Passing along word of a fantastic two-year post-MBA fellowship working with an organization called The Idea Village. The organization works with entrepreneurs in New Orleans to grow their small businesses into thriving enterprises. Over the past four years, MBA students from many top B-schools have done week-long intensive work sessions with the group and have helped lots of businesses. Now, they’re trying to kick things to the next level with this fellowship opportunity. —– The Idea
What’s good, folks. I just wanted to post a quick entry to announce a partnership I’ve made with an organization called TeachStreet, which provides tools and information for people take the GMAT and GRE exams. The following is the press release issued by TeachStreet to announce the partnership and provides details about the organization: —- TeachStreet press release: Truth & Wisdom – My journey to a Stanford MBA and a career in business included as Featured Blogger in TeachStreet’s new GMAT Decision Engine SEATTLE, WA – February 23, 2010 – MBA and Business blogger
The article below comes to us from the team over at Doostang. My long-time readers will recognize the Doostang name because it is the career search site founded by one of my close friends from my class at Stanford GSB. Since its launch a few years ago, Doostang has evolved tremendously and is now THE place to go for high-end, hard-to-find jobs in desirable industries and functions, including Investment Banking, Private Equity, Consulting, Corporate Strategy, and Information Technology. Doostang has
What’s going on, everyone. Y’all know that I like to do whatever I can to look out for my fellow Stanford GSB alums/students, right? Well, this is another entry to do just that…
The email below is from the Director of Recruitment for The Broad Residency in Urban Education, which is a fantastic program that places business professionals into leadership positions in America’s educational system (both at the local and national level). It just so happens that the Director of Recruitment is a GSB alum and, when he asked me to spread the word about his program, I just… Read the rest
What’s good, folk. Looks like I’m mkaing up for lost time by making lots of posts in the month of August. I’m in the process of thinking through responses to some reader emails, but this entry isn’t one of those. Instead, it’s an entry to help a fantastic organization with some of its recruiting efforts. They’re looking for Consulting types and I guess I’ve got a good reader following among their target group, so they reached out to me 
What’s going on, y’all. So, you know how I like to inform you guys about interesting things that come my way, right? Well, this is yet another one of those entries. This time, I’m writing to tell you about a recently launched global initiative called the 21st Citizens movement that I just learned about from my B-school roommate. The goal of 21st Citizens is to get people to think about what they should do to be a better citizen of
Hey everyone. This is going to be a quick post, but I thought it was worth putting up to help a great organization. One of my GSB classmates forwarded the following email to me about an organization called Embrace that is hoping to help premature babies in developing countries. It is currently being led by a GSB’08 alum, so you know I’ve got to put my support behind it. Here’s some more information.
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Embrace aims to save 20
What’s good, y’all. I hope you’re having a good week. I’m writing a quick post to pass along some information that might be useful to those of you planning to apply to B-school this year.
By now, you’ve seen references to a couple of blog entries written by my man Jullien, right? Well, he works for an organization called Management Leadership for Tomorrow that helps diverse candidates on their quest to get into business school. He just emailed me about an entry he posted on the MLT blog to provide assistance to applicants doing initial research on business schools.… Read the rest
What’s up, y’all. I’m posting a quick entry to spread the word about the Stanford GSB Black Business Student Association Conference that will take place in Palo Alto on April 25-27, 2008.
Traditionally, it is a Saturday afternoon event, but, since this is the 25th anniversary of the event, the current BBSA kids have made plans to do it up HUGE this time around with stuff starting on Friday and continuing to Sunday. I’m really looking forward to seeing how it all goes down and thought that some of you who might be interested too.
For more information on… Read the rest
As you guys know, I’m a big fan of spreading information about organizations that I believe to be worthwhile causes. Well, I got an email from my man Nate this morning about a non-profit org called Prize4Life that he started last year with one of his HBS classmates, Avi Kremer.
During his first year at HBS, Avi was diagnosed with an neurological disease called ALS and, instead of giving up hope, he pushed himself toward finding a cure. Here
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