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BC Launches Shea Center for Entrepreneurship
Boston College launched the Edmund H. Shea Jr. Center for Entrepreneurship on August 31. The center, named after the major donor and founder of California-based home building Shea Homes, will work to help integrate entrepreneurial thinking into the educational and formational experience of both undergraduate and graduate students throughout Boston College. BC will hold an official opening event for the center in November. The key note speaker for the opening event will be Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, Inc. and BC alumnus.
Jere Doyle, a seasoned entrepreneur, will serve as the center’s inaugural executive director. Doyle has built two start-up companies, Prospectiv and Global Marketing, before founding Doyle Enterprises, a firm that supports start-ups throughout the world. The center, which is part of the Carroll School of Management at BC, will also take an interdisciplinary focus, and allow students in each of the University’s eight schools and colleges to participate in its programs.
Entrepreneurs and the MBA Application Process
Entrepreneurship is a subject of increasing focus at many business school graduate programs. For instance, the entrepreneurship MBA is growing in popularity, and many MBA entrepreneurship centers are reaching out to more and more students. Continue reading…
2015-2016 Pepperdine / Graziado MBA Essay Topics and Deadlines
The online application for the Pepperdine University / Graziado School of Business & Management is now live, which means that the Graziado MBA essay topics are available for applicants seeking entry in the Fall of 2016.
Acronyms to Know at the Robert H. Smith School of Business
Earning your MBA at the Robert H. Smith School of Business means you’ll have become accustomed to the use of many acronyms. Let’s start with the basics: MBA is an acronym for Master of Business Administration. But you already knew that one. A recent post on the Smith School’s website provided a handy list of all the acronyms a prospective MBA would have to know.
Here’s a handful of them to get you started: Continue reading…
How To Make Sure Your Job Enhances Your MBA Application
MBA candidates most often apply to business school because they are seeking more rapid career advancement, or they want to dramatically change their career path. However, for many full-time MBA candidates, job dissatisfaction is just as likely of a reason—otherwise they wouldn’t be applying for an MBA. But no matter the reason behind the MBA, every applicant should remember that their application is a chance to sell their skills and demonstrate the value that they will add to the program. To do this, it’s important to learn how to spin your work experience.
We reached out to Julie R. Barefoot, the Associate Dean of MBA Admissions at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School for her advice on making the most out your job experience. Here’s what she had to say:
2015-2016 UT Dallas / Jindal MBA Essay Topics
The online application for the UT Dallas / Naveen Jindal School of Management is live which means that the essay topics are available to applicants. The Jindal Full-time MBA application requires applicants to submit two essays each in the range of 300-500 words.
2015-2016 Texas Southern University MBA Recommendation Questions and Essay Topic
The 2015-2016 Texas Southern University MBA application is live which means that this year’s essay topic and recommendation questions are available to applicants. TSU only requires MBA applicants to complete one 2-page career objective essay.
SSBE Ranks in Top 5 of 30 Great Small College Business Degree Programs
The Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University was recently ranked No. 4 on a list of 30 Great Small College Business Degree Programs for 2015.
The ranking of business schools, found on the online-accounting-degrees.net website, created their list based on a number of factors, the foremost requiring the ranked schools to have an undergraduate population of less than 4,000 students. From there, the schools were ranked according to criteria such as the variety of business-related majors, student opportunities, organization, and awards/recognition. Continue reading…
Haas Welcomes New Class with Multiple Week Zero Surprises
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Orientation week at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business—better known as Week Zero—was chock full of surprises for the 246 incoming students in the full-time MBA Class of 2017. For starters, while working on their very first case study on Virgin America, the students got a shock when Virgin America CEO David Cush walked into the auditorium.
Who better to learn from about the company’s decision to enter the airline market? Discussing the move made by Virgin Group founder Richard Branson in 2007, Cush described the decision—which was based on Branson’s belief that airlines were poorly run and flights were too expensive. Amid intense competition and despite a rocky start, the company is taking on the big airlines and adding new destination cities, he said, and has moved from the bottom quartile to the top half of airlines. Students then got to quiz Cush on the company’s culture, how it hires, its strategy for innovation and the challenges it still faces. Continue reading…
Babson / Olin MBA Essay Topics 2015-2016
The F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business of Babson College Full-time MBA application is live, which means that the essay topics are available for applicants to view. Here are the two 2015-2016 Babson / Olin MBA Essay Topics for applicants seeking entry in Fall 2016. Continue reading…
DePaul University Offering MBA Degree With Real Estate Focus
As the real estate industry rebounds from its bursted bubble a few year back, DePaul University’s Kellstadt School of Business provides various opportunities for graduate students who want to enter or advance in the field.
“After the real estate slowdown of the last few years, the job market for real estate graduates has improved substantially recently,” Charles Wurtzebach, chairman of the Department of Real Estate at DePaul University, said in an article on the school’s website. “All sectors of commercial real estate appear to be expanding and need new employees to keep up with the expansion. Many of our students have been successful in getting multiple offers at graduation.” Continue reading…
JHU Carey Associate Professor Conducts Study on Beauty
Ah, to be beautiful. There have been countless studies that show that those deemed as beautiful people go on to have better lives than the rest of us. Metrics used to gauge this include career path, income and more positive attention from society. However, according to an article from BizEd, a new study from a JHU Carey School of Business professor shows that what constitutes “beautiful” can rapidly change. Continue reading…
2015-2016 Oxford Saïd MBA Essay Topics
The Saïd School of Business has announced the 2015-2016 Oxford Saïd MBA essay topics for the coming application season. This year’s Oxford MBA application consists of two “mandatory” essays, as well as additional prompts for 1+1 applicants and reapplicants to Saïd.
2015-2016 MIT Sloan MBA Recommendation Questions
The online MBA application for the MIT Sloan School of Management is live for the 2015-2016 admissions season, which means that the Sloan MBA recommendation questions are available to applicants and their recommenders.
Robinson Professor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Daniel C. Bello, a professor and the director of the Institute of International Business at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University, has been honored with the American Marketing Association’s Significant Contributions to Global Marketing 2015 Award. The Global Marketing Special Interest Group of the American Marketing Association chooses a marketing educator each year to receive the award, which recognizes a lifetime of contributions to global marketing that have advanced thought in the field. Bello received the award during the AMA Summer Educator’s Conference in Chicago on August 15. Continue reading…
D’Amore-McKim Offers MS in Innovation
The D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University offers students the opportunity to pursue a career in innovation through its Masters of Science in Innovation program. The MS in Innovation program is a one-year specialized masters program that is aimed to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to move in to leadership roles in the future. Students in the program will learn the fundamentals of innovation in business through class projects, case studies and real-world application at their own organization.
The MS in Innovation program at D’Amore-McKim is a part-time program that was designed for working professionals. Students spend an intensive year focusing on technology and entrepreneurship through courses that are tailored to innovation in a corporate setting and business innovation. Students in the program will learn to identify business opportunities and how to work within and out of their corporation to maximize their potential as leaders.
Mays Offers New Scholarship
The Mays Business School at Texas A&M University has received a gift from Mays alumna Denise Byington ’86 and her husband, Texas A&M University alumnus Bert Garcia ’81. Byington received a degree in finance while Garcia received a degree in engineering. The alumni couple have contributed $30,000 to Mays to establish a scholarship to support students who share Byington’s interest in finance. The scholarship has been named the Denise Byington ’86 and Bert Garcia ’81 Endowed Scholarship in Finance. Continue reading…
UCLA Hosts 13th Annual Diversity MBA Admissions Conference Saturday, August 22nd
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Admissions representatives from 25 leading business schools meet with prospective business school applicants today in Los Angeles as part of the 13th annual Diversity MBA Admissions Conference (DMAC). This annual event is organized by the Riordan Programs Alumni Association (RPAA), a Los Angeles‒based organization devoted to helping prepare high school and college students and recent college graduates from diverse backgrounds and underserved communities for careers in management. Continue reading…
