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)
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’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
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
Post-MBA Goal (Short-term): Enterprise to Consumer Marketing
Post-MBA Goal (Long-term): Marketing leadership role (CMO/VP) in the non-profit sector
First, let me define Climate Change before going in-depth into the strategies for shortlisting examples of addressing climate change in MBA Essays.
Any policy, production, energy, consumption, employment, and resource utilization interventions that you have been part of or led to address the 1.1°C increase in global surface temperature between 1970-20 compared to 1850-1900 is considered an initiative to address climate change.
If you are a Dual Degree MBA applicant with career aspirations in Consulting, the Environment, or Policy, there are five ways in which you can add scope to your MBA Essay Narrative.