Sample HBS Essay [2020]: Vulnerable But Invincible Sample HBS Essay [2016]: The Mechanical Engineer Sample HBS Essay [2015]: The Author Even after having read hundreds of HBS essays, I still found it worthwhile to read The 2020 Harbus MBA Essay Guide. For applicants who have preconceived notions of what an admissible essay should be, The Essay Guide will open your eyes…
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CMU Tepper 2016-17 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
You know how you’re always reading that “all MBA programs are different” but after you’ve spent weeks and even months reading all of their websites, they can start to seem like they are pretty much the same. Well, not Carnegie Mellon Tepper. Tepper continues to march to the beat of its own drummer. CMU is…
5 Practical Lessons I Learned at HBS that Helped Me Launch My Startup
Harvard Business School is often seen as a “finance” school, or a “consulting” school, or a “general management” school—and usually isn’t the first MBA program you’d think of when it comes to entrepreneurship. My experience, though, was that HBS had a great entrepreneurial curriculum—and despite the fact that I’d founded two businesses prior to the…
Focus on Fit [Episode 162]
In today’s episode, Accepted’s founder and director, Linda Abraham, shares the 4 not-so-easy steps of showing fit in your application. While they are not simple to do, these steps are necessary if you want to get accepted to a program where the acceptance rate is less than 100%. STEP 1: Understand the school’s mission and criteria for…
Wharton MBA Student, Single Mom, Entrepreneur [Episode 152]
With Mother’s Day coming up, this week’s show features a mother, MBA student, and entrepreneur. Meet Divinity Matovu, founder of MBA Mama [1:04] Divinity grew up in Wisconsin, attended USC (where she majored in Political Science and African American Studies), and got bit by the social impact and start-up bug. She’s now studying at Wharton as…
Harvard MBA, 2+2 and How to Get In
Applying to HBS? Join us for a conversation about Harvard Business School, entrepreneurship, leadership, and admissions. Our guest today is Adam Nathan, who earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2015 as a Baker Scholar and joined Accepted a few months ago. Adam graduated from Duke in 2010 and was accepted to the inaugural…
Introducing the New HBS Startup Studio
Harvard Business School just announced the opening of the HBS Startup Studio, an off-campus center dedicated to supporting HBS entrepreneurial alumni and serving as a gathering place and workspace for New York-based teams (with at least one HBS alumni founder). According to the Harvard press release, the mission of the Start-Up Studio will be “to…
An HBS Student who Keeps on Giving [rerun]
It’s the Season of Giving, and what better way to celebrate that by replaying one of our most popular podcasts of 2015. Listen to our conversation with current Harvard Business School student and Products Manager at The Harbus, Alula Eshete, as he shares excellent admissions and interview tips and great insight into one of the most prestigious…
10 Tips for Your HBS Essay (From HBS Students)
It’s a busy time of year for business schools everywhere, especially here in Boston! Interviews for Round 1 applicants for Harvard Business School’s Class of 2018 are currently taking place around the globe, and the January 6, 2016 Round 2 application deadline is just around the corner. That leaves about eight weeks for Round 2…
Dee Leopold of HBS to Step Down
As of May 2016, Dee Leopold will be leaving her role as Managing Director of Admissions & Financial Aid at Harvard Business School. In her time at HBS, Dee worked tirelessly to make sure that the newest crop of MBA students was the most impressive, and most diverse, possible. Dee will be moving to another…
Sample Essays from Admitted HBS Students
Sample HBS Essay [2020]: Vulnerable But Invincible Sample HBS Essay [2016]: The Mechanical Engineer Sample HBS Essay [2015]: The Author I read the new 2020 Harbus MBA Essay Guide wondering what I was going to gain from it. I’ve been reading HBS MBA application essays for 26 years. I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t….
An HBS Student Helping HBS Applicants
Wish you had a friendly HBS student to mentor you through the application process? We spoke with Alula Eshete, current Harvard Business School student and Products Manager at The Harbus about the valuable Harbus essay and interview guides, MBA admissions, life at HBS and more. Tune in to our conversation for excellent admissions and interview tips and…
Why An HBS Student Left After 1 Year – With No Regrets
This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now for a chat with Ellen Chisa, a student at Harvard Business School. Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an…
INSEAD 2016 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
INSEAD continues to buck a trend – whereas many b-school applications have recently leaned toward “minimalist” essays and/or just require one, INSEAD still asks you to write several thought-provoking and challenging essays. In the program with perhaps the most intensive global focus, verbal acuity matters, because the ability to reflect on, synthesize, actualize, and communicate…
UVA Darden 2016 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Darden led the way with a one-essay application. Some may feel that fewer essays indicate that essays are losing importance. My suspicion is that the remaining essays and short-answers are as important or even more important than they ever were. Especially at a program emphasizing the case method and experiential learning, evidence that you can…
MIT Sloan 2016 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
This year’s MIT MBA application is significantly different from last year’s — and those that preceded it. No cover letter, which was part of MIT’s application for years, and no letter of recommendation from you about you. That was last year’s twist. This year’s application has one required essay and another short-answer question that applicants…
An HBS Entrepreneur Promoting Career Flexibility
Check out our interview with HBS alum and entrepreneur Allison O’Kelly exploring the Flex Movement, the value of b-school for entrepreneurs, HBS, and more.
An HBS Reapplicant’s Success Story
This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now for a chat with Prerit Jain, a future MBA student at Harvard Business School. Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study…
Breaking Some HBS Stereotypes: An Interview with Ben Faw
Humility, valuing relationships, knowing yourself, helping children overcome disabilities — Perhaps “Harvard” and “MBA” are not the first words that come to mind. Listen to the recording of our conversation with Ben Faw, West Point grad and veteran, Harvard MBA and author of the hugely popular article “What my MBA at Harvard did NOT teach…
INSEAD 2014- 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines – Take Two
Not long ago, in the tips post for INSEAD, I wrote that INSEAD was “bucking the trend” of fewer and shorter essays. Well, scratch that. Mid-application-cycle, INSEAD has decided to hew to the trend and changed its essays starting now. The result is a shorter, more condensed set of essays. In the new set,…
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