Tag : business school

  • B-School Bossy Pants

    Here’s a special treat: advice from the B-School Bossypants, Poets & Quants’ video duo. Betsy Massar, HBS grad, is joining with Pamela Jaffe, CBS grad and founder of Jaffe Advantage, to help you on your MBA strategy. In this session, we will talk directly to…

  • Introducing the B-School Bossypants!  Two smart women give you straight talk on your profile and how to get admitted.  Betsy from HBS (that’s me!) and Pamela from CBS tell it like it is on all things MBA admissions. In today’s episode, the Bossypants talk to…

  • 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…

  • 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…