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What does a nonprofit manager who graduated from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 2010 and studied ethics and leadership have in common with an investment banker applying to HBS in 2024 to study finance and global business? Virtually nothing. At mbaMission, applicants often ask us whether they should work with a consultant who earned their … Read More  

We believe that asking MBA candidates about their goals is plainly absurd, because so many students change their goals while they are in school. Further, an MBA supposed to be about career development and exploration, right? Regardless of how we feel on the subject, though, during a time when the economy is down and many … Read More  

Choosing which MBA program(s) you should apply to is one of the most important—and certainly one of the earliest—decisions you need to make in the application process. Yet we often see candidates who have not fully thought through their options before targeting business schools. These applicants typically end up in one of the following predicaments: … Read More  

In your resume, you want to make sure that you are showcasing your accomplishments, not merely stating responsibilities. When only your responsibilities are presented—with no accompanying results—the reader has no understanding of whether you were effective in your position. For example, consider the following entry, in which only responsibilities are offered: 2020–Present Household Products Group, Flocter … Read More  

This scenario might be difficult to imagine when you are still in the process of applying to business schools, but every year, we see applicants who have worked hard to get accepted to an MBA program suddenly realize that they do not actually want to attend the program after all. And occasionally, we see candidates … Read More