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		<title>How Not To Fall Down on the Harvard Business School Setback Essay</title>
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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>Digging Deep for MBA Admissions Value &#8211; Take Karate for Example</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/07/karate-mba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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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>&#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>
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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>&#8216;If you aren&#8217;t an idealist at 25, you&#8217;re a rogue; if you&#8217;re an idealist at 50 &#8230; you&#8217;re a fool&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/10/if-youre-not-an-idealist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the headline above I&#8217;m paraphrasing Winston Churchill, who is alleged to have said: &#8220;If you&#8217;re not a communist at 20, you&#8217;re a rogue; if you&#8217;re a communist at 50 you&#8217;re a fool.&#8221; In fact the quote in one form or another goes all the way back to Francois Guisot (1787-1874) who said during the [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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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>The Myth of the 800 GMAT</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/12/the-myth-of-the-800-gmat/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/12/the-myth-of-the-800-gmat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=763</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=577</guid>
		<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>&#8216;Blink&#8217; in MBA essays, resumes, interviews, and emails to Adcom</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/09/blink-in-mba-essays-resumes-interviews-and-emails-to-adcom/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/09/blink-in-mba-essays-resumes-interviews-and-emails-to-adcom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Blink,&#8221; by New Yorker writer and celebrity author Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown &#38; Co, 2005), is a book about first impressions, the first few seconds during which we appraise information and make instant judgments. Gladwell says these conclusions oftentimes produce better, more accurate, conclusions than those made by way of exhaustive analysis. One example he [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=361</guid>
		<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>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>More World MBA Tour legacy, 18 principles of MBA admissions which I still stand by</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/more-world-mba-tour-legacy-stuff-which-i-still-stand-by/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/more-world-mba-tour-legacy-stuff-which-i-still-stand-by/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last piece moving resources off the old MBA Studio site, and into the land of blogs and permalinks. It&#8217;s from a talk I gave on the World MBA Tour in 2003 &#8211; proving, if nothing else, how long I&#8217;ve been around doing MBA admissions consulting . Seriously, from year to year, the basic insights [...]]]></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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