Which Graduate Business School Students Have The Highest GMAT Scores?
Along with required work experience and undergraduate prerequisites, prospective MBA students also look at the average scores on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) for a certain school they are interested in applying to.
According the Graduate Management Admission Council, the exam is used as part of the admissions process for more than 6,100 graduate programs around the world. A GMAC study found that 261,248 GMAT exams were taken by prospective MBA students during the 2016 test year. The report also shows that less than 30 percent of scores were 650 or higher. The GMAT has a maximum score of 800. Continue reading…
Hot MBA Jobs – Nonprofit Fundraiser
It goes without saying—everybody likes making money. But while everyone loves some extra change in their bank accounts, some really get a sense of accomplishment working directly for a cause or nonprofit corporation.
MBA Startup: Salesforce IQ, Steve Loughlin & Adam Evans (Stanford GSB)
Can you imagine being offered $390 million dollars for anything?
While most of us will never know what that type of success feels like, Steve Loughlin and Adam Evans, are part of the minority who do. These two Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni started RelateIQ, a data-driven company that produced an intelligent email client, calendar, and work dashboard that automatically determined which salesperson at your company had the best relationship with a customer, among other things.
The Palo Alto-based company was acquired by Salesforce, a larger company many saw as a competitor of RelateIQ, for nearly $400 million dollars in 2014. Continue reading…
Top Employers in the San Francisco Bay Area
While it’s no secret that the Bay Area’s climbing job market is one of the country’s richest destinations for MBAs, recent news from global consulting firm A.T. Kearney only strengthens this fact. San Francisco recently received the title of the world’s leading international city, in a tie with London.
Poised at the forefront of the United States’ knowledge-based economy, the top employers in the San Francisco Bay Area offer a wide landscape of opportunity for those who wish to put their MBA degrees to work.
GMAT: Exam Prep Options
For the majority of business schools, the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is one of the key portions of the application process for students preparing for business school. Continue reading…
Stanford MBA Elective Helps Students Learn Broad Impact of Finance
A new elective course for the MBA program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business helps students to learn more about the broad implications of finance. Anat Admati teaches the Finance and Society elective course. She is a well-known critic of current banking regulations. In her class, she helps students learn to understand and critically analyze the economic and human implications of finance. For the class, Admati teaches by bringing together different expert viewpoints on banking, law, accounting, politics, financial regulation and the media.
There is no math taught in the class, but the main principles and theories are reviewed for discussions. Readings from the course are from the professor’s book “The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It” as well as documents from the Federal Reserve, media stories, guest essays and news commentary. For MBA students, Admati brings guest speakers to help to enrich the course with real-world perspectives and insights into the industry and the policy issues.
