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
Curiosity (Explained): Crypto remittance is the applicant’s solution to the problem of long payment settlement that is typical of international payments in Africa.
MBA Essay Strategy: Empathizing with a techno solution is tough without a strong backstory around the beneficiary. For the essay, I wanted to clearly establish the beneficiary – Rami, before the applicant narrates the similarities to his journey and finally shares the solution that emerged from his curiosity.
Theme: Education, Child Welfare
Theme (Explained): Applicants who themselves have suffered through forced growing up when one of the parents or both passes away are narratives that clearly demonstrate motivation for any non-profit engagement with child welfare or education themes.
Profile: Entrepreneur
Industry: Non-Profit
Opener: The opener clearly establishes the beneficiary before we can demonstrate motivation for the fund-raising innovation.
Sample Harvard MBA Growth and Curiosity Essay – Crypto As a Tool for Good (250 Words)
Rami called me in panic. “I don’t know how to reach the school.”
The 20-minute car drive winded up in an alley where I saw a malnourished boy barely resembling the happy kid in our neighborhood.
I lost my father at 9. Rami lost both his parents to AIDS. His uncle couldn’t manage the financial burden of an additional child. I side-hustled, selling software to fund my way through school and college. When my WordPress plugin became the most downloaded ..
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