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Digital popularity is a fickle friend. Already, B-Schools are moving on from Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and towards more immersive, interactive digital experiences. Last month, Harvard Business School announced it’s much awaited-venture into online education. HBX is not your typical MOOC. It insists on active student engagement. This is something that has proved elusive…

Ivan Kerbel is the founder of Practice MBA, a pre-MBA summer program designed to ease the transition into business school with academic and career training. Prior to founding Practice MBA, Ivan led the career development office at the Yale School of Management and was a part of the Wharton School of Management’s MBA career management…

This is never a fun post to write. Each year, so many well-qualified students receive rejection letters from schools like Harvard Business School, which just released its Round Two decisions. It hurts and it’s hard to understand. But, though you may feel down at the moment, you are not out. It’s time to marshal your…

This month – March – is Women’s History Month, and this year has already been marked by more candid conversations about women in business. Harvard Business School’s Dean Nohria began the year with a blunt admission that the school had not treated its female students fairly, and a promise to do better. Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg,…

A good MBA application is more like a marathon than a sprint. While sprinters head for the finish line in one mad dash, marathon runners must pace themselves over a long and grueling course. They must plan out times and distances, and thoroughly understand their own strengths and limitations. And they must train well in…

You’ve probably heard about Mathew Martoma, a convicted inside trader whose Stanford MBA was revoked when the school learned that he had lied on his MBA application. Martoma’s was a lie of omission- he had been expelled from Harvard Law School, and had conveniently failed to mention that fact when pleading his case to Stanford…

If you are aiming for the C-suite, new research confirms that an impressive MBA could be your ticket for scaling that corporate ladder. According to a report released by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Spain’s IE Business School, more than 40 percent of executives within Fortune 100 companies hold an MBA degree from…

I love sharing information with you on this blog, but today, I have a request. Could you spare a few minutes to complete this MBA admissions survey? You will get a chance to win $500, and a chance to make your voice heard in the upper echelons of MBA admission. If you have applied or…

In business and in life, it is easy to become risk-averse- cautious and protective of the success and happiness that you have already found. On a macro level, I believe that the recent global recession has made this mindset more common, as many have experienced firsthand the loss of an investment or the failure of…

An MBA from an elite program can be great for your resume. It can be great for your future career. It can be great for your own knowledge. But can it be great for your love life? Most MBA students will tell you that prior relationships can be threatened by the time and effort required…