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Berkeley Haas MBA Students Unveil Study on Regenerative Agriculture Business Models
Key Takeaways: Berkeley Haas MBA students, in collaboration with Ideagarden Institute, have released the “Flourishing Farmer” report, which will be presented at the Climate Underground Conference on October 24. The report profiles five regenerative agriculture enterprises, showcasing diverse business models that balance profitability with environmental stewardship. Key findings include the…
انطلاق بنّاء: منصة توفّر لك كل ما تحتاجه لبناء مشروعك التقني من الفكرة وحتى أول فاتورة
صباح البِناء،
مهند غشيم يُطلق بنَّاء. وهي منصَّة لمساعدة كل من يريد بناء شركة أو منتج تقني خلال أيام وليس أشهر وبتكلفة تقل عن ١٠٠ دولار وليس الآلاف. [حسوب آي أو] رابط منصة بناء.
واجهة منصة بناء
جدير بالقراءة الزميل هشام فرج يكتب: تجربتي في الابتعاد عن الفيس بوك لمدة 15 يوماً. [حسوب آي أو] أوصي بمتابعة مدونة هشام فرج: الريفيوهانجي
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Exceptional mindset
You have the perfect business idea. You work on it, elaborate on your business model and build the first prototype. Before you found your own company, you want to test your product by asking others and talking with potential customers. What do you do? You probably will end up keeping the idea for yourself and risk entering the market without the opinion and advice of others.
Why? Because you are afraid somebody will steal your idea or even embarrass you. That’s how a business idea ends. Well, not in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley could be defined as the place where you share as much information as you can because everybody out here will not think about how to steal your idea, but rather how to help you best. They want to enhance every idea and they do not care if it is not their own.
This still fascinates me. This really makes Silicon Valley a different place. Helping each other out, being open-minded and staying optimistic are key characteristics of the Berkeley experience. See it yourself.
MBA Admissions Criteria used by business school admissions committees
What are the MBA Admissions Criteria used by Admissions Committees in evaluating my candidacy? Understanding the MBA Admissions Criteria helps you in both preparing optimal MBA applications and selecting schools at which to apply. You should prepare each component of the MBA application (essays, resume, work history, etc.) to address (show strength) in one or more of the MBA evaluation criteria. Choosing MBA Schools at which to apply and determining stretch, target, and safety schools is dependent upon the strength of your candidacy based on this evaluation criteria and the degree to which those schools fits your needs. Almost all MBA schools look at the same set of factors when evaluating your candidacy, although some schools will weigh certain elements more than others. Also, Different MBA Program Types will factor the elements differently (a school’s EMBA program will weigh the Professional Dimension more and your Academic Profile less than the school’s full-time MBA program will). Schools want to admit candidates that have great intellectual capacity, demonstrated impact, leadership capabilities, interpersonal skills, and other qualities shown in differing areas of his or her life. These dimensions are Professional, Community, and Personal. However, a school must first ask can you academically compete in their program by assessing your Academic Profile prior to determining whether your level of achievement and potential within the Professional, Community, and Personal dimensions are sufficient to admit you.
MBA Admissions Criteria
From the INSEAD MBA Admissions Criteria page:
Academic Profile
MBA schools evaluate your Academic Dimension by looking at your academic performance (especially in quantitative subjects), test scores, and other factors such as your intellectual curiosity and initiative for learning.
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Your academic performance can be gleaned by examining your undergraduate and graduate transcripts along with post-graduate diplomas, certificates and additional coursework. What was your GPA (or % for certain foreign students) in your coursework and major(s)? How difficult is each school attended, degree attained and major completed? For instance, Military Service Academies have low average GPA’s as do engineering degrees when compared to liberal arts degrees. So, a student graduating with a low GPA in Electrical Engineering from West Point might have a stronger academic profile than another person graduating with a higher GPA in philosophy from a lower ranked school. Did you take rigorous classes and do well? Did you earn strong grades in univariate calculus and statistics? How difficult was your academic institution and the degree you chose (it is known that engineering degrees product the lowest GPAs)?
Test Scores
What was your score on the GMAT or GRE? How well did you perform on the quantitative portion? Most schools use the 80% as a rough threshold. If you score less than 80%, you will want to show quantitative aptitude in other areas of your application. I recommend for MBA applicants to take the GMAT because schools have more of a history with the exam. Applicants who take the GRE are usually those with another advanced degree (as the GRE is the entrance requirement) or from a developing country (the GRE is less expensive than the GMAT). How have you performed on the TOEFL if you are an international applicant who graduated from a school which was not taught in English? Schools evaluate your English proficiency by looking at your test score, essays, and interview. This proficiency is important because class contribution and study groups are a significant part of the MBA experience.
Certifications or Credentials
Have you achieved a designation that shows accomplishment, such as passing all three exams within the CFA (Certified Financial Analyst)?
Publications
Have you been published which would demonstrate thought leadership in specific field or way of thinking? Does this align with a school’s research centers and initiatives?
Professional Dimension
The Professional Dimension includes your career trajectory, achievements, demonstrated leadership and teamwork, global mindset, and other characteristics.
Promotions/Advancement
Have you progressed in your career with promotions? For instance, if you are a technology consultant you could have progressed from analyst to lead to project manager to client relationship manager. Promotions can also occur in matrix organizations (like Microsoft) in which you advance in title and role separately. Ideally promotions would have occurred with the same company, but could have occurred over multiple companies as you left for higher positions.
Impact
What has been your demonstrated impact versus your peer group (applicants with similar roles in similar industries and from similar regions)? Impact is best shown as affecting other entities and people besides yourself whether organizations, divisions, teams, individuals, etc.
Leadership
What has been your demonstrated leadership versus your peer group (applicants with similar roles in similar industries and from similar regions)? Leadership can be by authority or influence. Leaders have different leadership styles (such as participative) and capabilities. Although impact and leadership are often correlated these are not necessarily the same. A salesperson would show impact, but not necessarily leadership, by exceeding his or her quota as an individual producer. The same person could show both impact and leadership by leading a team or establishing a training program to empower many people to exceed their quotas. Ideally, when choosing answers to essay questions (especially “leadership essay question types”) the applicant is both able to demonstrate impact and leadership.
Teamwork
How do you contribute in a group when you are not the leader or leadership is shared? How do you manage conflict (this is relevant both when you are a leader and teammate)? Have you developed specific teamwork skills that skills include facilitation, consensus building, morale building, mentoring, etc.? Teamwork is tied to interpersonal and group communication skills which MBA admissions committees evaluate in your essays and especially during your interview. Wharton’s team-based interview format is specifically designed to glean this information.
Global
Have you worked in multiple countries and/or with people from different cultures? Have you led or managed differently to attain results in these environments? How has your perspective been broadened given these experiences?
Characteristics
Have you conducted yourself with integrity and/or positively handled ethical dilemmas? Have you demonstrated initiative? Have you shown resiliency (often addressed in answering “failure essay question types) and emotional intelligence?
Community Dimension
Community encompasses extracurricular activities and community service (activities outside of school). When discussing the Community dimension you still want to show promotions, impact, leadership, teamwork, a global element and other characteristics but how you discuss each of these and what you highlight might be different. Community involvement is important because admissions committees want to admit good people who will positively impact the world and be engaged with the school through its clubs, conferences, programs, etc. Pre-MBA community involvement is a strong indicator of community engagement while at MBA school.
Promotions
Promotions in community service could be position-based (selected for a board seat of a non-profit) or role-based (advancing from a member of a group to its leader for a fundraising team participating in a marathon)
Leadership
How do you lead in non-professional settings when involvement is often voluntary?
Teamwork
How do you positively contribute to team dynamics when some members might be paid staff and other members volunteers?
Global
Do any of your community service or extracurricular activities encompass a global scope or involve a global mission?
Characteristics
What is the underlying motivation (such as altruism, education, freedom, opportunity) that drives you to dedicate your non-work time to these non-professional activities? Where is the passion that defines you as a human being?
Personal Dimension
MBA Admissions Committees also look at your background, perspectives, and pursuits outside of your professional and community involvements to build a diverse class with unique and relevant viewpoints. Do you come from an underrepresented minority group or global region? Have your risen from especially difficult circumstances (and has this influenced your professional, community and personal goals)? Certain essay questions might ask about your family background, the different experiences that have shaped you, something that might surprise the Admissions Committee, etc. If not asked, you might include this information in your optional essay.
Overall Fit
All MBA Admissions Committees seek candidates with a strong academic profile and an excellent history of promotions, impact, leadership, teamwork, a global mindset and other characteristics in professional, community, and personal dimensions. Schools, though have different evaluation criteria and guiding principles that influence their selection process which you can learn from thoroughly researching the school. MIT Sloan publishes “What We Look For” and Haas’ Guiding Principles are “Question the Status Quo”, “Confidence Without Attitude”, “Student Always” and “Beyond Yourself”. MIT Sloan does not feel that your short and long term goals dictate your future success as a business leader (and hence MIT Sloan does not have a goals question), while Columbia considers the alignment of your goals with their recruiters and academic programs as an important criterion (and hence why Columbia does have a goals question). So, in closing, prepare your applications based upon the generic and specific criteria that MBA Admissions Committees will use to evaluate your candidacy.
Haas MBA Essay Questions 2014-2015
#Haas #MBA #Essay #Questions 2014-2015
Haas MBA Essay Questions have been released in addition to the application deadlines. University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business has reduced the number of essay questions from four to three and the word length from 1500 to 1400 words in comparison to the essay questions from last year. The song and failure questions have been eliminated for a “perspective” essay. The…
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Open Innovation: Bringing the Outside In and Taking the Inside Out
Earlier today we here at WOBI hosted a webinar with Bill Schulz of Walden University and Dr. Henry Chesbrough of the Program for Open Innovation at Berkeley Haas. The topic of the webinar was "Open Innovation: Bringing the Outside In, and Taking the Inside Out." Here are our top ten takeaways from the webinar:
1. Innovation is becoming Open Innovation
2. This means it is about taking down the fences around your Research and Development facilities
3. Start breaking down internal silos preventing open sharing of ideas
4. Re-think the relationship between your Intellectual Property and the “Commons.” Understand that Open Innovation creates new growth opportunities
5. The legal and creative teams should try new approaches between Intellectual Property (IP) and Open Innovation.
6. Ask if you or your company has an internal strategy for Open Innovation
7. Recognize that the old model of knowledge hoarding is giving way to knowledge sharing
8. Use judgement in applying your ideas about IP when venturing abroad, while recognizing that no one company or R&D department can go it alone
9. Follow @openinno to stay current or share comments and ideas
10. Preparing for the Open Innovation journey requires the following four steps: experimentation, commitment, expansion and being part of the DNA
Later this week the recording of the webinar will be available on demand at WOBI Live!
