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Is the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA right for your next career chapter? A recent graduate explains its format, flexibility, advantages, and trade-offs.

In this episode of The mbaMission Podcast, host Harold Simansky and Gatehouse Founder Liza Weale speak with Clyde Anderson, CEO of GrowthFactor and an MIT Sloan alumnus, about what the Sloan experience can offer applicants who want to build, explore, and learn by doing. After four years in the finance world, Clyde decided to revive … Read More  

Rather than framing its required application essay as a traditional “essay,” the MIT Sloan School of Management requests that applicants submit a “cover letter,” including even the standard formal correspondence elements of an address and opening salutation. Writing cover letters will undoubtedly be a large part of students’ career development efforts at Sloan, after all, … Read More  

Product managers in the technology industry oversee the product development process and are typically responsible for product strategy and owning the product roadmap, a document that outlines product priorities across a development timeline. Because product managers can have a lot of say as to what ultimately gets developed, their work can have great impact on … Read More  

Which MBA programs are really the best? Harvard Business School, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School? Or maybe UPenn Wharton, Columbia Business School (CBS), and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College? What about Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, the University of Chicago Booth School of … Read More