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Wharton Commencement Speaker to Share How the MBA Could Save His Life
The following post has been republished in its entirety from original source clearadmit.com.
David Fajgenbaum, MD, MSc, has been working toward his MBA as if his life depends on it. Because it does. On Sunday, in his commencement address to his classmates at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, he will share just why he believes a graduate management education can be the difference between life and death.
Fajgenbaum was diagnosed with idiopathic Multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) in 2010, a rare and poorly understood hematologic disorder in which the immune system becomes activated and causes cells to release inflammatory proteins that ultimately shut down the body’s organs. At the time of his diagnosis, he was in his third year of medical school at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. He took a year’s leave and underwent aggressive chemotherapy, which initially was unsuccessful. Over a six-month period, he was hospitalized for four and a half months and even read his last rites. But ultimately the chemo helped put the disease into remission, and Fajgenbaum returned to complete his MD. He then proceeded straight into the MBA program at Wharton. Continue reading…
Gabelli Dean Interviewed by NBCNews About Value of MBA
Donna Rappacioli, Dean of the Gabelli School of Business was recently interviewed by NBC news on whether or not a MBA degree is still a good investment. Dean Rappacioli explained to NBC how although MBA applications have decreased in general, and the need for two-year on-campus programs have changed, getting a MBA degree is still better for your future career goals.
Dean Rappacioli addresses the issue of the declining value of an MBA in her interview. She explains that although the number of people getting a MBA degree has declined, the value of the degree has not. ” What we are doing at Fordham is marrying the important technical skills but also the soft leadership skills,” Rappacioli said. “Employers tell me every day, that they need people who can solve problems, people that work in team, people that are really comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity; and these are the things that we have built in to the curriculum.”
Two Cranfield MBAs Become Dragons In The Den
The BBC has announced that Cranfield MBA alums Sarah Willingham and Nick Jenkins will join its “Dragons’ Den” show for series 13.
Both Sarah and Nick are active members of the Cranfield alumni community, regularly returning to the campus to offer help and advice to students.
Sarah, who completed the MBA in 2003, bought The Bombay Bicycle Club soon after graduating and turned it into the largest and most successful Indian restaurant chain in the UK before selling it a few years later. Sarah now combines running letssavesomemoney.com, the consumer personal finance website, with a portfolio of business investments.
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Sloan Prof. Awarded Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics
MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Stephen Ross has been awarded the 2015 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics. This prize is awarded by the Frankfurt, Germany-based Center for Financial Studies to academics whose ideas influence other macroeconomists and policy makers every other year.
The Deutsche Bank prize includes a 50,000 euro award, which is about $56,000, and a related academic symposium that will be held in September 2015. Past winners of the prize include Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller, two financial economists who shared last year’s Nobel Prize in economics with Lars Peter Hansen.
Full-Time MBA
UT Austin Full-Time MBA Program Structure
UT Austin places emphasis on collaboration with others in its two-year, full-time MBA program. Before classes begin, students complete an MBA Orientation. This gives new students a chance to get to know the others who will be in their cohort. Upon arrival on campus, you’ll be carefully placed into a cohort—your MBA peers with whom you’ll navigate your first year’s core curriculum. McCombs focuses on creating a unique cohort experience by building variety through different cultural backgrounds, business concentrations and locations of each student.
Curriculum
The UT Austin full-time MBA curriculum at McCombs begins by giving each student the same fundamentals of business. This is done through the core classes, which provide a functional foundation of essential business skills like effective communication and cross-functional problem solving. It simultaneously encourages the student to customize their degree with flexible core elective requirements.
The electives can be used to focus on an academic concentration, but this is not required. There are 22 concentrations, all of which fall under one of the following areas:
– Accounting
– Business Government
– Finance
– Interdisciplinary
– Marketing
– Management
– Operations and Analytics
Dual degree options that allow students to receive an MBA, as well as another graduate degree from a different college within the University of Texas at Austin, are also available.
Class Profile
The 2021 Full-Time MBA class had 260 students, 40 percent of which identify as female. The average age of students in the class was 29. On average, students enrolled with an undergraduate GPA of 3.42, a GMAT score of 704, and 6 years of professional work experience. The average GRE score was 318.
Twenty percent of the 2021 Full-Time MBA class were international students, while 80 percent were U.S. based students. Twenty-nine percent of the class were underrepresented minorities. In terms of undergraduate majors, the most popular were business/economics at 33 percent, STEM at 31 percent, and humanities at 15 percent.
Career Statistics
The Full-Time MBA has been named Best Value by U.S. News & World Report. With the opportunity to earn six-figure starting salaries and healthy signing bonuses, earning an MBA degree from McCombs can be a great return on your investment. The median salary of UT Austin full-time MBA graduates is around $125,000 with a median signing bonus of $30,000.
McCombs full-time MBA students are provided career consultants who are available throughout the year to provide professional guidance and insight. Students also pair up with a Peer Advisor—a second-year Texas MBA student who was at your stage of career planning just a year before. In addition, as part of the Texas MBA+ Leadership program, students have access to communication and specialty coaches—i.e., seasoned experts who are ready to work with you one-on-one to refine your skills in communication, leadership, strategy, organizational culture, and much more. In student’s first semester, you will take “BA 181 – Strategic Career Planning,” a class designed to identify and begin developing your professional goals. Students perform a self-assessment, practice interviewing techniques, build out your personal brand and social media networking strategies, and learn how to research career options. Almost 400 different employers participate in our recruiting events—networking receptions, career fairs, on-campus recruiting sessions, etc.
Tuition, Scholarships, and Financial Aid
For the first year of the UT Austin full-time MBA at the McCombs School of Business, in-state students pay $51,020, and out-of-state students pay $56,572. In addition to the tuition cost, there are also the following fees: $14,048 for housing, $1,020 for books and supplies, $1,520 for transportation, $4,030 for personal expenses. The total cost of attendance for in-state, first-year students for the McCombs full-time MBA is $71,638 and $77,190 for out-of-state students.
The McCombs School of Business provides financial aid for their full-time MBA students including offering recruiting scholarship in the form of cash awards and out-of-state tuition waivers that range from $2,000 to full-tuition. Consortium members are considered for both McCombs-funded scholarship and fellowships as well as benefits offered through the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management. Lastly, McCombs is a proud partner of the Forte Foundation, Reaching OUT MBA and Teach for America. Theses scholarships can be combined with Fellows benefits.
Full-Time MBA students at McCombs are also eligible for both private and federal loans, which can help cover the total cost of attendance. Individuals can also apply for teaching and research assistantship positions, however these positions are limited. MBA students cannot take on teaching or research assistantships for more than 15 hours per week and do not gain in-state tuition by virtue of an assistantship. Students should take into account their mandatory 15-hours-per-semester course load when considering any assistantship.
Lastly, McCombs is a veteran-friendly program and provides financial aid through the Post-9/11 GI Bill and the Hazlewood Act.
Admissions for the Austin McCombs Full-Time MBA
The Austin McCombs Full-Time MBA enrolls annually with classes starting in August. The application cycle consists of three rounds, and rounds 1 & 2 are priority rounds for scholarships and fellowships. Below is a requirement checklist for admissions to the McCombs full-time MBA:
– Updated Resume
– Two Required Essays
– (1) Letter of Recommendation
– GMAT/GRE Test Scores (note – due to COVID-19, McCombs has provided a test waiver for applicants who qualify)
– TOEFL/IELTS (if international applicant)
– Official Transcripts
– Non-refundable $200 application fee
– Interview (if requested by school)
The application process can be completed on the school’s official website.
2021-2022 McCombs Full-Time MBA Application Deadlines
Applications are due no later than 11:59 p.m. CT on the day of the deadline for each round.
ROUND 1 (PRIORITY DEADLINE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS)
Application Due: October 12, 2021
Decision Delivered: December 16, 2021
Enrollment Deposit Deadline: February 3, 2022
ROUND 2
Application Due: January 6, 2022
Decision Delivered: March 24, 2022
Enrollment Deposit Deadline: April 26, 2022
ROUND 3
Application Due: March 29, 2022
Decision Delivered: May 5, 2022
Enrollment Deposit Deadline: May 17, 2022
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When to Get an MBA?
When applying to an MBA program, what you’ve accomplished in your professional career matters a great deal. Unlike virtually every other graduate program, including those in law, medicine, engineering, and so on, the most competitive MBA candidates (and the vast majority) don’t go directly from undergrad to an MBA program. First, they join the workforce. Continue reading…
Teams from Cambridge Judge’s FinTech Startup Weekend Move Onwards In Global Startup Battle.
Two teams, formed by students from Cambridge Judge Business School and alumni from the wider University, won joint-first prize at the first Cambridge FinTech Startup Weekend last month.
The joint winners – Localvest and SocialInvest – emerged from a three-day intensive event organised by Accelerate Cambridge, Cambridge Judge’s in-house start-up “accelerator”. Winning teams advance to the Europe regional round of the Global Startup Battle.
Separately, a start-up called Just1Thing won the Social Enterprise award at the Cambridge stage of the Global Startup Battle, propelling them to the next stage of the competition.
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Booth Recognizes its 2015 Siebel Scholars
Five University of Chicago Booth School of Business students have been recognized as 2015 Siebel Scholars for their academic achievement and leadership and were among the 83 winners from around the world who received $35,000 to use in their final year of study.
“Representing the best and brightest from around the globe, these distinguished students join entrepreneurs, researchers and philanthropists from past Siebel Scholars classes to form an unmatched professional and personal network — bringing together diverse insights and perspectives from business and engineering disciplines at the forefront of solutions to global challenges,” Thomas M. Siebel, Chairman of the Siebel Scholars Foundation, said in a release. Continue reading…
Asset Pricing Paper by Booth Prof. Wins Top Conference and Doctoral Prizes
Michael Weber, assistant professor of Finance and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, won a pair of awards from the European Finance Association. His paper, titled “Nominal Rigidities and Asset Pricing,” was named UBS Best Conference Paper and European Finance Association Best Doctoral Student Conference Paper. This made history as it was the first time a doctoral paper won the Conference Paper Prize. Continue reading…
Leavey Students Selected for Hackworth Fellowship
Two Leavey School of Business school students have been chosen for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Hackworth Fellowship. These fellowships are awarded to rising seniors who are charged with the task of pursuing a unique program or project of ethical significance focused on engagement with their fellow Santa Clara University students.
Krishan Allen is an economics major from Emerald Hills, Calif. He will research methods of integrating ethical goals into investment practice, and aims to explain how students can attain both social and financial returns within their investment portfolios. Logan Peterson is a finance major from Scottsdale, Ariz., will focus on the Big Q, the Center’s social media campaign to involve undergraduates in discussion about the ethical issues in the everyday lives of undergraduates.
Northeastern Hosts IDEA Challenge
Hopeful entrepreneurs pitched their ideas to potential investors at Northeastern University’s IDEA challenge. The challenge was held Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at District Hall in Boston. The IDEA challenge is a student run venture held for students and alumni to help with start up businesses.
“Pitch- a- thon is a powerful showcase of all the hard work and effort our ventures put into their businesses,” said IDEA CEO Nick Naraghi, DMSB’15. “It’s exciting to watch them progress through IDEA’s stage gates and grow into investment-ready businesses.”
A variety of start-ups from industries ranging from tech to retail presented to potential investors, some of whom may soon help these businesses grow and achieve success. Several entrepreneurs discussed their innovative ideas to improve upon existing industries, like online trading, advertising and healthcare. Others, like Ryan Wright, E’09, see a market for a completely new type of product.
Haas Professors Receive Schwabacher Fellowships
The Haas School of Business Executive Committee has awarded Schwabacher Fellowships to Haas Associate Professor Nicolae Gârleanu and Assistant Professor Yaniv Konchitchki. The Haas Executive Committee is a panel that includes the dean and senior faculty. The fellowship is the highest honor that Haas bestows upon up-and-coming faculty stars. It consists of a small, unrestricted cash award, a research grant, and a modest instructional point credit.
Gârleanu is a member of the faculty’s Finance Group. He joined Berkeley-Haas in 2007 and was awarded the Paul H. Stephens Chair in Applied Investment Analysis in 2011. He has received numerous research awards, including the Journal of Finance Smith Breeden Prize in 2013 and the Review for Financial Studies Barclays Brennan Award in 2012.
Smith School Releases Annual Summer Reading List
Each year, faculty and administrators from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business puts out a list of their favorite books in the ” Top-10 Summer Reading List for Business Leaders” for 2014.
This is the 11th year of reading recommendations from the Smith School, so if you’re heading off to business school as an MBA or you are already climbing up the corporate ladder, these books will keep you up-to-date on current trends. Here are a few of the books that made the list, you can find the full list here.
Kellogg Student Wins Huge Prize on Graduation Day
The following article was originally sourced from the news piece “Convocation Celebration” on Kellogg’s News & Events page.
Just an hour after graduating from the Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern Law dual JD-MBA program, Mike Denklau’s phone rang with news that he had won the second annual Origami Capital Partners Idea Challenge with his concept involving asset liquidation.
“It was quite a day,” Denklau said. “My family was in town for graduation. It was good to celebrate with them.” Continue reading…
From Marine to MBA: One Stern Student’s Story
Michael Petit was serving in the US Marine Corp when he applied to The Stern School of Business via satellite phone in Afghanistan. Upon returning home in spring 2012 he quickly transitioned from deployed Marine to MBA. Continue reading…
All Star Investors Lecture Kellstadt Students
This April, students at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business of the Driehaus School of Business had a chance to learn about personal investing from Richard H. Driehaus (BUS ’65, MBA ’70, DHL ’02), founder and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management and William Farley, chairman and president of LV Ventures, Inc.
The two executives answered questions in Joel Litman’s MBA class, “Practical Investing: How to Make Money and Enjoy Doing It,” which grew out of discussions the three men had last fall. Litman turned the idea into a four-day “bricks and clicks” course this spring with a seminar format and accompanying online content. Continue reading…
New Scholarship to Benefit Indian Students at Booth
After a generous a $3 million gift from the Ramakrishnan family, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has announced that the gift will be used to support a new scholarship that will be offered to students from India. The Guru and Anupama Ramakrishnan Endowed Scholarship Fund will provide tuition support annually to three incoming students from India who are enrolled in Chicago Booth’s Full-Time MBA Program. Continue reading…
CEO Barry Sternlichet to be Interviewed at McDonough
The Real Estate Finance Initiative at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business is hosting a discussion on real estate capital markets featuring Barry Sternlicht, founder and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, at its annual Luminaries Series event Wednesday, April 23.
Barry Sternlicht formed Starwood Capital Group, a the private investment firm, in 1991. The firm focuses on global real estate, hotel management, oil and gas, energy infrastructure, and securities trading. Over the past 23 years, he has structured investments with an asset value of approximately $47 billion and Starwood Capital’s funds have invested in approximately 70,000 multifamily/condo units, 2,200 hotels, 44 million square feet of office properties, 39 million square feet of retail, and 46,000 lots of land in residential subdivisions. Continue reading…
