The New York Times | Subject: About the MBA Degree
The Most Important Moment in Reading Comprehension
Read slowly, connect with the sentences, and you will arrive at the “aha” moment of understanding.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
Putting Critical Reasoning in ‘Context’
The context is meant to ensure that the critical reasoning section is not a vocabulary test. It also serves to distract test-takers.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
How to Improve Your Focus on the Integrated Reasoning Section
Sleep and exercise are the two most important things to help students lock in while taking the GMAT.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
How to Check for Parallelism in Sentence Correction
A guide to using correlative conjunctions, such as “either … or”
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
Getting Started with Integrated Reasoning
Learn what makes Integrated Reasoning different and how to begin studying for it.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
MBA Tips: How to Prepare Harvard Business School Cases
While reading and preparing cases is a significant part of any business school experience, there isn’t always a concrete result to your work. You could easily invest hours preparing a case and have nothing to say about it during the class discussion. It’s because of this ambiguous return on investment that many people choose not to read the scheduled case before a class … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Matthew Kuo | Source: MBA Excel | Subjects: Case Related, MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Inside Stanford B-school’s Startup Factory Culture
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
Think With Your Pen and Take Control of the GMAT
Some GMAT test-takers have the idea that not writing much on the note board is the way to score high on the GMAT. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT