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May, 24, 2009
My former client, Yukihiro, was kind enough to answer my questions about his first-year experience as a member of the Class of 2010 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was a government official in Japan and responsible mainly for legal analysis and treaty negotiation. He left the government to obtain an MBA. His […]
May, 24, 2009
My former client, Mr. Hazuki Suzuki, was kind enough to answer my questions about his experience at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Prior to attending Duke, Hazuki worked for software companies as an IT consultant for seven years. Most recently, he was a project leader of global system implementation projects for major pharmaceutical and […]
May, 10, 2009
My guest blogger, Steve Green, provides some insightful remarks on why now may be a very good time to go to graduate school.-Adam How to Beat “The Curse of the Class of 2009” Here’s some unsurprising news from the Wall Street Journal: “The bad news for this spring’s college graduates is that they’re entering the […]
Apr, 27, 2009
This is the second of two posts on “Top 20” MBA Rankings. If you have not done so, I suggest reading the first post before reading this second post. In what follows, I have built upon the data I collected on the 41 programs worldwide (See my previous post) that are generally identified by major […]
Apr, 24, 2009
This is the first of two posts on “Top 20” MBA Programs. The second post can be found here. This is the second year in a row that I decided to do a comparison of the “Top 20” MBA Rankings from BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, US News and World Report, and The Economist Intelligence Unit. […]
Apr, 23, 2009
JULY 30, 2009 NOTE: My analysis for Early and Regular Decision for Fall 2010 is now up. That post updates some of the links found below. In this post I discuss the essay questions for admission to the Columbia School of Business January 2010 Accelerated MBA. I also discuss the reapplication essay question below. Finally, […]
Apr, 21, 2009
In this post, Steve discusses what goes into making a great Fulbright application. Steve is a past recipient of Japan’s equivalent of the Fulbright, the Monbukagakusho Dissertation Research Fellowship that is awarded by the Japanese government scholarship to facilitate two years of research, which he conducted at the Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo. […]
Apr, 19, 2009
In 2007, I did a series of posts on this topic. At this point, I wanted to offer a revised version of this series as a single long post. While much of the original series of posts remains, I thought that this would be a good time to revise and extend my remarks. In this […]
Apr, 16, 2009
4/22/09 Note: The rankings below were accurate with the exception that Chicago was ranked 5 along with MIT and not ranked 6. As posted originally at GMAT CLUB and later in the BusinessWeek Forum, the US News & World Report “Top 30” 2009 MBA rankings can be seen in a video posted on the USNWR […]
Apr, 15, 2009
Whether applying to an MBA, LL.M., or other type of graduate program, I know that many successful applicants put extensive time into networking. I think this is particularly important for those trying to obtain admission at top MBA programs, but in its own way, is also important for those applying to masters and especially Ph.D. […]
