'networking' tagged blog posts in Betsy Massar's Blog

This week's tips come courtesy of Alison Albeck Lindland, a fellow Vassar graduate who went on to get her MBA from Columbia Business School, graduating in 2008.  Prior to business school Alison worked on the Goldman Sachs and Jaguar accounts at OgilvyInteractive and was an early team member at TheaterMania.com, a startup media and ticket software company. After graduating from...

Believe it or not, all business schools are not alike. They each have their own personalities, including their own strengths and weaknesses.  Even assuming you could get into every program (why not?) not every place will be just right for you. Just like in job-hunting, the decisionmaker is going to evaluate how you fit. The best way to get that right is to do your own research....

It's summer in the northern hemisphere, which means time to get a little more organized about the admissions process.  It's a wonderful time to learn about schools.  A little counter-intuitive, when students are out of classes and campuses are an empty husk of their former fall-to-springtime selves. But guess what!  Many students are taking summer jobs and may be coming to your neighborhood. You can meet...

Welcome back to the series "10 Tips for Getting into Business School." I gave a jam session here on for 85 Broads last week, where we reviewed all 10 Tips, complete with a snazzy PowerPoint presentation. However, in terms of blogging, I’ve still got three more tips to go, including today’s tip, Talk Around.

Along with Tip 6, Stay Sane, Talking Around is one of my favorite tips,...