Growth-Oriented Essay: Curiosity can be seen in many ways. Please share an example of how you have demonstrated curiosity and how that has influenced your growth. (up to 250 words)
Background Information: The applicant, an education major, recognizes that 70% of all students in Kenya don’t have a computer. The growth narrative is around the curiosity to overcome scarcity, which drives him to pivot from one solution to another.
Curiosity: Behavior
Curiosity (Explained): Many solutions quoted in MBA essays often don’t spend enough words narrating behavior in a market segment. For the curiosity narrative, the applicant first attempts to break down behavior before suggesting an alternative technology to compensate for the lack of computers.
MBA Essay Strategy: Often, innovation is captured with a ‘hero’ narrative where the applicant is the sole originator of an idea. I wanted to break that cliché and include a person from whom the applicant learned to use a concept called ‘scaffolding.’
Theme: Innovation
Theme (Explained): Often, innovation is closely tied to a technology solution. But an even more relatable innovation for the MBA admissions team is around processes or systems. In the example, the applicant introduces a process innovation.
Profile: Entrepreneur
Industry: Education
Opener: The opener contrasts the desktop computers available in America with the computers available for students in Kenya.
Sample Harvard MBA Curiosity and Growth Essay – Creative Solution in Scarcity (247 Words)
I looked at wonderment on the two to four computer screens of American YouTubers. Even in a better-off African economy like Kenya, 70% of students don’t own a computer.
The government tried to subsidize computers, but corruption kept Kenya behind. My curiosity to find better learning paths that made computer the last mile of a child’s learning, encouraged me to host Sarah – an Education Major at ..
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