Posts Tagged ‘mba’

A core concept is central to MBA essay success

This post is from Linda Abraham, founder and president of Accepted.com. Also check out the Accepted team’s first post on our blog for tips on law school personal statements.

I have just finished reading Made to Stick by the brothers Chip and Dan Heath. I recommend it highly to those of you in sales, communications, or [...]

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Balancing work and a full-time MBA program

Amy McDowell is the VP, Web Marketing at Knewton and an MBA student at Columbia. She loves thinking of ways to spread the word about Knewton’s GMAT course and LSAT course.

As a current full-time student in Columbia Business School’s executive MBA program and a full-time online marketing maverick for Knewton.com, I often get asked this [...]

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Business schools working harder to attract international MBAs

Interesting read from the latest issue of Business Week. With growing international interest in U.S. business schools, some programs are looking to attract a more diverse population of students than ever before.  Recruiters from Tuck, Darden, and Kellogg went to Ghana in search of applicants, and some schools are venturing even further.
New scholarship opportunities for [...]

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IESE MBA Forum starts today

A quick note to say that IESE, the Spanish business school recently ranked #1 in the world by the Economist, is starting its high-profile MBA Career forum today. Why is IESE so special? The Economist cited graduates’ high salaries and employment rates, and the wide variety of job categories in which IESE graduates have made [...]

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Raising your MBA IQ

If the letters WTO make you blurt out other short clusters that begin with “W” like Who? and What?, you should probably take some time to learn at least the basics about the World Trade Organization. That’s because regardless of your political views—whether you think it’s the most progressive piece of foreign policy since the [...]

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