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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>
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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[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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1843</guid>
		<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>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[MBA Essay Questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[admissions red flags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Failure essay]]></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>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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		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1614</guid>
		<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>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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		<category><![CDATA[Haas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1586</guid>
		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Booth]]></category>
		<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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		<title>The business school campus visit, and how the HBS Director of Admissions writes about it</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/08/the-business-school-campus-visit/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/08/the-business-school-campus-visit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[b-school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Director of MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Keeping up with Adcoms&#8217; blogs as I do (and I suggest MBA applicants do too) my eye stopped on this recent post by Dee Leopold, Director of Admissions at HBS. It offers two things: First it clears up some of the shibboleths of who&#8217;s noticing what in your b-school visit and how it is weighed [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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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>Super Bowl advertisements and soul of the MBA admissions applicant</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/02/super-bowl-ads-and-the-mba-admissions-candidate/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/02/super-bowl-ads-and-the-mba-admissions-candidate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Super Bowl time. For me this mostly means Augusta (and Spring!) is just around the corner. But the football is always watchable and, as everyone knows, it&#8217;s as much all about the half-time show and of course the ads &#8211; which I believe for Super Bowl XLIV cost more that $2.5m for a 30-second [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[career vision]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=508</guid>
		<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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[setback essay]]></category>
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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>HBS Adcom is answering applicants&#8217; questions every day until the R1 deadline. Answers so far&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/09/hbs-adcom-is-answering-your-questions-every-day-until-r1-deadline/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/09/hbs-adcom-is-answering-your-questions-every-day-until-r1-deadline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deidre Leopold, Harvard Business School’s Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid is answering applicant questions at the rate of two a day on the HBS &#8216;From The Director&#8216; blog, until Harvard&#8217;s Round 1 deadline on October 1. The following are the questions that have been selected so far, and HBS Adcom&#8217;s answers: September 25, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little parody on MBA ethics and the Harvard MBA Oath, from Comedy Central</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/08/a-take-on-mba-ethics-and-the-harvard-mba-oath-from-comedy-central/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/08/a-take-on-mba-ethics-and-the-harvard-mba-oath-from-comedy-central/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey it&#8217;s August, and even though it&#8217;s definitely, seriously, MBA application season we can still have a little fun, right? Here&#8217;s a video from Comedy Central / The Daily Show, featuring intrepid reporter John Oliver who enlists the &#8220;help&#8221; of a former convict to convince hold-out MBA students at MIT and Harvard to sign the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does the &#8220;MBA Oath&#8221; mean for MBA admissions? Ways to broaden your ethical platform, for a start</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/06/what-does-the-mba-oath-mean-for-mba-admissions-some-ways-to-broaden-out-your-ethical-platform-for-a-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, in the wake of the financial meltdown and global recession, much of which (rightly or wrongly) is blamed on MBAs, the accent is squarely on business ethics and long-term sustainability of decisions. These issues have been on the rise for a while, but their sudden prominence is demonstrated in the emergence and rapid spread of the "MBA Oath.]]></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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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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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