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With round two application deadlines fast approaching, we are beginning to wrap up our Admissions Director Q&A Series here at Clear Admit. Today we are pleased to add a recent conversation with Isser
Gallogly, executive director of MBA admissions at New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Gallogly understands the MBA and its potential for changing people’s lives first hand. “I am on my third career,” he said. He worked in banking after college and then returned to business school to obtain an MBA as part of a career shift toward marketing. After almost a decade working for Unilever and Loreál, he decided to shift again toward education and academia. “I know how much an MBA has changed my life both personally and professionally, and helping others on that journey seemed to me to be a very gratifying job opportunity,” he said.

Indeed, Gallogly and his staff do seem committed to helping prospective applicants. “We want to be people’s partner in the application process,” he said. To this end, NYU Stern has a range of resources for the prospective applicant in the Applying to Stern section of its website, including admissions directors’ tips and advice, podcasts, interviews with the media and more. You won’t want to miss those or the transcript of our conversation with Gallogly, which follows.

Clear Admit: What’s the single most exciting development, change, or event happening at NYU Stern this coming year?

Isser Gallogly: Well, I have a lot to choose from. I think one of the most interesting things that we’ve been doing lately is a series of Market Pulse events. There is so much going on in the world right now, and we’ve been having panels with our star professors and noted faculty talking about the impact of the financial crisis on the global economy and solutions for the future. .

Really, it’s just part of what you get at NYU Stern. We are a dynamic, plugged-in institution. We really try to stay on the absolute cutting edge of what is happening in the world. What that means is that our students have incredible access to all kinds of people – from the dean of the school, Thomas Cooley, to Professor Nouriel Roubini, who was predicting the current recession a couple of years ago at the IMF, to Professor Ed Altman, a leading expert on corporate distress and default.

We are dynamic, forward looking, innovative, and we change. This was a different year, and in different years you do different things. That said, I could definitely see the Market Pulse events becoming an ongoing series. They have been so successful – some have been standing room only – and it’s very likely they will be continued over the course of next year. Obviously we are all hopeful that the economy will change for the better, but especially given current conditions, I think this new addition has been an exciting and valuable one for both Stern and the business community at large.

CA: What is the one area of your program that you wish applicants knew more about?

You can read the rest of this interview at ClearAdmit.com