Archive | March, 2012

Quick tips on MBA fellowship options for a diversity applicant

Categories: Business School, Education, Financing the MBA, mba

The email below came in from one of my readers, who is also a friend of one of my friends from Stanford GSB. He is an African-American applicant targeting next year’s application cycle and is wondering whether I had any advice for him about fellowships that might help him cover some of his educational costs.

This is post is shorter than most of my email responses, but I thought it was worth posting because there are likely several folks out there with a similar question.

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LC wrote:

Hello Marquis,

I had a quick question for you if you don’t

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Work-life balance advice for a soon-to-be McKinsey intern

Categories: career, career-life balance, consulting, management consulting, professional advice

The email below came to me from a college junior who has scored a unique opportunity for a summer internship at McKinsey that is unlike any other that I’ve ever heard of. He found out about me through the interview I did for ManagementConsulted.com a couple of years ago and asked for my advice on how to maintain a work-life balance during his internship. In my interview, I mentioned that as one of the toughest parts about making the transition into the Consulting industry.

I have a feeling that he’ll be surprised by my response because it wasn’t as touchy-feely … Read the rest

Advice on building self-confidence for a college Freshman

Categories: About Marquis, Business, my motivations, Reader comments, real life stuff, Self-confidence

The email that I’ve posted below is from a college Freshman who attended a keynote presentation that I have a few months ago. I talked about many things in that speech, including the ideas of goal setting and self confidence. When I saw this email, I couldn’t help but smile because I could see that my words really sank in for this kid and encouraged him to write in search of some personal advice.

I responded to this student’s email in 2 parts because I had answered a question similar to his first point in this post. So, in … Read the rest

Help Fund 100 Women’s Educations (#Vittana4Women)

Categories: Education, other blogs, other sites

Hey, everyone. I’m using this post to make a quick shout-out on behalf of my man Kenji Crossland. My long-time readers might remember that name from a video interview that I did of him in my “Conversations” series last year.

Since that interview, Kenji moved into a new role working with Vittana, a non-profit with a website that helps its users make microloans to support the education of students in developing countries. Tomorrow (March 8, 2012) Vittana doing a big push to help fund 100 women’s educations and they already have a lot of influential bloggers and twitterati on … Read the rest