Start-Up Spotlight: Kellogg’s David Hegarty and Fixed
This article was originally sourced from Start-Me-Up: David Hegarty ’07, part of Kellogg’s “Start Me Up” series, which spotlights members of the Kellogg community who are putting their entrepreneurial visions into practice.
David Hegarty constantly had issues with parking tickets. A Dubliner living in San Francisco, the Kellogg School of Management alum managed to accumulate four parking tickets over a few weeks last year. It was at that time that the idea for his Fixed app came to him.
The iOS-only app designed so that anyone who gets a ticket in San Fran simply needs to take a photo of the citation and submit it through the downloaded Fixed app. The Fixed team, in turns, drafts a letter to contest the ticket and submits it to the city. Hegarty’s business makes money by charging users 25 percent of the cost of the ticket if they overturn it successfully. If they fail to overturn it, there’s no financial obligation to Fixed — the user must simply pay the ticket to the city. Continue reading…
McCombs MBA Student Names New Campus Café
Mackswell Dickson’s bill for his MBA just got a little bit smaller. That’s because Dickson won a full year of tuition for naming University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business’ new cafe. The Moontower Cafe will be part of McCombs’ new Robert. B. Rowling Hall, which is set to open in 2017.
The naming competition was open to MBA and MSTC students, who submitted a total of 127 names. After a committee made a short-list of 30 choices they allowed students to vote for five finalists. The finalists then presented their name pitches to a panel of judges. Continue reading…
Lucas Holds MBA Open House
Lucas Graduate School of Business will be holding an upcoming MBA open house. The event will be held Jan. 17, 2015. It will be held from 8 a.m. to noon. The information event will cover both the working professional MBA program and the early career MBA program.
During the event, attendants will be able to learn GMAT/GRE strategies from David Espiritu, Master Tutor/Instructor, Princeton Review, enjoy two mini-lectures from prominent Lucas faculty, hear about career preparation and employment opportunities and meet current Lucas MBA students and alumni. A continental breakfast will be provided to those who attend the event.
REGISTER- UIC Webinar for Prospective International MBAs on Dec. 17
On December 17 from 9 am – 10 am, international students interested in learning more about the University of Illinois at Chicago’s MBA program may attend this online webinar to learn more about the school’s degree offerings and admissions process for international students. This session will consist of a short presentation by our Assistant Director of Admissions, Colette Armes, followed by an open Q&A with participants.
“I am most excited to begin meeting with and helping prospective students throughout the admissions process and to start building new relationships through recruitment events,” Armes said. Continue reading…
Spotlight: Goizueta Grads in the Marketplace
Emory University’s Goizueta Business School takes the transition from academia to marketplace seriously. The school’s MBA programs offer extensive resources to help its students navigate this journey, and the results are evident. In Poets and Quants‘ recently released annual analysis of best and worst MBA job placement at top business schools, Goizueta topped the list for the third consecutive year; Goizueta grads had an impressive 98 percent placement rate within three months of graduation. This year Goizueta tied with three other business schools — U Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania — for best job offer rate 3-months from graduation.
Poets and Quants also says that 2014 was the best year for MBA careers since the Great Recession despite 10 out of the top 30 schools showing small decreases in job offers from last year. Goizueta’s numbers have held steady at 98 percent for 2014, 2013 and 2012. Continue reading…
Drucker Holds Skype Info Meeting
The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management at Claremont Graduate University is hosting an information event for prospective students. This event is a private one on one meeting via Skype with the Drucker School’s Assistant Director of Admissions, Mark R. Estrada. The event will be held Dec. 19, 2014.
The meeting will last for 15 minute. During the Skype session, prospective students will have the opportunity to ask any questions that they may have regarding the Drucker School, MBA Programs, Admissions, Internships, Job Placement, and other topics.
