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		<title>Surviving the HBS ‘Answer a Question You Wish We’d Asked’ Question</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/12/hbs-answer-question-wish-asked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the various HBS applications I’m seeing, it’s clear my post today should be about how to approach the HBS “Wished-We’d-Asked” question. The first thing, which I hope is obvious, is there are two tests here: (1) can you find a question that is appropriate and important, and ask it in an interesting way – [...]]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1898</guid>
		<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>Happy Thanksgiving, and some Nourishment for the Upcoming MBA Application Grind</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/11/happy-thanksgiving/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/11/happy-thanksgiving/#comments</comments>
		<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>Unemployment Setback Can Set You Apart for MBA Admissions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/09/unemployment-setback-can-set-you-apart-for-mba-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/09/unemployment-setback-can-set-you-apart-for-mba-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As things roll towards R1 deadlines I’ve been seeing quite a few unemployment stories used in the setback/failure essay slot, for example in the HBS “Tell us three setbacks you have faced” essay. This makes sense. Unemployment is a real setback. And it’s understood by Adcoms that many applicants have been laid off for no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digging Deep for MBA Admissions Value &#8211; Take Karate for Example</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/07/karate-mba/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/07/karate-mba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1683</guid>
		<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>Reinvent Management to Get Noticed in the &#8216;Creative&#8217; MBA Essay</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/02/reinvent-management-to-get-noticed-in-the-creative-mba-essay/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/02/reinvent-management-to-get-noticed-in-the-creative-mba-essay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some schools, notably Chicago Booth, UCLA Anderson, and NYU Stern, ask for open, creative essays where you set the agenda and can submit (within reason, per guidlines) whatever you think is important. The test is (a) how you deal with unstructured situations, (b) whether you have any creativity/imagination ,and (c) what your broader communication skills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Chicago-Booth expects in its 2011 application essays, in their own words</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/07/what-chicago-booth-is-looking-for-in-its-2011-application-essays-in-adcoms-own-words/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/07/what-chicago-booth-is-looking-for-in-its-2011-application-essays-in-adcoms-own-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MBA Studio&#8217;s mantra is, &#8220;when Adcom talks, listen.&#8221; Don&#8217;t just hear. Really, really listen because these are the people who are choosing the few and dinging the many. The Chicago-Booth 2011 MBA application essay questions were posted on July 7, along with a post from Rose Martinelli, Chicago-Booth&#8217;s Associate Dean for Student Recruitment and Admissions, [...]]]></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>Turning a failure into an intelligent failure. Insight on how messups can play positively in MBA Admissions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/04/turning-a-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/04/turning-a-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MBA applicants are routinely asked &#8220;the failure question&#8221; either in MBA essays or interviews. It always takes more or less the same form: &#8220;tell us about a time you failed and what you learned.&#8221; As I&#8217;ve written before here, and in my book, the test is not to see if you have any weaknesses or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 minutes of solid gold MBA admissions podcast advice from Haas &#8211; Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/04/12-minutes-of-solid-gold-advice-on-mba-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/04/12-minutes-of-solid-gold-advice-on-mba-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a little gem of a podcast from the Haas-Berkeley admissions committee, &#8220;Admissions and Application Information for Prospective Full-time MBA Students,&#8221; answering the question: &#8220;What are we looking for as we evaluate candidates?&#8221; It&#8217;s only 12 minutes long and really worth listening to. It&#8217;s up on this link at iTunes (item 10) or click here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/12/what-is-it-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and-precious-life/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/12/what-is-it-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and-precious-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;goals&#8221; question remains the core of any MBA admissions application. Continuing on past posts I&#8217;ve put up here on how to manage it &#8212; beyond the usual blah of clearly enunciating your short-term and long-term goals and connecting that to why you need an MBA &#8212; here&#8217;s something worth considering on the HBS site: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using &#8216;Maslow&#8217;s hierarchy of needs&#8217; to develop the why-an-MBA / goals essay</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/11/mazlows-hierarchy-of-needs-and-the-why-an-mba-essay/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/11/mazlows-hierarchy-of-needs-and-the-why-an-mba-essay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychologist Abraham Maslow created a 5-level theory of human motivation (Psychology Review, 1943) in which he proposed that peoples&#8217; needs and satisfaction move &#8216;upwards&#8217; through a common structure which he called a &#8216;hierarchy of needs.&#8217; Once lower needs of sustenance and safety are met, we aspire to fulfill social, self-esteem, and self-actualization needs. The summary [...]]]></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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		<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>Harvard Business School essays (2009-10) add a cover letter just like MIT Sloan&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/05/harvard-business-school-essays-get-a-bit-more-like-mit-sloans/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/05/harvard-business-school-essays-get-a-bit-more-like-mit-sloans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 10:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard has released their new essay questions, and deadlines for 2009-10, adding a cover letter essay (optional) which MIT Sloan&#8217;s has as a standard request for years. Still only four essays are required for HBS, and the first two compulsory questions remain the same: 1. What are your three most substantial accomplishments and why do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;World MBA Tour&#8221; MBA essay advice session transcript</title>
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		<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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