Blogs About "Harvard MBA"

If you are thinking of applying to business school this year,  take note! First round deadlines for the application begin in September! And if you are thinking of the Harvard Business School 2+2 program, the first round is actually in July!  So for those looking at autumn and early January deadlines, you still want to consider getting organized now. This means...

The always insightful Forte Foundation just posted an article on their blog by Tricia Felice, Chicago Booth '14 about how to tell your boss that you are leaving to go to business school.

This time of year, many applicants are receiving good news about their applications  and will be going on to the next chapter. Indeed, many of you also asked for

This time of year the same question comes up:  is it worth applying in Round 3?.  And every year students get in an go to their dream schools. But is it too risky?

Fewer Spaces, Tired Application Readers

Well, it is more competitive,  as admissions committee bloggers from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business recently optined. But it is not impossible,  In fact, a work - or even a life chan

I recently attended a workshop at the Stanford Graduate School of Business on pitching business plans to entrepreneurs. The experts there kept hammering it home: consider your audience.

An MBA application is like any sales pitch.  Your audience will not only determine what you have to say, but how you are going to say it.

Your audience is your target market.  The audience can be one person, it could be hundreds, or...

Graduation time ushers in an optimistic feeling. It’s a time of celebrating achievements, and more, it’s a time of opening up the world for tomorrow’s young adults.  No wonder it’s called “commencement.”

For those taking steps toward a business career or hoping to embark on an MBA program, you can draw upon that wisdom as you reflect upon your own experiences and goals.  What better way than to learn than from leaders...

Waiting to get admitted is enough to drive a person mad. So mad, that it's a wonder that the admissions process didn't grab the name "March Madness" before college basketball did. The expression goes back to 1939, but it has only been used in relation to the NCAA basketball tournament since 1982. (North Carolina over Georgetown by a point).

As an admissions professional, I see many similarities between the two--not just the...

There are only a few real rules in writing. In fact, there are so few rules to good composition that the best-ever book on the subject, The Elements of Style, is only 105 pages and tucks tidily into a Kate Spade handbag.

In business writing, and especially in writing essays for business school applications, there’s one big rule above all else: Answer the Question.

Most of you reading this blog have...

Welcome to the fourth installment of the Master Admissions 10-Tip Series on Getting into Business School. Now that you’ve started connecting with your inner rock star (and identified how that shows leadership), Tip 3, it’s time to start exploring.

Specifically, you want to start exploring different career paths. Clear career goals are the crux of a strong business school application. Gone are the days when you can tell an...

Welcome back to the Master Admissions 10-Tip series. In the first tip, I recommended you start early, and in the second tip, I recommended you take inventory. Now it’s time to take the leap to connect with your inner rock star.

Leadership Goes Far Beyond Any Title
Every business school is looking for students who are leaders – and that definition of leadership is very broad. “Leadership encompasses more than managing...

This is the time I don’t wish on anyone. I’m not talking to the MBA candidate who had their act together, applied first round and just came back from admit weekend. I’m talking about the candidate who applied second round, is pulling her hair out waiting for the drip, drip, drip of interview invitations, or already had the interview and probably didn’t blow it. But we have no information....