Chicago Booth MBA Essay 2# An MBA is as much about personal growth as it is about professional development. In addition to sharing your experience and goals in terms of career, we’d like to learn more about you outside of the office. Use this opportunity to tell us something about who you are… (Minimum 250 words, no maximum)?
In the fourth example, we share the journey of a Corporate Finance candidate, who witnessed how peer to peer lending App, M-PESA, took 2% of the Kenyan population out of poverty and led the Entrepreneurial boom in sub-Saharan Africa.
As the beneficiary of the start-up boom, the timeline for the essays starts when Safaricom, the parent company of M-PESA was dominating the market. His recruitment was to ward off the competitor <x> through strategic allocation of funds to maximize the on-the-ground competitive advantages and improve the efficiency of the operation.
The motivations to switch from a billion-dollar enterprise to a scrappy start-up is the core of the Leadership experience essay. The contrast in challenges between an established company and a company desperately seeking attention from the customers is captured to demonstrate the diversity of experience he had acquired in both the environment. The unique vision of the start-up is intermingled into the applicant's vision and drive to see a better 'Kenya.'
Sample Booth MBA Personal Growth and Who you are Essay: Kenyan Agri Startup (628 Words)
As a teenager in Nairobi, 2007 was a memorable year. From the hands of a few wealthy businessperson and bureaucrats, Mobile Phone found its way to my grandma’s cupboard in rural Kenya.
The eagerness to join the mobile phone revolution put me in the firm hands of Safaricom – the telecom leader that revolutionized peer to peer lending with their blockbuster product – M-PESA. I was recruited at a time when <x> was pushing the message that our transaction costs were high. To fight off <x>, I had the responsibility to coordinate the release of funds to maximize the efficiency and recruitment of our agents on the ground. Although the reach of mobile phones was instrumental in delivering mobile payment service to the remotest villages, the simultaneous recruitment of ..
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