Jul, 03, 2009
This is the third of five posts analyzing the Stanford GSB MBA Essay Questions for 2008/2009 Admission. The first post provides an overall perspective on applying to Stanford GSB. The second post is on Essay 1. The fourth post is on Essay 3. The fifth post is on additional information, resume, employment history, and activities. […]
Jul, 03, 2009
This is the second of five posts analyzing the Stanford GSB MBA Essay Questions for 2009/2010 Admission. The first post provides an overall perspective on applying to Stanford GSB. The third post is on Essay 2. The fourth post is on Essay 3. The fifth post is on additional information, resume, employment history, and activities. […]
Jul, 03, 2009
This is the first of five posts analyzing the Stanford GSB MBA Essay Questions for 2009/2010 Admission. It provides an overall perspective on applying to Stanford GSB. The second post is on Essay 1. The third post is on Essay 2. The forth post is on Essay 3. The fifth post is on additional information, […]
Jun, 07, 2009
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MY UPDATED AND GREATLY EXPANDED VERSION OF THIS POST. I am posting my analysis of INSEAD’s essays for the January and September 2010 Intake. The questions are taken from the PDF. My interview with the INSEAD MBA Programme’s Assistant Director of Marketing is here. Over the years, I have had an […]
Jun, 07, 2009
PLEASE NOTE: THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS FOR JANUARY 2010 ADMISSION. THE QUESTIONS FOR JANUARY 2011 ADMISSION HAVE CHANGED. I WILL BE WRITING A NEW VERSION OF THIS POST SOON.- Adam, 11/25/2009 IMD (The Institute for Management Development), consistently ranked among the best MBA programs in the world, is a small intensive one-year program that starts […]
Jun, 05, 2009
7/1/09 NOTE: As indicated in subsequent posts, the information on Wharton below is wrong. At the time I wrote this post, there was an error on the Wharton website. The essays have changed substantially and that will be reflected in my analysis of the Wharton set.PLEASE NOTE: THE INFORMATION IN THIS POST WAS ACCURATE AS […]
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 […]
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. […]
