Blog: Archive for the “Business School” Category

The MIT Sloan School of Management has tweaked all of its essay questions this year and has dropped one question entirely, going with what appears to be a trend this application season toward giving business school candidates less opportunity to provide qualitative information about themselves. Many applicants will be disappointed to see that Sloan’s quirky … Read More  

In our “What I Learned at…” series, MBAs discuss the tools and skills their business schools provided as they launched their careers. Paul Watson is the co-founder and COO of Ledbury, a producer of high-quality menswear created in response to a simple problem: the difficulty of finding a great-fitting shirt. In the final part of this … Read More  

In our “What I Learned at…” series, MBAs discuss the tools and skills their business schools provided as they launched their careers. Paul Watson is the co-founder and COO of Ledbury, a producer of high-quality menswear created in response to a simple problem: the difficulty of finding a great-fitting shirt. In Part 3 of this four-part … Read More  

The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan has released its essay questions for 2012–2013 and made small but important changes from last year’s application. Our analysis of the school’s essay topics for this application season follows…

The Yale School of Management (SOM) joins the brigade of MBA programs that are reducing the word count for their application essays this year— likely making things more difficult for candidates who strive to differentiate themselves. Last year, Yale gave candidates 1,600 words with which to impart qualitative information—that number is now just 1,350. This … Read More