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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

December 9, 2021

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IMD Executive MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines [2021 – 2022]

IMD EMBA essay tips and deadlines 2021-2022

IMD Executive MBA application essays IMD EMBA essay #1 Please briefly state your career objectives. (160 words)  This length equates to one long or two short paragraphs. Be specific: note intended roles/positions, industry, possibly geography. Give an example of companies that interest you. State not just what you want to do, but, most important, WHY…. 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / 2022 EMBA Applications, IMD, IMD EMBA

February 10, 2020

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IMD MBA Essay Tips and Deadlines [2020 – 2021]

IMD 2020 MBA essay tips and deadlines

If you are looking for a one-year, full-time MBA program for more experienced professionals than the traditional American MBAs, then IMD may be the perfect fit for you. The average age of an IMD MBA student is 31 with 7 years of experience.  With only 90 students in each class, IMD also boasts a 1:2… 

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Article by Jennifer Bloom / MBA Admissions / 2019 MBA Applications, 2020 MBA Applications, IMD, international student

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

September 26, 2019

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Forbes 2019 Best Business Schools: Booth Tops the List

Forbes Releases 2019 Best Business Schools Rankings

Forbes has released its 2019 rankings of full-time MBA programs in the U.S. and one-year programs internationally. These rankings are based on responses from more than 100 schools and 17,500 alumni around the world. Graduates’ earnings in their first five years after graduation from business school were compared to their opportunity cost, which gave Forbes… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / Cambridge Judge, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, ESADE, Forbes, Harvard, IESE, IMD, Indian School of Business, INSEAD, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, Oxford Said, Stanford GSB, Wharton

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

April 19, 2018

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Preparing for IMD’s Interview

Natalie Grinblatt Epstein

Without a doubt, IMD conducts the most thorough MBA interview.  The interview day is divided into four evaluative sections.  When you arrive on campus, you will be introduced to the adcom and faculty evaluators as well as a group of applicants who will partake in the same experience as you.  Since the adcom will evaluate… 

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Article by Natalie Grinblatt / MBA Admissions / IMD, MBA Interview

December 13, 2016

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IMD MBA Interview with Student Vikas Menon

Vikas Menon

Here’s a talk with Vikas Menon, a soon-to-be graduate of IMD Switzerland. Vikas talks about his b-school experience, and offers some serious insight into the IMD MBA program. If you’re thinking about applying to IMD, then you’ll definitely want to read on! Thank you Vikas for sharing with us! This interview is the latest in… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / IMD, MBA Student Interviews

May 10, 2016

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IMD Announces New President

IMD

Jean-François Manzoni will assume the role of IMD president starting January 1, 2017 for a five-year term. Manzoni is a French and Canadian citizen with a PhD from Harvard Business School. He was the Professor of Leadership and Organizational Development at IMD from 2004 to 2011, and currently holds the Shell Chair for Human Resources… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / IMD

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

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

July 31, 2015

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5 Key IMD Officials Resign

In a letter last week, Ralf Boscheck, the Program Director of the IMD MBA Program, announced that the school has “decided to realign the MBA Office with our new MBA program starting in January 2015.” He goes on to bid farewell to five long-time officials of the program, Claire Lecoq, Lisa Piguet, Janet Shaner, Marine… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / IMD

June 20, 2014

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Leadership is King: Interview with IMD’s Lisa Piguet

If you are considering pursuing an MBA at IMD then you are in luck. This week’s guest on Admissions Straight Talk is Lisa Piguet, Associate Director of MBA Admissions and Marketing at IMD. Listen to the interview to get the details about IMD’s unique program, the admissions process, and some excellent advice for applicants. 00:02:05… 

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

May 4, 2014

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Business and Science Meet: Insights of an IMD Grad and Former Medical Doctor

Listen to our podcast interview with Lisa Piguet, Associate Director of MBA Admissions and Marketing at IMD!

This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring interviews with MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now, introducing Marije van Weelden-Cuche, an alumna of IMD… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an undergrad?… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / IMD, MBA healthcare, MBA Student Interviews

January 9, 2014

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Aiming for IMD? An Admitted Student Shares His Story and Advice

We’d like to introduce you to our next blogger, Marcelo, who begins his one-year MBA program at IMD in just a few months. You can read about Marcelo’s MBA journey in our interview below, as well as at his blog, Marshmallow’s IMD MBA Experience. Best of luck to you Marcelo – we look forward to… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / IMD, MBA applicant bloggers, MBA Student Interviews

December 2, 2013

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European MBA Admissions: GMAT or GRE?

Thinking of a European MBA? Find Out if You Should Take the GMAT or GRE! The question of whether applicants to European b-schools should take the GMAT or GRE was addressed in our most recent Q&A – 2014 Virtual Panel: Exploring European B-Schools with IMD, London Business School and INSEAD – as well as many… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / GMAT, IMD, INSEAD, London Business School

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

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