Wow, I’ve been able to post entries in three consecutive days…but they’ve all been short ones and haven’t been responses to reader emails. If you’re waiting on a response from me, I’ll get to you eventually. It’s just easier for me to post these quick-shots ones when something pops into my head. I always get back to folks to write to me, even if it takes me a while to do so. This quick-shot entry comes in two parts:(1) a request from one of my readers and (2) an article that I thought my non-U.S. readers interested in B-school might want to check out.
The message below is from a reader who first hit me up with a question about moving into a top-tier consulting firm last year. Now, he’s trying to get prepared for the upcoming recruiting season and would like to connect with case interview practice partners in the Washington DC Metro area. I couldn’t connect him to anyone directly, but I thought that posting his request up here might generate some interested parties for him. If you’re living in the DC area and looking for someone to practice cases with, check out his message below and reach out to him. As I’ve stated on here before, practice makes perfect when it comes to making one’s case game tight.
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MS wrote:
“Dear Marquis:
Thanks for the offer to allow me to post to your weblog. Please post the following:
Looking for Case Study Practice Partners in the DC metro area
I am new to the DC area. I am looking to start practicing cases for the fall recruiting season with the strategy consulting firms. The best way to prepare is to practice lots of cases with similarly interested people. I have a ton of case materials but I need practice partners. If anyone is interested in joining a case study group that I am forming or knows of a group in the DC area that I can join, please contact me at ms0077@gmail.com. Thanks!
MS”
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Before I go, I want to leave you guys with an interesting article that I found on BusinessWeek.com earlier this week. It describes how U.S. business schools are seeing their enrollments of international students decline due to visa issues, financial hardship, and sometimes through deliberate strategic actions. Pretty interesting stuff when you consider that international enrollments had been steadily increasing for the past five-plus years. Because so many of my readers are from outside of the United States, I thought the article would be especially relevant to some of you. The following is some summary information about it:
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“U.S. Business Schools: Why Foreign MBAs Are Disappearing”
Author: Alison Damast
Source: BusinessWeek.com (LINK TO ARTICLE)
Introductory excerpt from article:
“Over the past five years, admissions officers at business schools across the country watched gleefully as the number of international applicants applying to MBA programs grew exponentially, fueled largely by rapid growth from India and China.
This year that trend has collapsed. International applications were down at business schools across the country, challenging admissions officers to meet diversity goals and posing questions for the future. “
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The message below is from a reader who first hit me up with a question about moving into a top-tier consulting firm last year. Now, he’s trying to get prepared for the upcoming recruiting season and would like to connect with case interview practice partners in the Washington DC Metro area. I couldn’t connect him to anyone directly, but I thought that posting his request up here might generate some interested parties for him. If you’re living in the DC area and looking for someone to practice cases with, check out his message below and reach out to him. As I’ve stated on here before, practice makes perfect when it comes to making one’s case game tight.
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MS wrote:
“Dear Marquis:
Thanks for the offer to allow me to post to your weblog. Please post the following:
Looking for Case Study Practice Partners in the DC metro area
I am new to the DC area. I am looking to start practicing cases for the fall recruiting season with the strategy consulting firms. The best way to prepare is to practice lots of cases with similarly interested people. I have a ton of case materials but I need practice partners. If anyone is interested in joining a case study group that I am forming or knows of a group in the DC area that I can join, please contact me at ms0077@gmail.com. Thanks!
MS”
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Before I go, I want to leave you guys with an interesting article that I found on BusinessWeek.com earlier this week. It describes how U.S. business schools are seeing their enrollments of international students decline due to visa issues, financial hardship, and sometimes through deliberate strategic actions. Pretty interesting stuff when you consider that international enrollments had been steadily increasing for the past five-plus years. Because so many of my readers are from outside of the United States, I thought the article would be especially relevant to some of you. The following is some summary information about it:
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“U.S. Business Schools: Why Foreign MBAs Are Disappearing”
Author: Alison Damast
Source: BusinessWeek.com (LINK TO ARTICLE)
Introductory excerpt from article:
“Over the past five years, admissions officers at business schools across the country watched gleefully as the number of international applicants applying to MBA programs grew exponentially, fueled largely by rapid growth from India and China.
This year that trend has collapsed. International applications were down at business schools across the country, challenging admissions officers to meet diversity goals and posing questions for the future. “
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