Jan, 31, 2012
As I have been doing since 2008, I wanted to provide my Global Top 100 MBA Rankings for 2012. The rankings below should hopefully be of value for both those engaged in initial school application selection and for admitted applicants who have been accepted to multiple programs and need to determine where to go. Programs […]
Apr, 25, 2011
This is revised and extended from a post that I wrote in 2008. In this post I will consider the most nebulous factor of school selection that can have real lifetime consequences: prestige. We can define prestige in this context as the brand value of a school in terms of the status that it confers […]
Apr, 22, 2011
In this post, I will provide an overall perspective on fit and to its role in graduate school selection. This post applies to MBA, Masters of Law, public policy, and all other types of graduate programs. FINDING FIT IN A WORLD OF CHOICES In a world of choices, it is all about fit, that is […]
Apr, 13, 2011
Note: This post has not been updated because it is a transcript. So you want to get into Stanford GSB? A talk I delivered on March 26, 2011 in Tokyo If you are considering applying to Stanford for fall 2012, I suggest listening to my talk and/or reading the edited transcript below. I had three […]
Jun, 12, 2010
Below are the slides and an edited version of the transcript for my Reapplication for Success Webinar. The actual 48 minute Webinar can be found at http://www.aigac.org/summit/SummitVideos/summitVideo12.aspx. This seminar was part of AIGAC’s 2010 Graduate Admissions Virtual Summit. See here for a full list of all the presentations. WARNING: The 48 minute transcript and slides […]
Apr, 03, 2010
Imagine a situation where you have been admitted to three graduate schools (MBA, MPP, MPA, MS, MA, PhD, LL.M, or anything else) for Fall 2010 and the programs are offering you the following scholarship packages:School A, your top choice, has offered you nothing.School B, your second choice, has offered you a 50% tuition waiver.School C, […]
Dec, 16, 2009
Well, we are in the midst of first round results for top MBA programs, so I thought it would be a good time to discuss what to do if your R1 efforts don’t seem to be working. Of course, sometimes, the issue might simply be that you are applying to reach schools in R1 and […]
Sep, 03, 2009
Steve and I attended The MBA Tour tonight. The location, the Keio Plaza, was rather nice and real improvement on The Palace Hotel (now being rebuilt). The crowd was good and with 39 schools in attendance, it was a large event. Below we discuss the event, which undermined my old pen theory. We also discuss […]
Sep, 02, 2009
Steve Green and I attended The World MBA Tour here in Tokyo tonight. I had initially posted this as video that was so awful that I had wanted to just upload the audio, but unable to do it myself, I initially posted the video. Luckily, one of my clients was kind enough to create an […]
Aug, 31, 2009
If you have not familiar with The Forbes’ Business School Calculator, I highly recommend using it. It is an easy and effective way to look at the ROI you can expect from an MBA program. As my readers know, I am a big believer in assessing the market value of MBA programs and Forbes has […]
