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HBS Essays: Strategy & Tips For 2025-26

The Harvard Business School application includes three required short essays, each designed to reveal a different dimension of who you are: your career path, how you’ve developed as a leader,...

What are the M7 Business Schools: A Guide to the Elite

The world of business education is fiercely competitive, with the M7 business schools standing unrivaled at the top of the pyramid. These elite business schools consistently rank among the best...

Tips for Writing the HBS Post-Interview Reflection

The HBS Post-Interview Reflection is a distinctive element of the Harvard MBA evaluation process, and you’ll have just 24 hours to submit it to the Admissions Committee after your interview....

M7 Interview Tips and Advice: What to Expect and How to Ace It

If you receive an MBA interview invite from an M7 business school, it’s a clear signal the school believes in your potential. At the same time, competition is fierce among...

How to Ace the HBS Interview: An Insider’s Advice

Congratulations to our many Fortuna clients who have just landed a Harvard Business School interview when Round 2 invitations went out recently. For those fortunate candidates and others who may...

Top 10 Deferred MBA Programs + Tips on How to Get In

For college seniors with clear business aspirations, applying to a deferred MBA program straight out of college is a strategic move. In the traditional path to an MBA, you spend...

10 Tough MBA Interview Questions & How to Handle Them

What do you do when the MBA admissions interviewer asks you whether 3,599 is a prime number? (Besides trying not to break into a cold sweat.) Or, whether the government...

How to Get into Harvard Business School

  Register now for an exclusive HBS Admissions Masterclass on Wednesday, June 15, at 12 ET, hosted by Poets&Quants and featuring the HBS experts at Fortuna Admissions. Participation is free but...

5 Top Tips: Reapply to Harvard Business School

The first question I am usually asked is, “What did I do wrong?” after an MBA applicant is rejected. Don’t assume you did anything wrong – it could be you...

MBA Letters of Recommendation: Strategy for Stanford GSB & HBS

Stanford GSB Admissions Director Kirsten Moss put a fine point on having a strategic approach to securing MBA letters of recommendation during a panel discussion of Admissions Directors at the CentreCourt MBA...

Fortuna Admissions Harvard Business School MBA Deep Dive Analysis

What does a Swedish world rope-skipping champion, Obama Foundation chief of staff and reality TV star from CBS’s Survivor: Ghost Island have in common? They’re all MBA candidates in the...

Overview of the Top 7 MBA Deferred Admissions Programs

For the first time, Wharton has broadened its MBA deferred admissions program to include applicants beyond the University of Pennsylvania undergraduate community. Non-UPenn students now have the opportunity to vie for...