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	<title>The MBA Admissions Studio</title>
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		<title>Job market stabilizes for MBA students at the end of &#8216;a pretty short tunnel&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NYT, March 7, By Robbie Brown (extract) &#8212; Last year, Mr. Yankson (UV Darden) was turned down for summer internships by about 15 recession-plagued banks and ended up working for an education nonprofit organization. This year, as he sought a full-time job, Wells Fargo quickly gave him the response he wanted: When can you start?
“The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/03/job-market-stabilizes-for-mba-students/</link>
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		<title>The MBA, the chief executive, and the long-term value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a heartwarming story for MBAs and MBAs-to-be in yesterday&#8217;s Financial Times by Herminia Ibarra, Urs Peyer and Morten T. Hansen, professors at INSEAD. (I must say, surely only among academics does it take three (3) people to write one short Op-Ed piece in the FT, but I digress.)
They say: &#8220;The global recession may be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/03/the-mba-the-chief-executive-and-the-long-term-value/</link>
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		<title>An MBA application journey, from GMAT prep to acceptance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I thought I&#8217;d share the extended journey of an MBA Studio client, as reported here and here. Not only is it a worthy and heartwarming success story in which I&#8217;m most gratified to have been able to play a part &#8212; helping this applicant with a 640 GMAT get into a top European school [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/02/an-mba-application-journey-from-gmat-prep-to-acceptance/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl advertisements and soul of the MBA admissions applicant</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/02/super-bowl-ads-and-the-mba-admissions-candidate/</link>
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		<title>MBA admissions waitlisted &#8211; is the glass half full or half empty?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s common to get a ‘waitlist’ notice in a competitive admissions process for a top MBA program. What&#8217;s going on and how should you handle it? First, interpret it correctly. By waitlisting, Adcoms are giving themselves an &#8220;option&#8221; on you while they wait to see who else is coming to the party. They like you, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/02/mba-admissions-waitlist/</link>
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		<title>The iPad launch and the evolution of the MBA applicant &#8216;type&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time I spoke about applying for an MBA like Steve Jobs would, by which of course I mean not &#8216;as if&#8217; you were Jobs, but going about it in the way he would &#8212; staying true to yourself and your motivations. Anyway, speak of the devil, the Apple iPad is out and I, like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/01/the-ipad-and-the-mba-candidate-type/</link>
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		<title>How to dent the universe (or how to apply for an MBA like Steve Jobs would)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In dealing with MBA admissions clients, I&#8217;m always looking for ways to push them beyond the ordinary, both in terms of how they frame their life to date and what they plan to do in the future. I also counsel applicants to &#8216;think like a CEO-in-waiting,&#8217; that is, ask: what would a senior executive do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/01/how-to-apply-like-steve-jobs/</link>
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		<title>The pros and cons of social media networking for MBA applicants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of the holy grail of a good application to business school is to show why the particular nature of the b-school you are applying to fits with you and what you want out of your MBA. That is, each program has a slightly different &#8217;signature&#8217; in terms of curriculum, type of students, faculty interest, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/12/the-pros-and-cons-of-social-networking-for-mba-applicants/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?&#8221;</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/12/what-is-it-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and-precious-life/</link>
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		<title>The Myth of the 800 GMAT</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/12/the-myth-of-the-800-gmat/</link>
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		<title>Warren Buffett undervalues you at $1million after your MBA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Warren Buffett told 700 Columbia Business School students: “Right now, I would pay $100,000 for 10 percent of the future earnings of any of you.&#8221;

Seven hundred Columbia GSB students had crammed into the Roone Arledge Auditorium to hear the Sage of Omaha, accompanied by Bill Gates. Buffett (Columbia class of &#8216;51) helped, if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/11/warren-buffet-1million-after-your-mba/</link>
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		<title>Using &#8216;Maslow&#8217;s hierarchy of needs&#8217; to develop the why-an-MBA / goals essay</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/11/mazlows-hierarchy-of-needs-and-the-why-an-mba-essay/</link>
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		<title>Making messages stick: an MBA Studio &#8216;bible&#8217; gets some airtime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have integrated every aspect of it into MBA Studio's client offerings ever since. It's not the only resource I use of course (and my own MBA Admissions Strategy, which predates it, has many of the same principles.) But Made to Stick is unsurpassed in focusing on one single thing: getting a message across. Formulating it so that the reader reads it, understands it, remembers it.]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/11/making-messages-stick-an-mba-studio-bible-gets-some-airtime/</link>
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		<title>Attention to detail, cont. Answering the MBA essay question exactly as posed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to my post last week on &#8216;the business school and the avocado&#8217; &#8212; the importance of attention to detail and showing the effort you have put in to achieve it &#8212; I can add a coda directly from an MBA Director of Admissions:
Says Rose Martinelli, Assistant Dean of Student Admissions at Chicago Booth on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/11/answering-the-mba-essay-question-exactly-as-posed/</link>
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		<title>The little story of the business school and the avocado</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my book &#8216;MBA Admissions Strategy&#8217; I offer the following advice: &#8216;Proofread to show your hunger&#8217; (that is, hunger for admission, a real desire to be selected.) Typographic or other careless errors in your text immediately clues Adcom in as to how (un)careful you were with your text, and this tells them not only how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/10/the-little-story-of-the-business-school-and-the-avocado/</link>
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		<title>Take a tip from George Soros in Managing the B-School Failure Essay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The criticism / weakness / failure essay is common in MBA Admissions essays because it is a test of an applicant&#8217;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 are:
Tuck 3. Discuss the most difficult constructive criticism or feedback [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/10/take-a-tip-from-george-soros-in-managing-the-failure-essay-in-b-school-admissions/</link>
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		<title>Listening to HBS Adcom, and other MBA Admissions Committees too</title>
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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 general [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/10/listening-to-hbs-adcom-and-other-mba-admissions-committees-too/</link>
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		<title>HBS Adcom is answering applicants&#8217; questions every day until the R1 deadline. Answers so far&#8230;</title>
		<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, 2009
1. Are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/09/hbs-adcom-is-answering-your-questions-every-day-until-r1-deadline/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;I&#8217;m unemployed, does this mean my MBA application will be dinged?&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In normal times the answer to this question is &#8216;yes.&#8217; Unless there is a compelling no-fault reason you are unemployed, or you have just sold a company for a few million bucks, your unemployment will count against you. In a situation where 3 in 20 are admitted, it&#8217;s going to be hard to be one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/09/im-unemployed-does-this-mean-my-mba-application-will-be-dinged/</link>
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		<title>MBA essay word count: we can&#8217;t go over it. We can&#8217;t go under it. Or can we?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How strictly do I have to stick to the essay word limit? How much can I go over? Does it matter if I&#8217;m under?&#8221; is a question I get a lot from clients and people who pop up on email.
To answer this, it&#8217;s essential, as always, to think about any process or task or limit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/09/mba-essay-word-count-we-cant-go-over-it-we-cant-go-under-it-or-can-we/</link>
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