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		<title>The Many Benefits of &#8216;Intention&#8217; in MBA Admissions Interviews</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2012/02/intention-in-mba-admissions-interviews/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2012/02/intention-in-mba-admissions-interviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s MBA admissions interview season, and I&#8217;m reminded by a story here featuring fellow AICAC-member Bara Sapir, to talk about &#8220;intention&#8221; in interviewing. More about that in a minute. Let me back up a step: there are many, many things to get right in an MBA admissions interview &#8212; or an interview for any position [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If You Wrote MBA Admissions Essays Not To Turn Them In? (And Then You Did)</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2012/01/mba-admissions-essays-not-to-turn-in/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2012/01/mba-admissions-essays-not-to-turn-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essay Resources]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Derrick Bolton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA essay tone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting the tone right in MBA Admissions essays &#8212; particularly a fine balance between self-confidence and humility &#8212; is really tricky. There are no hard and fast rules for this, and the exact mix depends on the candidate. The swaggering quant at BlackRock, NY, is going to have to adopt an altogether more modulated tone [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/12/hbs-answer-question-wish-asked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essay Questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essay writing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[writing style]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/12/hbs-setback-essay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essay Questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essay Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accomplishments essay]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tsinghua]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1895</guid>
		<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>Embrace Your Life and Career Inflection Points for MBA Admissions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/11/inflection-points/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/11/inflection-points/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Businessweek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INSEAD]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MBA goals essay]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In differential calculus an inflection (or inflexion) point is the point on a curve where the curvature changes sign and therefore shape. Lives and careers have inflection points too: those moments where, due to events or new insight, suddenly everything is turned around or looks different. Inflection points can be &#8220;achievements&#8221; but they don&#8217;t need to be. Often they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A GMAT Reality Check</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/10/a-gmat-reality-check/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/10/a-gmat-reality-check/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A client recently sent me this handy new utility from GMAC, purveyors of the GMAT, which allows test-takers to rate their score with reference to their cohort filtered by intended degree, age, gender, country, and so on. If you try it you will be able to see how you stack up against the sub-group you [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/10/about-more-than-you/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<category><![CDATA[management]]></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>Amen Mr Jobs</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/10/amen-mr-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/10/amen-mr-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MBA blogs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sad news today is Steve Jobs is dead, and America and the world has lost one of the most capable and innovative leaders ever born. Steve Jobs’ Commencement address to graduating Stanford students in 2005 is the kind of orienting motivational document that is worth reading from time to time no matter who you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What &#8216;Angry Birds&#8217; Can Teach Us About MBA Admissions Success</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/09/angry-birds/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/09/angry-birds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luckily, back when I applied for b-school there was no such thing as ‘Angry Birds.’ As Oscar Wilde said: I can resist anything except temptation. Even now, my iPhone winks at me… I resist. But I maintain everything we do and everything we are is potentially of value in competitive MBA admissions. So what can [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[admissions red flags]]></category>
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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>Get the Feel of an MBA Classroom Experience Before You Apply</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/08/get-the-feel-of-an-mba-classroom-experience-before-you-apply/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/08/get-the-feel-of-an-mba-classroom-experience-before-you-apply/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[admissions red flags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[b-school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[case method]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darden MBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kellogg MBA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years back I put up this link to a Darden class (particularly it shows &#8220;the case method&#8221; in action) to make the point that applicants should make themselves aware of what it is like to be part of it. I you&#8217;re going to talk about your great affinity for case-method learning, make sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experience Diversity is &#8216;The New Black&#8217; in MBA Admissions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/08/experience-diversity-is-the-new-black-in-mba-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/08/experience-diversity-is-the-new-black-in-mba-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance MBA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Innovation in MBA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[B-schools with luxury of choice of whom to accept into their MBA classrooms have always valued diversity in the matriculating class. The news is this trend is strongly on the up. Not only are schools admitting more minorities and foreigners and women – both HBS and Wharton hit record numbers of female enrollment with their current incoming [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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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>Unpacking the Categories of MBA Admissions Dings</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/07/unpacking-the-categories-of-mba-admissions-dings/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/07/unpacking-the-categories-of-mba-admissions-dings/#comments</comments>
		<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>Take the MBA Search Survey</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/03/take-the-mba-search-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Applicants turn to the MBA Admission Studio as a source of reliable information and valuable advice on the MBA admissions process.  As a member of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC), which is conducting a survey to help us better understand MBA applicants’ goals and needs, I&#8217;d like to invite all readers of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To be, or not to be, an MBA applicant in Round Three?</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/03/to-be-or-not-to-be-an-mba-applicant-in-round-three/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/03/to-be-or-not-to-be-an-mba-applicant-in-round-three/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International MBA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As readers of this blog site and its wider resources will know, I most value information from the horse&#8217;s mouth. When it comes to admissions, if this or that &#8220;expert&#8221; says it, it&#8217;s like-yeah-whatever; if an elite Adcom says it, it&#8217;s worth listening to. We are in round 3 of the class-of-2013 MBA admissions cycle. [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chicago-Booth GSB]]></category>
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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>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>Top-3? Top-6? Among elite MBAs does it really matter where you go?</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/01/top-3-top-6/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/01/top-3-top-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International MBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Businessweek]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself following a discussion on the Businessweek &#8220;Getting into B-School&#8221; forum. The thread is headed: “Does rank really matter among top 6?” I select extracts to present here because the comments &#8212; before they descend into the flaming and slanging that bedevils these forums &#8212; deal with important (and corrective) thinking about what [...]]]></description>
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