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Questions from a reader planning for 2009-10 application cycle

by Marquis | Jul 11, 2008 | application process, Bschool admissions, career, consulting, internship, recruiting

Hello, all. The email below is from a business school aspirant with a background in manufacturing consulting who has questions about how he should approach the application process. In fact, he even typed up a 1.5 page description of his background to provide...

Moving into consulting after a Master’s degree but before an MBA

by Marquis | Jul 10, 2008 | Bschool admissions, consulting, mba, pre-MBA grad degrees, recruiting

What’s good, everyone. The message below is from a reader who will soon be starting an M.Eng program at Cornell and would like to eventually follow it up with an MBA. When I got this email, I had to chuckle a bit because it was the third message I’d...

Interesting new resource for those applying to business school

by Marquis | Jul 7, 2008 | other sites

Hey there, everyone. I hope all of you are enjoying your summers and taking time to relax and enjoy yourselves. I’d like to start off this entry by wishing everyone affected by the floods in the middle of the U.S. a quick recovery from those events. I have been...

Question from an MBA aspirant light on work experience

by Marquis | Jun 21, 2008 | Bschool admissions, mba, Stanford GSB

What’s up, readers. As you can tell, I’m trying to get to more of my reader emails lately, so I’ll be posting a little more regularly to cut down on the backlog. This entry is my response to a reader who is pretty young, but has a strong desire to...

Making productive use of the summer before starting business school

by Marquis | Jun 13, 2008 | Bschool experience, career, internship, pre-mba summer, transition

What’s good, y’all. The email below is from a reader who will be starting his MBA journey in the fall and is looking for advice on how to best use this summer. Unfortunately, he sent his email to me about a month and a half ago and I haven’t been...
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