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Congratulations! You’ve just been invited by your dream business school to have an interview. You’re feeling a wide range of emotions: relief that your MBA candidacy is still alive, pride…

Almost every business school applicant would benefit tremendously from a top-tier MBA education. The tactical knowledge, strategic perspective, robust network, and blue-chip pedigree that students acquire there are worth their…

It’s nearly midnight on a foggy autumn night. It might be Cambridge, Palo Alto, Philadelphia or London. Around the world, as admissions officers from top business schools review the well-crafted…

There’s a tremendous sense of relief that most business school applicants feel when they finish preparing an application and submit it by the deadline. Finally it’s done! No more late…

What exactly is a brand? Most of us consider it to mean a distinctive set of attributes intended to differentiate competing products of different companies.  Coke vs. Pepsi. BMW vs.…

Each August, thousands of MBA applicants ask the same question: “Is it better to apply in Round 1 than Round 2?” Conventional wisdom says the earlier, the better. In Round…

Every business school applicant has some aspect of his or her candidacy that’s, well, imperfect. It might be a “C“ in college calculus, a 4-month gap between jobs, the absence…

  There’s general consensus today about the characteristics of successful business school applicants. Candidly, most mortals find it difficult if not impossible to demonstrate all of those strengths. However, in…

Does staring into a webcam and responding to an MBA adcom’s question that you’ve never heard before make your knees buckle and head spin? Well, you’re not alone! Thousands of…

We're very pleased to share this guest post. Key Contributors: senior consultant Akiba Smith-Francis (Harvard MBA/Harvard Kennedy School MPA) and senior consultant Jeff Phillips (Kellogg MBA/Harvard Kennedy School MPA).   Master…