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The Essex Business School at the University of Essex’ New, one-year program will focus on sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurship. It will feature two core modules - Sustainable Business Strategies and Innovation and Entrepreneurship - along with other compulsory and elective modules.

This is the first MBA program offered by Essex Business School, which also offers MSc and PhD programs in accounting, finance, and other management-related subjects.
情報元: Essex Business School

Sunil Kumar, Fred H. Merrill Professor of Operations, Information and Technology and an expert in operations research at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, will be Booth’s new dean. Kumar will take the place of Edward A. Snyder. Snyder stepped down from his post on June 30, 2010 after 9 nears.

India-born Kumar, received his  PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996. Kumar will focus on improving Booth’s research. He’s seen as an outsider and will bring a fresh perspective.

情報元：Chicago Booth

Cambridge Judge Essay Topics 2010-2011

Cambridge/Judge has just posted its essay topics for the upcoming application:
Essay 1
What are the key issues facing organizations in your sector over the next three years? What course of action would you recommend to such organizations? (300 words)

Essay 2
What did you learn from your most spectacular failure? (200 words)

Essay 3
What are your short and long term career objectives? What skills/characteristics do you already have that will help you to achieve
them? What do you hope to gain from the degree and how do you feel it will help you achieve the career objectives you have? (please do not exceed 500 words)

情報元: Cambridge Judge

Registration for Explore Wharton: Diversity in Action, a two-day event for prospective applicants from under represented backgrounds to visit campus and learn more about the admissions process is open.

Held over September 16th and 17th, Explore Wharton is hosted by the African American MBA Association (AAMBAA), the Wharton Hispanic American MBA Association (WHAMBAA), Wharton’s Out for Business (Out4Biz) and the MBA Admissions and Financial Aid Office.

Visitors can tour the Wharton campus, attend classes, ask questions about the admissions process and learn more about specific opportunities for LGBT and under-represented people of color within the Wharton MBA community.

情報元: Wharton

NYU Stern has just released its deadlines and essay topics:

1st Deadline: November 15, 2010
Notification: February 15, 2010

2nd Deadline: January 15, 2011
Notification: April 1, 2011

3rd Deadline: March 15, 2011
Notification: June 1, 2011

The essays are nearly the same as last year:

Essay 1: Professional Aspirations
(750 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font)
Think about the decisions you have made in your life. Answer the following:

(a) What choices have you made that led you to your current position?
(b) Why pursue an MBA at this point in your life?
(c) What is your career goal upon graduation from NYU Stern? What is your long-term career goal?

Essay 2: Your Stern Experience
(500 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font)
We take great care to shape the Stern community with individuals who possess both intellectual and interpersonal strengths. We seek individuals who are highly intelligent, collaborative and committed to flourishing as Stern leaders. Please answer the following questions:

(a) What is your personal experience with the Stern community? Tell us what
actions you have taken to learn about us.
(b) Describe what most excites you about Stern from both an academic and extracurricular perspective.
(c) How do you anticipate making your mark on the Stern community? Be specific about the roles you will take on and the impact you hope to achieve.

Essay 3: Personal Expression

Please describe yourself to your MBA classmates. You may use almost any method to convey your message (e.g. words, illustrations). Feel free to be

creative.

情報元：NYU Stern

The Indian School of Business (ISB) has updated its deadlines  and essay topics for this fall’s admissions season.

International Applicants

International applicants are admitted based on a rolling deadline. The application is open from May 18, 2010 until January 15, 2011. The applicant, if chosen for an interview, will be notified within one month under normal circumstances. Within three weeks of the interview date, the applicant will be notified of his or her status. The essay topics, as listed in the online application, are as follows:

Essay 1
If we were to admit one more student to the class of 2012, make a compelling argument as to why that student should be you? (300 words maximum)

Essay 2
What are your short term and long term goals? How will the ISB help you achieve the same? (300 words maximum)

Essay 3
Please provide additional information, that will significantly affect the consideration of your application to the ISB. (300 words maximum)

情報元：

London Business School (LBS) has received a generous scholarship donation from an anonymous donor to support Brazilian students.The donation will support the Wili and Ilse Scholarship.LBS awarded more than 100 scholarships in the past year alone,
totaling more than 1 million pounds in student support.

情報元：LBS

IESE in Spain has just released its MBA deadlines:
Round 1
Deadline: October 25, 2010
Notification: December 3, 2010

Round 2
Deadline: December 7, 2010
Notification: January 28, 2011

Round 3
Deadline: January 17, 2011
Notification: February 25, 2011

Round 4
Deadline: February 28, 2011
Notification: March 25, 2011

Round 5
Deadline: April 11, 2011
Notification: May 20, 2011

Round 6
Deadline: June 6, 2011
Notification: June 21, 2011

Applicants should note that rounds 4, 5 and 6 are provisional and subject to change. IESE Business School recommends that all non-EU citizens apply by the R5 deadline in order to assure time for visa procedure.

情報元：IESE

Asia’s top-ranked graduate school of business, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology,  together with China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and the Indian School of Business (ISB) are uniting to raise their  visibility in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
The Hong Kong university will recruit jointly with the China Europe International Business School, the Indian School of Business and Nanyang Technological University in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Paris and Madrid and give presentations together and maintain a website: www.topasiabschools.com.

The schools are touting several advantages over elite programs in the U.S. for example. Asian MBAs are usually one year,and priced at around $50,000.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology was ranked 9th with theUniversity of Chicago Booth School of Business, in the 2010 Financial Times  MBA ranking. The Hong Kong school opened in October 1991 on a 150- acre campus in East Kowloon Hong Kong. The school has 9,515 students, including 1,189 graduate students in business.

The Indian School of Business, founded in 2001 in Hyderabad, has 577 students and is 12th in the Financial Times ranking. CEIBS, based in Shanghai, was  founded in 1994 and is 22nd in the FT rankings. It has 201 fulltime MBA students and 742 executive MBA students, Nanyang has an enrollment of 589, including 177 fulltime students seeking MBA degrees. Nanyang was No. 27 on the list of 100 schools. London Business School was No. 1 on the list, just ahead of Wharton and Harvard. At CEIBS, about 22 percent of the MBA class comes from Europe and America.

情報元：Bloomberg

In anticipation of the official release of its online application,　Berkeley/Haas has released its updated essay topics. The written portion of　the Haas application includes four short answer questions and two long essays.

Short Answer Questions
1. What are you most passionate about?  Why?  (250-word maximum)
2. Tell us about your most significant accomplishment. (250-word maximum)
3. At Haas, our distinctive culture is defined by four key principles:
question the status quo; confidence without attitude; students always; and beyond yourself. Give an example of when you have demonstrated one of these principles. (250 words maximum, Review Berkeley-Haas’ Defining Principles)
4. There are many ways to learn about our program, what steps have you taken to learn about the Berkeley MBA? (250-word maximum)

Essays
1. Give us an example of a situation in which you displayed leadership. (500 word maximum)
2. What are your post-MBA short-term and long-term career goals? How do your professional experiences relate to these goals? How will an MBA from Berkeley help you achieve these specific career goals? (1000 word maximum)

情報元：Berkeley Haas