by Marquis | Dec 31, 2009 | Bschool admissions, Business School, mba
The message below came in at the end of August and, because I’ve been so busy, I’m just now seeing it a few days before the start of 2010. As such, I wonder whether my response will arrive in time to be useful to this recipient. The reader has been...
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 30, 2009 | About Marquis, career, Education, shout outs to me, transition
The email for this entry comes from an MBA aspirant who is trying to decide between applying for Stanford’s MBA/MA.Ed program or the JD/MBA program, but his email has nothing to do with questions about either kind of program. Rather, he’s wondering what my...
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...
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...
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...
