月別アーカイブ: 2017年2月

Advice for the Early Career Candidate (from Chicago’s Blog)

今回は、U of Chicago, Booth SchoolのAdmissions Blog (Booth Insider)より下記の投稿記事を紹介させていただきます。

MBAを取得するタイミングは個々のキャリア開発事情によるものの、留学に関する相談へお越しになる方々からは、「キャリア的に考えてもそろそろ取得しても良いのでは？」、「それとも早いでしょうか？」等の質問が寄せられます。そうした自らの留学に関する適性時期に関して判断を下すためにも、まずはビジネススクールのカリキュラムを調べてみてはいかがでしょうか？

Carving out the pathway to your future career requires significant self-reflection. Sometimes you need to look back in order to go forward. Think about the building blocks of your career thus far. What are your strengths and how do they align with your interests? How can you remain open to new possibilities and opportunities that you may have never even thought about? And what might those logical next steps look like?

Some of you may be thinking about an MBA– maybe next year, or five years from now. Some of you are what we refer to as an early-career candidate; individuals who have three or fewer years of full-time work experience, including students currently pursuing an undergraduate degree. Whether you’re preparing to graduate from college, new to the workforce, or thinking about an MBA in the future, we wanted to offer some insights on how you can explore immediate growth opportunities that will set you up for future success.

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http://blogs.chicagobooth.edu/blog/Booth_Insider/Advice_for_the_Early_Career_Candidate/boothinsider/342?nav=entry

振り返り、分析、そして戦略

時として、テスト結果を分析することなく、ひたすらテストを受け続ける受験生を目にします。受験結果（スコアレポート）を確認するたびに、頭の片隅では「どうしたそういった結果になったのか？」を考えているものの、結果を分析する作業へ十分な時間を注がないケースが目立ちます。ご存知のように、GMATはEnhanced Score Report (ESR)を取得することができますので、スコアのみならず時間配分や各セクションの出来栄えを確認するなど、次回の受験戦略へ生かしていただければと常々思います。

この分析作業を適切に行うことで、今の自分の実力を知り、目標点獲得に向けて必要な要素を把握できることへ繋がると思います。この分析作業が出来ていますと、自分が到達できるスコアレンジを予想することも可能になると思います。こうして予想は、その後の受験スケジュールを策定し、受験校の選定、キャンパス訪問時期の決定など、さまざまな意思決定を行う上での貴重な判断材料となります。

11 new courses of Nothwestern, Kellogg

各校では2017年度に向け、カリキュラム改訂も進んでいます。そした中、Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Managementでは新コースが発表されました。
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news_articles/2016/11092016-kellogg-new-curriculum-courses.aspx

KACI-950-5: Human and Machine Intelligence (Adam Pah, Spring 2017)

Human and Machine Intelligence delves into new research findings on artificial intelligence and the applications for modern business leaders. Using sophisticated AI programs like IBM’s Deep Blue and Google’s AlphaGo, this course will develop students’ data science skills and teach them to apply “human+machine thought partnerships” to grow businesses.

“While there are many examples of machines outperforming humans at some tasks, its less clear when machines can augment human decision-making and creativity,” said Adam Pah, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations. “We will focus on how students can leverage machine intelligence, while discussing the possibility and limitations of machine-learning to enhance their output and performance beyond a human or machine alone.”

KIEI-967-0: Launching and Leading Startups (Brad Morehead, Winter 2017; Carter Cast, Spring 2017)

Launching and Leading Startups examines some of the most challenging and pervasive problems faced by entrepreneurial CEOs – including evaluating markets, developing products, mitigating risk, and creating effective go-to-market strategies while leading teams and managing boards from the CEO “hot seat”.

“Our Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative leadership team realized there was an opportunity to offer a broad survey course for innovative, entrepreneurially-minded students who want to gain exposure to entrepreneurship,” said Carter Cast, Clinical Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. “This will be a good class for students who are curious about entrepreneurship and who think they may pursue an entrepreneurial endeavor in the near future, whether through starting their own business, acquiring a business or joining an early-stage startup.”

MKTG-918-5: Consumers, Culture and Leadership (Greg Carpenter, Fall 2016)

Consumers, Culture and Leadership explores how firms develop a deep understanding of customers, how leaders can create more agile, innovative organizations and how leaders can create new markets, redefine existing ones and deliver value to demanding buyers.

“Much of the thinking behind customer centricity was developed at Kellogg and remains central to our distinctive approach,” said Greg Carpenter, James Farley/Booz Allen Hamilton Professor of Marketing Strategy. “The timing seems right to offer a new course to more formally explore the rising influence of consumers, how organizations are transforming their culture to focus more on consumers, and successful leadership models for customer-centric firms.”

KPPI-957-0: Business of Social Change (Megan Kashner, Winter 2017)

Business of Social Change studies a singular social issue to help students understand the causes, measurement, levers and outcomes inherent to the business of social change work. With this term’s focus on uneducated and unemployed American youths, students will hear from guest speakers including policy experts, large-scale employers of youth, impact measurement experts and experts on labor, detention and workforce development.

“We’ve added this new course to provide students with the foundational tools and approaches to follow a social or sustainability challenge from etiology to measurement to levers for change and impact,” said Megan Kashner, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Kellogg Public-Private Interface. “Students will complete this course with the skills to determine the roots of a problem and the paths to large-scale and market-driven change.”

Other new courses for the 2016-2017 academic year include:

Accounting (ACCT-457-5): Global Financial Management and Reporting, Mark Finn, Spring 2017
Finance (FINC-950-0): Capital Markets, Phillip Braun, Fall 2016; Ian Dew-Becker, Winter 2017
Health Enterprise Management (HEMA-940-5): Health Analytics, Eric Barrette, Spring 2017
Kellogg Public-Private Interface (KPPI-936-0): Sustainability Across The Enterprise, Klaus Weber, Spring 2017
Managerial Economics (MECN-484-5): Thought Leadership Seminar: Issues in Developing Countries, Nancy Qian, Fall 2016
Marketing (MKTG-954-5): Mastering Marketing Technologies, Jonathan Copulsky, Winter 2017
Marketing (MKTG-956-0): Digital Marketing Strategy, Garrett Adam Johnson, Spring 2017

合格に必要な要素

この時期は1月や2月の締切日で出願された受験生が世界各国で面接試験を受ける一方で、嬉しいお知らせ（合格報告）も届き始めております。

自身で納得がいくスコアを取ることで、気持ちと時間に余裕が生まれ、レジュメ、エッセイ、推薦状の質を向上させるために労力を注ぎ、出願先の関係者との交流にも熱が入り、そうした経験がエッセイやインタビュー用コンテンツに反映されます。このように、各対策項目を点ではなく線で捉えて準備を進めていくためは、モチベーション、気持ちの切り替えといった心理的要素も鍵を握っていると思います。

担当受験生の支援を継続していく中で、個々の気持ちの持ちようがテストスコア等の対策準備に影響を及ぼす場面を多々目の当たりにしてきました。「合格するために何が必要ですか？」と問われこともありますが、私は以下の3つの基本要素が必要だと思います：1) 試験に対する自らの準備度合い、2) 実力、3)心理的な要素（モチベーションなど）が合致した時こそ、出願準備プロセスで訪れる決定的な局面（例：絶対にスコアアップが必要な場合）を乗り越えられると思います。まさに、「勝負力」と言っても過言ではないと思います。