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Happy Monday MBAs!

It was an eventful week at MBAsocial – capped by some of our contributors’ 1st Business School reunion – but today we bring you Ways To Be Better: at business portraits, entrepreneurship, academics, and roasting Donald Trump.

Enjoy!

1. 11 Tips for a Good Business Portrait [Pretty Young Professional]
2. Why Kindergartners Make Better Entrepreneurs than MBAs: And How to Fix It [Forbes]
3. [VIDEO] Obama takes on Trump..and More at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner [Huffington Post]
4. Why Do Men Outperform Women at Harvard Business School? [CNN Money]
5. MBAs Shift Focus Toward Entrepreneurship [US News]
6. [PHOTO] of the week! [The Daily Kos]

In response to the growing importance of environmentalism, schools are ramping up their commitment to the environment by creating more environmental-focused academic programs and offering greener living and learning facilities.

Factors that were taken into account for the Princeton Review report include “how much local food is served, how much waste is diverted from landfills and whether transportation options such as free bus passes or car shares are offered.” 

Here is a list of the 18 most eco-friendly colleges in the U.S.:

• Arizona State University (Tempe)
• College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, Maine)
• The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Wash.)
• Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
• Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.)
• Northeastern University (Boston)
• Northland College (Ashland, Wis.)
• State University of New York – Binghamton University
• Unity College (Unity, Maine)
• University of California – Berkeley
• University of California – Santa Barbara
• University of California – Santa Cruz University of Georgia (Athens)
• University of Maine (Orono)
• University of Maryland – College Park
• Warren Wilson College (Asheville, N.C.)
• West Virginia University (Morgantown)
• Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)

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PHILADELPHIA – Renee Tomlin of Ocean City and Chelsea Cox of the Manahawkin section of Stafford Township grew up running at The Penn Relays Carnival.

On Thursday, they helped Georgetown University win the women’s college distance medley Championship of America – one of the meet’s most prestigious races – at the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field.

The two joined with Amanda Kimbers and Emily Infeld to win in 10 minutes, 51.49 seconds – the fifth fastest time in Penn Relays history. Tennessee, the defending champion, ran 10:56.20 to finish second. Southern Regional graduates Danielle Tauro and Jill Smith helped Michigan finish sixth in 11:07.76.

The victory seemed to overwhelm Tomlin, Cox and the rest of the Hoyas.

“Being a fifth-year senior , you’d think I’d be able to formulate my emotions into words,” Tomlin said. “But right now I can’t say anything how special this is to me.”

Tomlin graduated from Ocean City High School in 2006.

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A principal aim of geospatial analysis is examining and understanding change over space and time. One of the simplest yet most powerful things you can do in ArcGIS desktop or in ArcGIS Online is to visualize change over time by studying change based on different basemaps created on different dates.

For example, I recently conducted a GIS workshop for educators at Northeast Junior College in Sterling, Colorado. While on campus, in ArcMap, I added satellite imagery as well as the USGS topographic map. I determined the date of the topographic map (1971) by accessing the USGS Map Store. I found the date of the satellite imagery (2009) by using the Identify tool in ArcMap on the imagery layer. I used the swipe tool so I could scroll back and forth across the map to easily compare the different basemap images.

The nearly 40 years of changes revealed by comparing the topographic map to the satellite imagery indicated that the name and the location of the college had changed.

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Temple University’s softball players were pressed up against the terminal windows at the St. Louis airport Friday night, gaping at the pitch-black sky and the kind of weather they never see in the Northeast.

Then a security guard started screaming that everybody needed to evacuate.

Players hurdled chairs as they were ushered downstairs to a baggage area, where the team huddled together for more than an hour, protected from the tornado that ravaged the city.

By Sunday morning – in time for Easter – the Owls were back in Philadelphia, relieved and exhausted but safe, after about 15 hours on an overnight bus trip.

“Thank goodness that glass didn’t break,” coach Joe DiPietro said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

Temple had been on the road for a pair of conference games against Saint Louis University on Thursday and Friday. After winning both, the Owls headed to Lambert-St.

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In the fictional town of Lake Wobegone, the creation of National Public Radio personality Garrison Keillor, all the children are “above-average” because no one can ever admit to being merely average.

In the real world, especially the harshly real and competitive world of getting into a top business school, average doesn’t get you very far. The average score of the Graduate Admission Management Test is about 540 on a scale of 200 to 800.

If you hit that 540 average, you’re not exactly Harvard Business School material. Last year’s entering class at Harvard had a mean GMAT score of 724, which put the typical HBS first year in the 95th percentile of test takers. At 728, Stanford’s average score was even higher. At 722, Yale’s School of Management wasn’t far behind. .

Indeed, the average GMAT score for Poets&Quants’ top ten U.S. business schools is a remarkably high 716. And there are now 13 U.S. schools where the average GMAT score is above 700. Of course, the ve

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