MBA News by Clearadmit

1. HBS Admissions Director Advises College Seniors to Consider Applying in Round 3 - In a post to her blog yesterday, Harvard Business School (HBS) Admissions Director Dee Leopold gave college seniors some food for thought. “If you are a college senior who wants to go to HBS – but not right away – then applying in Round 3 could be a smart choice,” ...
2. Chicago Booth Won’t Necessarily Scrap PowerPoint Component of Application, Admissions Director Says - The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is currently planning next year’s application, including considering changing or eliminating the PowerPoint presentation requirement that has been one of the school’s application components for the past several years, according to Admissions Director Rose Martinelli. In a post to her blog yesterday, Martinelli ...
3. MBA Students Are Finding More Banking Jobs, Internships This Year, NYT Reports - Business school students with their sights set on investment banking careers are landing internships and jobs in greater numbers as banks climb out of the recession, according to a recent article in the New York Times. Drawing on interviews with dozens of students and administrators at business schools across the country, ...
4. Rival Portuguese Business Schools Partner to Offer Joint MBA Program with MIT Sloan - Two of Portugal’s six business schools have joined forces through a partnership with MIT’s Sloan School of Management to create a new Lisbon MBA program with a focus on teaching interpersonal skills as part of the curriculum, the Financial Times reports. Lisbon’s Universidade Nova and Universidade Católica, generally rivals, have joined ...
5. MBA Oath Initiative Grows as Global Organizations Lend Support - Support for a professional oath of honor for business graduates grew even more Monday when the Oath Project announced a new alliance with the United Nations Global Compact and the Principles for Responsible Management Education in support of the cause. The initiative to establish an MBA oath similar to the Hippocratic ...
6. Yale School of Management New Campus Plan Wins City Support - Earlier this week, the City of New Haven approved proposed zoning changes that will allow the Yale School of Management (SOM) to move forward with construction of a new 230,000-square-foot building to house the business school. Pending approval of site plans from the City Plan Commission, construction is slated to ...
7. Harvard Business School 2+2 Program Essay Questions Posted - Harvard Business School (HBS) Director of Admissions Dee Leopold announced yesterday that HBS has posted the essay questions for the upcoming application season of its 2+2 Program, its deferred admissions program for promising college students. Or rather, she revealed that the essay questions this year are the same as last ...
8. Clear Admit MBA Planner iPhone App Now Available in ‘Lite’ Version – For Free! - MBA applicants across the globe have depended on Clear Admit's MBA Planner iPhone app throughout this admissions cycle and we're thrilled with the success our app has achieved.  BusinessWeek has chimed in with a favorable review and numerous schools, test prep companies and MBA fair organizers have praised the app.  Here's a recent customer review from the iTunes store: Best Business ...
9. $2.5 Million Alumni Gift Will Endow New Faculty Chair at Tuck School of Business - Impressed with the advancements at the Tuck School of Business in the past two decades and moved by the camaraderie of classmates during a recent reunion, a Tuck alumnus recently made a gift of $2.5 million to endow a new faculty chair at the school. The new Bakala Professor of Management ...
10. Nobel Economist, Former Stanford Dean to Join NYU Stern School of Business Faculty - A. Michael Spence, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and former dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, will join the faculty of New York University’s Stern School of Business as an economics professor beginning in September, the school announced yesterday. Spence comes to Stern from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, ...