Profile: Miss SK
Profile (Background): Miss. SK has strong leadership experience managing workers from 85 nationalities in the rig. As the only engineer to earn a triple promotion in 2 years, she also integrated a sustainable water infrastructure in a complex rig layout.
Additionally, her status as one of four women engineers in the team makes her story even more impressive.
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.
Background Information: Partisan media or editorial has been an accepted norm in publishing for the past 150 years in the US. 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
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
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
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.
Theme: Education, STEM, Mentorship, Inequality
Background Information: The applicant, a designer for an App development startup, has an interesting passion – to counsel those suffering from PTSD in the veteran community.
With the legacy of a military family, the applicant is deeply aware of the strong exterior and the silent suffering veterans endure to manage the demon. He built an App with haptic feedback to monitor biomarkers of high stress for veterans suffering from PTSD.
Theme: Mental Health, Policy Change
Q) What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words)
Profile: Mr. M
Profile (Background): Mr. M grew up in Brazil, studied engineering, and worked in management consulting across Latin America. He led strategy projects in energy, infrastructure, and technology, helping large firms navigate complex transformations.
Q) What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words)
Q) What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words)
Profile: Miss. A
Profile (Background): Miss A started her career as a software engineer and later transitioned into product roles at a global technology company. Her work sits at the intersection of innovation, user experience, and social good, particularly in underserved markets.