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For the second time in the event's 25-year history, UC-Berkeley's Haas School of Business is hosting the Graduate Business Conference. The conference, which runs from April 3 to April 5 and was organized by the Graduate Student Forum, brings together student leaders from 40 of the world's top MBA programs. It features networking events, panel discussions on a wide array of academic and business topics, and speeches by leadership experts. The Graduate Student Forum is an international association of MBA students. "Haas, as a top school, should be offering its thoughts on leadership," Clifford Dank, MBA 2008, president of the

Representatives of Wisconsin-Madison's business school participated in an online chat with potential applicants. Here's the transcript B-Schools The University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Business is unique, say its administrators, for its specialized courses in the second year. Students can focus on disciplines from brand management to entrepreneurship. Some students who responded to the 2007 Business Week survey praised the school for its practical, applied lessons and personalized touches. Recently, in a live chat event, Betsy Kacizak (Betsy Wisconsin), director of MBA Admissions & Financial Aid at the school, and second-year student Ben Burney (Ben Wisconsin) fielded questions from audience members

LBS representatives recently participated in an online chat about diversity, admissions, work experience expectations, and other issues London Business School offers one of the top MBA programs in Europe. If you're thinking of going to graduate school outside of the U.S., it might be at the top of your list of possibilities. Recently potential applicants signed on to a live chat event with David Simpson (DavidLBS), acting associate dean for the full-time MBA program at LBS, and LBS student Manish Gajria (ManishLBS). The session was moderated by BusinessWeek reporter Francesca Di Meglio (FrancescaBW). Here is an edited transcript of the

Three of the Nation's Top Business Schools join forces for this fall, offering classes MBA from the other students via the Internet and video, the official told Tuesday. Schools, which spreads via e-business courses, the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Business School and the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Students receive instruction in the documents of the Internet, and it is, along with his teachers and classmates in Internet chat rooms and video conferencing meetings. Berkeley's business dean, Laura D'Andrea Tyson, said that the three schools are

MBA students focus on education finances MBA students at the University of California, Berkeleys Haas School of Business will host the Education Leadership Case Competition, the first of its kind at a business school in the United States, on Thursday and Friday, March 1-2. The competition will focus on a new financial plan for the Oakland Unified School District, which has been in state receivership since 2003 due to financial troubles. Organized by the Haas Leadership in Education Club, the event will bring together MBA students from UC Berkeley, University of Southern California, UCLA, Northwestern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brandeis University

Bio-Diesel Fuel wins Intel Capital Sponsored Event An alternative energy company called Aurora BioFuels has won the $25,000 first prize at the eighth annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition at the University of California, Berkeleys Haas School of Business. Aurora BioFuels presented a plan showing how to create bio-diesel fuel with yields 125 times higher than existing bio-diesel conversion technologies, and at half the cost. The company also won the Peoples Choice Award of $5,000 for garnering the most votes from the audience at the final awards ceremony on April 27. The UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition is organized by Berkeley MBA students at

If top business-school applicants need a break from GMAT prep and essay writing, they should browse the Web for inspirational quotes and clip art. The admissions office at the University of Chicagos Graduate School of Business is requiring for the first time this year a PowerPoint presentation — or something like it. In four slides or less, the online instructions say, please provide readers with content that captures who you are. Those readers, it turns out, are sort of bored with essays. The new requirement will give admissions officers a better sense of their applicants, says Rosemaria Martinelli, associate dean of

Consultants are doing everything from advising to writing essays for B-school applicants. Admissions officers beware In seven years Stacy Blackmans firm has grown from 1 MBA coach to 30 Josh Sanseri More and more these days, MBA applicants are paying big bucks to counselors to help them get into the business school of their choice. Growing numbers of applicants—including, increasingly, foreign students—and a relatively static number of slots make hiring a coach a way to stand out. Admissions officers are less than thrilled. If someone else has done the work, its almost like you are admitting an impostor to the

Manhattan GMAT, the worlds largest GMAT-exclusive prep provider will hold a b-school admissions panel for future MBAs, on Wednesday, April 25, with representatives from Harvard Business School, Sloan School of Management, Columbia Business School, and the Kellogg School of Management. Boston, MA (PRWEB) April 24, 2007 -- Future business leaders in the Boston area will get the chance to meet admissions representatives from four of the highest-ranked MBA programs, on Wednesday April 25th. The event will be held at the Back Bay Center of Manhattan GMAT, the worlds largest GMAT-exclusive test prep provider. Representatives from Harvard Business School (www.hbs.edu), Sloan School

Shruti Bajpai, responsible for the overall management of HBOs business in India was in Bangalore recently to kickstart the seventh anniversary celebrations for the channel and in a brief chat with Yamini U, she shared her vision, plans for the future of the channel and how she has built up a successful career. Shruti Bajpai is a marketing professional and has dealt with exciting brands and challenges in her career. She joined HBO in November 2000. Prior to this, she was Brand Marketing Manager at Nestle India Ltd. An Economics (Hons) graduate from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai , the charming Shruti

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