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Aug, 28, 2009
At the Chicago Booth information Session last night in Tokyo, Rose Martinelli (Associate Dean, Recruitment and Admissions) made it perfectly clear that she would like to increase the number of Japanese applicants and admits to Booth. Two years ago, Booth was receiving 100 applications from Japanese. This last year it was down to 50. There […]
Aug, 28, 2009
Below is an email-based interview I conducted with Peter von Loesecke, the CEO and Managing Director of The MBA Tour LLC. He provides a very good explanation about the value of The MBA Tour is to applicants as well as some interesting information on attendee trends in the US, Japan, and the rest of Asia. […]
Aug, 19, 2009
UPDATED ON 9/8/2009. In this post I will analyze the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth MBA Application Essay Questions for Academic Year 2010–11 (Fall 2010). The questions have not changed from the previous year, but I have modified my analysis somewhat. To read a testimonial by my client accepted for Tuck for Fall 2009, […]
Aug, 16, 2009
My former client Yoshi Komada, London Business School MBA Class of 2010, was kind enough to email me his answers to some questions I had about the program. Prior to attending London Business School, he worked in financial, consulting and business development roles, including two years in the mergers and acquisitions department of a major […]
Aug, 14, 2009
Deborah Riger, Assistant Director of Marketing, MBA Programme, INSEAD, was kind enough to take the time to answer my questions about the MBA Program. Our interview was conducted both by telephone and email. By the way, Deborah will attending the World MBA Tour this September (Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, and Taipei). While these fairs can get […]
Aug, 12, 2009
For all my readers in Tokyo, I hope you will be attending the THE MBA TOUR in Tokyo on September 3rd at the Keio Plaza Inter-Continental Hotel. I suggest registering online at www.TheMBATour.com so you can save 500 yen off the 1000 yen admission (You will need the money later for drinks!).Steve Green and I […]
Aug, 11, 2009
For my clients and blog readers in the US, if you have done so I suggest attending The MBA Tour. It is a great way to learn about a large number of top MBA programs. See below for details regarding the September 2009 Tour. -Adam Do you see an MBA in your future? The MBA […]
Aug, 11, 2009
Business plan contests and the businesses that emerge out of MBA programs offer students an excellent opportunity to immediately apply what they learn. One such new venture is Streetcanvas , which was started by three HBS students. Streetcanvas was brought to my attention by Akiko Tateishi (Chicago Booth MBA Class of 2011) who is getting […]
Aug, 02, 2009
In what follows, I will analyze the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s MBA Essay’s for 2009-2010. For Fall 2009 admission, I had the opportunity to work with five clients who were admitted to UCLA. You find testimonials from three of them here. Here are the questions and instructions taken from UCLA’s website: GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: Please […]
Aug, 02, 2009
BusinessWeek has a recent article about the fact that the GRE is now being increasingly accepted by MBA programs as an alternative to the GMAT. The article explained the nature of the competition between GMAT (GMAC) and GRE (ETS), but did not actually discuss, in any great detail, the subject that most applicants are likely […]
