The folks at mbaMission always recommend getting started with your MBA applications as early as possible. By taking action now, you can dramatically improve your chances of gaining admission to a top MBA program in the coming years. It is never too soon (and certainly not too late) to take several crucial steps to shape [...]

People often associate business school degrees with a handful of traditional fields, such as consulting. But according to this piece at Page Six Magazine, the growing fashionista crowd at Harvard Business School is demonstrating you don’t have to be Michael Bloomberg to go for an MBA. Take Olga Vidisheva, a 25-year-old model and current MBA candidate. [...]

You’ve probably spent lots of time weighing the merits of various business schools—professors, location, course offerings. But this month’s Bloomberg Business Week offers some food for thought about the individuals who lead the whole operation: deans. The article profiles two programs that have recently hired former corporate executives as deans. Boston University has recruited Kenneth [...]

Application season is starting to heat up again! For those of you just getting started, here’s an overview of “what’s what” with the GMAT. What Is The GMAT? The Graduate Management Admissions Test is a standardized test that many English-speaking business schools require applicants to take. The test is called a CAT, or Computer Adaptive [...]

US News and World Report recently released its latest b-school rankings, and the folks over at admissions consulting firm MBA Mission gave their take on the news here. (To echo something in the MBA Mission post, it is far more important to make sure a school is right for you than it is to make [...]

Again from Businessweek we have Business Schools themselves reacting to the Scoretop affair. A wait-and-see attitude seems to be the dominant theme until more facts and numbers are presented. Certainly the number of affected individuals seems to be substantially smaller than the 6,000 identified students to date. Share this: