MBA Essay Example

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

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. 

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. AD

Profile (Background): Miss AD’s strength is in communicating across cross-functional leadership teams in the telecom and IT infrastructure sectors in Canada. With a background in management and a career in engaging with technology leadership, she has gained the buy-side perspective of customers and how they value technology products. 

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. J

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. C 

Profile (Background): Miss C’s strength has been in deal origination and portfolio company management in PE. With earlier roles in M&A and an academic background in Accounting, Business Administration, and French, Miss C has been specializing in deals originating from Europe, even though she works with a boutique US-based PE firm. 

Essay: Why Stanford?

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. 

Before Stanford, he also co-founded a non-profit to promote social inclusion in his community. He’s analytical, globally minded, and passionate about creating economic growth while delivering social impact.

Essay 1 (Required): a) What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 words)

b) What are your career goals for the first three to five years after completing your MBA, and how will those build towards your long-term professional goals? (150 words)

Profile: Miss. A 

Essay 1 (Required): a) What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 words)

b) What are your career goals for the first three to five years after completing your MBA, and how will those build towards your long-term professional goals? (150 words)

Profile: Miss. AD

Essay 1 (Required): a) What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 words)

b) What are your career goals for the first three to five years after completing your MBA, and how will those build towards your long-term professional goals? (150 words)

Profile: Mr. J

Essay 1 (Required): a) What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 words)

b) What are your career goals for the first three to five years after completing your MBA, and how will those build towards your long-term professional goals? (150 words)

Profile (Background): As a Colombian native, Miss C has extensive consulting experience in Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe.

Essay 1 (Required): a) What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 words)

b) What are your career goals for the first three to five years after completing your MBA, and how will those build towards your long-term professional goals? (150 words)

Profile: Miss. C 

Essay 1 (Required): a) What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 words)

b) What are your career goals for the first three to five years after completing your MBA, and how will those build towards your long-term professional goals? (150 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. 

MIT Sloan MBA Cover Letter Prompt >>

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 Remote Engineer in the Oil and Gas industry, reflects on a value that has helped her learn from the best regardless of her geographical limitations.

Curiosity: Peers

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 Entrepreneur from India, shares his American dream by reflecting on his entrepreneurial experiences in India and contrasting them with the support offered by the American VC ecosystem.

Curiosity: Culture

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 captures a vulnerable moment of a beneficiary to compare his journey and shares a curiosity and growth exploration where cryptocurrency became a tool for good.

Curiosity: Funding

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 Machine Learning (ML) entrepreneur specializing in healthcare diagnostics, shares how his curiosity to learn other ML algorithms’ evolution in diagnosing Alzheimer’s, cancer, and heart disease transformed his platform into a global community. 

Curiosity: Machine Learning

• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped who you are, how you invest in others, and what kind of leader you want to become? (up to 250 words)

Background Information: The applicant, ambivalent to the mental health epidemic, facilitates one of the largest mental health awareness campaigns after tragedy hits home.

Leadership Traits: Openness, Communication

• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped how you invest in others and how you lead? (up to 250 words)

Background Information: Through the changing economic and family dynamics of her father's mining business, the applicant finds her voice in a unique way, initially to find an audience for her underappreciated voice, and later as one of the youngest subject-matter experts in mining and commodities.  

Leadership Traits: Resilience, Authenticity  

• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped how you invest in others and how you lead? (up to 250 words)

Background Information: An applicant shares the burden of legacy as the son of an entrepreneur and how he has accumulated his father's leadership principles in his venture.

Leadership Traits: Customer-Centric, Authenticity  

• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped how you invest in others and how you lead? (up to 250 words)

Background Information: From the privileges of a cocooned life, the applicant is displaced from Syria and forced to restart her life in the US.

Leadership Traits: Resilience

• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped how you invest in others and how you lead? (up to 250 words)

Background Information: The applicant navigates the horrors of war and finds his humanity by guiding underprivileged children build life and leadership skills.

Leadership Traits: Mentoring, Authenticity