Briefing of 30 Top Business Schools

zhidong_w

弱问，Broad School是哪所学校啊？ michigan state u？ 好像在bw中都没进top30啊？

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以下是引用zhidong_w在2005-11-3 8:51:00的发言：
弱问，Broad School是哪所学校啊？ michigan state u？ 好像在bw中都没进top30啊？

Michigan State U. The top 30s were picked by the book authors. BW is not the only reference they used.

egretxm

Thank you so much!

Would you please add "University of Wisconsin-Madison" and "Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley)"?

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Ivey

The Richard Ivey School of Business prides itself on turning out business leaders with well-rounded general management skills. Ivey students don’t major in a particular subject, but rather receive a general management degree. All students work through the same core curriculum the first year, and spend their second year taking electives that allow them to focus on a particular discipline, or stay generalists if they so choose. One noteworthy part of the second year is the Ivey Client Field Project (ICFP), the only required course for second-year students. In ICFP, teams of students work with a company to identify business issues and to recommend a course of action. Students spend most of their second year on the project, working with employees from the company and with a faculty advisor along the way. At the end of the project, they present their recommendations to the company's management. ICFP is a great example of the general management approach that Ivey aims to instill in its students. Demonstrating an understanding of the program and the real-world value that it can provide will help show your fit with the school.

More than nearly any other school, Ivey is completely devoted to the case study method of learning. The school estimates that students evaluate and discuss about 600 cases in their two years at Ivey. Students typically spend one to three hours preparing for each case individually and in learning teams, and then discuss their opinions and analysis in class, with the professor directing the discussion. It's a rigorous approach to learning, and one that requires a certain kind of student.

Accordingly, Ivey looks for applicants with strong academic backgrounds, as well as those with a willingness to throw themselves into tough challenges. The school likes applicants who bring a unique point of view to class, in order to encourage consideration of a wide range of perspectives in each discussion. Ivey also looks for applicants with polish who are not afraid to voice their opinions. Any way in which you can demonstrate a time when you had to persuade others to follow you, or when you had to make an unpopular decision, will help greatly. Finally, the school looks for people who will make good citizens in the classroom. The case method works best when everyone involved is willing to consider others' opinions.

Think carefully about how you can demonstrate these kinds of traits in your application, starting with the work you did in Chapter 2. The more easily that the admissions committee can envision you as a thoughtful and active participant in an Ivey case discussion, the better off you will be. Also, remember that Ivey's program is a general management one where a broad perspective is valued over specific quantitative skills. Make sure that a general management education is what you want, and spell out why this is valuable to you in your application.

Finally, Ivey is interested in students with an international perspective. Each year, 50 or so Ivey students take part in programs like the Leader Project, in which students spend three weeks teaching business concepts to students in places such as Russia, Belarus, and Cuba. Students interested in Asia can also spend a month teaching at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing. While an international resume isn’t required, Ivey will look for a n interest in global business issues, and a willingness to stretch outside of your comfort zone. Think about ways in which you can demonstrate these in your essays.

As mentioned earlier, Ivey's philosophy and learning style are built around the unique contributions that each student brings to the classroom. While the school places no official minimum on the amount of work experience an applicant needs, Ivey is clear about preferring applicants with at least two years of experience. The admissions committee will not only look at how much experience you have, but also will look for ways in which your experiences make you unique. If you come from an uncommon background, such as entrepreneurship or nonprofit work, then be sure to emphasize what you have learned and how it makes you different than other applicants. At the same time, make clear that you have the business acumen that it takes to succeed in the case study environment. If you come from consulting or banking, then your challenge will be to set yourself apart from similar applicants. Spend a lot of time putting your uniqueness into words, ideally with distinctive work challenges and notable activities outside of the office.

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Johnson

Johnson is a quintessential small MBA program. With less than 300 members in each class, students receive a high degree of attention from faculty and from the dean. Perhaps no other top business school program emphasizes professor accessibility as much as Johnson does. Professors at Johnson literally open their homes to students and go the extra mile to ensure that opportunities to learn course concepts extend beyond the classroom. Indeed, joining the Johnson program is more like joining the Johnson family. Your application should echo that sentiment in addition to reflecting the core values upon which the Johnson program has build its reputation.

The values that are central to the Johnson program include: a dedication to analytical rigor, an action-oriented approach to learning, and a collaborative learning environment. Your application should highlight your ability to think in an analytical manner. This could manifest itself through a discussion of how you focus on developing solutions, your approach to analyzing problems, or an analytically driven business idea that you have. Analytical in this sense doesn't purely mean numbers oriented (although Johnson will take a close look at your quantitative GMAT score), but rather it means based on rational and in-depth thought and examination. Examples you can provide along those lines will help you establish fit with the analytical strength Johnson values in addition to its application-focused learning model. As a member of the Johnson family, you will be expected to contribute to your classmates' learning and to the school as a whole. Said in another way, Johnson is looking for applicants who are team players. While you definitely shouldn't shy away from publicizing your accomplishments, be careful not to come across as arrogant in tone and be sure that your recommenders reflect positively upon your teamwork skills.

Although Johnson is a general management program in that there are no majors and a majority of courses that students take are electives, the program's strength lies in its finance curriculum. Johnson even offers a financial engineering program that focuses on subjects such as: derivatives, portfolio analysis, stochastic processes, and computer-based modeling. Another alternative for those who are interested in technical training is the Twelve Month Option MBA program. This program requires an advanced scientific or technical degree and is perfect for those applicants who don't want to be out of the workforce for two years.

Like many other b-schools, Johnson has jumped on the "leadership bandwagon." However, leadership potential is not merely a criterion listed in brochure material; it is one of the most important applicant characteristics by which you will be evaluated. In fact, Johnson offers up to 30 two-year full-tuition scholarships to students who have demonstrated exemplary performance in the area of leadership. The admissions committee will look to see whether you take initiative on a regular basis and will specifically assess how you have an impact on your professional and personal environments. Writing about leadership roles that you've taken on and how those roles have progressively increased in level of responsibility is a great way to implicitly state your further leadership potential. Your interview is another proving ground on which leadership will be discussed. You should anticipate that you will receive several questions on leadership, especially questions asking you to provide examples of displayed leadership. You should also anticipate being asked a question on current business events, so make sure you have a decent understanding of what's going on in the business world before your interview.

Similar to its learning model, Johnson’s application offers more flexibility than most. This becomes most apparent in its essay requirements, which allow you to select from a great number of options. Your emphasis, however, should be on the leadership and innovation dimensions, Your ability to establish fit along these lines will help grant you entry into the Johnson family.

The Immersion Learning curriculum is probably the best example of Johnson's action-oriented approach to learning. Immersion Learning, also referred to as "the semester in reality," is an experiential method that allows students to take a hands-on approach to functions such as: Managerial Finance, Investment Banking, Brand Management, Manufacturing, and e-business. Students visit companies, work on actual business challenges, and are evaluated based on the solutions that they develop in response to those challenges. Discussion of Immersion Learning can be a great way to display your knowledge of the Johnson learning model.

Faithful

感激不尽！

请问有以下这些学校的介绍吗？

谢谢。

University of Washington;  

University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler);

University of Minnesota--Twin Cities (Carlson);   University of Iowa (Tippie);   University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign

   

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-11-12 0:30:26编辑过]

cg

Would you please provide the info of Yale and CMU?

Thank you !!

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Goizueta

Emory University's Goizueta (pronounced: "goy-SWET-uh") Business School is one of the smallest of the nation's top programs, with just 170 entering the school's traditional two-year MBA program each year. Like other small programs, Goizueta is noted for its close-knit culture and high student involvement in every aspect of the school. Student Action Groups give students a strong voice in many of the school’s departments, including admissions, curriculum development, marketing, and facilities planning. Not surprisingly, the school expects that each of its students will get involved in a t least one opportunity to leave a mark on the school.

Goizueta promotes its own flavor of leadership training, which it calls Leadership in Action. The school believes that effective leadership requires seven important traits – courage, integrity, accountability, rigor, diversity, teamwork, and community – which it has deemed its "Core Values." Goizueta students are immediately introduced to the school's Core Values during their orientation week, with one activity devoted to each of the school's core values. Students participate in ropes courses and skydiving to learn courage, perform service projects to gain a sense of community, etc. In other words, the school expects each student to embrace its Core Values, and you should be pre- pared to explain what these values mean to you.

Before the start of each semester, Goizueta students take part in a pre-term course called Lead Week, an intense program that gives them exposure to real-world business issues. Before the start of the first-year fall term, students study a series of cases focused on a single company. Each case emphasizes an academic discipline, such as operations, strategy, finance, or marketing. Students compete in teams to prepare analyses and recommendations for the subject company, and the winning team gets to present its findings to the company's executives. To start the second year, student teams compete in a business plan competition, with each team preparing a business plan from scratch and pitching it to a panel of venture capitalists. Lead Week programs in the winter and spring give students opportunities to focus on topics of their choosing, and even study issues abroad. Additionally, Goizueta Plus is a series of seminars that students take in their first year, giving them the opportunity to explore their own personal interests, their leadership traits, communication skills, and larger issues in business ethics. Although these programs are constantly evolving, they remain a centerpiece of the Goizueta program, and expressing an understanding of how they embody the school's Core Values will help strengthen your application.

The annual Goizueta Marketing Strategy Competition gives student teams another chance to tackle real-world business challenges. Students work with executives from partner corporations in developing solutions for real marketing challenges that these businesses face. While performing their analyses and developing their recommendations, students are coached by faculty members and receive additional training through a series of training seminars. A panel of executives and Goizueta faculty judge each team's output, with the winning team taking home $10,000. Especially if you are interested in marketing, be sure to express your enthusiasm for the competition and hands-on experience that it provides.

While most schools prefer students with some amount of work experience, Goizueta explicitly states that students need at least a year of work experience in order to apply. It is therefore not surprising that its student body tends to skew slightly older than those of other top schools. Although all schools look for maturity in their applicants, Goizueta is clear about the importance of this dimension of your application. It is therefore important to choose essay and interview stories that emphasize your own professional maturity.

Perhaps Goizueta’s most important espoused Core Value is courage, which the school defines as a willingness to take risks and push yourself out of your comfort zone. The school believes that this is an important component of leadership, and you can therefore expect the Goizueta admissions committee to look for examples of this trait in your application. The school is most interested in the applicant who takes the road less traveled and is willing to take some risks. Any way in which you can demonstrate this trait in your own past—and what you learned from it—will help the admissions committee see how you fit in at Goizueta. Think about how you can weave these stories into your application, particularly in the essays.

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CMU

Carnegie Mellon's MBA program is highly analytical, as quantitative rigor is integrated throughout the entire curriculum. The school's proper name—Carnegie Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Administration—invokes images of a program turning out leaders for the manufacturing sector. Although this is partially accurate, the school is also well known in finance circles, where Carnegie Mellon grads' quantitative skills are also highly prized.

While many schools have a minimum math requirement for applicants, Carnegie Mellon expects its applicants to have at least completed one college-level calculus course along with another high-level course in calculus, statistics, or linear algebra. Don't worry, you can take a course part-time before enrolling, but realize that quantitative skills are something that will have to come through in your application no matter what discipline you want to pursue. Also, more than half of each full-time class holds an undergraduate degree in a technical major. Make sure that you're capable of keeping up with applicants that have computer science and engineering backgrounds (if you don't have one yourself). This capability will mostly be represented in your GMAT score, your undergraduate studies, and your previous work experience.

The school's emphasis on analytical abilities is apparent in its core curriculum. Required courses in Probability and Statistics, Decision Models, and Operations Management have the usual dose of quantitative lessons. But classes such as Finance and Economics also have a heavy dose of analytics. One unique feature of the program is its mini-semester system. Students have four mini-semesters a year, instead of the more typical two-semester system. Starting in the spring semester of their first year, students can begin taking electives at the business school as well as at Carnegie Mellon's other schools. If you are interested in expanding your knowledge in such fields as biotechnology or computer science while earning your MBA, explore and consider discussing these opportunities. They provide great ways for you to demonstrate fit and enthusiasm for the flexibility of Carnegie Mellon’s program.

Carnegie Mellon also touts its practical, hands-on approach to learning, exemplified by its Management Game, a highly involved computer simulation that runs from the last mini-semester of the first year through the first semester of the second year student teams each run their own simulated business, making decisions affecting operations, finance, marketing, and labor relations. Admitting a level of realism to the game, each team is assigned a board of directors, comprised of local business leaders. Teams also practice contract negotiations with local labor leaders and consult with law students at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Management Game requires not only superior quantitative skills, but also strong communications and teamwork abilities, both of which the school also looks for in its applicants. If you are an applicant coming from engineering or an otherwise technical background, be sure to bring out the teamwork dimension in you application. Carnegie Mellon values strong thinkers, but values most those strong thinkers who can turn in- sights into action.

Nearly half of the 2002 graduates pursued careers in finance, especially corporate finance in the manufacturing sector. Healthcare is also a popular choice for graduates (including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology). Carnegie Mellon alumni are also active entrepreneurs, and the school looks for entrepreneurship traits in its applicants. If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, discussing them in your essays and during your interview can be a great way to establish fit with what the school looks for in its applicants.

You won't find any majors at Carnegie Mellon, or any academic departments for that matter. The school promotes an interdisciplinary approach to learning, encouraging faculty members from different fields to teach courses together. The result is a fairly broad approach to management education. While students can choose from concentrations in 12 different subjects, most tend to choose multiple concentrations, further broadening their learning. While Carnegie Mellon's deep analytical focus makes it very different from other general management programs such as Harvard or Darden, keep the school's interdisciplinary philosophy in mind as you build your application story.

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Yale

The Yale School of Management aims to produce leaders who will make a difference both within their organizations and in their communities. The school's stated mission is to educate leaders "for business and society." While over two-thirds of each class go into finance or consulting (like most other business schools), there is a much greater emphasis on nonprofit and public sector lessons and opportunities at Yale than at most other schools. No matter what their career goals are, the candidates who most appeal to the admissions committee are the ones who demonstrate a broad perspective and an understanding of the importance of contributing to society at large.

Yale students spend their first year learning the school's core curriculum. The core includes the usual business school courses (including economics, finance, marketing, and operations), but also covers topics such as Leadership and The Politics of Strategic Management. These courses apply the theory of politics and influence to business management situations, something that is common throughout Yale's curriculum. Think about this approach to learning, how it might appeal to you, and what you may be able to contribute to the classroom. Students take electives in pursuit of one of seven concentrations, including Marketing, Strategy, Finance, Leadership, Public Management, Operations Management, and Nonprofit Management.

Fittingly, Yale's nonprofit program is one of the best-known in the United States. The school offers extensive elective options in nonprofit and public sector management, and also provides students with a variety of opportunities for getting involved in their communities outside of class. Yale's Internship Fund, established in 1979, provides financial assistance to students who take on non- or low-paying jobs in the nonprofit or public sector. Funds are raised from student contributions, and up to one-fifth of the class receives some amount of funding in any given year. Even if you don't plan on pursuing a nonprofit job after school, demonstrating enthusiasm for getting involved in this type of program can help further show your fit with the school.

Entrepreneurship is also a focus at Yale, and students have several opportunities to get involved in building a business. Yale hosts an annual business plan competition, with entries divided into two categories: for profit and social entrepreneurship. The school also hosts a separate National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, blending the school’s strengths in community involvement and entrepreneurship. Outside of the nonprofit sector, Yale students also run their venture vcapital fund, known as Sachem Ventures. This $1.5 million fund gives students a chance to screen, invest in, and work with startups in the New Haven are.

When thinking about demonstrating fit with Yale, focus especially on the leadership and innovation dimensions of your application. As mentioned previously, the school looks for applicants who contribute to their community, and this is perhaps the most important component of the school's definition of leadership. Additionally, the school stresses the importance of understanding the interaction between the private sector and public sector, so you want to demonstrate a "big picture" view and a willingness to learn about how one affects the other, no matter what your career interest is. As far as innovation goes, Yale looks for applicants who are comfortable with having their thinking challenged and are willing to take intellectual risks. The more you can demonstrate a willingness to "think outside of the box" both on the job and in your extracurricular activities, the better off you will be. Additionally, the school looks for applicants with integrity, so think about how you can demonstrate this as part of your maturity dimension.

Yale is looking for business-minded people who are just as comfortable talking about world politics as they are pricing a financial instrument. You can show fit with the program by demonstrating your knowledge of current events and a natural desire to get involved in your community. Note that Yale's essays serve as a great opportunity for you to show that you know what is going on in the world around you, and that you have an opinion that's worth hearing. Don't just try to tell the admissions committee what you think they want to hear. Rather, take a position in which you truly believe and succinctly support it with a real-world example or two.