Demonstrating Community Contribution in Your MBA Application Essay
“What will you contribute to our business school’s MBA community?”
If you are applying to the Henley Business School or any of several other MBA programs, you are very likely to find a variation of this question as part of your application. So what’s the best way to tackle it? Ensuring your specific examples fit in with your Continue reading…
An In-Depth Look at the Forté Foundation for Women MBAs
According to Catalyst.org, women make up only 36.5 percent of MBAs earned in the United States. Even worse, a landmark study by the University of Michigan Business School revealed that women make up less than 17 percent of corporate board members in America’s 500 largest companies. The Forté Foundation is working to change those numbers. It’s a non-profit consortium dedicated to launching women into fulfilling, significant careers through access to business education, opportunities and a community of successful women leaders. Continue reading…
Showcasing Leadership in Your MBA Application Essays
Essay questions are a crucial component of almost every MBA application, and many programs call on candidates to demonstrate their leadership capacity as part of their responses. This only makes sense. Business schools are training future managers, so their admissions committees are naturally keen to make sure that applicants bring leadership potential.
So how can you showcase your professional or personal leadership experience? To learn more about the best ways to approach these particular questions and really sell yourself as a great candidate, we spoke with long-time business school admissions consultants Alex Brown and Eliot Ingram.
San Francisco State Business School Professors Research the Sport of Shopping
In time for the holiday shopping season, the associate dean of the San Francisco State University (SFSU) Business School, in collaboration with a colleague, published an article on a phenomenon they call “sport shopping”.
Associate dean Kathy O’Donnell and Judi Strebel, chair of SFSU’s marketing department, wrote the article for the online publication The Journal of Retail and Consumer Services. It will be published in print in early 2016.
DeGroote Dominated Two MBA Case Competitions in November
MBA students at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University dominated two separate case competitions in November. In the Scotiabank Ethics in Action competition, DeGroote MBAs placed second. In the John Molson Sports Marketing Case Competition, the DeGroote MBA team took home the first place prize. Continue reading…
MBA Students from Rutgers Win Big in Biopharma Competition
A team of MBA students from Rutgers Business School recently earned high praise during a case study competition that focused on developments in the biopharmaceutical industry.
The competition was sponsored by Bayer, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi Pasteur and Novartis, among other pharma giants. The Rutgers team won second place, earning a $3,000 prize. Other participants were students from the business schools of Wharton, Yale, MIT and Georgetown. The competition takes place annually and is organized by Rutgers’ Blanche and Irwin Lerner Center for the Study of Pharmaceutical Management Issues.
