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March 2, 2021

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What to Expect From the MBA Experience at Cambridge Judge Business School [Episode 407]

What to Expect from the MBA Experience at Cambridge Judge Business School

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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, MBA Admissions / Cambridge Judge, entrepreneurship, podcast

November 24, 2020

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This London Business School MBA’s Startup Is Protecting Your Online Privacy [Episode 393]

This London Business School MBA’s Startup Is Protecting Your Online Privacy

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…. 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / entrepreneurship, London Business School, podcast, what is business school like series

September 8, 2020

Reading Time: 21 minutes

What These Seasoned Startup Founders Have Done Since Earning Their Stanford MBAs [Episode 382]

What These Seasoned Startup Founders Have Done Since Earning Their Stanford MBAs

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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, MBA Admissions / entrepreneurship, podcast, product management, Stanford GSB

August 18, 2020

Reading Time: 16 minutes

How This Dell Med Student Is Fighting Hunger [Episode 379]

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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Medical School Admissions / COVID-19 med, Dell Med, entrepreneurship, podcast

June 9, 2020

Reading Time: 14 minutes

Stanford MBA Grows His Amazing Tech Startup [Episode 369]

Linda Abraham interviews Stephen Cognetta, CEO and co-founder of Exponent and member of the Stanford GSB class of 2020!

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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Grad School Admissions, MBA Admissions / entrepreneurship, podcast, product management, Stanford GSB, what is business school like series

March 3, 2020

Reading Time: 19 minutes

Wake Up to Your Amazing Career Possibilities [Episode 354]

Listen to our podcast interview with Rachel Serwetz, NYU Stern MBA and Founder of Woken!

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,… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / career goals, entrepreneurship, MBA career goals, NYU Stern, podcast

February 25, 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutes

Are the Most Successful Entrepreneurs in Their Twenties? [Episode 352]

Listen to the podcast interview with Dr. Benjamin Jones, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Northwestern Kellogg

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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Grad School Admissions, MBA Admissions / entrepreneurship, Northwestern Kellogg, podcast

December 25, 2019

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From Luxury Marketing to Entrepreneurship: A Talk with Daria Burke

How does someone with a degree in English end up pursuing an MBA at NYU Stern? Why attend a program famous for its ties to Wall St. when you’re interested in marketing? And why abandon the glamorous world of beauty and luxury marketing for the world of start-ups and social enterprise? Listen to the full… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, MBA Admissions / career changers, entrepreneurship, NYU Stern, podcast

December 10, 2019

Reading Time: 7 minutes

Entrepreneurship at HBS: How Stride will Help You Fund Your Future [Episode 341]

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / entrepreneurship, Grad Financial Aid, Harvard Business School, HBS 2+2, Law Financial Aid, MBA Financial Aid, Med Financial Aid, paying for med school, podcast

November 15, 2019

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Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs

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… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / Babson, CEIBS, Chicago Booth, CMU Tepper, Columbia Business School, Emory Goizueta, entrepreneurship, ESADE, Georgetown McDonough, Harvard Business School, Indiana Kelley, INSEAD, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, researching mba programs, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan Flagler, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, UVA Darden, Washington Olin, Wharton, Yale SOM

September 10, 2019

Reading Time: 6 minutes

A Bain Consultant-Turned Wharton MBA Starts Her Own Business [Episode 329]

Podcast interview with Andie Kaplan, Wharton MBA student and founder of ConnectEd

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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / entrepreneurship, podcast, Wharton, what is business school like series, what is graduate school like series

July 23, 2019

Reading Time: 5 minutes

How This Wharton MBA Created Her Women’s Workwear Brand

What is business school like? Hear it from Melina, Wharton MBA grad and founder at Keaton

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… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / entrepreneurship, Wharton, what is business school like series

June 2, 2019

Reading Time: 10 minutes

Dr. Calvin Sun, ER Resident, Entrepreneur, and Adventurer [Episode 254]

Warning: Our guest today has done so much that it’s going to be really hard to give his background succinctly, but here goes. Dr. Calvin Sun earned his bachelors in 2008 at Columbia where he held numerous leadership positions. In 2014, he graduated from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and served as graduating class president…. 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / entrepreneurship, med school life, Non-Traditional Med School Applicants, podcast, residency

June 2, 2019

Reading Time: 9 minutes

How to Leverage an HBS Education: The Story of LeverEdge [Episode 313]

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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…. 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / b-school life, entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School, Law Financial Aid, MBA Financial Aid, Med Financial Aid, podcast

June 1, 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutes

From US Military to IE MBA Student

This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with business students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top programs. And now, introducing Nick… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an undergrad? Nick: My name is Nicholas Laine. I was born in… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / b-school life, entrepreneurship, IE, international student, MBA Student Interviews, military applicants

May 18, 2019

Reading Time: 6 minutes

From Rio to Georgetown: Trekking through the MBA Experience

What is business school really Like? Hear it from Fernando!

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… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / entrepreneurship, Georgetown McDonough, international student, what is business school like series

May 16, 2019

Reading Time: 10 minutes

Michigan Ross MBAs, Entrepreneurs, and Founders of Bschool Travel [Episode 295]

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Grad School Admissions, MBA Admissions / b-school life, entrepreneurship, Michigan Ross, podcast

April 9, 2019

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Jon Medved And OurCrowd: The Remarkable Story Of An Entrepreneur

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Time flies. The Admissions Straight Talk podcast has hit the 100-episode mark! And in honor of our big milestone we invited a  most exciting guest yet. Want to know what one of the most prominent entrepreneurs of our times has to say about leadership, graduate education, and bodysurfing? For all this and more, listen to… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / entrepreneurship, podcast, Wharton

February 19, 2019

Reading Time: 7 minutes

How to Get Really Great Recommendations [Episode 235]

Joseph Pavlisko CEO & Founder of Referrio

Joe Pavlisko is the founder of Referrio, a start-up that makes getting and writing recommendations easy. Joe graduated from the University of Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a concurrent master’s degree in finance. In addition to English, Joe speaks Spanish and German and taught English in rural Spain. After graduating from college… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / College Letters of Recommendation, entrepreneurship, Grad School Letters of Recommendation, Law School Letters of Recommendation, MBA Letters of Recommendation, Med School Letters of Recommendation, podcast

December 10, 2018

Reading Time: 8 minutes

Innovative Education in NYC: All About Cornell Tech [Episode 289]

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions / Cornell Johnson, Cornell Tech, entrepreneurship, podcast

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