I was exchanging thoughts with an old friend from London Business School a few weeks back. Both of us are independent consultants now and we were musing about the general benefits of going it alone. He raised one point though, which is probably the only thing that stayed with… Read More »Are you picking your business school for the right reasons?
What do you have in common with Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Venus and Serena Williams? On the face of it, probably not much more than the superficial or incidental. Look a little deeper, though, and you will notice something very common across us all. We’re… Read More »What do you have in common with the stars at Wimbledon?
This is part IV of a four-part series about the business school interview process. So far in this series we’ve explored who might be interviewing you for a place on an MBA program, why they are interviewing you, and what the motivations are behind their… Read More »The Who, Why, What and How of the Business School Interview Process: Part IV, How
This is part III of a four-part series about the business school interview process. In the first two articles of this series we covered some of the basics – who will be interviewing you for your place on an MBA program, and why they are… Read More »The Who, Why, What and How of the Business School Interview Process: Part III, What
This is part II of a four-part series about the business school interview process. Earlier this week I shone a light on a question that is difficult to answer – just who will be sitting across the desk from you during your MBA interview? That… Read More »The Who, Why, What and How of the Business School Interview Process: Part II, Why
This is part I of a four-part series about the business school interview process. There is perhaps one position more privileged than that of being on an MBA program: being the person who interviews those applying to them. If you’ve been reading the Inner Circle… Read More »The Who, Why, What and How of the Business School Interview Process: Part I, Who
One of the dirty little secrets that all business school Admissions Committees try to keep to themselves is that they don’t always get it right. And getting it wrong, for Admissions Committees, means admitting the wrong people to classes, and not admitting the right ones. … Read More »Admissions Committees, from the inside
Let me tell you a little story. When I was 23 I was a recent graduate from university, and I was sitting at home in Australia in front of my mother’s television, watching sport. I was a little burnt out. Partly that was from having… Read More »Stories, and what they mean to us
