Background Information: A Product Development Manager is assigned the role of building partnerships with retailers and developing an offline strategy to compete with Korea’s leading phone manufacturer, which had a monopoly over the Indian market.
Theme: Resilience, Entrepreneurial Thinking
Background Information: A technologist shares his unique 'listening' skill, the application of his skill for a retail startup, and his goal to apply his strength as a management consultant.
Theme: Listening
Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)
Background Information: The applicant - a Zimbabwe native, narrates the struggle to raise funds for his undergraduate degree at MIT. The hyperinflation in Zimbabwe and his innovation with cryptocurrency helped address the biggest challenge that citizens faced – access to cash.
Theme: Freedom
Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)
Background Information: The applicant’s experience as an insider to his father’s entrepreneurial journey is the hook that sets the narrative to a tragic event. The tragedy set in motion a philosophy of life that was helpful in connecting with an Entrepreneur in Ghana
Theme: Listening
Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)
Background Information: The applicant grew from poverty to the top 25 percentile income bracket by acing one of the most competitive exams in Finance.
Theme: Mental Health, Low-Income
Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)
Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)
Background Information: Testing the authenticity of the insights from Generative AI was a challenge for the applicant when it suggested a stereotype.
Theme: AI, Safety
Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)
Background Information: The applicant - a Uruguay native who overcame poverty, reflects on the struggle of a single-parent household, violence in the neighborhood, and the IMPACT mentorship had in orienting himself towards Math and soccer. The experience of mentorship as an intervention for low-income communities motivated him to start a non-profit for STEM Education.
Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)
Background Information: Partisan media or editorial has been an accepted norm in publishing for the past 150 years. The only difference now is that we are aware of the biases. Under such open ideological positioning, democracy is at risk of making fatal decisions that negatively impact the federal structure and welfare of US citizens.
Theme: Bipartisanship
Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)
Background Information: Coming from an illustrious business family, the applicant found her true calling, serving the displaced at UNHCR – the UN’s agency assisting refugees to return to their home country or integrate/resettle in another country.
Theme: Privilege