Business Schools
December 2009 Information Session Schedule

The daily information sessions held by the Wharton MBA Admissions Office will end on 11 December 2009, and will resume on 19 January 2010.  

There will also be no class visits, student tours, student lunches available from Friday, December 3, 2009 – January 19, 2010 (Final Exams/Winter Break).

See our visit page for more information.  Please plan your [...]

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Posted on 24th November 200998 Comments
Winding Down (introducing “Little C”)

I didn’t sleep last night in favor of finishing a paper for my public policy class. Not sure what it was about that paper, but–man–did I have some serious writer’s block. It didn’t help that my puppy was having none of it. Disclosure: “puppy” is really a six year old dog. [...]

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HEC: Support from Carla

HEC School of Management is planning to open another branch in Qatar. The wealthy Arabian Emirate is aiming to become the leading educational center of the Middle East and therefore generously supports selected foreign universities, who are offering their programs in Qatar. Now HEC receives support from France’s First Lady Carla Bruni.

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November 24, 2009 Question of the Day: Critical Reasoning

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The #1 GMAT Data Sufficiency Trap

GMAT Data Sufficiency is tricky by nature. It’s unfamiliar and demands abstract thinking. Fortunately, some of the mistakes you will make (and you will make them, at least in practice!) are predictable, and I can help you avoid them. [...]

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Stop Looking for the Next Twitter

If you are a pundit, or get paid to watch trends, then this message doesn’t apply to you. It’s your job to go out and find the next shiny object that could influence how we live and do business.
But if you're in the trenches of an organization, my advice is to stop acting like or [...]

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The Art of Possibility

I've got to hand it to our Leadership Communication teachers and the 2nd-year Graduate Student Instructors: it takes some true talent to convince a classroom full of 60 hard-charging, data-driven over-achievers (okay, I'm grossly generalizing – sort of…) to risk looking like fools in front of our fellow MBA candidates by jumping up & [...]

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Diversity: Different strokes for similar folks

Picture a typical MBA lecture theatre twenty years ago. In it the majority of students scribbling away furiously will have conformed to the standard template of the time: male, middle class and Western. Walk into a class today, however, and you’ll get a completely different impression.

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Trivia Tuesday: Public Management at Stanford

It’s time once again for Trivia Tuesday, our regular exploration of the special programs and opportunities that differentiate the leading business schools. This week we take a peek into the Clear Admit School Guide to Stanford, and share an excerpt on Stanford’s Public Management Program.
“The Public Management Program (PMP) was founded in 1971 by then-dean [...]

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Military to MBA – Advice from MIT Sloan

Moving from military to the MBA? It’s nearly a natural fit.
That’s what Assistant Director of Admissions at the MIT Sloan School of Management — Barry Reckley — says of military personnel who go for their MBA. “With the qualifications and with the inbred basic leadership capabilities that folks have when they’re coming [...]

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