Answering the MBA Application's "Why Now" Question

Paul Bodine, a senior editor at Accepted.com, a web site that helps MBA applicants (and others) get a foot in the door, has an interesting post today about an application question that lots of would-be b-schoolers encounter: why are you pursuing an MBA now? With a lot of people fleeing the bad economy for the warm embrace of b-school, this is a particularly difficult question for many applicants...