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May 11, 2022

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HEC Paris MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines [2022 – 2023]

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The HEC Paris MBA application essays – and there are many compared to most MBA applications these days –give the adcom a well-rounded view of you. They go beyond what you’ve done to capture how you think and respond, even how you imagine. Moreover, they require you to communicate complex thoughts and experiences succinctly. For… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / 2022 MBA Applications, 2023 MBA Applications, HEC

February 17, 2022

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Financial Times Ranks Wharton as #1 in 2022 Rankings

Financial Times Ranks Wharton as #1 in 2022 Rankings

The Financial Times has released its global rankings of the best MBA programs and has considerably shuffled the deck. Several top-ranked programs fell several notches, while others rose considerably. For the first time since 2011, Wharton has returned to its status as #1 in FT’s list.  Other programs that made giant strides in the rankings… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Cambridge Judge, CEIBS, Chicago Booth, CMU Tepper, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Georgetown McDonough, Harvard Business School, HEC, IESE, IMD, INSEAD, London Business School, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, SDA Bocconi, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, USC Marshall, UVA Darden, Washington Foster School of Business, Washington Olin, Wharton, Yale SOM

January 3, 2022

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From the Mouths of MBA Adcom Members: How to Get Accepted

Business school admissions directors speak about how to get accepted

Looking for the best possible admissions advice? How about admissions advice from the admission committee members themselves? Linda Abraham, founder of Accepted and host of the Admissions Straight Talk Podcast has a collection of highly enlightening interviews with directors of admissions and adcom members of top business schools! Listen in as Linda asks her adcom… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Cambridge Judge, CMU Tepper, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, ESADE, fit, Georgetown McDonough, HEC, INSEAD, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, optimize your mba admissions profile, Oxford Said, podcast, researching mba programs, Rotman, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, USC Marshall, Vanderbilt Business School, Washington Foster School of Business, Wharton, Wharton-Lauder, which MBA programs to apply to, Yale SOM

February 4, 2020

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Financial Times Ranks Harvard as #1 in 2020 Global MBA Ranking

Financial Times ranks Harvard as #1 in 2020 global MBA rankings

Harvard Business School has taken the top spot away from Stanford Graduate School of Business in the Financial Times 2020 global MBA ranking.  Although the Financial Times ranking is designed to favor non-U.S. programs, 15 of the top 25 MBA programs are based in the U.S. This result comes despite the decline in applications to… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Cambridge Judge, CEIBS, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, ESADE, Financial Times, Harvard Business School, HEC, HKUST, IESE, IMD, INSEAD, London Business School, MBA Rankings, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, Oxford Said, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, UVA Darden, Wharton, Yale SOM

December 16, 2019

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Big Changes in Economist 2019 MBA Rankings

Big changes in Economist 2019 MBA Rankings

  Chicago’s Booth School of Business remaining at the top of The Economist’s ranking of the world’s top MBA programs for the second year in a row is only one of a few stable things in this year’s ranking, according to the Poets & Quants website. This is the seventh time Booth has taken the… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Georgia Tech Scheller, Harvard Business School, HEC, IESE, INSEAD, London Business School, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, SDA Bocconi, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, USC Marshall, UVA Darden, Warwick, Washington Foster School of Business, Wharton, Yale SOM

February 28, 2019

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HEC Paris MBA: Excellence, Diversity, and Community [Episode 302]

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Interview with Dr. Andrea Masini, Associate Dean at the HEC Paris MBA Program [Show Summary] HEC Paris’s MBA program has a class that is comprised of 90+% international students. If you are interested in an MBA with a strong focus on diversity, the HEC Paris program might be for you! Dr. Andrea Masini, Associate Dean… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, MBA Admissions / HEC, international student, podcast

January 2, 2019

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B-Schools That Rank for Landing Jobs in Investment Banking

schools that rank for investment banking hiring

When looking to fill investment banking positions, top firms tend to direct their searches towards cream of the crop universities. Here are the top b-schools you should be looking at to give yourself the best chance of getting hired after graduation, according to the latest eFinancialCareers findings. * For a complete list of the top… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, finance, Harvard Business School, HEC, INSEAD, investment banking, London Business School, Masters in Finance, NYU Stern, Rankings, Stanford GSB, Wharton, Yale SOM

December 5, 2018

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Tips for Applying to European Business Schools

Tips for Applying to European B-Schools

Applying to a European MBA program isn’t quite the same as applying to an American program. The programs themselves often have a different focus than U.S. schools, and adcoms therefore look out for different skills and qualifications. I’d like to direct you to the following resources on our website – blog posts that focus specifically… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / ESADE, European B-Schools, HEC, HKUST, IMD, INSEAD, international student, London Business School, NUS, Oxford Said

December 15, 2015

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Forbes Top 10 International MBA Programs

Top 1-Year International MBA Programs: Top 2-Year International MBA Programs: 1. London Business School – London, UK 2. IESE – Barcelona, Spain 3. HEC Paris – Paris, France 4. CEIBS – Shanghai, China 5. Hong Kong UST – Hong Kong, China 6. Manchester – Manchester, UK 7. NUS Business School – Singapore 8. IPADE – Mexico… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Cambridge Judge, CEIBS, ESADE, HEC, HKUST, IE, IESE, IMD, INSEAD, London Business School, NUS, Oxford Said, Rankings

October 22, 2015

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HEC MBA Admissions Interview Available Online

Thank you Marie-Laurence Lemaire, HEC Paris MBA‘s Senior Business Development Manager, for an excellent admissions Q&A. The excerpt below emphasizes the importance of describing clear post-MBA career goals in your HEC MBA application: Linda Abraham: What role does “hire-ability” and clear career goals play in the evaluation process? Marie-Laurence Lemaire: We ask this question in… 

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Article by Accepted / Accepted Podcast, MBA Admissions / career changers, HEC, Q&A

September 9, 2015

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More BW Rankings: Best International B-Schools 2014

I hope you didn’t think we were done with this year’s Businessweek rankings! Next up…the top 20 international MBA programs. Here are some highlights: • There are 2 new schools to the top 10 this year, both of which were unranked in 2012: ESMT (3rd place) and Cambridge Judge (6th place). • ESADE fell dramatically from… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Cambridge Judge, CEIBS, ESMT, HEC, HKUST, IE, IESE, IMD, INSEAD, London Business School, Oxford Said, Rankings, Rotman

April 12, 2015

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First HEC Paris Case Study Competition

HEC Paris held its inaugural student-organized international case study competition the weekend of April 10-11, which involved masters students from 33 top universities in a series of business-focused challenges. The HEC Business Game (HBG) was developed by a team of 20 HEC students in partnership with top companies, including Lufthansa, Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / HEC

February 26, 2015

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HEC MBA Admissions Interview Available Online

Did you get a chance to check out our HEC Paris MBA Q&A with Marie-Laurence Lemaire, HEC MBA‘s Senior Business Development Manager? The excerpt below emphasizes the importance of describing clear post-MBA career goals in your HEC MBA application: Linda Abraham: What role does “hire-ability” and clear career goals play in the evaluation process? Marie-Laurence… 

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Article by Accepted / Accepted Podcast, MBA Admissions / HEC, Q&A

October 8, 2014

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HEC Paris: Why to Go and How to Get In

What do you know about Europe’s top business school? If the answer to that question is ‘Not much,” then you’ve come to the right place. Listen to the recording of our conversation with Philippe Oster, Director of Communication, Development and Admissions at HEC Paris MBA to learn about the program and to hear excellent admissions… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, MBA Admissions / HEC, podcast

September 23, 2014

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HEC Paris Launches New MBA-MIF Program

HEC Paris Business School just announced the launch of its new MBA-MIF program in a press release Monday. The 20-month program (16 months for the MBA and 10 months for the Masters in Finance) will provide students with an integrated curriculum, allowing for different tracks for students with different skills and experience levels. Within the MBA… 

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Article by Accepted / Grad School Admissions, MBA Admissions / HEC, Masters in Finance

September 23, 2014

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B-Schools with the Highest ROIs

When determining an MBA’s return on investment (ROI), it makes a big difference whether you’re considering the short-term or long-term gain. The Economist recently released data that measures the ROI (measured by taking the difference between pre- and post-MBA salaries and dividing it by the total cost of the program, including forgone salary plus tuition… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / HEC, MBA ROI, Northwestern Kellogg, Rankings, Wharton

November 26, 2013

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The MBA Admissions Directors’ Recipe for Rejection

Rejected. What's Next?

We asked 14 admissions directors, “What behavior or information would cause you to reject an MBA applicant who otherwise is a strong candidate?” While the recipe for instant rejection may vary slightly from school to school, the common ingredients are ethical lapses and poor behavior. These are broad categories that each admissions director elaborates on… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Duke Fuqua, Georgetown McDonough, HEC, IE, IMD, London Business School, Notre Dame Mendoza, rejection, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan Flagler, UVA Darden, Vanderbilt Business School, Wharton, Wharton-Lauder

June 30, 2013

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My First-Hand Experience with HEC Paris

Last week I attended a wonderful conference in Paris hosted by HEC for admissions consultants. We met with admissions staff, faculty, and students. Associate Dean Bernard Garrette addressed us. I’m going to summarize here a few of my take-aways from the conference and refrain from merely repeating the raw information provided: • HEC provides incredible… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / HEC

March 13, 2012

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Pondering Paris: HEC MBA Admissions Q&A Next Week!

Students at HEC Paris

Paris, one of the world’s most beloved cities and a leading global and international business center, is also the home of one of the best international business schools. Ranked as one of the top 20 global business schools by the Financial Times and boasting a rich 130-year history, HEC Paris takes full advantage of its… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / HEC, Q&A

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