Note: the interview tips below are relevant not just for business school, but when you are looking for any team-based position.
Welcome to the MBA admissions waiting game. And it’s interview season! The rules for interviewing for a spot in the next business school class are really no different from the rules for interviewing for a coveted job. I reckon that most of you reading this have passed that test several times...
Leadership. During this period of sustained economic uncertainty, when people are feeling a significant tension between security and risk, the absence of it is apparent. Our interviews for CultureQ http://www.onesixtyfourth.com/cultureq/ have indicated this to some degree and the Internet study we fielded over the holidays confirmed it. With faith in government very low people are looking for brands to inspire progress...
January 23, 2012
I would like to share a recent experience that has reconfirmed my belief that The Universe works in mysterious ways. Ways which often baffle and frustrate us, but ultimately create situations which force us to take a closer look at why things happen and what we are supposed to learn from a specific event.
Several months ago...
What does leadership mean to you? Several executives and colleagues shared with me:
Last week, I realized that I was sprinting back and forth from my office to my car, getting out the door after hastily sending 12 emails (always one last one to attend to). Did I remember to put that file in my bag? Did I turn off the gas fireplace in my office? Each time I had to turn the alarm system off and then back on. Why am I rushing?...
It's official. Your camera-ready self is the ticket to getting into business school. At least at the Chicago Booth School of Business. In the competitive world of MBA admissions Chicago Booth had a brilliant idea, and they are rolling it out for their wait-listed candidates. They are asking those prospective waitlisted students to put together 90-second infomercial about themselves.
This piece first appeared on ForbesWoman.
The media has spent countless column inches criticizing powerful women such as Carol Bartz and Sallie Krawcheck upon their exits this year, blaming their leaving on their company’s economic implosion. But there’s a crucial side to these women that the media is ignoring. Their private selves are left out of the public picture.
Erin Callan, the former chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers, was my senior...
Orginially published: http://onforb.es/u2ZLiP
Last week, I had the great pleasure of attending the Toigo Groundbreakers Summit on behalf of 85 Broads. The speakers and attendees worked in a variety of industries ranging from government and finance, to fashion, non-profits and start-ups. They were Caucasian, African-American, Asian and Hispanic. Some were 25; others were 65. They spoke on topics ranging from women on boards, launching a company, finding...
Here's how to get into your top-choice business school: be yourself. If you are struggling with MBA essays, the last thing you want to hear are those two words, but that's the secret. I know it seems like a cliché, but admissions officers say over and over that they want to get to know YOU in the essays. Allison Davis, Associate Director of Admissions at Stanford Gradu
I’ve heard over and over in the past several years frequent reference to the idea that professional women aren’t as ambitious as men. Disappointingly, I even heard Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook (whom I deeply admire) mention this reported “lack of ambition” in women on The Charlie Rose show recently. To Mr. Rose she declared, “Until women are ambitious as men, they’re not going to achieve as...
