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Harvard Business School
| APPLICATION DEADLINES | | | | | | | September 2011 Intake | | | | | R1 | 1 October 2010 | | R2 | 11 January 2011 | | R3 | Not Declared |
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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. What is your career vision and why is this choice meaningful to you?
c. Tell us about a time in your professional experience when you were frustrated or disappointed.
d. When you join the HBS Class of 2013, how will you introduce yourself to your new classmates?
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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. What is your career vision and why is this choice meaningful to you?
What difference do you want to make through your career? Why?Offer a long-term view of what you want to achieve professionally, not your immediate plan after graduating.How will you go about converting the vision into reality?
c. Tell us about a time in your professional experience when you were frustrated or disappointed.
Choose an experience in which you could not achieve your objectives despite trying your best.
Show what you did, how others responded, what result you could or could not achieve, why you felt disappointed or frustrated.
The most important aspect of your answer is to show how you managed the disappointment or frustration and what you learned from the experience.
d. When you join the HBS Class of 2013, how will you introduce yourself to your new classmates?
If there are important aspects (personally and professionally) that you haven't been able to share through the other essays, articulate them as an anwer to this question and convey them here.Do not make this a summary of your entire application. You would rather answer another question to offer insight on a new aspect about you rather than repeating what you have already mentioned elsewhere.
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