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Anne VanderMey

Anne VanderMey is a B-schools writer at BusinessWeek.

Previously, VanderMey was a reporter at the Hartford Courant. She has written an analysis of the role of the youth vote in the Presidential election, an exposÉ on student plagiarism, even a piece about living like a rock star that required her to sneak backstage at a Linkin Park concert dressed as a Domino's pizza delivery guy.

VanderMey is a graduate of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she majored in political science and also studied Russian. She has studied abroad in Moscow and Varanasi, India, where she taught drama and English to 20 children.

Recent Articles by Anne VanderMey

December 6, 2009

Admission Deferrals: Business Schools Hold the Line

Your applications are done. You've been accepted at your dream school. You paid the deposit. What could go wrong? For the would-be MBA class of 2011, plenty. The ...

October 29, 2009

MBAs Confront a Savage Job Market

Adam Rosenberg did everything right. He got into a good school. He landed a great internship. He was even vice-president of two MBA clubs and a graduate teaching ...

October 29, 2009

Business Schools: Best & Worst MBA Job Placement: MBA Jobs: The Party's Over

Job placement for 2009 B-school graduates was far worse than almost anyone imagined, with even top schools reporting deep cuts in employment

October 19, 2009

GMAT: The MBA Job Seeker's Best Friend

The primary purpose of the Graduate Management Admissions Test may be winning the favor of B-school admissions committees, but that's not all those four hours of ...

October 8, 2009

Business School Gets Crowded

MBA programs were braced for the worst this fall. A damaged brand, a shortage of jobs, and questions about return on investment all threatened to send admitted ...

October 5, 2009

Minnesota: A Virtual Tour: Carlson School of Management

With a focus on international experience and experiential learning, Minnesota's Carlson School of Management has highly competitive MBA and undergraduate business ...

September 28, 2009

MBA Pay: Riches for Some, Not All

The MBA in the corner office, fresh out of business school with a six-figure paycheck, is a standard trope of Corporate America. Every incoming student has heard ...

August 31, 2009

MBAs to the Environmental (and Financial) Rescue

Patricia Kenlon was able to save $35,000 for TXU Energy during her summer internship there this year—and that was just fixing the lights. She also discovered that the ...

August 24, 2009

From Business School to Consulting Empire

By a lot of measures, this is the worst of times for the scores of companies struggling to survive the downturn. Many ailing businesses can't afford to bring in any ...

August 13, 2009

For MBA Job Seekers, the Family Matters

When Dan Pulver started business school, he thought his job leads would come through career fairs, campus recruiting, or maybe alumni networking events. One place he ...