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by Abby Jackson

Harvard Business School is often pegged as one of the toughest business schools to get into. That may not be welcome information for applicants to the class of 2019 hoping to receive acceptance letters.

But at least this year, the only HBS admissions essay, one of the mandatory application components, seems pretty straightforward. The prompt reads:

"As we review your application, what more would you like us to know as we consider your candidacy for the Harvard Business School MBA program?"

The simplicity may be an attempt to rectify an overly complicated prompt from last year, Stacy Blackman, founder of Stacy Blackman Consulting told Business Insider by email. Her firm helps clients earn admission to top MBA programs such as Harvard's.

Last year's essay question read:

"It's the first day of class at HBS. You are in Aldrich Hall meeting your 'section.' This is the group of 90 classmates who will become your close companions in the first-year MBA classroom. Our signature case method participant-based learning model ensures that you will get to know each other very well. The bonds you collectively create throughout this shared experience will be lasting. Introduce yourself."

By Jack Moore - Newsweek

Saudi authorities executed a prince in Riyadh on Tuesday after a court found him guilty of murder, according to the Saudi state news agency. Prince Turki Bin Saud Al-Kabir was the first member of royalty executed in the Gulf Kingdom since 1975. How did Kabir become the first Saudi royal to be executed for more than four decades?

Kabir pleaded guilty to the shooting and killing of fellow Saudi citizen Adel bin Suleiman bin Abdulkareem Al-Muhaimeed during a mass brawl, according to Saudi state media. A court found him guilty three years ago for the incident in the al-Thumama region, on the outskirts of Riyadh. Because the victim’s family rejected offers of money in return for clemency, he was sentenced to the death penalty.

The country’s General Court sentenced him to death, a ruling supported by the Supreme Court, before a royal decree ordered the sentence be carried out. Saudi state news did not say how authorities carried out the execution but capital punishment is regularly carried out in public in the kingdom.

by  Rafi Letzter

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are set to face off tonight in the third and final presidential debate of the 2016 election.

In August, The New York Times reported that Clinton's campaign brought in psychology experts to help her prepare for her first debate with Donald Trump — which is weird, because that's not really what psychologists do.

Here is the relevant part of The Times' article (emphasis mine):

"Hillary Clinton's advisers are ... seeking insights about Mr. Trump's deepest insecurities as they devise strategies to needle and undermine him ... at the first presidential debate ... Her team is also getting advice from psychology experts to help create a personality profile of Mr. Trump to gauge how he may respond to attacks and deal with a woman as his sole adversary on the debate stage. They are undertaking a forensic-style analysis of Mr. Trump's performances in the Republican primary debates, cataloging strengths and weaknesses as well as trigger points that caused him to lash out in less-than-presidential ways."

There's not a tremendous amount of information here, but it's enough to work from if we want to find research relevant to the work these psychologists (or "psychology experts") are reportedly doing. The strange part is that there isn't much to find.