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Question about submitting supplemental MBA recs

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...

Perception of non-US military service in US MBA admissions

by Marquis | Dec 29, 2009 | Bschool admissions, career, mba, professional advice

The email below comes from a Mechanical Engineer from India who is aspires to earn an MBA in the United States and is considering a long enlistment in the Indian Army to gain leadership experience. He’s got two primary questions for me. First, he’s...

“Top Business School Stories of 2009” (from Business Week)

by Marquis | Dec 29, 2009 | Bschool admissions, Business School, Financing the MBA, interesting articles, mba

2009 has been a pretty wild year for business schools and their students. There have been many highs and lows for MBAs over the past 12 months, but I’m hopeful that things will starting looking up in 2010. BusinessWeek.com recently published its list of the top...

Question about post-MBA career leveling with lots of pre-MBA experience

by Marquis | Dec 27, 2009 | Business School, career, consulting, mba, professional advice

Hey everyone, I know it’s been a while since I posted some originally-generated content, but I hope the articles that I’ve been posting recently have been interesting to read. I was incredibly busy leading up to the holidays and didn’t really have...

Letter to an MBA (written by my man Jullien)

by Marquis | Dec 14, 2009 | career, entrepreneurship, guest bloggers, interesting articles, mba, other blogs, other sites, professional advice

Hey, everyone. By now, my long-time readers should be familiar with my friend Jullien Gordon, who was a year behind me at Stanford GSB. Since graduating from the GSB, Jullien has become a career and life coach of sorts and maintains his own blog to provide content to...

MBA Podcaster video “Getting Into: Stanford GSB”, http://tinyurl.com/yca8s8f

by Marquis | Dec 14, 2009 | application process, application resources, Bschool admissions, Business School, interesting articles, mba, other sites, Stanford GSB

What’s good, folk. I don’t know if I’ve got my timing right, but I believe that the second round application deadline for Stanford GSB is right around the corner and, as y’all know, it’s a pretty difficult place to get into (I still...
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