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Question from an applicant with pre-MBA consulting and PE experience

by Marquis | Oct 12, 2008 | career, mba, private equity, Stanford GSB

What’s good, peoples. I hope you’re all having a nice weekend. The email below is from a reader with pre-MBA experience in consulting and private equity who wonders how well Stanford would set him up to return to PE. I’m far from an expert at the...

Advice for a teacher considering business school

by Marquis | Aug 31, 2008 | Bschool admissions, Business School, mba, recruiting

What’s good, folk. After my recent looooong entry about myself, it’s time for me to get back to dispensing advice to readers. The email below is from a teacher who wants to make a big career switch, facilitated by earning an MBA. She has a few starter...

Giving advice to a very worried MBA re-applicant

by Marquis | Aug 21, 2008 | application process, Bschool admissions, mba, Stanford GSB

What’s good, folk. I hope you’re all doing well and enjoying your summers as the days tick by in August. The email below is from a prospective re-applicant to Stanford GSB who really seems to be buggin’ out as she approaches the new application...

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...

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...

A little something to help incoming MBA students…

by Marquis | Mar 20, 2008 | Bschool experience, mba, my peoples, other blogs

I know that many of you are about to make the journey into business school and I wanted to lead you to a tool that might help you along that path. I can’t claim credit for it, but I wish I’d had the forethought to come up with it back in the day. Instead,...
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