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		<title>How Not To Fall Down on the Harvard Business School Setback Essay</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/12/hbs-setback-essay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over many years I&#8217;ve written extensively &#8212; both here and in my book &#8212; about the weakness-failure MBA admissions essay and how to approach it. In fact, it has to be about 8 years since I pioneered the notion of using the failure essay to position the applicant as a leader, because all successful leaders have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MBA Admissions: About You, About More Than You</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/10/about-more-than-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The military style and ethos of management is usually best avoided in MBA admissions, because it is not subtle or complex enough for the real world of business. If Adcom is interested in your leadership style (and they are) they are interested in how you are able to motivate people without threats or force or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HBS augments case method teaching: a call to ‘doers’</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/01/case-method-hbs-curriculum-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/01/case-method-hbs-curriculum-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard Business School this week announced first moves toward its long-awaited curriculum reform in an email from Dean Nitin Nohria and Senior Associate Dean Youngme Moon to incoming students. The essence of it is: HBS is creating a new required first-year course called &#8220;Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development&#8221; (FIELD), and will provide greater modularity and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does the sign on your desk say?</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/01/what-does-the-sign-on-your-desk-say/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/01/what-does-the-sign-on-your-desk-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows leadership is a key theme in MBA applications. One way or another, the b-school graduate is going to be a leader. Therefore showing evidence and understanding of, and aptitude and appetite for, the demands of leadership is central to succeeding in MBA admissions selection. Because of this, as an admissions coach, I&#8217;m always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Dedicated to the things that haven&#8217;t happened yet and the people who are about to dream them up&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/12/dedicated-to-the-things-that-havent-happened-yet-and-the-people-who-are-about-to-dream-them-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a few minutes today catching up with the Stanford GSB Dean&#8217;s &#8220;State of  the School, Fall 2010&#8243; message, which anticipates the GSB&#8217;s move into the new Knight Management Center in Spring 2011. What caught my attention, from an MBA admissions perspective, is the inscription on the new cornerstone of the new center. How is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The value of a bad boss in MBA admissions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/09/value-of-bad-boss-in-mba-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/09/value-of-bad-boss-in-mba-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[b-school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee motivation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you are independently wealthy or have been lucky enough to work for yourself all your life (and most of us fall into neither category,) chances are you&#8217;ve had a bad boss or two along the way. You know the type: the boss who sets ambiguous tasks and then micromanages them. Who offers a grunt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New HBS Dean talks of competence, character, internationalism, and dirty boots. Adcom will follow suit</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/08/new-hbs-dean-talks-of-competence-character-internationalism-and-dirty-boots-adcom-will-follow-suit/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/08/new-hbs-dean-talks-of-competence-character-internationalism-and-dirty-boots-adcom-will-follow-suit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Community]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The soul-searching at Harvard Business School over business ethics and the relationship between business and society has been widely documented. From Anderson to Enron to Lehman Bros., risktaking, dodgy, and sometimes outright criminal companies have been loaded with HBS alumni (as well as many from other schools as well, let&#8217;s not forget.) But somehow, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Mr Swatch can take you past management consulting as an MBA admissions platform</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/07/how-mr-swatch-can-take-you-past-management-consulting-as-an-mba-admissions-platform/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/07/how-mr-swatch-can-take-you-past-management-consulting-as-an-mba-admissions-platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist recently ran an obituary of Swatch magnate Nicolas Hayek, and this offers me a concrete example to explain why management consulting is a weak long-term goal for MBA admissions. (Yes, I&#8217;m always pushing clients to give clear examples or anecdotes to back up their MBA admissions claims. So this is me &#8220;practicing what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wharton&#8217;s MBA admissions essays for 2010-2011: a challenging set of questions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/06/whartons-mba-admissions-essays-2010-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/06/whartons-mba-admissions-essays-2010-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wharton&#8217;s MBA essays for 2010-11 are great; and very significantly reformulated from previous years, demanding new comment and analysis here. The required question: What are your professional objectives? (300 words) This is in some senses the classic Why-an-MBA? question. What&#8217;s new is that it is really short, particularly when compared with the longer questions that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The MBA, the chief executive, and the long-term value</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/03/the-mba-the-chief-executive-and-the-long-term-value/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/03/the-mba-the-chief-executive-and-the-long-term-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Community]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a heartwarming story for MBAs and MBAs-to-be in yesterday&#8217;s Financial Times by Herminia Ibarra, Urs Peyer and Morten T. Hansen, professors at INSEAD. (I must say, surely only among academics does it take three (3) people to write one short Op-Ed piece in the FT, but I digress.) They say: &#8220;The global recession may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a tip from George Soros in Managing the B-School Failure Essay</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/10/take-a-tip-from-george-soros-in-managing-the-failure-essay-in-b-school-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/10/take-a-tip-from-george-soros-in-managing-the-failure-essay-in-b-school-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The setback-failure-weakness essay is commonly asked for in MBA Admissions because it is a test of an applicant’s maturity, self-knowledge, honesty, and ability to learn from mistakes. It is, in other words, the biggest indicator of real leadership ability and potential. Sample questions that approach this topic are: Tuck-Dartmouth (Essay 3): Describe a circumstance in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening to HBS Adcom, and other MBA Admissions Committees too</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/10/listening-to-hbs-adcom-and-other-mba-admissions-committees-too/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/10/listening-to-hbs-adcom-and-other-mba-admissions-committees-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s important to listen, to really, really pay attention when Adcom talks, because they do tell applicants everything they need to know. Below are extracts from an interview with Deirdre Leopold (57) executive director of MBA admissions and financial aid at Harvard Business School, recently published in the Boston Globe. It&#8217;s low on the usual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting distinctiveness into your MBA application even if you think you have none</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/07/getting-distinctiveness-in-your-mba-essays-and-interviews-even-when-you-think-you-have-none/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/07/getting-distinctiveness-in-your-mba-essays-and-interviews-even-when-you-think-you-have-none/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems I have as an MBA admissions adviser – friend, coach, confidant, drill sergeant, etc., to applicants trying to crack top-tier schools – is explaining to clients that &#8220;good is nice, great is nicer,&#8221; but neither will get you into a top-tier MBA program. Only &#8220;good + special&#8221; will get you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is an MBA admissions resume, and how is it different from a regular resume?</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/06/what-is-an-mba-admissions-resume-and-how-is-it-different-from-a-regular-resume/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/06/what-is-an-mba-admissions-resume-and-how-is-it-different-from-a-regular-resume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many b-school ask for a resume as part of the applicant&#8217;s package. Fair enough. It is professional school and they want to see your professional record. But, in fact, MBA admissions resumes do make subtly different demands and it&#8217;s crucial to know what these are (see below). However, of course much is also identical in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duke-Fuqua admissions tips that carry weight for any application</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/05/duke-fuqua-admissions-tips-that-carry-weight-for-any-application/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/05/duke-fuqua-admissions-tips-that-carry-weight-for-any-application/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 16:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Week this week interviews Duke Adcom Director Liz Riley Hargrove. The principles shared are common to all good schools, but also give a current sense of what Fuqua is &#8220;looking for.&#8221; As BW summarize it: &#8220;applicants with a propensity for teamwork who are &#8216;leaders of consequence.&#8217;&#8221; Admissions-relevant highlights are extracted here: Can you describe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn founder, offers some reality on entrepreneurship lifestyle</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/05/reid-hoffman-linkedin-founder-offers-reality-on-entrepreneurship/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/05/reid-hoffman-linkedin-founder-offers-reality-on-entrepreneurship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 11:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship plays well in admissions. This is because business schools want to put their effort into and brand on the person who will build great new companies or institutions, rather than someone who will become a salaryman, no matter how big the salary. Problem is, it&#8217;s easy to say &#8220;I want to start a company,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peering into the MBA classroom is good preparation for MBA admissions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/05/peering-into-the-mba-classroom-is-good-preparation-for-mba-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/05/peering-into-the-mba-classroom-is-good-preparation-for-mba-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 14:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week or so I blogged about Harvard case method and included the HBS promotional video featuring the case method. Here&#8217;s another one, this time from Darden (University of Virginia Business School). The video &#8220;Highlights of a Darden Case Study Class&#8221; is here: First, this shows how widespread the case method is in b-schools. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Harvard puffery, but good insight into what HBS looks for</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/some-harvard-puffery-but-good-insight-into-what-hbs-looks-for/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/some-harvard-puffery-but-good-insight-into-what-hbs-looks-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard Business School has a promotional video up at http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academics/ The video can also been seen here. [youtube]eA5R41F7d9Q[/youtube] It&#8217;s an ad for HBS of course, highlighting its main point of distinction: the case method, which, according to HBS creates &#8220;special moments that pull everything we have learned into focus. When theory, practice, experience and talent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;World MBA Tour&#8221; MBA essay advice session transcript</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/the-world-mba-tour-mba-essay-advice-session-transcript/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/the-world-mba-tour-mba-essay-advice-session-transcript/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transcript of a World MBA Tour online admissions essay advice service, where Avi appeared live as expert MBA essay advisor. ]]></description>
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		<title>Key points of advice for MBA admissions applicants, including some surprises</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/key-points-of-advice-for-mba-admissions-applicants-including-some-surprises/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/key-points-of-advice-for-mba-admissions-applicants-including-some-surprises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the process of moving stuff off the static site to this new blog format, this in an interview I did with About.com . The questions allowed me to say some perhaps slightly less-than-usual things. The original is here. . How soon should potential MBA students start preparing for the admissions process? About 9 months [...]]]></description>
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