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Question 1: Please discuss your career progress to date and explain why now is the right time to undertake an MBA at London Business School?  (500 words)  Nothing new or mind-bending here, and you should go to school on other posts that capture the “career progress” part as well as the “why now” part. You can find that in Columbia’s first essay, as well as Kellogg’s. I’d like to spend a few moments on a few particularities though. First, the clean …
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Here are the remaining LBS essay questions, broken down, MC Hammer-style. The shortness of the word limits tells you something. LBS ain’t messin around. They know what they want, and they’re not gonna let you copy and paste from Harvard or Wharton. Gotta respect it. Question 2 (300 words) Give a specific example of when you have had to test your leadership and team working skills. Given this experience what role will you play in a first year study group? …
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Ah, London Business School. Arguably the best MBA program in the world. Any school that poses a word limit of 150 or 300 knows exactly what it wants. Let’s give it to them. [Since it’s such a doozy, we’re gonna focus on the first essay in this one-off post. The remainder to follow in the coming days.] Question 1 (750 words) Give us a brief assessment of your career progress to date. In what role do you see yourself working …
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