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		<title>The value of a bad boss in MBA admissions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/09/value-of-bad-boss-in-mba-admissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[employee motivation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you are independently wealthy or have been lucky enough to work for yourself all your life (and most of us fall into neither category,) chances are you&#8217;ve had a bad boss or two along the way. You know the type: the boss who sets ambiguous tasks and then micromanages them. Who offers a grunt [...]]]></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[Adcom]]></category>
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		<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>Haas&#8217; ad for a new Executive Director of Full-Time MBA Admissions shines a light on Adcom&#8217;s roles and processes</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/08/haas-ad-full-time-mba-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/08/haas-ad-full-time-mba-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adcom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[b-school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember when you were in grade school and you suddenly came across your teacher out of school, in the supermarket or at a ball game, and you were completely tongue-tied, not fully realizing until that moment that they had lives out of the schoolroom? Well, admissions officers also have lives and careers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business jargon will sell a book, but it won&#8217;t sell you to Adcom</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/05/business-jargon-will-sell-a-book-but-it-wont-sell-you/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/05/business-jargon-will-sell-a-book-but-it-wont-sell-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 15:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[admissions red flags]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I try to keep this MBA Admissions blog fresh and personal (like an MBA essay should be!) and don&#8217;t just rehash or repost keyword-rich MBA admissions news. In this spirit I offer you a bit of whimsey from The Wall Street Journal &#8220;Speakeasy&#8221; where Teddy Wayne explains how his job as an MBA essay editor [...]]]></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[Adcom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essay Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Interviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[profile development]]></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>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[Adcom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essay Questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[b-school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essay writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Failure essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maturity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weakness essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wharton]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=600</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/09/mba-essay-word-count-we-cant-go-over-it-we-cant-go-under-it-or-can-we/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/09/mba-essay-word-count-we-cant-go-over-it-we-cant-go-under-it-or-can-we/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adcom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[accounting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[admissions red flags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[b-school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essay word count]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essay writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanford GSB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[track record]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[word limit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=459</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[b-school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=428</guid>
		<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>Getting distinctiveness into your MBA application even if you think you have none</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/07/getting-distinctiveness-in-your-mba-essays-and-interviews-even-when-you-think-you-have-none/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/07/getting-distinctiveness-in-your-mba-essays-and-interviews-even-when-you-think-you-have-none/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adcom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essays]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ambition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[career plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ding analysis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[profile development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[top-tier MBA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems I have as an MBA admissions adviser – friend, coach, confidant, drill sergeant, etc., to applicants trying to crack top-tier schools – is explaining to clients that &#8220;good is nice, great is nicer,&#8221; but neither will get you into a top-tier MBA program. Only &#8220;good + special&#8221; will get you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adcom members&#8217; backgrounds and personalities &#8211; who are they really?</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/06/adcom-backgrounds-and-personalities-who-are-they-really/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/06/adcom-backgrounds-and-personalities-who-are-they-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adcom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International MBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[admissions red flags]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[career path]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essay writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCLA Anderson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As an MBA applicant one of the things to get straight is who you are talking to, in general, when you write your essays. This doesn&#8217;t mean you should be looking to target or &#8220;game&#8221; your essays in a narrow sense. But getting your head around who is on the other end is a crucial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford GSB essays 2009/2010: the focus is tightened towards results and successes</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/06/stanford-gsb-essays-20092010-the-focus-is-on-results/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/06/stanford-gsb-essays-20092010-the-focus-is-on-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essay Resources]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[top-10 MBA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stanford&#8217;s essays are notoriously &#8220;introspective&#8221; and give many applicants trouble. Stanford Adcom do really want to get to know the real you through your writing. This year the flavor is the same, but (and possibly to avoid waffle) some important tweaks have been made in the optional essays to shift the focus squarely towards communicating [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/blog/?p=144</guid>
		<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>16 Reasons to Choose the MBA Admissions Studio as your MBA application partner</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/reasons-to-choose-the-mba-admissions-studio-as-your-mba-application-partner/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/reasons-to-choose-the-mba-admissions-studio-as-your-mba-application-partner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the reasons to choose us for your MBA applications support and admissions coaching: Verified past successes: Our admission rate for all applicants to all schools is close to perfect (over 96%). On average our clients tell us we improved their prospects by 3x. But don’t just take our word for it – where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The MBA Admissions Studio goes blogging</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/the-mba-admissions-studio-goes-blogging/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2009/04/the-mba-admissions-studio-goes-blogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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