The essays and recommendations play a big role in MBA admissions, mostly because admissions committees are trying to gauge the candidate’s leadership potential. When preparing your essays or your briefing sheet for your recommenders, you want to address very specific leadership traits. Many prospective students…
Before talk show host Conan O’Brien gave his heralded graduation speech to the Dartmouth class of 2011, I used to tell clients—rather anyone who would listen—to read his speech to the Harvard Class of 2000. Speaking before his own alma mater, Conan told students about…