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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving, and some Nourishment for the Upcoming MBA Application Grind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have various clients who are in the &#8220;uphill&#8221; phase of their MBA applications; having done one or two for Round 1, now pushing for a few more by early January. The gloss of self-discovery and self-expression is gone. It&#8217;s now just about getting it all done and done well, in what seems like an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digging Deep for MBA Admissions Value &#8211; Take Karate for Example</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m often, &#8230; no correction, always telling MBA applicants to extract the full MBA admissions value from what they have in their bio, and what they have done. Doing this is the only way to present as more valuable than the next applicant to the business school in question; that is, the only way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unpacking the Categories of MBA Admissions Dings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s July, and a new admissions cycle year starts at the MBA Admissions Studio. As it happens, during my off-season sabbatical time &#8212; which new clients have patiently waited out (thank you) I’ve had numerous emails of the “I-was-dinged-last-year, what-did-I do-wrong?” type. So this seems as good a place as any to start the discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An MBA application journey, from GMAT prep to acceptance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I thought I&#8217;d share the extended journey of an MBA Studio client, as reported here and here. Not only is it a worthy and heartwarming success story in which I&#8217;m most gratified to have been able to play a part &#8212; helping this applicant with a 640 GMAT get into a top European school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of the 800 GMAT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this GMAT article last year on the Business Week b-school forum. It&#8217;s probably still up there somewhere, along with a firestorm of comments &#8212; gratifyingly mostly &#8216;agrees.&#8217; (Speaking of gratifying, readers are still popping up on Amazon.com to say nice things about &#8216;MBA Admissions Strategy&#8216;. I don&#8217;t know who you are, but thank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making messages stick: an MBA Studio &#8216;bible&#8217; gets some airtime</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/11/making-messages-stick-an-mba-studio-bible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have integrated every aspect of it into MBA Studio's client offerings ever since. It's not the only resource I use of course (and my own MBA Admissions Strategy, which predates it, has many of the same principles.) But Made to Stick is unsurpassed in focusing on one single thing: getting a message across. Formulating it so that the reader reads it, understands it, remembers it.]]></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>The MBA Admissions Studio goes blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Were still in the testing phase, but time has come for MBA Studio to become a blog site &#8211; and twitterer &#8211; in keeping with the times. Since 2002, MBA Studio, run by Avi Gordon has helped thousands of applicants get admitted to competitive business schools for MBA and EMBA programs. Avi is the author [...]]]></description>
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