30 Signs It's Time to Go to B-school
These days it can be tough to know what you should do with your life! If you're seeing more than a few of these signs, you and an MBA are probably meant to be...
1. You want to be ridiculously good at what you do. And if that involves understanding finance, accounting, economics, statistics, and marketing on a rigorous academic level, so be it.
2. When you visualize your ideal life, it includes a "study cohort" - a tight group of colleagues who share their diverse perspectives with each other and support each other professionally.
3. Every time you see the leaves turn color, you get an agitated feeling that makes you want to hit the books again.
- 4. Lately you've been thinking about how much further you could go if you just knew a bit more.
5. You have an awesome liberal arts degree, but considering what you want to do with your life now, you feel like you missed out on some basic training along the way.
10 Tips for Nontraditional Applicants Applying to Business School | Knewton BlogNot all b-school applicants are quant superstars with a few years of Wall Street experience under their belt. If you're a nontraditional applicant, here are a few pieces of advice. 1. Make sure to demonstrate your quantitative ability in some way.6. A visit to the MBA Gym really gets you going...
Reception | MBA GymWelcome to the MBA Gym, designed to give you some useful insights into what you might learn at business school. Each "workout" provides a free 15-minute introduction to some key business ideas. The purpose is to help you decide if an MBA could help you go further.7. Wasn't always the case, but your idea of a busy afternoon at work these days is studying former classmates' LinkedIn profiles.
8. Whenever you go to any sort of meetup, panel or presentation, you find yourself jotting down notes, asking questions, and engaging in debate. You love a collaborative "classroom" environment.
9. You've already done a lot of trial and error and... err.... "character building through hands-on mistakes."
10. Getting an MBA first occurred to you in college. Over the years, you"ve been seduced by other ideas--an M.A, a Ph.D, a J.D, not getting another degree. But your MBA visions aren't going away. They're not just a passing fancy... No matter what happens, you find that you still want it.
- 11. You tried the entrepreneurship thing without the MBA. Didn't work because you're missing some skills and perspective and a few connections.
Should You Get an MBA If You Want to Be an Entrepreneur? | Knewton BlogDo you really need an MBA? It's an age-old business question, one we've discussed before and that every expert has weighed in on at least once. The debate over whether an MBA is worth the investment becomes even more heated when the question becomes more specific: do you need an MBA if you want to be an entrepreneur?12. You love to be around other MBAs. You're basically in b-school anyway, considering the amount of time you spend hanging out with your friends who are in MBA programs.
13. You have this feeling that if you could just be in the same place at the same time with a bunch of other driven, talented people, together you would accomplish great things.
5 Awesome Companies That Grew Out of Business School | Knewton BlogOne of the advantages of having so many opportunities in business school is that you get to decide what's truly important to you - whether it's organizing that sustainability conference, nailing that finance internship, or starting a business with your new classmates.14. You applied to b-school last year, got rejected, and the day after, woke up with a desire to improve your application and reapply.
Reapplying to B-School: A Primer - BusinessWeekRitu Khanna wasn't the luckiest of business school applicants. When she first applied , she was waitlisted at New York University's Stern School of Business (Stern Full-Time MBA Profile), and rejected by three others. London Business School (LBS Full-Time MBA Profile) and Columbia Business School (Columbia Full-Time Profile), and the Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford Full-Time MBA Profile) all gave her the cold shoulder.15. You want to push yourself mentally, socially, and professionally... and all at once.
16. Whenever you read MBA bashes (like this one), it just makes you want the degree even more...
Famous MBA Bashes MBAs and the Degree | Poets and QuantsIn a new book, "Car Guys vs. Bean Counters," published June 9th, he seems to take unusual pleasure in bashing people who have MBA degrees. "I'm not a member of that club that views MBAs as largely unproductive," the former vice chairman of General Motors writes in the book.17. You have an irrepressible need to shake up your life.
