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Volume 1, Issue 1

MBA ADMISSIONS TIP SHEET

Dear Reader, You're not just pursuing an MBA. You're pursuing the dream of a better future, a better career, a better life. But the path to turning the dream into reality is fraught with questions. Where should I apply? What should I include in my applications? Will I be accepted? The staff of BusinessWeek MBA Insider is here to offer answers. In this week's Tip Sheet, we share a sampling of the useful hints and expert perspectives available to you every day from MBA Insider, information that will help you get into the B-School of your dreams! Your future awaits! Sincerely, The Editors of BusinessWeek MBA Insider

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BEST SCHOOLS FOR FINANCE

MBA INSIDER: BEST SCHOOLS FOR FINANCE By Brian Hindo The Backbone of B-School - Part 1 The discipline of finance that MBAs learn today has become an influential force in the markets, public policy, and in Corporate America From their beginning, business schools occupied a precarious place in the larger university setting. Ever since Philadelphia financier Joseph Wharton lent his name (and money) to the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1880s to found the first collegiate school of business, high-minded liberal-arts professors have looked askance at what they viewed as the vocationally oriented pedagogy of B-schools. Some professors of economics have taken the same view, even while co-existing with their pragmatic cousins in departments of finance -- the backbone of many B-schools. These days, academic finance of the variety taught in B-schools has finally come into its own as an interdisciplinary, influential force in the markets, in public policy, and even in Corporate America. Finance professors Robert Merton, now at Harvard Business School, and Myron Scholes, currently a professor emeritus at Stanford University, won the 1997 Nobel Prize based on their studies of options pricing with the late Fischer Black. SIGN UP TODAY FOR FULL ARTICLE

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FEATURE MENTOR'S FORUM Words of Wisdom on Why to Answer an Optional Essay If an applicant has completed the rest of the application and they feel there was something important that they haven't had a chance to describe to the admissions committee, that's the time to use the optional essay. Don't think that you have to come up with something to put in an optional essay. –Jett Pihakis, University of California at Berkeley FEATURE BEST SCHOOLS How Recruiters Rate the Schools The following MBA programs got the best marks for teaching finance: 1. University of Chicago 2. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 3. Columbia University 4. Harvard Business School 5. University of Michigan 6. Duke University (Fuqua) 7. Northwestern University (Kellogg) 8. University of Virginia (Darden) 9. Indiana University (Kelley) 10. Stanford University
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