Blog: Archive for the “Business School” Category

Harvard Business School (HBS) receives nearly 10,000 applications each year and typically accepts around 1,000 individuals, making it one of the most selective business schools in the world. The odds of admission are admittedly tough but far from impossible.

Accomplished professionals who want to advance their career but feel they have outgrown the traditional two-year MBA—and are unsure whether an EMBA would be the right fit—actually have a range of alternatives they might not be aware of. In this episode of The mbaMission Podcast, hosts Harold Simansky and Jeremy Shinewald are joined by mbaMission … Read More  

The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) interview is widely regarded as one of the most personal, and most challenging, interviews in the MBA admissions process. Unlike more traditional forms of admissions interviews, Stanford’s is deeply behavioral, highly introspective, and designed to assess not just what you have done but also how you think, reflect, … Read More  

The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania uses a very different interview format than most business schools do, opting for a virtual  in place of a traditional admissions interview to evaluate its candidates. In this post, we explain what you can expect in the Wharton TBD and how best to prepare for this one-of-a-kind … Read More  

Now is the time to get ready for the HBS admissions interview, which is crucial step in your application process. mbaMission’s Devi Vallabhaneni, a Harvard Business School graduate and former HBS MBA interviewer, has more than 20 years of experience in MBA admissions and readiness. She has conducted thousands of real and mock HBS interviews … Read More