Stern Exec Director of MBA Admissions Interviewed About MBA Program Choices
TIME recently interviewed Executive Director of MBA Admissions at the NYU Stern School of Business, Alison Goggin about how to choose a MBA program. She was asked about how a prospective student knows which program is right for them, whether students should choose a program based on the type of program or on years of work experience that a student has previously attained and when is the right time for prospective students to apply for a MBA program.
Goggin explains that business schools offer a variety of MBA programs to meet the needs of professionals. MBA programs are for students who just graduated or for students with many years of work experience. She said that only the applicants will know if it is the right time to apply for a program. She gives readers some questions to think about while trying to decide if it is the right time to apply for the MBA, “Some questions to consider…Do you have a clear sense of the academic, professional and personal goals you hope to achieve in the MBA program? Is the timing ideal for you from both a career and personal standpoint?”
Graziadio Student Shares MBA Experience
Jordann Schoonover is a Full-Time MBA student at the Graziadio School of Business and Management. She first came to Pepperdine University for her undergraduate degree. She decided to return to Pepperdine for her MBA because of her positive experience with the professors. “Teachers truly care about us and they’re here because they love what they do, which is teaching us, and helping us become a part of the real world,” she said.
In her experience at Graziadio, Schoonover fond that the professors for the MBA program shared the same passion for teaching and for their students. “Every teacher is here to make a socially responsible individual who is not going out into the world just simple to make the bottom line bigger but to create individuals that are going to better the world for future generation,” Schooner said.
Smith School Wins For Special Olympics at Duke MBA Games
Duke University’s basketball team may have won it all in this year’s March Madness tournament, but it was a team from the Robert H. Smith School of Business that took home hardware in April’s Duke MBA Games.
Since 1989, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business has hosted an annual weekend event for teams from the country’s top MBA to take part in friendly competition alongside Special Olympics Athletes. In this years competition, MBA students from the Smith School won the first place prize, according to a press release on the Smith School website. The challenge serves as a fundraiser benefitting the Special Olympics. Continue reading…
Faculty Spotlight: Lake Forest’s Michael Baskin
Barbara Siegel of Lake Forest Graduate School of Management recently sat down with professor Michael Baskin for a discussion on the school’s MBA program. He currently teaches the Effective Leadership course for LFGSM MBA students. In Baskin’s opinion, the business world is competitive and an MBA program should reflect past practices, present trends and the future needs of an ever evolving workplace. Continue reading…
Smith School Hosts New Emerging Markets Competition For MBAs
A team of MBAs from the Robert H. Smith School of Business won a $2,000 first place prize at the school’s inaugural Emerging Markets Forum Case Competition at Smith’s DC campus, according to an article by Andrew Kneale on the business school’s website.
Overall, teams from top MBA programs across the country competed to provide the best set of recommendations to the Global Alliance for the Improvement of Nutrition (GAIN).The event was a collaborative effort between Smith’s Center for International Business Education Research (CIBER), the MBA Emerging Markets Association and Smith’s MBA Net Impact chapter, expanding the activity of the university’s annual Emerging Markets Forum. Continue reading…
Team of McDonough MBAs Win Big at VCIC Finals
Georgetown McDonough MBAs Jordan Edelman, Eric Ellsworth, Amir Kabir, Ben Shopneck, and Coral Taylor took home the top prize at the global finals of the 2015 Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), the school’s second title in the past three years. Seventy business schools from across the globe converged onto the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where a panel of venture capitalists judged each team based on how well they analyzed startup companies, interviewed entrepreneurs, structured a deal, and negotiated terms. Continue reading…
