If you’re surfing the net for horror stories on MBAs whose relationships have crashed while in B-school, you won’t have to look very hard. There are plenty of blog posts detailing the pressures a tough MBA program puts on marriages and partnerships. There’s the story about the wife who decided to get her own MBA [...]

Magoosh is not the only small firm trying to carve out a niche for itself in the GMAT prep industry. Zeke Lee founded GMAT Pill after improving from a 68th percentile GMAT score to the 98th percentile in just two weeks, using his own unique study methods. He began to teach his method to others, [...]

When he was preparing for the GMAT a few years ago, Hansoo Lee found himself dissatisfied with the typical test prep options—namely the practice books offered by such companies as Kaplan, Veritas, and Princeton Review. Though he scored a 760 on his GMAT, well enough to get into the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas [...]

(Selected Excerpts from the MilitarytoBusiness blog on how to apply, letters of recommendations, essay tips, and advice on the business school interview. For our story on the HBS grads behind the blog and their new admissions consulting business venture, see Do Military Veterans Need MBA Admissions Advice? ) Begin your dream school application…[Read more]

When Dave Crabbe filled out his application for the Harvard Business School (HBS) two years ago, he was stationed at Camp Pendleton on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps. One of Harvard’s essay questions prompted Crabbe to reflect on his five-month deployment in Iraq. In 2006 and ’07, he and a battalion of about [...]