The MBA Jungle B-School Survival Guide - Softcover

Shapiro, Bill; Jungle, The Editors Of MBA

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738205117 ISBN 13: 9780738205113

Publisher: Basic Books, 2001

Synopsis

The official handbook for B-school culture and customs, The MBA Jungle B-School Survival Guide is filled with insights on the MBA experience. It also offers practical advice with a flair and sophistication that will appeal to current and would-be MBA students. Far from your same-old sawdust-dry business-school guide, The MBA Jungle B-School Survival Guide is smart and witty, yet still manages to take business seriously. It covers a full array of topics-from determining if an MBA track is appropriate for you, to decoding curriculum needs, to parlaying classroom relationships and knowledge into job offers. It also outlines the intangibles-such as status and confidence-one can assemble by knowing B-school protocol. Drawing from interviews and focus groups with professors, recruiters, and CEOs, this is a one-stop guide for getting the most out of your MBA and getting ahead in the business world.

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From the Back Cover

"After reading this you will...Get in/OUTWIT, Succeed/OUTPLAY, and Survive/OUTLAST in B-school and beyond!" -- Rebecca L. Butler, MBA Recruiter, Investment Banking Campus Recruiting, UBS Warburg

"This is an indispensable guide to the world of business and business schools. I only wish they'd written it forty five years ago." -- Senator Herb Kohl, MBA, Harvard, l958, Owner, Milwaukee Bucks; Former owner, Kohl's Food Stores, Kohl's Department Stores

"Helpful career and academic advice? It's all in here, and these guys also tell you how to have a great time in business school." -- John Katzman, Founder & CEO, The Princeton Review

"The B-School Survival Guide should be the first thing you grab before blazing your career path. It arms you with valuable insights into the B-school world and paints an authentic picture of the recruiting process." -- Seth L. Feit, Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition, America Online, Inc.

"Prospective students needs all the information they can get. The MBA Jungle B-School Survival Guide provides a wealth of valuable information that is both readable and amusing, a combination not often found in writings on the MBA experience." --- Paul Danos, Dean, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business

Far from the same-old sawdust-dry manual, The MBA Jungle B-School Survival Guide is smart and witty, yet takes business and business school very seriously. It covers a full array of topics --from determining if the MBA track is right for you and making your application stand out from the pack, to transforming your classroom knowledge and relationships into job offers at elite firms.

Read The MBA Jungle B-School Survival Guide to:

* Learn what the world's best business professors think you should know
* Ace the application process and get into your dream school
* Develop a killer network and make it work for you
* Discover top recruiters' winning career advancement techniques

About the Author

Jon Housman is co-founder and CEO of Jungle Interactive Media, Inc., and an adjunct professor at the NYU's Stern School of Business. He is also on the board of overseers at Stern, and is a former consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in strategies for companies in the media and entertainment industry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0738205117
• ISBN 13: 9780738205113
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224