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December 20, 2018

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U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Best Business Schools (MBA & EMBA) Rankings

U.S. News & World Report surveyed all 471 MBA programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International in fall 2016 and early 2017. Of these, 377 responded and 131 were ranked (those that submitted enough of the necessary data on their full-time MBA programs that were needed to calculate the rankings). The… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / Chicago Booth, Chicago Booth EMBA, Columbia Business School, Columbia EMBA, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke EMBA, Harvard Business School, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, MIT Sloan EMBA, Northwestern Kellogg, Northwestern Kellogg EMBA, NYU Stern, NYU Stern EMBA, Ross EMBA, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UC Berkeley Haas EMBA, UCLA Anderson EMBA, US News, Wharton, Wharton EMBA

June 13, 2018

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What Does Harvard Business School Want? [Short Video]

Is it your dream to get your MBA from Harvard Business School? Your dream can be one step closer to becoming a reality if you have the special attributes that HBS is looking for. Let’s see what these attributes are.  Full video transcript Hi, this is Linda Abraham with Eye on Admissions. I’m occasionally… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Harvard Business School, MBA Video Tips

May 17, 2018

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Harvard Business School Eliminates Third Application Round

In keeping with the trend of more and more MBA candidates submitting their applications in the first and second rounds (September and January), Harvard Business School (HBS) recently announced that it will be eliminating its third and final application round. However, the third round will remain in place for its 2+2 program for college seniors… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / deadlines, Harvard Business School, HBS 2+2

January 3, 2018

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An Interview About Interviewing at HBS: An Accepted Student Speaks

Want to know what it’s like to interview at Harvard Business School? Harbus, the HBS news organization, interviewed a Class of 2018 applicant during Round 1 and graciously shared the interview with Accepted. Our anonymous interviewee (who was accepted!) is a female manufacturing engineer at a high profile global healthcare company in the U.S. HBS… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Harvard Business School, MBA Interview

December 28, 2017

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Top MBA Programs That Defer

Most U.S. MBA programs will allow students to defer acceptance (push off starting the program for a year) for U.S. military deployment, illness, or illness of a loved one for whom the candidate is the sole or a major caregiver (you will need proof of the above). Check with the individual programs, but here are… 

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Article by Natalie Grinblatt / MBA Admissions / Harvard Business School, MBA accepted applicants, military applicants, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB

November 28, 2017

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The Economist 2017 Full-Time MBA Rankings

The Economist has released its annual international ranking of full-time MBA programs based on data collected during spring 2017. Two surveys were used: 1) The first was completed by schools with eligible programs which covered quantitative subjects and accounted for 80% of the ranking. 2) Current MBA students and a school’s most recent graduating MBA… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Dartmouth Tuck, Harvard Business School, MBA Rankings, Northwestern Kellogg, Rankings, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, UVA Darden, Wharton

November 8, 2017

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AIGAC 2017 MBA Applicant Survey Results Released

AIGAC (the Association of Independent Graduate Admissions Consultants) released the results of their 2017 MBA Applicant Survey, which shows an interesting paradox about millennials: they love the instantaneous availability of information in today’s digital world, yet also feel that personal attention and human contact are extremely important. Other data show that the applicant pool continues… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / AIGAC, Cambridge Judge, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, ESADE, Harvard Business School, IE, IESE, INSEAD, Michigan Ross, Vanderbilt Business School

July 3, 2017

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Harvard Business School Announces New Joint MS/MBA Program

Harvard Business School and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) announced a new joint MS/MBA program beginning in August 2018. The program will award both a Master of Science in Engineering Sciences (MS) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA). The program is designed to train future leaders of… 

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Article by Accepted / Grad School Admissions, MBA Admissions / Harvard Business School

December 26, 2016

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4 Traits That (Most) HBS Students Share

Harvard Business School admissions doesn’t just embrace diversity, they obsessively (and methodically) seek it. HBS sees diversity as essential to its learning environment—the renowned “case method” requires a wide variety of viewpoints to challenge and teach students. But admissions is only one part of HBS’s diversity push. 900+ matriculating students are carefully sorted into 10… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Harvard Business School

December 25, 2016

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / Harvard Business School, MCAT, podcast

November 27, 2016

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An HBS Reapplicant’s Success Story

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Harvard Business School, MBA Student Interviews

November 12, 2016

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HBX CORe: Teaching the Language of Business [Episode 175]

At the AIGAC conference in June, I spoke to a couple of people on the HBS admissions staff and asked them how applicants with less than stellar records can show they are “new and improved” – focused, mature, and ready for business school. They responded that while HBX CORe doesn’t guarantee admission, completing it with… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions / Harvard, Harvard Business School, podcast

October 5, 2016

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GMAT vs. GRE: Harvard Business School Weighs In

HBS’s admissions director, Dee Leopold shares a helpful post on how HBS approaches the GMAT versus GRE issue. I’ll preface this with her preface: Please don’t over-crunch! In short, the HBS view is agnostic. It’s not about which exam or even the overall score, but about the component scores and how they play into the… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / GMAT, GRE, Harvard Business School

September 16, 2016

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An HBS Grad Shares His Start-Up Experience

IV with HBS grad, Phil Strazulla

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 HBS grad, Phil Strazulla. Accepted: Thanks for the interview, Phil! Where are you from? Where did you attend business school? When did you graduate? Phil: I’m originally… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Harvard Business School, MBA Student Interviews

September 8, 2016

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From Chile to HBS: Interview with Maximiliano Grass

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 Maximiliano Grass… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an undergrad? Maximiliano: I am… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Harvard Business School, MBA Student Interviews

July 18, 2016

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School

May 18, 2016

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, MBA Admissions / Harvard Business School, podcast

March 17, 2016

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions / Harvard Business School

January 28, 2016

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, College Admissions, MBA Admissions / Harvard Business School, HBS 2+2, podcast

January 14, 2016

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Introducing the New HBS Startup Studio

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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… 

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