Deadlines:
Round 1: 4 September, 2024
Round 2: 6 January, 2025
Harvard Business School has new essays this year. Please respond to all three essay prompts:
Business-Minded Essay: Please reflect on how your experiences have influenced your career choices and aspirations and the impact you will have on the businesses, organizations, and communities you plan to serve. (up to 300 words)
Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped who you are, how you invest in others, and what kind of leader you want to become? (up to 250 words)
Growth-Oriented Essay: Curiosity can be seen in many ways. Please share an example of how you have demonstrated curiosity and how that has influenced your growth. (up to 250 words)
Recommendations:
You will require two recommendations; the best recommenders are people who know you really well. These could be colleagues, supervisors or people with who you work on an activity outside work. Recommendation questions are:
- How do the candidate’s performance, potential, background, or personal qualities compare to those of other well-qualified individuals in similar roles? Please provide specific examples. (300 words)
- Please describe the most important piece of constructive feedback you have given the applicant. Please detail the circumstances and the applicant’s response. (250 words)
Resume:
Use a standard business resume. HBS does not ask for any specified format.
Interview:
These are by invitation only. Interviews last for exactly 30 minutes, whether they are in-person or on Skype. Within 24 hours of the interview, applicants have to submit a Post-Interview Reflection.
Reapplications:
Reapplicants have to submit an entirely new application.