Blog: Archive for the “Harvard University (Harvard Business School)” Category

According to Harvard Business School’s Admissions Director’s Blog, HBS is experimenting with a change in the process by which the school invites applicants to interview. Using Round 1 as a trial, HBS will employ the following timeline: October 1: Deadline for receiving online applications October 15 to November 3: Interview invitations issued via email November … Read More  

John Byrne, founder of the Business Week rankings and the new MBA community Poets and Quants, landed a coup of an interview with Harvard Business School’s managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid, Deirdre “Dee” Leopold, which posted late last week. Although the interview wasn’t earth shattering, Leopold, who saw 9,524 applicants to HBS … Read More  

On Wednesday, September 8, join mbaMission as we break down each Harvard Business School essay question to help you create your own story, as part of Beat the GMAT’s Free “Write Like an Expert” Series. The schedule is as follows: 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM PST (1:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST): Breaking down Harvard’s … Read More  

Harvard Business School recently announced its new Dean, Nitin Nohria — a veteran of HBS for more than  twenty years and most recently the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration and co-chair of the Leadership Initiative — who will replace departing Dean, Jay Light.  In a recent letter to HBS alumni, Dean Nohria expresses his perspective on … Read More  

As is usually the case each year, Harvard Business School (HBS) has not completely overhauled its essays, but has just tweaked them slightly. We would guess that this is likely an issue of variety and change, rather than some shift in attributes sought by the admissions committee. The first two essay questions remain the same, … Read More