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Headed to business school next year? Or just trying to gauge what the experience will be like? Check out this video from Boston University’s School of Management, which features 2nd year MBA students giving advice to the school’s incoming class. Topics range from networking to applying your pre-MBA work skills to dealing with time management issues. Perhaps the most helpful advice? “Sleep more, eat, and bathe on a regular basis.” For more, take a look… Read more

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If you’re considering business school, it’s likely you’re no stranger to the ongoing debate about the value of an MBA. In this video, Harvard Business School professor David Garvin discusses the way in which business schools are shifting in response to ongoing critiques — specifically, by emphasizing applied experience in addition to knowledge. While this video is from last year, it provides a useful primer to the issues being discussed by people like Josh Kaufman… Read more

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Wondering what the daily routine of a typical b-school student looks like? NYU Stern has put together a series of “day in the life” Youtube videos, featuring four MBA students involved in diverse areas. While these videos are specific to Stern, they should also give you a glimpse into MBA life in general. In this video, you’ll follow Lyle, an MBA/MPA dual degree student specializing in Finance and Social Innovation & Impact, as he undergoes… Read more

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Wondering what 2011 holds for the world of business? Look no further: This installment of our MBA Life on Youtube series features four faculty members from the London Business School sharing their predictions for how business research will be implemented and continue to develop throughout 2011. Check out the video to hear the professors’ (very informed!) guesses of the improvements and setbacks in store for the coming year. For example, Nader Tavassoli, Chair of the… Read more

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In this installment of our MBA Life on Youtube series, Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School professor Jim Little discusses the school’s belief in the importance of having a research-active faculty. Professor Little talks about the important feedback loop that emerges from faculty research: faculty take issues that come up in the classroom, use them in their research, and then reintroduce those issues to other students from a newly enlightened perspective. In the… Read more

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This week, as part of our MBA Life on Youtube series, we thought we’d post a video on a super-intense joint degree program offered at some schools: the MD/MBA. And you thought business school was hard! This video from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business features a student in Tuck’s MD/MBA program. Jessica Morgan ’10 discusses how an MBA can allow medical students to gain expertise in healthcare administration, and think beyond treating one patient to… Read more

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Recently, b-schools have begun to post a ton of great resources online to help aspiring MBA students learn about their offerings. If you’re interested in learning more about entrepreneurship in business school, for example, check out this video from Michigan Ross, about the process three of their students went through to start a successful business while still in school. The company, Husk Insulation, aims to transform agricultural waste in high-grade, affordable insulation for the refrigeration… Read more

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Warning: the latest video in our MBA Life on Youtube series might make you a little (okay, a lot) jealous. The video, from NYU Stern, showcases a trip a group of MBA students took to learn first-hand about the luxury marketing industry — in Italy (check out our recent post about post-MBA luxury marketing careers to learn more about the field). The lucky NYU students met with leaders of the industry, visited SDA Bacconi (the… Read more

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Welcome to another installment of our MBA Life on Youtube series, in which we feature some of the videos b-schools post online to help aspiring MBAs learn about the world of business and their school’s offerings. This video, entitled “Power: Why Some People Have it and Others Don’t,” comes from Jeffrey Pfeffer, a Professor at Stanford GSB. Not only is the topic interesting, but for those thinking about applying to Stanford, the video provides a… Read more

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As Andy wrote about a while back, business schools post a lot of amazing resources online for aspiring MBAs to learn about their offerings. Harvard Business School has some great videos on its Youtube channel that walk students through the HBS approach to an MBA education. This video, “Inside the HBS Case Method,” explains one of the central tenets of the Harvard b-school curriculum: structuring classes around actual case studies from the business world. The goal… Read more

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