by Marquis | Sep 11, 2010 | Bschool experience, Business, Business School, career, career path, interesting articles, mba, professional advice
OK, I know what you might be thinking after seeing the title of this entry…”What the hell is Marquis thinking in saying that an MBA is a waste of time and money”. Before running too hard on that line of thought, let’s slow down and take a step...
by Marquis | Aug 2, 2010 | Bschool experience, Business School, Education, interesting articles, mba, other sites
I remember waaaaaaay back in the early 2000’s when the MBA degree was the thing to have. The MBA was supposed to be the ticket to a fantastic job in Finance/Consulting/Management that would be the first step on the road to eternal success in business, lots of...
by Marquis | Jan 25, 2010 | Bschool experience, Business School, interesting articles, mba, other blogs, other sites, Stanford GSB
Hi, everybody. I’m making a quick post to pass along an article from the team over at Veritas Prep, the GMAT preparation company. The article gives a quick rundown of six courses that many alums of Stanford GSB would consider to be “must-have”...
by Marquis | Jan 24, 2010 | application process, Bschool admissions, Bschool experience, Business School, mba
Hey, everyone. I hope you’re all having a good weekend so far. The submission below is from a reader who broke one of my “rules of engagement” by following up his initial email with another one basically asking me “Why is it taking you so long...
by Marquis | Dec 31, 2009 | Bschool admissions, Bschool experience, Business School, mba
What’s good, folk. While working my way through my backlog of reader emails, I came across three messages that I was able knock out pretty quickly, so this entry will be followed by two other pretty short entries. Each of these entries will be all-text (i.e. no...
by Marquis | Dec 28, 2009 | Bschool experience, career, interesting articles, job search resources, recruiting, U.S. economic crisis
I’m posting the article below because it serves as a sort of companion piece to my Dec. 19th entry with job search tips from The Wall Street Journal. In the article, the author describes the support groups that are popping up at business schools across the...
