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Self-learning & Entrepreneurship: LBS MBA What Makes you Unique Essay Sample

LBS MBA Essay: What makes you unique? (200 words)

Background Information: An entrepreneurial applicant narrates the circumstances that led to his education without any structure. 

The confidence to learn anything and tackle problems became a behavior that led him to entrepreneurship. 

Theme: Entrepreneurship, Resilience

Theme (Explained): Self-learning and Resilience as a prerequisite to entrepreneurship is not a theme that many applicants cover. 

The confidence to learn new technology, understand, and connect ideas began with early exposure to the world’s best thinkers. 

Profile: Entrepreneur 

Industry: Media

MBA Essay Strategy: Instead of a culture dictating entrepreneurship, I have chosen a unique circumstance – growing up in a single-parent household as an impetus for the applicant’s early education and eventual entry into entrepreneurship.

Opener: The positive side-effect of the constraint of a single-parent household is the backdrop of the opening line in the essay. 

LBS MBA Essay: What makes you unique (Self-Learning & Entrepreneurship)(199 Words)

As a single parent, my mother would drop my brother and I off at the New York Public Library and pick us up when her shift ended. 

Reading Immanuel Kant to Aristotle, to Nietzsche, my exploration had no theme. Science fiction, philosophy, technology, finance, and politics all branched out to a new way of thinking. Entrepreneurship..

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LBS MBA Essay Guide

 

Question 1 (500 words): What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School program contribute towards these?

Question 2. (200 words): What makes you unique?

Question 3 (500 words): (This question is optional) Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School?

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