MBA Math is growing - Prep for MBA Students before starting school

A while back, Prof Peter Regan [A Dartmouth (Tuck) Professor] began a pre-MBA quantitative skills preparation program. This program is for entering 1st years not just at Tuck, but at all Business Schools. It's truly worth enrolling before entering B-School.

Here are some highlights of recent growth:

1. So far, students from 46 programs have registered. The list includes top US programs such as Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and Tuck, top international programs IMD, LBS, SDA Bocconi, Oxford Said, and Toronto, and even online programs Phoenix and Strayer. The list of programs scrolls across the home page at www.mbamath.com.

2. The accounting module is now available, covering the basics of the three main financial statements--balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows--and transactions using t-accounts and journals. The seven accounting modules, each with their own quizzes, teaching materials, and drill exercises, join fifteen modules covering Excel, finance, economics, and statistics. I cover accounting in the MBA Math course for two reasons. First, because of its logical complexity and despite its mathematical simplicity, accounting is a highly challenging MBA first year quantitative core course. Second, core distinctions from accounting reappear in more mathematically challenging first year core courses in finance, economics, statistics, and decision science. I took a lot of time to lay out the accounting lessons in response to strong feedback to cover accounting from Tuck students of my live course. I'll be teaching it live at Tuck in the August pre-orientation math camp.

3. Tuck (Dartmouth) purchased subscriptions once again for all incoming first years.

4. McDonough (Georgetown) purchased subscriptions for all incoming first years of its full-time and evening programs.

5. Dozens of applying students have joined the hundreds of admitted students using the course. The first applying student to complete the course and request a transcript reported recently that she was accepted off the Sloan (MIT) waitlist two days after submitting the MBA Math transcript and will be starting this fall. Admittedly, that's the smallest possible data set but it was gratifying for me and her all the same. Here's her follow-up testimonial: ""Hi Peter! Two days after you submitted my transcripts, I was accepted off the MIT Sloan waitlist! Thank you so much. I am very happy with the results of your program!"

6. I have established an MBA Math Board of Advisors consisting of current students in top programs who have used MBA Math. The initial board has three students who just finished their first year at LBS, MIT, and Tuck. You can learn more at http://www.mbamath.com/advisors.htm. I'll be adding more advisors from the incoming first years who are using the course this summer.

7. Stefano Pardi (LBS) and fellow Board of Advisor member Tumi Adebiyi (Tuck) contribute their perspective on MBA Math in a podcast on pre-MBA quantitative skills preparation. Tuck assistant deans Sally Jaeger and Steve Lubrano join me and others in contributing to podcasts on quant preparation in general and MBA Math in particular. See http://www.mbapodcaster.com/Podcasts.asp#Ep22 to learn more and listen.