<p>Is doing research during undergrad years important for business school admissions like it is for PhD programs? </p>
<p>Also, do business school professors generally need undergrad students as research assistants?</p>
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<p>Assuming that you are talking about academic management research vis-a-vis MBA admissions, the answer is absolutely not. I think you’d be lucky to find even 1% of entering MBA students who have even heard of even a single academic management journal (note, Harvard Business Review is not an academic management journal), let alone engaged in any academic management research. </p>
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<p>Sometimes that happens. You can facilitate that by developing skills on your own that will be marketable to business faculty. For example, you could become highly skilled at a statistical software package such as R, Stata, SAS, or perhaps MATLAB; if you spent a summer deeply learning and practicing on one of these packages, you’d probably know more about it than most business school faculty know. If you want to be an analytical modeler/theorist, you could develop strong mathematical modeling skills. If you want to do lab experiments (i.e. micro-organizational behavior or marketing), you could take a bunch of psychology lab courses.</p>
<p>Thanks for the answer!</p>