请问发表过研究性的论文对申请MBA作用大吗？

Don't think so, no advantage, no disadvantage.

天香国猪 MM

your answer is too gerneral. It does count in some cases.

1. you published your paper in a top-rank journal. as far as i know, even the papers of smart students in stanford or MIT were often rejected by those top-rank journals. So getting through the rigid review process can at least demonstrate your academic ability and some time your creativity (since the results of rearch have to be novel)

2. The paper you published has a high reference rate.

3. In the paper you did a conceptual proposal that is innovation-like to your industry. Since many B-school `s goal is to develop innovative leaders, you can use this as an evidence to show your passion towards and potential in innovations.

just my two cents.

good luck.

同问，顶一下，有经验的大侠请站出来分享一下，多谢！

没有这方面的资料,问了一些正在读MBA的朋友,普遍而且基本的看法是:至少没有坏处.

At least it doesn't hurt, they said.

研究性质的文章只能证明一个人的研究水平，观察下来B-School的课程跟研究相差甚远。学习能力和研究能力还是有差别的。而且每个行业都有自己的Top Journal，隔行如隔山，可能真的给admissions officers头痛了。

刚开始在这里浑水摸鱼的时候，我在芝加哥的CBS发过帖子，问过关于文章，得奖，和专利的问题，回答的人很Nice，很impressive，那只要解释一下Why MBA? How MBA will help you?好像都是一般的申请问题，没有什么捷径。

it seems that we have diversified opinions, goodthing.

Fisrt of all, i agree that it is risky to emphasise on your publications or papers

since the top schools are crowded by this kind of talents.  However you can still show this kind of achievements in a modest sense, e.g. provide the list in the supplemental or optional information. Remember that UC berkeley does pround of its students who have got a lot of patents. It is will be very useful when the technique or concept published in your paper was accepted as world standard in the future, and you may also comes out some business models related to this technology. You can show you just not stop and satisfied at purely TECH, via which you may differentiate you from your peer, doesn't it? 

 >>学习能力和研究能力还是有差别的。

This is true, however, learning is about yourself, almost all the applicants

will thrive at top schools. Adcoms more care about how you can contribute, so       

your researh ability including the sharp intuition to disvover the problems, power to pursue the essence of problem, the conceptual skills to proposed an effctive and novel solution will be more impressive.      

Ask for advice from MBA holders is a good thing, but do not forget you also are exellent thinkers and have abnormal analyses ability. Think carefully and you will know how to use and how to maximize the advantages of the achievements. anyway you know yourself best, so you are also the person who know how to use it best.  

 I didn't ask MBA holders, but admissions officers.

相反，我发现很多研究人员和博士缺乏想象力和创新的能力，研究本来就是一个缓慢而且专一的过程，并不能开阔视野。还是觉得在一个领域的成功并不暗示了另外一个领域的成功。Business跟Research的思维方式还是有所区别的。

相反，我发现很多研究人员和博士缺乏想象力和创新的能力，研究本来就是一个缓慢而且专一的过程，并不能开阔视野。还是觉得在一个领域的成功并不暗示了另外一个领域的成功。Business跟Research的思维方式还是有所区别的。

good point.

so if you are a reseacher, this maybe a motivation for you to pursue a MBA.

on the other hand, once you successfully demonstrate your creativity and business sense, you could stand out right?