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
The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks
Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, working with the anthropologist Russell Hill, pieced together the average English household’s Christmas card network. The researchers were able to report, for example, that about a quarter of cards went to relatives, nearly two-thirds to friends, and 8 percent to colleagues. The primary finding of the study, however, was a single number: the total population of the households each set of … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Drake Bennett | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Organizational Behavior
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 Business Schools Create Irresponsible Leaders
Most business schools have spent the past decade making their programs global in scope, which tends to mean sending students to foreign lands for immersion programs. The model they’re using, however, creates leaders that are dangerously out of touch with the context in which they’re running businesses.
Content: Article | Author: Bhaskar Chakravorti | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: International, MBA Related
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
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
The Verbs ‘Do’ and ‘Does’ as ‘Stand-ins’ in Sentence Correction
These short verbs sometimes act as substitutes for longer verbs.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
Don’t ‘Bury the Lead’ on Data Sufficiency
Taking note of what is written can help you see what is not written.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
Word Order Does Not Matter on Sentence Correction
Word order often does not matter on sentence correction. To put it another way, on Sentence Correction, the order of the words often does not matter.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
The Most Important Moment in a Problem-Solving Question
With problem-solving questions, there are moments—often just one but occasionally two, or even more—when you have to make a decision that is not dictated by the problem or by the rules of math. This is when you have to slow down and think about how to proceed. This is the “moment” that can make this question work for you or can send you off in … [ Read more ]
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
The Wrong Way to Judge an Entrepreneurship Course
Entrepreneurship programs are ubiquitous at business schools. So how do you measure the course designed to instill the startup spirit?
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Stewart Thornhill | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Choosing a Program
A Universal Template for the AWA Essay: Part II
Treat the AWA as a flawed critical reasoning prompt, then analyze the evidence, assumptions, and conclusion.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
A Universal Template for the GMAT Essay: Part I
The Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) comes first on the GMAT exam, but it is often the last section a student studies. If are new to the AWA section or just looking for an efficient way to structure your essay, you will find this template useful.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT