MBA admission for smarties

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Avi Gordon

Section 1: Competitive Strategy analyses the behind-the-scenes culture and practices of admissions and how to promote yourself in this context. It discusses the attributes schools look for, and how to negotiate the filters Adcom uses in screening applicants. Section 2: Profile Development outlines a system to identify the competitive value in your background, how to construct your value profile from this, and turn it into a compelling message. Section 3: Essay Management is about essay questions and how to fit your profile to them: how to know what to write, which essay to write it in, and how to write it well. Section 4: Writing Technique is about writing better. It provides templates for organizing specific essays, gives solutions for improving expression and avoiding essay pitfalls, and a checklist of do’s and don’ts.

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Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest

The Internet puts a wealth of information at your fingertips, and all you have to know is how to find it. Google is your ultimate research tool--a search engine that indexes more than 2.4 billion web pages, in more than 30 languages, conducting more than 150 million searches a day. The more you know about Google, the better you are at pulling data off the Web. You've got a cadre of techniques up your sleeve--tricks you've learned from practice, from exchanging ideas with others, and from plain old trial and error--but you're always looking for better ways to search. It's the "hacker" in you: not the troublemaking kind, but the kind who really drives innovation by trying new ways to get things done. If this is you, then you'll find new inspiration (and valuable tools, too) in Google Hacks from O'Reilly's new Hacks Series. Google Hacks is a collection of industrial-strength, real-world, tested solutions to practical problems. The book offers a variety of interesting ways for power users to mine the enormous amount of information that Google has access to, and helps you have fun while doing it. You'll learn clever and powerful methods for using the advanced search interface and the new Google API, including how to build and modify scripts that can become custom business applications based on Google. Google Hacks contains 100 tips, tricks and scripts that you can use to become instantly more effective in your research. Each hack can be read in just a few minutes, but can save hours of searching for the right answers. Written by experts for intelligent, advanced users, O'Reilly's new Hacks Series have begun to reclaim the term "hacking" for the good guys. In recent years the term "hacker" has come to be associated with those nefarious black hats who break into other people's computers to snoop, steal information, or disrupt Internet traffic. But the term originally had a much more benign meaning, and you'll still hear it used this way whenever developers get together. Our new Hacks Series is written in the spirit of true hackers--the people who drive innovation. If you're a Google power user, you'll find the technical edge you're looking for in Google Hacks.

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Charles B. Carlson

Provides nine simple rules for successful investing, covering such topics as measuring volatility, investing "in the eye of the storm," and riding out turbulence through asset and time diversification.

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edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Provides plot summary, list of characters, and critical views for four Melville short stories: "Bartleby, the scrivener: a story of Wall Street," "The Encantadas" (or Enchanted isles), "Benito Cereno," and "Billy Budd, sailor."