Blog: Archive for the “New York University (Stern)” Category

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 … Read More  

NYU-Stern has released its 2010-2011 essay questions. There is only one change, but it is significant. You can now submit a multimedia file as “essay” 3. This will no doubt open-up many possibilities. More on this in our forthcoming essay analysis….. Please note the following details when completing the Essays section of the online application. … Read More  

In an article that launched a Twitter war among vocal authors on the subject of entrepreneurship (including Guy Kawasaki of Apple fame) Vivek Wadhwa,  Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University, claims that the investment in his NYU-Stern MBA, while … Read More  

After nine months without a Dean, Northwestern-Kellogg announced that Sally Blount, Dean of NYU Stern’s undergraduate graduate program, would take the helm; Dean Blount follows the popular Deepak Jain, who served an eight year term at Kellogg. Blount earned a Ph.D. from Kellogg and taught at Chicago Booth, prior to joining the NYU-Stern faculty and … Read More  

A few weeks ago, we posted Wharton Vice-Dean Jain’s response to a student who protested the Dean’s letter suggesting that students consider academics ahead of a ski trip (see: “Misguided Students Takes on Dean Jain.”) Well, it seems that a Stern student has bitten off more than he can chew as well. See the sequence … Read More