30 Ways to Annoy Your Boss

Many of the things young, ambitious professionals do to impress their managers actually just irritate them. Here we present the missteps that irk senior executives the most — so you can avoid them.

Negotiating a Job Offer: Points of Entry

Negotiating the details of an offer is as much a part of the job search as resume paper and shined shoes. At the moment, however, a freaky economy has many candidates gratefully lapping up any hiring package that lands before them. But a little back and forth has its place — good economy or bad. Points of Entry shows you how to get what you … [ Read more ]

Your Recruiting Questions Answered

One year ago, at the height of the fall recruiting season, MBA Jungle posed a simple question to the B-school students of the world: What confusing or unexpected parts of the recruiting process do you wish someone had briefed you about ahead of time? The magazine went to experts for their wisdom.

John Maynard Keynes

The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll.

Negotiating a Job Offer: Points of Entry

Negotiating the details of an offer is as much a part of the job search as resume paper and shined shoes. At the moment, however, a freaky economy has many candidates gratefully lapping up any hiring package that lands before them. But a little back and forth has its place — good economy or bad. Points of Entry shows you how to get what you … [ Read more ]

The House That Blackjack Built

How card whiz Blair Hull parlayed a $25,000 casino stake into a trading empire worth more than $500 million.

Editor’s Note: though not offering a lot of real value, this is an interesting look at the relationship between the world of gambling and investment banking.

George Soros

if you don’t know who he is, you should…

The Myth of Corporate Synergy

It’s a slippery concept, synergy. Few really understand it. Yet the word is thrown around to justify all big mergers today. Too bad it’s a baseless idea.

How to Work a Room

We tag along as an expert networker demonstrates the art of the schmooze.

Network Your Way to the Top: ‘Working It

You’ve handed out stacks of business cards, called all your contacts, and mailed reams of cover letters. Guess what, pal: So has everybody else. That’s why we’ve asked the pros for networking tips and tricks that’ll help you leave the name-tag-wearing, resumé-waving hordes in the dust.

Career Switching Tips: A Brand New Old You

“What is an MBA, anyway? A degree, of course. A door opener, to be sure. A ticket to the top, perhaps. But for some 75 percent of B-school students, it’s also a new start—the first step in a journey from one field to another. And more often than not, that new field is consulting, banking, or marketing…Our guide to spinning the career switch—compiled with the … [ Read more ]

Inside the B-school Interview

If you want admissions officers hanging on your every word rather than sneak-checking their watches, take a look at this Jungle guide.

Admissions: Admit One

Getting into an MBA program is no easy task these days. Check out our tips on where, when, and how to apply for your ticket to the best B-school for you.

Inside Three Real Interviews: The Hot Seat

Three MBAs. Three interviews. The razor-sharp recruiter who scored them. And what you can learn from their mistakes.

Ace the GMAT

Experts say that acing the GMAT doesn’t guarantee you’ll get into business school, but a low score can definitely keep you out. So how can you make sure you’re in the running? Check out our GMAT cheat sheet to learn how to tame the test.

How to Impress Recruiters: Anatomy of an Interview

What does an interview look like from the recruiter’s chair? Which answers impress? Which comments annoy? What shoots you dead? Top recruiters, career consultants, and psychologists offer shrewd tips and subtle tricks for moving from “How do you do?” to “When can you start?”

Cracking the Case: A Consulting Interview Primer

You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to ace the cases in a consulting-firm interview. In fact, a little preparation can make solving them seem, well, elementary.