I wrote earlier about the attributes of a successful B School applicant and his B School application timelines. Assuming that you fit that profile and are in the process of sending in your application, the common question that gets asked is the approach to your
The decision to apply to business school, especially to b-schools in the US is not a simple one. There are multiple factors that you have to consider. The most important one is your motivation. The right reason for applying to b-school simplify the application process,
We wrote this piece together as a group as our final submission for our Strategy course led by Ralph Biggadike at Columbia Business School. At the turn of the century in March 2000 the battle for the online MBA was just heating up. At the
Business School Admissions: Twenty two answers for the road to your MBA application I wrote these answers 10 years ago. I had just started at business school and the pain of the business school admissions process to a top ten MBA program was fresh in
Columbia MBA. 15 months at Uris / Warren Hall in New York. An informal sampler of my Columbia MBA education, a journey that started with an idle conversation in March 1997 and ended on commencement day in April 2000 at Uris Hall, the Columbia Business
Corporate Finance Training is an online education startup still in its formative stages. The firm offers free online courses in Finance. Its product launch is scheduled around Feb-March 2010. 1.1 Key advertising issues for the finance e-education portal We were asked to devise an advertising strategy
Financial Services Integration, Fortune or Fiasco? December 9-10, 1999, Georgia State University, Atlanta A central theme in my professional development plan to qualify as a Fellow Society of Actuaries was a better understanding of crossover of roles & products between banking and insurance segments. The
A friend recently asked advice about the final year course work at his top tier Ivy League Business School MBA program. I thought it would be useful to share the choices I made in my final MBA year at Columbia Business School ten years ago.
David Biem in 1999 taught the Corporate Finance core course, International Banking and the Emerging Financial Market elective at the Business School. This interview was originally published in Columbia Business School’s MBA student magazine Bottomline. I met him when he graded my Corporate Finance exemption
I wrote these six pieces in my first few months at Columbia Business School as a fresh of the boat first year MBA student in New York. While they are all a little dated (it has been 10 years) they provide a nostalgic look back