Middle East MBA Blog

I received an email from the Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation on August 28 2008 (The Foundation is a really exciting initiative launched by the ruler of Dubai that runs a Fellowship Program offering scholarships for Arab MBA / MPP / MPA students) : Dear Shehab Your application was among many others reviewed by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Fellows Program from wonderfully qualifie... ... (MORE)

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I pulled the plug on my email account that is registered to this blog (which was completely drowned in spam) but can t seem to switch the email address on the businessweek blog account so please route all queries etc to my parallel blog at shehabhamad.com/blog. ... (MORE)

As I first starting planning to applying to B-school back in 2005 or 2006 I ended up starting a few different GMAT prep programs without completing them. When I started studying properly I was scoring around 600 on the diagnosis tests. I ended up scoring 740 with the help of various courses / books etc: I started with the Princeton Review classes organized by ScorePlus in Dubai. The course is s... ... (MORE)

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I was invited to interview with the London Business School a few weeks ago. The interviewer was a consultant at one of the big firms in Dubai (pre-MBA he was a banker). The interview took place on the weekend at his firm’s offices in a conference room (he was on an assignment out of town and so scheduling it on a weekend was the only option). The male interviewer was prob... ... (MORE)

I was invited to interview by Haas a couple of weeks ago and was matched with an Abu Dhabi alumni with extensive consulting experience with an interesting UN digression. Again my interviewer was an engineer pre-MBA which was again useful interview fodder.We met at his office in Abu Dhabi and after quickly walking him through my resume, we drilled down to Haas specifics: Why Haas, Why is the cul... ... (MORE)

I applied for a Fulbright Scholarship today at the Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt today. The application was pretty straightforward: Two essays (i. research / study objective, ii. personal statement), three letters of reference (at least one academic) and transcripts etc).From what I have heard, the Fulbright scholarships are very competitive especially for MBAs. I have also started l... ... (MORE)

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Short updates on my MBA applications: Yale invited me to interview a week or so ago, unfortunately I declined as it would have invovlved traveling to New Haven which I can’t really justify. Haas invited me to interview a few days ago and I am trying to schedule it with an alum based in Abu Dhabi. Looking forward to it as I’m keen on getting some more first hand acco... ... (MORE)

I was accepted to the Columbia Business School on May 7 2008 and I am thrilled. I figured I’d kick-start this blog with the good news. The plan here is to share my MBA experience as well as random bits + pieces on the worlds of media, tech and culture. MBA blogs have been super useful for me throughout the application process and I will hopefully be able to bring the Midd... ... (MORE)

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