Service description

MBA ADMISSIONS CONSULTING

Denscombe Corporation offers individual clients a range of MBA admissions support services that center on individual consulting with the goal of greatly increasing the probability of a client’s successful admission to top MBA programs around the World.

We offer consulting for local clients in Tokyo/Japan (and New York) and also for distance/global clients located just about anywhere in the world by utilizing Skype/telephone/email/fax. But even for local clients, a lot of the consulting still takes place through Skype and email, especially after the early consulting sessions.

Cients either

1. (1)partner with us for the whole process of applying to one or more MBA programs 
   

2. (2)select consulting services “â-la-carte”, focusing on essay feedback or interview training
   

Either way, paid clients get fabulous value-added support just about “around-the-clock” that will enhance their prospects of success in the competitive MBA admissions process.

Close to 100% success rate!

DISCLAIMER/PERFORMANCE

While Denscombe Corporation does have a deep and intimate knowledge of the MBA selection process at top MBA programs around the World, we have no direct connection to the MBA admissions/selection process at these schools (Harvard Business School, Stanford and other top business school programs). Therefore, we of course absolutely CANNOT 100% guarantee successful admission to any MBA program.

But historically over the past five years, Denscombe Corporation has maintained a near perfect 100% MBA admissions success rate for all the selected individual clients in Japan and around the world we have worked with, for their top MBA school choices. Going back to the 1990s, our CEO’s client success rate for top school MBA admissions is still well over 90%.

This exceptionally high performance rate proves the real value-added provided by Denscombe Corporation MBA admissions consulting, together with our ability to match the client with the best fitting top MBA programs to fit their needs/situation.

If your MBA aspirations are high, we at Denscombe Corporation are the smart choice as your MBA admissions consultant, locally in Japan or anywhere around the world!

How do we add value?

CEO INVOLVEMENT

Denscombe Corporation CEO, Nigel Denscombe, does the MBA admissions consulting himself, and he limits the number of MBA admissions consulting clients he works with.

On the other hand, with a wealth of business and management successes, an accomplished track record as a “management educator” himself (See “Sample course”), a 100% success track record in MBA admissions (including his own at Stanford GSB and Harvard Business School), top school MBA learning himself as a Harvard MBA, and various other positive intangibles, the MBA admissions consulting clients that work with Denscombe Corporation receive an unrivaled competitive edge in the admissions process to top MBA programs around the world.

Surprising to many, this will all come at standard/average MBA admissions consulting industry pricing (See below and contact us: Price information available on request), meaning great price/performance for real value-added!

Focus on the customer!

FLEXIBLE APPROACH

The process of MBA admissions consulting follows a somewhat standard timeline of events determined by admission deadlines and the client’s particular situation: GMAT/GRE, school selection, application essays, recommendations, interviews, and so on. However, as much as possible, Denscombe Corporation will follow a flexible approach to meeting the client’s MBA admissions goals. We will adapt our MBA admissions consulting processes and timeline to whatever makes sense to the individual client, and will never force a standardized approach on anyone. Quite the opposite, we at Denscombe Corporation have a long history of being “innovative” to the specific needs of the client, and will always try to suggest a more creative approach (whether it be resume writing, essays, or interviews) to get the client the results that they require. Above all else, as a service firm, we know the customer need is always top priority.

The key point is adapting to each client’s needs, and our 100% perfect (since 2005) MBA admissions track record is proof that our approach works for all our consulting clients! 

Think local, Act global!

LOCAL SUPPORT OR DISTANCE/GLOBAL CONSULTING

With an office in Tokyo and a sister operation in New York, we can offer local MBA admissions consulting support services in those locations. This means personal/face-2-face consulting or other session choices (see below), and other local support services.

On the other hand, we can equally offer competitive distance/global MBA admissions consulting to clients anywhere around the World, to anyone with Internet access and/or telephone/fax service. It doesn’t really matter where you are located really, what’s important is your motivation to get a great MBA education and your willingness to use the MBA admissions consulting support of a firm like Denscombe Corporation, with a proven track record of success.

No matter where you are located, local or distance/global, we guarantee a 24-hour response time (no matter the time zone your are in) to all inquiries about our MBA admissions consulting services, under normal circumstances, and immediate response to all our paid clients (once we receive your communication).

Role

OUR ROLE

Denscombe Corporation’s role will be limited to providing general MBA admissions consulting guidance, candidate analysis, program selection and strategy, application package concept suggestions, essay question analysis, essay writing editing/review, recommendation letter guidance, interview practice, general GMAT test taking guidance, and pre-MBA business skill building (case study analysis, decision-making, etc).

OFF-LIMITS: Denscombe Corporation will not create ideas/content or act as a “ghost writer” for the client, but we will intimately/closely support and provide focus to the client’s own original ideas, essays, and so on

ONGOING COMMITMENT AFTER ADMISSION
After successful MBA admission, we can also provide additional support services (either local in Japan or distance/global), including pre-MBA survival training and business skill tutoring, case study and business communication workshops, skill-up mentoring in finance/accounting, marketing, strategy (See “YouTube”), and so.

These additional support services are something else that gives Denscombe Corporation MBA admissions consulting clients a unique competitive advantage, not just in getting them into top global MBA programs but also supporting them to take advantage of this great career/personal development opportunity once they get in.

Moreover, Denscombe Corporation can continue to work with clients, if they wish, on an ongoing basis during the MBA program and afterwards in their management careers, with various lifelong business education programs and consulting support options (See business education “alliances”).

Consulting sessions

SESSION FORMAT

All of the MBA admissions consulting process will take place inside a designated and pre-agreed “consulting session”. Each consulting session will be 60-minute (one-hour) long, with possibly some limited pre-session preparation (10/15 minutes, if required). Depending on whether the client is a local client in Japan or global distance client, and also depending on the stage of the MBA admissions process, the consulting sessions can be “face-to-face” in person, email, Skype, or various other communication media.

The consulting client will decide the optimum choice of meetings/review and times depending on his/her needs. Denscombe Corporation has no obligation to answer questions and spend time on the client’s work outside of the session time, but this will depend on the scope/complexity of the work requested by the client as well as Nigel Denscombe’s availability.

SESSION CONTENT

The content of each consulting session will be decided by the client, and the stage of the MBA admissions process; some clients want work in a sequential process for all the steps of the process from resume to interview practice and others might follow a parallel development, working on multiple things at the same time.

Yet others might take the “â-la-carte” choice, and choose Denscombe Corporation for a specific step only, like essays or interview practice.

Ultimately, of course, the clients decide what they want to focus on and where we at Denscombe Corporation can add the “best value”.

FREE SESSION

The MBA admissions consulting begins with a free initial consultation (face-to-face or Skype or email) to explain more about Denscombe Corporation’s approach to the MBA admissions process and potential to add value, and also for Denscombe Corporation to find out more about the client. After this session, Denscombe Corporation will either decide to continue with the client to the next step or suggest other possible MBA admissions consultants that might be a better fit for a particular client’s needs.

OUR AVAILABILITY

Denscombe Corporation will generally be available seven days of the week, at any time between 09:00-21:00 for local support in Tokyo (and New York) or “24*7” round-the-clock availability for global/distance counseling anywhere.

Pricing

PAYMENT/TERMS

Our MBA admissions consulting fee is based on an up-front “fixed rate per consulting session”, comparable or lower than industry averages for high value-added MBA admissions consulting. For exceptional candidates that meet our own MBA admissions criteria guidelines, Denscombe Corporation will agree to a substantially lower up-front consulting session fee and instead receive a “back-end performance bonus” (payable only on the client’s successful admission to a pre-specified/agreed MBA program). Such eligibility will be decided in the initial free MBA admissions consulting session.

NOTE: All client deposits and payments are non-refundable, under any circumstances once the consulting sessions have commenced, as the “free consulting session” (see above) is designed to give the clients the firsthand opportunity to see whether the consulting services will fit their needs (or not) before any client payments are made to Denscombe Corporation.

Consulting fee per session: Price information available on request

NIGEL DENSCOMBE

Harvard MBA & AB

Denscombe Corporation