3 Ways to Sell Yourself With an MBA Resume

3 Ways to Sell Yourself With an MBA Resume

🕔01:00, 12.Feb 2016

The MBA resume is a whole other animal from the standard curriculum vitae designed to land you a job. The resume you tailor specifically for business schools should offer a quick snapshot of your significant work experiences and accomplishments in

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Can An MBA Change Lives? This Stanford AND Harvard Grad Thinks So

Can An MBA Change Lives? This Stanford AND Harvard Grad Thinks So

🕔01:00, 12.Feb 2016

Investing in a business education is a major undertaking, and applicants focus a lot of attention on the immediate return that a place in a top business school will achieve. Whether in the data provided by schools on the latest

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Why an MBA may not be enough to get you the banking job you desire

Why an MBA may not be enough to get you the banking job you desire

🕔01:00, 11.Feb 2016

Before the financial crisis, investment banks were some of the biggest recruiters of MBAs. I was one of the people recruiting MBAs on their behalf, writes Derek Walker, an independent careers consultant, a former director of campus recruitment at Barclays,

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Elite MBA Students Are Spurning McKinsey, Bain For Freelance Consulting Sites

Elite MBA Students Are Spurning McKinsey, Bain For Freelance Consulting Sites

🕔01:00, 10.Feb 2016

An MBA job at McKinsey & Co or BCG was once the pinnacle for MBA students. But for graduates of elite schools like Harvard, Stanford or Wharton, freelance consulting is increasing alluring. As the rise of so-called unicorn companies like

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These were the highest paid MBAs in 2015

These were the highest paid MBAs in 2015

🕔01:00, 10.Feb 2016

One MBA graduate last year struck gold to the tune of a $467,000 payday. Others, meanwhile, had a much harder time establishing financial footing. Those figures are according to a Poets & Quants report compiling the highest and lowest base

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Acing the MBA Admissions Essay

Acing the MBA Admissions Essay

🕔01:00, 9.Feb 2016

If you’re working on an essay for an MBA program this application season, here’s one big tip: do not mention Hitler when you’re writing about leadership. Julie Barefoot, admissions director at Emory’s Goizueta Business School, said that receiving a leadership

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How many Indian CEOs have an MBA?

How many Indian CEOs have an MBA?

🕔01:00, 9.Feb 2016

Does one need to have an MBA to ascend to the top of Indian companies? Not necessarily, but it helps. A Mint analysis shows that 144 of the CEOs of BSE 500 companies, India’s largest listed firms that make up

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The best business school for your money may surprise you

The best business school for your money may surprise you

🕔01:00, 9.Feb 2016

In December Business Insider released its sixth annual list of the 50 best business schools in the world — the schools whose MBA programs have the best reputations, highest starting salaries, lowest tuitions, and best job-placement rates. Brigham Young University’s

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Scholarships up the ante in fight for top MBA students

Scholarships up the ante in fight for top MBA students

🕔01:00, 7.Feb 2016

First, as a teenager, she emigrated from Zimbabwe, which at the time was plagued by economic undertainty and instability, to Germany, where she completed her undergraduate studies. Her African roots provided her with a second piece of good fortune for

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Here’s Why You Don’t Need an MBA to Get Ahead in Business

Here’s Why You Don’t Need an MBA to Get Ahead in Business

🕔01:00, 7.Feb 2016

There are other paths to the corner office. The Leadership Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question: Career

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