Funny MBA Stories

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My MBA Application Journey: Part One

34 yrs old, 720 GMAT, 10 year career, 3 and a half languages - enough to get into a top b-school?

posted on: 24 January 2012 | 12 comments

MBAs Fave Vacations And Hot Trends For 2012

Hungary, Sweden, Germany... MBAs are heading where the jobs are and not, sadly, to the beach

posted on: 16 December 2011 | 10 comments

What Do MBAs Want For Christmas?!

No more reality TV and a composting bin... surprisingly not everyone said they wanted a job.

posted on: 12 December 2011 | 3 comments

The Saudi Prince

Watch out for the well-dressed but humble guy in the corner

posted on: 10 May 2011 | 1 comment

The MBA Show!

MIT MBAs team up to do a satirical talk show on American b-school culture

posted on: 7 January 2011 | 5 comments

How Not To Get A Job!

On Being Gross, Tacky, Charmless, and Dumb

posted on: 25 October 2010

Do Scandinavians Hate Responsibility?

Danish business grad explains why her countrymen shun promotion at work

posted on: 14 October 2010 | 2 comments

The Person in Your Class Most Responsible for the Subprime Crisis

While most ex-mortgage securitizers blame the crisis on indolent single mothers who borrowed...

posted on: 27 August 2010

The Non-stop Name Dropper

Everyone at business school is an incorrigible name dropper, but for this person it's a chronic...

posted on: 17 August 2010 | 3 comments

Wharton Punk'd

Fellow teaching assistants give golden boy the Ashton Kutcher treatment

posted on: 10 August 2010

Another Thing To Thank Facebook For

Facebook has given life to a new breed of 'Social Media Consultants'

posted on: 9 July 2010 | 27 comments

When Columbia MBAs Knew How To Get Down

Were the Class of 2005 follies the best ever?

posted on: 2 July 2010

UK Shadow Chancellor: Britain Will be

Catching George Osborne Off-Guard

posted on: 6 May 2010 | 1 comment

The MBA Couple

Swapping spit ALL around campus

posted on: 6 March 2010 | 1 comment

Dog Awarded MBA

Chester

posted on: 23 September 2009

The Not-So-Undercover Republican

Enough rounds of golf and even the politics make sense. On a campus near you.

posted on: 12 September 2009 | 1 comment

Lil Miss Facebook

All this girl knows about the Lockerbie Bomber is that he just updated his status to

posted on: 26 August 2009 | 1 comment

Another Guide To Surviving the Great Recession

So you forgot your girlfriend's birthday. Doesn't she know there's a recession on?

posted on: 24 August 2009 | 4 comments

Mr. Espanol

Even his Colombian kidnappers couldn't stand his tales from Gringo-land and turned him in. On a...

posted on: 17 August 2009 | 3 comments

The Terrible-Idea-For-a-Start-up Guy

He's been working on something. He's lining up investors. On a campus near you.

posted on: 10 August 2009 | 3 comments

Harvard's Spice Girls Tribute

The class of 2009 swore an oath of professional conduct. The class of 2008 sang about start-up...

posted on: 23 July 2009 | 2 comments

MBA Frat Guy

He's confident, he's successful, he's, um, confident. At a business school near you.

posted on: 20 July 2009 | 3 comments

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Surrounded By Clever People?

Michael Jackson’s rise and fall holds lessons for Qatari bank executive

posted on: 26 June 2009 | 9 comments

MBAs: Headed Downtown but Ended Up Crosstown

New York cabbie sympathizes with former Bear Stearns passenger who had to go back to Ireland

posted on: 30 May 2009 | 5 comments

Blackberry Buddies with Stelios

Any billionaire who doesn’t run you over with his Hummer is a really nice guy, right? Well,...

posted on: 13 May 2009 | 5 comments

MBA stands for Member of the British Aristocracy

Protestors at the G20 meeting in London give their views on business students

posted on: 28 April 2009 | 4 comments

MBA Statesmen

Business is the second-most popular professional background for politicians but only a few have...

posted on: 28 April 2009 | 1 comment

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