Women now make up 60% of university graduates, but most business schools have lagged behind when it comes to gender balance—impacting not just women’s experience of b-school, but the composition of the workforce afterward. A new report from gender consulting firm 20-first looks at the numbers of women MBA students and faculty at top programs,…
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UC Berkeley Haas 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Haas’ application this year has relatively minor changes. It replaced last year’s #1, which was a somewhat artsy question about a song that expresses who you are, with a straightforward question about a transformational experience. The other significant change is that Haas provides word length guidelines that provide range, for instance 400-500 word maximum, instead of…
UC Berkeley Haas 2014 MBA Application Tips & Deadlines
Our 2015 Application Essay Tips for UC Berkeley Haas are Now Available! Click Here to Check Them Out! Haas’ application is largely unchanged from last year. It has cut one question about questioning an established practice. Given Haas’ culture and defining four principles, I’m a little surprised this was cut; don’t be shocked if it,…
Top 10 B-Schools with the Most Satisfied Graduates
Forbes surveyed 17,000 alumni at 100 schools on their satisfaction regarding the following three areas: their current job, their career preparedness, and their MBA education. 4,600 alumni responded. The following ten schools received the highest combined rates of satisfaction: Stanford GSB UC Berkeley Haas Carnegie Mellon Tepper Michigan State Broad Indiana Kelley Dartmouth Tuck Duke…
IV with a UC Berkeley Haas Admitted Student and 2013 MBA Launcher
This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring interviews with MBA applicants, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at the MBA application process. And now…introducing Marisa who will be starting at UC Berkeley Haas in the fall. Accepted: Let’s start with some basics: Where are you from? Where and what did you study…
GMAT, GRE, SAT, and All Things Test Prep
GMAT, GRE, SAT… If one of these tests graces your future, tune in to our interview with Bhavin Parikh, CEO and founder of Magoosh, the leading online test prep company. Listen to the recording of our conversation with Bhavin for great test prep advice and the lowdown on Magoosh. 00:02:17 – The story behind Magoosh…
MBA Programs Host Coffee Dates Worldwide
Wherever you are in the world, chances are that a current MBA student from a top school is waiting to have coffee with you. In London, Delhi, Tel Aviv, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Rio de Janiero, Zurich, Houston, and a host of other international cities, schools are dispatching current students to chat you…
Salaries Up for Berkeley Haas Class of 2013
An optimistic article on the Berkeley Haas website discusses the strong hiring market for its most recent graduating class. Here are some stats from the report: • 95% of the class reported that they received job offers by or within three months of graduation – this is the same as last year. • The average salary for…
Berkeley Haas Deadlines Announced!
Fall 2014 applicants to UC Berkeley Haas: Are you ready to rev up this year’s application season? Don’t miss important deadlines – write these down now! – Round 1 deadline – October 16, 2013 – Round 2 deadline – January 8, 2014 – Round 3 deadline – March 12, 2014 We can help you meet…
End of Berkeley-Columbia EMBA Program
Columbia Business School and Berkeley’s Haas School of Business are closing their joint executive MBA program in 2013, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. While the program was originally “about the East Coast meeting the West Coast and Silicon Valley meeting Wall Street,” things have changed over the last 10 years, and “both schools became full-service programs that…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Marketing
This post about Haas and marketing is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Entrepreneurship
This post about Haas and entrepreneurship is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Technology
This post about Haas and technology is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
Consortium MBA Admissions Director Interview Available Online
Thank you for attending our recent Consortium Strategy Q&As with Travis McAllister and the reps from participating Consortium schools UT McCombs, University of Wisconsin, UC Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Michigan Ross, CMU Tepper, Indiana Kelley, and Rochester Simon. The school adcom representatives each talked about what’s new at their schools and how their programs view…
2012 UC Berkeley Haas Admissions Director Interview Posted
The UC Berkeley Haas Q&A was a huge success, with Stephanii Fujii, Executive Director of Full-Time MBA Admissions, answering questions on a wide variety of topics. You can read the whole Haas Q&A transcript or listen to the full audio clip online. (You can also catch previous Q&As for other top programs on our MBA…
Haas New MBA Curriculum–Interview with Pete Johnson
I recently chatted with Peter Johnson, Director of Admissions at the Haas School of Business, about the new curriculum that Haas announced a couple of weeks ago. Peter clarified specific aspects of the new curriculum and also discussed with me its impact on applicants. This post is a summary of our discussion. Linda Abraham: How…