月別アーカイブ: 2015年4月

【MBA 2016年入学用 推薦状課題】Columbia

Recommendations
エッセイ課題への回答を通じて表現したい自分の側面、そして推薦者の視点から語っていただく側面の仕分けも含めて、この時期から職業キャリアの棚卸し作業を進めていきましょう。
自らのアピール部分を的確に把握してもらうためにも、下記の課題内容にも記されているSpecific Examplesは欠かせませんので、推薦者となる方々ともその点を共有していきましょう。

http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/programs-admissions/mba/admissions/application-requirements#6

All first-time applications require two recommendations. Reapplicants are required to submit one new recommendation. If you have been working full-time for at least six months, one recommendation should be from your current supervisor. The second recommendation should be from either a former direct supervisor or from another professional associate, senior to you, who can share their insights on your candidacy.

If you are a college senior or have worked full-time for fewer than six months, at least one, but preferably both, of your recommendations should be from a person who can comment on your managerial abilities. You may ask a summer employer or another person whom you feel can objectively assess your professional promise. The second recommendation may be from a college professor.

Please note that Columbia Business School and several of our peer institutions use similar, if not identical, recommendation questions. This is an effort on our part to make the process easier for your recommenders. We expect that you, the applicant, will not participate in the drafting of these recommendations. Applications are not considered complete until all required information is submitted. This includes recommendations.

We ask recommenders to consider the following guidelines when writing their recommendations (recommended limit – 1000 words):

  • How do the candidate’s performance, potential, background, or personal qualities compare to those of other well-qualified individuals in similar roles? Please provide specific examples.
  • Please describe the most important piece of constructive feedback you have given the applicant. Please detail the circumstances and the applicant’s response.

Please be aware: The Admissions Committee requires that all application materials be submitted online, including recommendations.

【MBA 2016年入学用 エッセイ課題】: Columbia

エッセイ課題

まずは下記をご参照ください。
Applicants must complete one short answer question and three essays.
http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/programs-admissions/mba/admissions/application-requirements

Short Answer Question:
What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 characters maximum)

Examples of possible responses:
“Work in business development for a media company.”
“Join a strategy consulting firm.”
“Launch a data-management start-up.”

Essay 1:
Through your resume and recommendations, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals going forward, and how will the Columbia MBA help you achieve them? (Maximum 500 words)

Essay 2:
Columbia Business School’s location enables us to bridge theory and practice in multiple ways: through Master Classes, internships, the New York Immersion Seminars, and, most importantly, through a combination of distinguished research faculty and accomplished practitioners. How will you take advantage of being “at the very center of business”? (Maximum 250 words)

Essay 3:
CBS Matters, a key element of the School’s culture, allows the people in your Cluster to learn more about you on a personal level. What will your Clustermates be pleasantly surprised to learn about you? (Maximum 250 words)

Optional Essay:
An optional fourth essay will allow you to discuss any issues that do not fall within the purview of the required essays.

【MBA 2016年入学用出願締切日】 Columbia

年々、各ビジネススクールでは出願締め切り日の発表が早くなっている印象を受けますが、Columbia Universityでは早々に発表となりました。
http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/programs-admissions/mba/admissions

January 2016 Entry
Deadline : October 7, 2015

August 2016 Entry (Early Decision)
Deadline: October 7, 2015

◆Merit Fellowship Consideration
Deadline: January 6, 2016

◆Regular Decision
Deadline: April 13, 2016

All deadlines are 11:59 p.m. New York Time on the date listed.

学部長のインタビュー(Columbia Univ. Law School)

Columbia University, Law Schoolに着任した新学部長のインタビュー記事が掲載されています。
カリキュラムの編成等に関するトピックは、来年度以降のカリキュラム内容に影響が及ぶ可能性を残します。
学校リサーチを行う上では、こうした記事にも注目していきましょう。
http://chronicle.com/article/New-Dean-Asks-More-of-a/229253?cid=megamenu

<<以下、記事からの抜粋箇所です>
Among those priorities, she says, are tweaking the curriculum to help students see themselves as “global actors” and as entrepreneurs who can intentionally craft a career that, over time, spans the private and public sectors. Ms. Lester also wants to forge stronger ties between alumni and current students and maintain “people’s pride about this community.”

Students at Columbia Law School are already talented, “so the question is what do we do to make them the best version of themselves,” Ms. Lester says. “I talk to our students about taking full advantage of their three years here, to not just ask what the law is, but what the law ought to be.”

New Sports Law Program : Columbia University & ISDE

スペインの Instituto Superior de Derecho y EconomiaとアメリカのColumbia Universityが、スポーツ法とスポーツ・マネジメントに特化した新たな共同学位を発表しました。また、欧米の両地域にてインターンシップなどの実 務経験や関係者との交流など、ダイナミックな大学院課程プログラムになることが予想されます。

ISDE and Columbia University proudly announce the launch of a new Companion Degree Program for internationally oriented sports industry professionals.

Qualified students can now earn two professional degrees – Columbia’s market-leading Master of Science (MS) in Sports Management, and ISDE’s innovative Master of Laws (LLM) in Global Sports Law – over the course of 12 months of intensive classroom study in New York City, and another four months of hands-on internship experience with a leading sports organization in the United States, Europe or elsewhere. (Longer internships may, in some cases, be possible with the agreement of the student and host organization.)

Columbia/ISDE Companion Degree students enjoy the same academic and administrative benefits as all other full-time Columbia students. At the same time, they also benefit from the special academic content and proven placement services offered by ISDE’s Financial Times-ranked LLM programs in sports law and other disciplines.

The Columbia/ISDE Companion Degree Program is open to highly motivated professionals with a law degree from their home country or other jurisdiction.

 

学部長のインタビュー(Duke Univ., Fuqua School)

以下、Duke, Fuqua School学部長のインタビュー記事が掲載されています。
クラス編成とダイバーシティー、リーダーシップ教育、チームワークといったトピックについてコメントされています。スクールの全体像や教育方針を把握する上で、組織の長でもある学部長の発言やコメントにも注目していきましょう。
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/b-schools-need-to-build-trusted-leaders-bill-boulding/articleshow/46994910.cms

<以下、注目点をインタビュー記事より抜粋しました>
About 40-45% of our students are not from the US. We think it’s really important to be a global business school because we’re completely interdependent and it will be better if we recognise that we need to work with people who are different from us.

Leaders should be able to bring about collective diversity which starts with the assumption that we’re stronger because we’re together and we’re different. When people believe you care about them something amazing happens. Then they do have a sense of shared identity. They feel valued and welcome. Supportive ambition is really important.

Our emphasis is on making sure that in our curriculum we not only give people a sense of economic institutions and the way people conduct business but also behaviors that exist in different parts of the world. It’s important to create, practical global first hand experiences for our students, and you need to be someone who can embrace differences.

One of our great advantage is that we’re so fundamentally interdisciplinary. The emphasis is on fostering team spirit, and we have this thing called team Fuqua, which is an important part of our MBA experience.

Leaders should be able to bring about collective diversity which starts with the assumption that we’re stronger because we’re together and we’re different. When people believe you care about them something amazing happens. Then they do have a sense of shared identity. They feel valued and welcome. Supportive ambition is really important.

Has there been an increasing focus on markets like India for US business schools with the growing popularity of GMAC here? We have about 30 students in every class from India. We have students groups and regional teams trying to build relationships with industry and government leaders who will help us better understand what are the pressing issues in India. We have more than 425 students in every class each ..

Has there been an increasing focus on markets like India for US business schools with the growing popularity of GMAC here? We have about 30 students in every class from India. We have students groups and regional teams trying to build relationships with industry and government leaders who will help us better understand what are the pressing issues in India. We have more than 425 students in every class each year. We’ve been ahead of some of the b schools for some time  ..

MBA教育と女性のキャリア形成

Financial TimesのサイトでWomen in Businessという記事を見つけました。University of Toronto, Rotman School of Managementの在校生に関する記事が掲載されています。この中では下記1~8の質問事項に対する自らの意見が紹介されています。
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/4876fa60-d7b9-11e4-849b-00144feab7de.html#axzz3WzATXAwh

1. How do competitive sports compare to studying for an MBA?
2. Why did you choose to apply to business school?
3. Why did you choose Rotman?
4. How would you describe the gender dynamics in your cohort?
5. What are you finding the most difficult?
6. Who is your ideal professor?
7. What is the best piece of advice given to you by a teacher?
8. What is your favourite business book?
9. Which websites / apps would you recommend for businesswomen?
10. What are your top tips for networking?

私の眼に止まったのは、以下”transferrable skills”に対する学生の見解が述べられているポイントです。スポーツに限らず、長年続けてきた活動等がある際には、そうした経験から得たこと、現在の仕事に生かされていることなどを考えてみましょう。
<中略>
Most importantly though, hockey taught me how to work in a team and achieve results together as a group. There is no way you can win a hockey game on your own; equally, there are times in the MBA when you need the help of others. On the other hand, through sports you become dependable because your teammates need to be able to rely on you. This is crucial in an MBA and a high degree of reliability makes you a valuable member of any MBA study team; and of course, later in your professional life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MBAランキングとキャリアとの関係性

Columbia Business Schoolの学部長が、MBAランキングに対する自らの考えをシェアしています。
皆さんには、”ランキング”はどのようなものに映りますか?
http://fortune.com/2015/04/06/do-b-school-rankings-really-matter/

<中略>
自分の眼に止まった箇所はイタリック体へ変換しました。
It’s just as important, however, to know what happens to students when they leave school—the outputs. If the job market deems the students to have received a valuable education, they will receive good job offers. That should hardly come as a surprise—employers want the best employees they can get. Schools that routinely graduate classes at full or near-full employment, with good job satisfaction, have reason to believe they’re receiving a vote of confidence from the market. Rankings that provide data on job offers, salary levels, and other “value added” criteria are providing another critical piece of the puzzle.

Put these pieces together, then, and the picture that emerges might be shocking to some. There are, in fact, top business schools—consistently so—and there is a quantitative way to differentiate them from the rest. The handful of business schools that dominate the upper tiers of today’s rankings no doubt see the input and output numbers you would expect. And because they do, they enjoy the cascading effects of being a top business school, like the programmatic adaptability that comes with financial health, and the ability to build or maintain an extraordinary faculty.

So all rankings of business schools, at least in part, reflect an on-the-ground reality—if they are taking into consideration the inputs and outputs that are key data points. Admittedly, the aggregate difference between schools in the top five or 10 can be slight. However, being ranked #1 versus #10 can significantly impact the perspective of the marketplace. It’s up to each school and each prospective applicant to discern the signal from the noise and act accordingly.

That means that, while rankings matter, if you are thinking about applying to business school, the question is whether the rankings matter for you.

Plenty of people apply to a school because it has reached the summit of a “best-of” ranking, just as many people will see a movie or buy a book after it wins an award. That’s human nature. We want to experience the best. But if you are looking for a particular type of career—as an entrepreneur or a leader in social enterprise, for example—or you know that location will be important for your future job prospects, some schools will meet your needs better than others. In which case, your needs should trump the seal of approval of any publication. You owe it to yourself to do your homework on a school’s academic curriculum, career management efforts, alumni network, and ability to put you in front of leaders who are shaping business today.

In the end, though, finding the top business school for you doesn’t have to be a guessing game. The information needed to identify the best schools is out there, and if you ask this dean, that’s the real business of business school rankings.

 

 

コロンビア大学ジャーナリズムスクールと時代の推移

コロンビア大学ジャーナリズムスクールのプログラム規模縮小に関する記事を紹介します。

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-11/columbia-will-shrink-journalism-school-as-media-woes-mount

The school will gradually reduce enrollment over several years and has already stopped filling some vacant faculty positions, Steve Coll, dean of the school since 2013, said in an e-mail to students, faculty and staff today.

News organizations around the world are cutting staff and budgets as advertisers and readers have fled traditional media for free online sources and social media sites, such as Twitter. While graduate student applications rose sharply after the recession that began in 2008, the school’s class size is headed back to a lower “historical norm,” Coll said.

“This adjustment will preserve our capacity for hands-on and intensive teaching that is a trademark of the school,” he said in the e-mail.

The staff reductions won’t be faculty positions, spokeswoman Elizabeth Fishman said in an e-mail.

The New York school will also focus on raising funds for student scholarships, Coll said. Estimated tuition, fees and living expenses for a full-time master’s degree student are $92,933, according to the school website. Coll said he will host a public meeting tomorrow to discuss the changes.

Columbia is seeing increased demand for training in digital media, Fishman said, adding that applications for the school’s dual degree in journalism and computer science were up 47 percent this year.

Columbia, which administers the Pulitzer Prizes, is the only Ivy League school to offer a graduate journalism degree. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, the school offers a one-year program.

 

大学院出願前に考えておくこと

Timesサイトに記事が掲載されていますので紹介致します。こうして様々な考えに触れることにより、自らの進学(留学)理由を問い続け、確固たるものにしましょう。

The Most Important Thing to Know Before Applying to Grad School
http://time.com/money/3699317/is-graduate-school-worth-it/

When a Grad Degree Makes Sense
Wondering if continuing your education pay off for you? There are three situations in which going back to school will put you ahead, according to several recent studies:

1.You are aiming for a job in a field that either requires a graduate degree or in which employers use graduate degrees as a hiring screen. Besides the traditional graduate-degree-requisite jobs of doctor, lawyer and professor, a growing number of jobs require graduate study, including as librarian, social worker and physical therapist.And, in a study of 19 major employers, Sean Gallagher, an administrator at Northeastern University, found that a growing number of human resources administrators are giving preference to job applicants with masters’ degrees, and that masters’ often helped in competitions for promotions.

2. You need the degree to get the public service career you want anyway. Students who use the federal direct Stafford and PLUS loan programs to borrow the full cost (including living expenses) of their graduate study and then spend 10 years working for a government agency or a non-profit can have much of their graduate school expenses forgiven under the government’s Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.According to research by Jason Deslisle, director of the federal education budget project at the New America Foundation, a new veterinarian with the typical education debt load of $132,000 who gets a government job and signs up for Income-Based Repayment (which caps payments at 10% of disposable income) will likely pay a total of only $36,000 in debt payments over 10 years. After the 120th on-time payment, the government would forgive a total of $147,000, which is all of the original debt, plus some unpaid interest. But beware: if you don’t end up making 120 on-time payments while working at public service, you will likely either have to pay off your debt in full, or have to keep making on-time income-based payments for at least 20 years, after which you may be eligible to have any remaining debt forgiven.

3. You are in a field in which graduate degrees tend to lead to higher earnings. The Georgetown study found that graduate degrees typically add about $1 million to the lifetime earnings of, for example, chemists and financial professionals. But graduate degrees appear to have little overall impact on the average earnings of writers, editors, architects and many kinds of health-related therapists, such as audiologists. You can see the affects of advanced degrees on other occupations by viewing the full report.