MBA 留学 ニュース: GMAT Test Takers Can Now Preview Scores Before Reporting or Canceling Them

GMAT applicants now have the ability to preview their unofficial scores before deciding whether to report or cancel them, the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns and administers the exam. 

This new score reporting feature, available to all test takers, went into effect at all 600 test centers worldwide that administer the exam.

Under this new process, test takers will be able to view their unofficial scores – Integrated Reasoning, Quantitative, Verbal and Total – and then will have two minutes to decide whether to accept them. If they do not make a choice, their scores will be cancelled. 

Test takers will have 60 days to reinstate a score they cancel in the event that they decide later they want to send it, for a $100 fee. After 60 days, scores will no longer be retrievable.

Analytical Writing Assessment scores will not be available immediately and so are unaffected by the change. They will be reported on official score reports delivered within 20 days.

Test takers should note that all sittings of the test will still be reported to the schools. In other words, if you see your score, then opt to cancel, the schools will still see that you did take the test (and that you canceled the score).

For more information please see the Graduate Management Admissions Council webpage

MBA 留学 ニュース: UCLA / Anderson Deadlines 2014-2015

The 2014-2015 UCLA/Anderson deadlines have been announced.
This year’s three deadlines are as follows:

Round 1
Deadline: October 22, 2014
Notification: January 28, 2015

Round 2
Deadline: January 7, 2015
Notification: April 2, 2015

Round 3
Deadline: April 15, 2015
Notification: June 3, 2015

Completed applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. PST on the day of the deadline to be considered in a particular round.

For more information, visit Anderson’s admissions website.

MBA 留学 ニュース: レナード・N・スターン・スクール 締め切り・NYU / Stern Deadlines 2014-2015

The 2014-2015 NYU/Stern deadlines have been announced. 
This year’s four deadlines are below:

Round 1
Deadline: October 15, 2014
Initial Notification*:
December 15, 2014

Round 2
Deadline: November 15, 2014
Initial Notification:
February 15, 2015

Round 3
Deadline: January 15, 2015
Initial Notification:
April 1, 2015

Round 4
Deadline: March 15, 2015
Initial Notification:
June 1, 2015

*Applicants will receive one of three initial notifications: invitation to interview, waitlist offer, or denial of admissions.

All applications are due at 11:59 p.m. EST on the day of the deadline. Any mailed portions of the application must be postmarked by the deadline date.

For more information, visit Stern’s admissions website.

MBA 留学 ニュース: ニュース, ハーバード・ビジネス・スクール 締め切り／ Harvard Business School Deadlines 2014-2015

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced its deadlines for the Class of 2017.

The deadlines are as follows:

Round 1Deadline: September 9, 2014
Notification: December 2014

Round 2
Deadline: January 5, 2015
Notification: March 2015

Round 3

Deadline: April 6, 2015
Notification: May 2015

All applications are due at 12 noon EST on the day of the deadline. If submitted after 12 noon, applications will be considered in the following round.

For more information, visit HBS’s admissions website.

MBA 留学 ニュース: ハーバード・ビジネス・スクール Starts Guidance for Class of 2017!!!

Getting started: The Class of 2017

Harvard Business School (HBS) Admissions Director Dee Leopold has already starting issuing information for the application season for the Class of 2017.

This is what the (optional) “essay” question will be:

"You're applying to Harvard Business School. We can see your resume, academic transcripts, extracurricular activities, awards, post-MBA career intentions, test scores, and what your recommenders have to say about you. What else would you like us to know as we consider your candidacy?”

Use your judgment as to how much to tell us. We don't have a "right answer" or "correct length" in mind. We review all the elements of your written application to decide who moves forward to the interview stage.

Why are we repeating this question when we usually dream up something new? In fact, I went on record last year as saying that we’d ALWAYS be changing the essay question. I was wrong. We liked it. When we look at the responses of admitted candidates, there was a wider-than-usual range of how folks approached it. Some are completely about professional lives, others barely mention work experience. Some are very brief, others are not.

And, sorry to repeat myself, but getting into HBS isn’t an essay-writing contest. If we were to publish 50 “essays that worked” and another 50 that “didn’t work”, I would challenge anyone to make a perfect distinction. It’s just one element of the application.

Now, on to recommender questions:

• How do the candidate's performance, potential, background, or personal qualities compare to those of other well-qualified individuals in similar roles? Please provide specific examples. (300 words)

• Please describe the most important piece of constructive feedback you have given the applicant. Please detail the circumstances and the applicant's response. (250 words)

The application itself will go “live” in mid-June. I’ll post here when we’ve got a definite date. And please watch our website for both our in-person information sessions around the world and our informational webinars.

And finally, something you may want to know: Round One application deadline will be September 9, 2014. Interviews, by invitation only, will be conducted from mid-October through end of November. Notification will be on or around December 10.

For more information please see the: From the Admissions Director's Blog!

MBA 留学 ニュース: スタンフォード大学ビジネススクール 2014-15 MBA 締め切り

Stanford GSB Deadlines 2014-2015
The MBA admissions deadlines for Stanford GSB are:

Round 1
 Deadline: October 1, 2014

Notification on: December 10, 2014

Reply and deposit due by: TBD February 2015

Round 2
 Deadline: January 7, 2015

Notification on: March 25, 2015

Reply and deposit due by: April 30, 2015

Round 3 
Deadline: April 1, 2015

Notification by: May 6, 2015

Reply and deposit due by: May 28, 2015

Applicants should note that all applications are due by 5:00 p.m. PST on the day of the deadline. For more information, visit Stanford GSB’s admissions website.

MBA 留学 ニュース: ウォートン・スクール 2014-15 MBA 締め切り

         

              Wharton School has released its deadlines for the 2014-15 application season!

For more information please see Wharton's Application Page.

MBA 留学 ニュース: シンガポールNUS Business School Hires Duvvuri Subbarao from インド準備銀行

NUS Business School has appointed former governor at the Reserve Bank of India Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao as a visiting fellow.

Subbarao will give a series of lectures, starting in May, on the processes and policies of a reserve bank. At these sessions, advice on carrying out research into the challenges faced by a reserve bank will be offered to academics at NUS Business School.

As well as working with NUS Business School, Dr. Subbarao will also collaborate with the university’s Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), and Singapore’s reserve bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), with one of the afore-mentioned lectures to take place at MAS.

For more information please see the press release Former India Central Bank Governor Dr Duvvuri Subbarao Appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow at NUS Business School

MBA 留学 ニュース：ハーバード・ビジネス・スクール・Harvard Business School Case Study Explores E-Cigarettes

Harvard Business School Case Study Explores E-Cigarettes
 

Harvard Business School has recently announced a new MBA case study ‘E-Cigarettes: Marketing Versus Public Health,’ which will see business and public health students at the school analyzing the growing popularity of the electronic cigarette market as well as looking at the tension between public health and marketing.

The case study will explore the ways in which tobacco companies and regulators are responding, while also considering how businesses can ensure corporate social responsibility and profit.

Public health advocates, who assert that the so-called cure to harmful cigarette addiction is not a cure at all, enabling further addiction and acting as a gateway for new – as well as reformed – smokers.
 

Electronic cigarettes have led to a net decrease in traditional smoking of 2.2 million in the US, or 5% of the smoking population. But these statistics only tell half of the story, failing to highlight the influence that the marketing of e-cigarettes has had.

John A. Quelch, a professor in business administration at Harvard Business School, who also holds a joint appointment with the Harvard School of Public Health, will be teaching the new MBA case study to all who enroll in the course, ‘Consumers, Corporations and Public Health’, debuting at the business school and the School of Public Health next year.
 

The question is how many nicotine addicts is it worth the risk of creating to have one tobacco smoker quit?

For more information please see Harvard Business School Working Knowledge: Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?