As you apply to MBA programs, you need to think about your work experience and how it fits into your overall story. Work experience is important because of what it reveals about you with respect to your character, maturity level, and abilities. Even if your GPA and GMAT/GRE scores are spectacular, your work experience still…
Stride Funding: Where Your Education is an Investment and not a Debt [Episode 495]
Find out how you can benefit from Stride Funding [Show Summary] Tess Michaels shares what’s new at Stride Funding, the innovative educational financing company she founded, and reflects on the impact that her Harvard Business School MBA has had on her impressive success today. Interview with Tess Michaels, Founder and CEO of Stride Funding [Show…
How an MBA Can Help Entrepreneurs [Episode 492]
Do you need an MBA as an entrepreneur? [Show Summary] What does it take to become an entrepreneur who drives impact and change? Is an MBA necessary? Inge Kerkloh-Devif, Senior Executive Director and Senior Vice President of the HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center, shares her thoughts. Interview with Inge Kerkloh-Devif, Sr. Exec. Dir. &…
An MBA Success Story Reflects on His HBS Experience, 7 Years Later [Episode 419]
How can an MBA degree help an entrepreneur? [Show summary] Entrepreneur and Harvard Business School grad Ben Faw reflects on the value of his MBA and the role it played in his successful career. Why this serial entrepreneur feels his time at HBS was invaluable [Show notes] What happens to Harvard Business School MBAs after…
What to Expect From the MBA Experience at Cambridge Judge Business School [Episode 407]
What makes the Cambridge Judge MBA experience unique? [Show summary] Charlotte Russell-Green, Head of MBA Recruitment and Admissions at Cambridge Judge Business School, explores the one-of-a-kind experience students can expect from the full-time MBA program at Cambridge Judge’s historic campus. What Cambridge Judge is looking for… and what it can offer YOU [Show notes] Are…
This London Business School MBA’s Startup Is Protecting Your Online Privacy [Episode 393]
Can business school support an entrepreneurial venture? [Show summary] James Chance, a 2019 London Business School MBA graduate, reveals how his experience at LBS impacted his path as an entrepreneur, along with how he’s transforming online privacy protection through his startup, yourself.online. Learn how entrepreneur James Chance launched his start-up while at London Business School….
What These Seasoned Startup Founders Have Done Since Earning Their Stanford MBAs [Episode 382]
Stanford GSB grads discuss MBA admissions, entrepreneurship and affordable car loans [Show summary] Nicholas Hinrichsen and Chris Coleman, startup co-founders who earned their MBAs at Stanford GSB, return to Admissions Straight Talk to share what they’ve accomplished as entrepreneurs since earning their MBAs. Chris Coleman and Nicholas Hinrichsen share how their experiences at GSB helped…
How This Dell Med Student Is Fighting Hunger [Episode 379]
Zack Timmons integrated business and medicine to take on a social problem facing his community. [Show summary] Zack Timmons, a fourth-year medical student at Dell Medical School at UT Austin, combined his passion for medicine with his background in business to create Good Apple, an Austin-based produce delivery company on a mission to end food…
Stanford MBA Grows His Amazing Tech Startup [Episode 369]
What’s it like growing a startup during business school? [Show summary] Stephen Cognetta had already co-founded his tech startup, Exponent, by the time he entered the Stanford GSB class of 2020. Today, he shares how his MBA experience shaped his approach to growing Exponent and what the business is doing to help job applicants land…
Wake Up to Your Amazing Career Possibilities [Episode 354]
Woken awakes you to meaningful career opportunities [Show summary] Are you wondering what your career path should be? How to create it? Our guest today is an NYU Stern MBA and associate-certified coach who also serves as a consultant for the Career Design Lab at Columbia. In addition, she is the founder and CEO of Woken,…
Are the Most Successful Entrepreneurs in Their Twenties? [Episode 352]
Is there a connection between an entrepreneur’s age and her degree of success? [Show Summary] Are the best and most successful entrepreneurs’ twenty-somethings? As an entrepreneur, are you over the hill at 30, not to mention 40? Let’s find out from today’s guest, a Kellogg professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, who has actually researched the…
Entrepreneurship at HBS: How Stride will Help You Fund Your Future [Episode 341]
Learn about HBS 2+2 from Tess Michaels, entrepreneur and HBS 2+2 student [Show Summary] Stride Funding is an innovative start-up that is revolutionizing student financing with income share arrangements instead of traditional student loans. Today Linda talks to Tess Michaels, founder of Stride Funding, and second-year student at Harvard Business School who joined the class…
Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs
Poets & Quants has just released their inaugural rankings for the top MBA programs for entrepreneurs, and Washington University’s Olin Business School tops the list. 20.7% of its graduates from 2016-2018 launched companies within three months of graduation, and has a whopping $1 million in annual funding available for student entrepreneurs. By comparison, the second…
A Bain Consultant-Turned Wharton MBA Starts Her Own Business [Episode 329]
Interview with Andie Kaplan, Wharton MBA student and founder of ConnectEd [Show summary] Andie Kaplan had an undergraduate degree in business, but knew she needed more formal training to successfully launch her own business, and one year into her MBA at Wharton, she has done just that! Andie shares her story of honing her business…
How This Wharton MBA Created Her Women’s Workwear Brand
Learn how real students navigate their way through the business school admissions process and b-school itself with our What is Business School Really Like? series. Meet Melina, a recent Wharton MBA graduate and the founder of Keaton, a woman’s workwear brand dedicated to empowering women to look, feel, and perform their best. Melina, thank you…
How to Leverage an HBS Education: The Story of LeverEdge [Episode 313]
How to leverage an HBS education: The story of LeverEdge [Show Summary] Do you want to save money on your student loans? Interested in earning an MBA with entrepreneurship as your goal? Considering Harvard Business School as the place to earn that degree? Pull up a chair, or at least plug in your ear buds….
From Rio to Georgetown: Trekking through the MBA Experience
Learn how real students navigate their way through the business school admissions process and b-school itself with our What is Business School Really Like? series. Meet Fernando, an entrepreneur and international student at Georgetown. Fernando, thank you for sharing your story with us! I understand you are an unusual entrepreneur in that you founded a…
Michigan Ross MBAs, Entrepreneurs, and Founders of Bschool Travel [Episode 295]
Interview with Dale Jarosz & Dhruv Dhawan, MBA Students and Founders of Bschool Travel [Show Summary] Two Michigan Ross MBA students launched their brand new business, Bschool Travel while attending the Michigan Ross School of Business. Let’s learn how these two very busy MBA’s managed to start and run a business while attending a demanding MBA…
Innovative Education in NYC: All About Cornell Tech [Episode 289]
Interview with Cornell Tech’s Dean Matthew D’Amore and Admissions Director Dr. Raymond Lutzky [Show Summary] The Cornell Tech campus and programs on Roosevelt Island in New York City have INNOVATIVE stamped on them. Hear from Dean Matt D’Amore and Admissions Director Dr. Ray Lutzky about the inception of the program, the innovative degrees currently being offered, how…
From Hospitality to Kellogg MBA to Accepted MBA Admissions Consultant [Episode 269]
Hospitality to Kellogg MBA [Show Summary] Libby Angst is a 2018 graduate of the Kellogg MBA program and Accepted’s newest MBA admissions consultant. Libby shares her experience in the hospitality industry, her motivations behind her job changes, her decision to pursue an MBA and what she thought was most valuable in the Kellogg MBA program….