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…
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HBS 2016 Grad Reflects on Her Experience as a Harvard MBA [Episode 154]
What’s it like to be about to graduate from Harvard Business School? Listen to today’s episode for an insider perspective. [0:38] Meet Anndrea Moore, a member of HBS’s class of 2016. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2010 with a degree in Marketing and International Business. After graduating she worked as a Brand…
Harvard Business School 2016-17 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Harvard Business School Admissions is not averse to change and here are a few elements in the 2016-17 application that are different: • The essay question itself is different and much more straight-forward than last year’s question. It is very similar to the question posed two years ago, which I thought was an excellent question. •…
U.S. News Ranks Best Business Schools in 2016
How did your target MBA programs fare this year? Let’s take a look: Top 10 MBA Programs: Here are some observations and highlights (some from Poets & Quants): • This is the first year in seven years that Stanford hasn’t been in the top spot. The school is now tied for second place with Chicago Booth…
Two Years After My Harvard MBA
Graduation day is fast approaching for business school students, which means most are asking: What’s next? What is my life going to look like after school? Or should I go back and attend more schooling? These were questions I was asking myself two years ago as my own graduation from HBS approached. Now, two years…
MCAT Expertise + Harvard MBA Experience [Episode 145]
Today’s show has something for pre-meds looking to prepare for the MCAT and for MBA wannabes interested in Harvard Business School. << Click here to listen to the show >> Meet Alec Lee [1:15] Alec is the co-founder of the online prep course M Prep. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2011…
2016 Financial Times Global MBA Rankings
Here are some highlights from the Financial Times‘ top 20 global MBA programs (with a few points on women in business school): • This is the first time that a one-year MBA program (INSEAD) has taken the #1 spot. The other 4 schools in the top 5 remain the same as last year, each pushed…
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…
B-Schools That Rank for Landing Jobs in Investment Banking
When looking to fill investment banking positions, top firms tend to direct their searches towards cream of the crop universities. Here are the top b-schools you should be looking at to give yourself the best chance of getting hired after graduation, according to the latest eFinancialCareers findings. * For a complete list of the top…
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…
Forbes Top 20 U.S. MBA Programs in 2015
Here are the top 20 MBA programs in the U.S. according to Forbes:
2015 Financial Time Best Global MBA Programs
Let’s see how our favorite global MBA programs fared in the 2015 Financial Times rankings. (See the full chart on the FT site here.) Last year, there were some very dramatic leaps and falls. This year there are fewer. Here are some highlights: • UC Berkeley Haas is the only newcomer to the top 10,…
2015 Poets & Quants Best U.S. MBA Programs
The much anticipated Poets & Quants rankings is out! Let’s see how P&Q rates the top schools: • Harvard’s on top. As usual. Here’s the P&Q position on this: “No rival beats Harvard in the formidable resources it brings to the game: more superstar professors than any other school, the diversity of its course offerings,…
From Poland to Oxford to Harvard: The Adventures of Marta
This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring interviews with MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now for a chat with Marta Szczerba, 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…
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…
2015 Bloomberg Business MBA Rankings
Out with the old, in with the new. Let’s take a look at Bloomberg’s 2015 top 20 U.S. MBA programs: • There wasn’t a single overlap between this year’s rankings and last year’s. And there was some very significant shuffling around. These dramatic ups and downs, explains John A. Byrne, rankings expert from Poets &…
Sample Essay from Admitted HBS Student
This sample essay is from The Harbus MBA Essay Guide and is reprinted with permission from Harbus. The 2014-15 Harvard Business School Essay Question: You’re applying to Harvard Business School. We can see your resume, academic transcripts, extracurricular activities, awards, post-MBA career goals, test scores, and what your recommenders have to say about you….
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…
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