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Anahi Mittal- IE Business School

Anahi Mittal- IE Business School

Name: Anadi Mittal Age: 31 Hometown: Delhi, India Education: Computer Engineering; McMaster University, Canada Current MBA program: International MBA; IE Business School, Spain   Describe a typical day as a MBA student The college time usually lasts for 6 hours with the day starting at 9am with a lecture that lasts for 1.5 hours. At [...]
How to Study for the GMAT on Summer Break

How to Study for the GMAT on Summer Break

If you plan on going to business school, then you’ll have to successfully complete the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) that is now taken by about 250,000 people annually. How you do will help determine whether or not you get accepted into business school to pursue an MBA. So, you obviously need to take the […]

GMAT Sample Questions

The GMAT, or the Graduate Management Admission Test, is arguably the most important test a business student will take. The score of your exam is used to help graduate business schools decide on the admission of a student. The exam is ultimately broken down into four different sections: Analytical Writing Integrated Reasoning Quantitative Section Verbal Reasoning The […]

GMAT Test Prep Strategies That Lead to Top Scores

GMAT Test Prep Strategies That Lead to Top Scores

Average GMAT scores vary widely by school, but one thing everyone agrees on is that higher tends to be better. A top GMAT score can give you the freedom to choose the program you want, when you want. Here are some of the tricks that top scorers have used to prepare for the test: Prioritize […]

How to Answer The Trickiest GMAT Questions

How to Answer The Trickiest GMAT Questions

The GMAT has a lot of hard questions. Last year, one of the highest-scoring people who ever took the test showed us five of the hardest problems. Now, you’re probably not going to see these exact questions on the test, but you could see the same type of question. It’s important when prepping for the […]

The Best College Majors for MBAs (That Aren’t Business)

The Best College Majors for MBAs (That Aren’t Business)

While conventional wisdom might suggest that an undergraduate business degree would be the perfect preparation for an eventual MBA, the truth is that this isn’t actually the case. In fact, an undergrad business degree might potentially hinder your chances of getting a coveted letter of acceptance from an MBA program. A Bloomberg report, for instance, […]

Should You Get an Online MBA?

Should You Get an Online MBA?

There are a lot of questions about whether or not an online MBA makes sense, and today, we’d like to try and answer some of those questions once and for all. Here are the positives and the negatives of trying to get an online degree instead of one taking place on campus. The Positives Cost: […]

Decide If, When to Retake the GMAT

Decide If, When to Retake the GMAT

Decide If, When to Retake the GMAT While I occasionally hear tales of MBA applicants offered admission in a top business school with a 640 GMAT score, the truth is that accepting students with stellar scores of 700 or higher is more the norm at the most competitive programs. Before you start to panic and [...]
Business School Overview

Business School Overview

Business School Overview The Graduate School of Business at Stanford University offers these departments and concentrations: accounting, e-commerce, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, general management, health care administration, human resources management, leadership, manufacturing and technology management, marketing, not-for-profit management, production/operations management, organizational behavior, portfolio management, public administration, public policy, real estate, sports business, supply chain management/logistics, quantitative [...]