An Emirati friend of mine was recently accepted to the Harvard and Stanford Business Schools. He generously agreed to answer some questions on the hows and whys.
I was invited to interview with the London Business School a few weeks ago. The interviewer was a consultant at one of the big firms in Dubai (pre-MBA he was a banker). The interview took place on the weekend at his firm’s offices in a conference room (he was on an assignment out of town [...]
I was invited to interview by Haas a couple of weeks ago and was matched with an Abu Dhabi alumni with extensive consulting experience with an interesting UN digression. Again my interviewer was an engineer pre-MBA which was again useful interview fodder. We met at his office in Abu Dhabi and after quickly walking him [...]
Short updates on my MBA applications: Yale invited me to interview a week or so ago, unfortunately I declined as it would have invovlved traveling to New Haven which I can’t really justify. Haas invited me to interview a few days ago and I am trying to schedule it with an alum based in Abu [...]