Some of you may be too young to remember the details, but about 12 years ago, we had that big financial crisis involving mortgages and Wall Street and fancy-dancy securities called collateral debt obligations and all that jazz. The part you probably do remember is that it made the housing market melt down, and people […]
Continue reading...Trying to walk the talk
For as long as we’ve been the Snarkiest Snarker of MBA Essays, we’ve had a program providing support to military candidates trying for business school. We see honor in choosing to serve the country, and we respect that choice, and have wanted to offer resources to a segment of the applicant population that was considered […]
Continue reading...A call to the business schools: TRANSPARENCY
First: Why do we say “Asian-American” and “African-American” and “Native American” – but not “Caucasian-American”? Shouldn’t we start to use that explicit label? Who cares that Caucasians are the majority. Just saying that Caucasians are “American” means that when we say “American” we expect it to mean “a white person” which is a flaw of […]
Continue reading...Microaggressions
You’re in a big meeting at a client site. You’ve never been there before. The meeting is hot into discussion, and your boss turns to you and says, “Can you go print out the Acme Report for last quarter? Get copies for everyone. I think we need that to make this decision.” It’s not your […]
Continue reading...Is this change for real this time?
There’s a criticism going around social media directed at these suddenly woke white folks accusing them of only NOW recognizing that Blacks and other non-white minorities have been dealing with racism since forever. Because suddenly it’s trendy or cool to be all #BLM, but it’s not legit. It’s just because other people are doing it […]
Continue reading...The Consortium application
As you now know since we just covered it again yesterday, The Consortium is trying to increase minority enrollment in the best bschools in America. We’ve never said much about it before because a) if you’re qualified to apply to The Consortium, you honestly don’t need much help — The Consortium offers lots of support, […]
Continue reading...More on diversity in bschool
Previously we wrote about The Consortium, which is an org dedicated to fixing the imbalance and supporting more diversity in business. Did you know that less than 25% of the students at most top bschools are U.S. minorities? What’s up with that? Only 25%?? Even worse, it’s less than 20% at lots of places. Forte […]
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