For the 2018-19 Cornell MBA Essays, applicants have to answer the career goals question along with two other questions. GOALS: To the best of your understanding today, please share your short and long term goals by completing the following sentences and answering the enclosed short answer question (250 words maximum): Immediately post-MBA, my goal is […]
Every year we get hundreds of enquiries from senior applicants with 10+ years of work experience who wish to do an MBA. This pool of applicants has it difficult in the admissions process for the two year MBA program, where the average class work experience is 5 years. Plus, their age (30+years) is also more […]
This past year, there has been increasing interest from applicants about European MBA programs. A major reason is an uncertainty about the US visa laws as well as a lack of clarity over Brexit, which has made both US and UK lose some sheen among Indian applicants as favored MBA countries. This article makes a […]
The MBA Decoder team was fortunate to interact with Nishant Verma who had applied to several American b-schools for the Fall 2018 intake and got into some top programs such as Austin McCombs, UNC Kenan Flagler and ISB. Nishant tells us about his goal of getting into product management post-MBA, how this impacted his b-school […]
FuturePM91 is a Kellogg MBA candidate for the class of 2020. She was one of the most active members on GMAT Club last year and continued to help applicants after gaining admission to several b-schools. She applied to 10 b-schools and was accepted into 5 of them, including Kellogg with scholarship. Kellogg is where she […]
Essays for Kellogg MBA 2018 application have not changed since last year. Both the essays are reflective and require applicants to deeply think through their experiences, what they learned out of them and how they grew as better individuals and professionals. Deadlines: R1 – SEPT 19, 2018 R2 – JAN 9, 2019 R3 – APRIL […]
IIMC was the inspiration for your first book. Please tell us how? When I came to IIM Calcutta for my MBA, I knew it would be a year of sweat and labor. But what I never imagined was that I would be writing my first book here. A random thought while having dinner at the […]
Not many of us would have heard of Hélène Ploix or Solange Perret, the first female students to graduate from INSEAD in 1968. Fifty years later, INSEAD is honoring them through a landmark, women diversity initiative, “50 Years, 50 Women, 50 Ideas” by celebrating women who are leading academic excellence and advocating gender diversity. It’s achieving this by promoting ideas […]
Q1. Please describe your career before the MBA and your transition to product management. I had no clue till I did my Engineering as to what direction I wanted to give my career. Like everyone else, my mom wanted me to get good marks. When I topped in Delhi in Class 12th, everyone told me […]
Several years ago, Disha Chabra had reached out to us to write a blog for us. At that time, she was fresh out of her IIM Calcutta PGPEX course and had just published her first book. Since then, Disha has worked as Product Manager at Yatra Online, Paytm and now Amazon. In due course, she […]