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Harvard Business School
| APPLICATION DEADLINES | | | | | | | September 2010 Intake | | | | | R1 | 1 October 2009 | | R2 | 19 January 2010 | | R3 | 18 April 2010 |
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HBS Essays
1. What are your three most substantial accomplishments and why do you view them as such? (600-word limit)
2. What have you learned from a mistake? (400-word limit)
3. Please respond to two of the following (400-word limit each):
a. What would you like the MBA Admissions Board to know about your undergraduate academic experience?
b. Discuss how you have engaged with a community or organization.
c. Tell us about a time when you made a difficult decision.
d. Write a cover letter to your application introducing yourself to the Admissions Board.
e. What is your career vision and why is this choice meaningful to you?
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Writing Tips and Suggestions:
1. What are your three most substantial accomplishments and why do you view them as such? (600-word limit)
Choose experiences where you made a difference, created an impact, demonstrated leadershipWhere you set goals and achieved them.Experiences that brought important learning, made you grow, discover aspects that you were previously blind to.Experiences from work, everyday living, family interactions, interactions at school/college, extracurricular involvements...
2. What have you learned from a mistake? (400-word limit)
Choose an experience where you genuinely made a mistake. Not a trivial mistake but an important one, from which you learned an important lesson. Be bold to admit the mistake. Describe the experience briefly.Write in detail what you learned from the mistake. Looking back, what would you have done differently? Why was the learning you had from this mistake important for your development?
3. Please respond to two of the following (400-word limit each):
a. What would you like the MBA Admissions Board to know about your undergraduate academic experience?
Choose this question if your undergraduate college experience was a positive one.What aspects of the college experience had a deep impact on your personal and professional development?Other than academics, how else did you learn and grow?How did you contribute to the development of others?
b. Discuss how you have engaged with a community or organization.
Choose an experience in which you reached out to a group of people and impacted them positively.
Show what you did, how others responded, what result you created and what you learned.
c. Tell us about a time when you made a difficult decision.
Identify an experience when you were faced with the ardouos task of choosing between two or more options that were similarly attractive/beneficial.How did you decide upon the option you ended up choosing?What was the result?
d. Write a cover letter to your application introducing yourself to the Admissions Board.
Choose this question to convey specific, important aspects of your background that you are unable to convey through the essays.While trying to recap your application, talk about aspects that you feel are important for your application to be considered favorably.
e. What is your career vision and why is this choice meaningful to you?
What difference do you want to make through your career? Why?How will you go about converting the vision into reality?
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