Bias as a Theme in MBA Essays

LBS MBA Essay: What makes you unique? (200 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

Background Information: A Technology Consultant is working on an innovative product that has a high consequence on evaluating credit-worthy citizens who are underserved by banks or misrepresented by traditional credit scoring agencies. 

Theme: Addressing Systemic Inequity, Creating an Inclusive Environment    

Background Information: An LGBTQ minority entrepreneur after failing to raise funds for his apparel business addresses implicit biases in the VC community.

Theme: Leadership, Bias, Inclusion

Theme (Explained): Biases often involve narratives around a person or a culture in an organization, but a larger reason – economic incentives that propagate the biases is never addressed. 

Profile: Entrepreneur

Industry: Fashion

Tuck MBA Essay: Tell us who you are. How have your values and experiences shaped your identity and character? How will your background contribute to the diverse Tuck culture and community? (289 words)

Background Information: The applicant noticed a strange bias emerging in a machine learning algorithm despite data verification. The solution to the bias and the creation of an algorithm review process is the core of the narrative.

Theme: AI, Bias, DEI