Tag : Admissions

  • One of my favorite blogs is the Harvard Kennedy School Admissions Blog. The head of admissions consistently offers great advice for candidates of not just his program, but for all professional programs.  I’m speaking directly to business schools. The great part is that he says…

  • Stories work. In MBA admissions, investor pitches, in business school classrooms, and on TED. If you want to stand out in front of a bored admissions reader, you need to engage her.  You probably already know this, because storytelling as a meme has been in…

  • MBA buyers market

    Poets & Quants just published an article about it being a “buyers market” for MBA applications, concluding that it is *possibly* a lot easier to get in to business school than it was, say, a few years ago. I’m not so sure that’s a blanket…

  • It’s a tough time in the admissions cycle.  At least for prospective students. Most have submitted applications and are waiting for interviews, or have had interviews and are waiting for decisions. There’s an absence of information that ‘s unnerving. It’s just plain stressful. So is…

  • MBA leadership

    I am not a very good athlete, so you can imagine everyone’s surprise when I decided to pick up a new sport. I decided to learn to row – not in a traditional rowboat, but in a long skinny shell with two 10-foot oars. It…