Showing posts with label Get Into Bschool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Get Into Bschool. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2009

Return of Shortcuts

It's a sad day when your competitive advantage is your knowledge of Excel and Excel short cuts. If you work in Excel a lot, short cuts either speed up your work / save your wrists from carpal tunnel / or make you look much better at your job than you are. This is my 5-year-old Excel short cuts cheat sheet. If you can't use it for work, you Poets can use it to build street credibility with your business school classmates.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Applying to Business School

The advice I give to folks starting their business school application process is to buy Richard Montauk's book, How to Get into the Top MBA Programs. Montauk provides a thorough overview to the application process and key strategies to approach your essays, recommendations, etc. I thank a GSB classmate for recommending this book to me.