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Making the Most of Your MBA: Part 1
Let’s be honest, if you’re going to pay $110,000 over two years to get your MBA, then you want to make sure that you receive the greatest return on your investment. While getting the biggest bang for your buck starts with attending the right program, that’s just the beginning. Once you’re accepted into your MBA and classes begin, that’s where the real value lies. Continue reading…
Global Private Equity Challenge: Oxford Saïd vs Chicago Booth
Last month, students from two of the world’s leading business schools took part in the first annual meeting between teams from the Oxford Saïd and Chicago Booth Schools of Business. Continue reading…
The Seven Hardest MBA Admissions Interview Questions—and How to Answer Them
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We recently shared our list of the most commonly asked MBA admissions interview questions, along with extensive advice on how to approach such queries. In light of the popularity of that piece, we’ve decided to up the ante this time around and spend some time deconstructing the absolute worst, totally unfair, just all-around-tough MBA admissions interview questions. Continue reading…
Professors Explore Historical Shifts in the Manhattan Real Estate Market
A recent article in Real Clear Markets co-authored by professors from UC Davis Graduate School of Management (US Davis GSM) and Rutgers University, Newark presented a thorough look at the state of the Manhattan real estate market.
Associate Professor Anna Scherbina, who teaches finance at UC Davis GSM, and her co-author Jason Barr, Professor of Economics at Rutgers University, Newark, offered their views within a historical context.
The Best Time to Get Your MBA: Part 1
Deciding when to get your MBA can be a complicated process. It’s like deciding when to have a kid or get married. You’re never quite prepared and there’s never a perfect time. However, when it comes to the best time to get your MBA, timing is tied intrinsically to your work experience. The right place in your career and skill set will make you not only a more valuable MBA candidate; it will give you a better return on your investment. This topic is so multi-faceted that we decided to break it into a two-blog series.
Three Graduate Business Students Honored at Bauer Convocation
Three graduate business students were given special recognition at the University of Houston – C.T. Bauer College of Business convocation ceremony on December 18th.
A Closer Look at Regional Financial Aid Packages for MBA Programs
Financial aid packages for MBA programs can vary depending on a school’s location, endowment and even prestige. In general, competitive MBA programs may use generous financial aid packages to help recruit top candidates. While most schools offer the option of federal direct Stafford loans or federal direct Graduate PLUS loans to MBA students seeking aid, other universities may use merit-based awards to bring in exceptional applicants. This is how the financial aid process plays out in certain regional MBA programs, and the generosity of some universities may surprise you.
#ICYMI: MetroMBA Trends – 12.19.2015
Welcome back to our weekly series, #ICYMI: MetroMBA Trends, where we round up the hottest posts from the past week (in case you missed them). So, without further ado, here are the top five posts: Continue reading…
Henley Visiting Professor Looks at Real Estate in Pension Funds
A visiting professor at Henley Business School-University of Reading published research on real estate allocations in pension funds in a recent issue of the EPRA (European Public Real Estate Association) newsletter, according to a press release from Henley. Continue reading…
Wharton School Professors Address the Value of Social Impact Investing
Two professors from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School recently published research debunking widely-held assumptions that social impact investing delivers low returns.
The study, entitled “Great Expectations: Mission Preservation and Financial Performance in Impact Investments,” was supervised by Professors David Musto, finance department chair, and Christopher Geczy, adjunct professor of finance and academic director of the Wharton Wealth Management Initiative and the Levy Equity Management Center. Their findings, which revealed that impact funds can indeed achieve a positive financial return, were published by the Wharton Social Impact Initiative (WSII). Continue reading…
MBA Application Volume Up Around the Globe, According to Latest GMAC Survey
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At the annual Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) conference in Denver this past June, the admissions directors we talked to from leading business schools were almost giddy. Continue reading…
As California Real Estate Markets Grow, Real Estate MBA Become More Popular
The California Association of Realtors (CAR), has reported that California real estate sales have increased in 2015 and predict that sales will continue to improve throughout the rest of the year and that prices will grow steadily over the rest of this year and the next. In June 2015, CAR released the 2015 California Housing Market Forecast. The report found that existing home sales for the year had reached 5,275, up from 4,940 in 2014. CAR also predicts that the numbers will continue to grow to at least 5,490 in 2016.
This increase in market sales and prices has made it more important than ever for real estate professionals to be as educated as possible in their field. An MBA in Real Estate from a California Business School can help you to become the educated and trained real estate business professional needed to succeed in the industry. There are several programs across the state that offer Real Estate as a concentration or specialization along with the MBA degree.
Bloomberg reported that in 2013, about 15 percent of business schools surveyed by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), reported having graduate and undergraduate degree programs with an emphasis on real estate. The number of programs has only increased since then. Bloomberg also reports that the number of programs offering a real estate-related program has risen by more than 30 percent over the last ten years.
A PEEK Is All It Takes: HBS’s Innovative Initiative to Woo Women
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For Priyanka Krishnamoorthy, a 2015 Mt. Holyoke graduate working in investment banking at Bank of America, a recent weekend at Harvard Business School (HBS) helped set her sights on pursuing an MBA. The Sri Lankan native majored in economics and minored in math and had been thinking about business school for a while. She originally read about PEEK—an innovative weekend program HBS debuted last month for students from women’s colleges—in an article in the paper. She decided to apply after attending an information session HBS held at neighboring Smith College. “They pitched it really well as a way to see what HBS is like,” she recalls. “On campus you hear a lot about PhD programs and law school, but not about business school.”
For Krishnamoorthy, the highlight of the weekend was getting to meet current HBS students and alumnae and hearing about the decisions they made both before and after business school. Just a few weeks into her own first job, she found their choices really eye-opening. “I thought there was a set path to it, but they all said, ‘No, you can come from anywhere.’” She was encouraged multiple times throughout the weekend to think of the MBA more as a master’s in leadership than a master’s in business administration. Continue reading…
Saïd Announces Equity Crowdfunding Study
Saïd announced in a recent press release that Associate Professor of Business Economics Nir Vulkan has been granted funding from the Kauffman Foundation so that he may study equity crowdfunding, a process where a broad group of investors will put their money behind a startup in return for equity. This industry is worth over £50 million in the UK alone, although very little research has been done into the market dynamics, success of campaigns to attract money and risks associated with the investment. Continue reading…
London Business School Students Gain Experience in Hong Kong
Ninety-three MBA students from the London Business School recently returned from participating in a Global Business Experience (GBE) in Hong Kong, an opportunity that allowed these students to hone their skills through real-world business experiences in a rapidly developing part of the world. The GBE is considered to be an important part of the MBA program at the London Business School, both by the faculty and the student body. The school commits to taking all second-year MBA students, about 410 this year, on a GBE to developing and emerging regions so they may see how business theory works when applied to real-world situations. Continue reading…
Tips for Getting Employer Sponsorship for Executive MBA
Many Executive MBA programs accept employer sponsorship to cover program costs. However, the number of companies that provide students with the financial sponsorship has been decreasing because of hard economic times. Poets & Quants reported that, “forty-one percent of EMBA students were fully self-funded in 2013, up from 34 percent in 2009” and that “only 24 percent of students received full financial sponsorship.” So how do students seek full or even partial employer sponsorship for Executive MBA programs?
During an Executive MBA webinar at The Wharton School San Francisco, Professor Peter Cappelli, shared advice on receiving sponsorship. Professor Cappelli explains that because employers are offering fewer sponsorship opportunities and less money than previously, it is important for students who are seeking sponsorship to make a solid case for why they deserve to get company sponsorship. Students should also figure out exactly who in the company that they need to contact about sponsorship because it is often times not your direct supervisor. Cappelli explains that students need to find the person “who has the authority to make the decision.”
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.”
