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hope to share my own harvard experience someday!
tanning 发表于 2018-5-20 18:34

Hope your dream comes true!

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good article!

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hope to share my own harvard experience someday!

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谈到如何申请哈佛商学院，我觉得这个校友的比喻非常恰当：

“The way to get into HBS is to understand that the application process is like getting funding from a VC. If you think about it, HBS is "making an investment in you" and your application is "the business plan".
Following this logic everything starts to fall into place.
In order to get "an investment" you need to convince the investor you can generate a return on the investment, that means - you have a great vision and a plan of how you would get there (get there = make an impact in the world that would carry the HBS name with it) and you have the background, skills and experience to get there, which is exactly what's required in the application.
As "an investor", HBS is looking to diversify its "portfolio", thus the more "unique" your background is, the better. HBS doesn't want to "invest" in bankers/consultants/other only.
Lastly, to be a bit cynical, it's not really an analogy, it's actually the real deal...if you "make it" after HBS, they will get to see your donation and a building in your name ;), that's the return on their "investment".
More seriously, any positive contribution you will make in the world will carry the HBS brand.
So, HBS got to "invest" in you, you got the HBS brand in your resume, you were successful, the HBS brand gets reinforced (that's the return on "their investment").
If you understand this you will write a better application.

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对于MBA教育，一直以来有一个根本上的问题：是MBA教育让他们这么成功，还是成功的他们为MBA教育附上了光彩？ 针对HBS和MIT斯隆商学院的情况，我认为这两部分的回答都有部分是正确的。
先说MBA教育让他们成功的原因。大多数人上MBA,是想对自己的事业或者职业规划有改变或者说的单纯点就是转行。HBS的课程就可以满足你的条件。举一个例子，HBS有一门课程教的是doing business in contemporary China,教的是如何在当前的中国做生意。教授是哈佛的中国问题专家，每年都要去国内好多次，而且不是去学校转转那么简单，而是很深入的去企业去民间去看，所以他的课程很有深度。这样的，利于开拓新兴市场的课程有很多，加上又是案例教学，学生学到的是实打实的实战知识，所以非常有益。
现在说另一边，也就是MBA教育识别学生的信号作用。HBS和Sloan的入学极难，难度在两点，一个是申请成本高，申请的准备花的时间多，学费＋生活费是其他地方的几倍。有着那样的同学圈，钱必须不能是一个问题，如果你想融入其中的话。第二点是项目非常selective。基本上成功率在1%以下（没有调查可能不准）。能申请上的，都是情商智商能力交际都极强的人。我认识的几个在读MBA,大多是在华尔街或者伦敦金融城干过两到三年（这些地方的工资才能支持高昂的学费），现在准备再往上进一步或者自己干的青年，在学业和事业上非常主动，属于从来不会闲下来的类型。和他们的简单交流中你就可以感受到他们一定会成功，读MBA对他们来说，某种意义上也是当前商业界的一种客观需求。
此外，HBS奢华的学习环境（就是这个用词，每次被学院里处处都是的世界名画震撼到我都是想到它)和舒适的人文氛围，斯隆拥有的MIT强悍的技术背景和创业前景，都是来这边读MBA的额外收获。

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写这篇的本意是希望激励更多小朋友努力，去哈佛，或者其他优秀的国外高校念书。我不会说申请有多难，因为对真的想去的人，人生规划在大学时代就开始了，申请只是最后一步而已。我也不会说申请有多简单，因为每个人都要经历接近一年的准备过程，不论成功失败，这中间付出的时间精力是切实的。这就是个入学考试，就像每个人准备高考一样，告诉你我做了哪几本习题集，参加了几次模拟考，不表示你可以照办。每个人都要花时间找到适合自己的方案。

如果我给你描述的校园生活让你很向往，那就把念哈佛商学院做到你的人生规划里，从现在开始努力吧。