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Sample MBA Essays and School Specific Tips

Authentic Communication & Leadership: Stanford GSB What Matters Essay Example

Background Information: The applicant’s professional journey is not captured in the essay. Instead, I have focused on the person’s change in perspective around diversity and leadership. 

Theme: Diversity, Leadership, Authentic Communication 

Business School

Drug Addiction and Gaming: Harvard MBA Curiosity & Growth Essay Sample

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, a beneficiary of the foster home system, captures the sacrifice his adopted grandparents made to save him from a path of addiction. Paying it back to the community through early intervention is the curiosity and growth narrative.

Curiosity: Gaming

Creative Problem Solving: HBS MBA Business-Minded Essay Example

Harvard Business-Minded Essay 

• Business-Minded Essay: Please reflect on how your experiences have influenced your career choices and aspirations and the impact you will have on the businesses, organizations, and communities you plan to serve. (up to 300 words)

HBS Business-Minded Essay Example: Minority Entrepreneurship

HBS Business-Minded Essay 

HBS Harvard MBA Business-Minded Essay: Please reflect on how your experiences have influenced your career choices and aspirations and the impact you will have on the businesses, organizations, and communities you plan to serve. (up to 300 words)

HBS MBA Business-Minded Essay: Private Equity and Power of Community

Harvard Business-Minded Essay 

Please reflect on how your experiences have influenced your career choices and aspirations and the impact you will have on the businesses, organizations, and communities you plan to serve. (up to 300 words)

Clean Energy Theme in CBS MBA Optimal Experience Essay

Columbia MBA Essay Question

We believe Columbia Business School is a special place with a collaborative learning environment in which students feel a sense of belonging, agency, and partnership--academically, culturally, and professionally.

How would you co-create your optimal MBA experience at CBS? Please be specific. (250 words) (Common for both January and August entering class)

Location

Real Estate and ESG (Boston)(247 Words) - Columbia MBA Optimal Essay

Columbia MBA Essay Question

We believe Columbia Business School is a special place with a collaborative learning environment in which students feel a sense of belonging, agency, and partnership--academically, culturally, and professionally.

How would you co-create your optimal MBA experience at CBS? Please be specific. (250 words) (Common for both January and August entering class)

Background Information: The fifth Essay is of a White Male Bostonian from a blue-collar neighborhood working in Real Estate Consulting. 

Location

Columbia MBA Optimal Experience Essay - Global Partnership in Auto Manufacturing

Columbia MBA Essay Question

We believe Columbia Business School is a special place with a collaborative learning environment in which students feel a sense of belonging, agency, and partnership--academically, culturally, and professionally.

How would you co-create your optimal MBA experience at CBS? Please be specific. (250 words) (Common for both January and August entering class)
 

Columbia MBA Optimal Experience Essay - Value from NYC

Columbia MBA Essay Question

We believe Columbia Business School is a special place with a collaborative learning environment in which students feel a sense of belonging, agency, and partnership--academically, culturally, and professionally.

How would you co-create your optimal MBA experience at CBS? Please be specific. (250 words) (Common for both January and August entering class)