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Sample LBS MBA Goals Essay - Risk Management to Operations

In this example, we look at the fictitious profile of an applicant who had worked on the broader spectrum of Financial Risk management from offering solutions that address platform, regulatory, and accounting risks with several impactful engagements in Forensic accounting as well.


After completing her Bachelors’ in Economics and Political science, the applicant’s steadfastness to apply her learning on an evolving Risk Management industry helped her grow consistently in her Risk Consulting career.

With a history of selling high-value technology solutions, the applicant pivoted into a Technology consulting role with the additional responsibility of Business development.

Although some of her solutions were widely accepted, her true passion lies in managing the end to end process of building the culture of the company, integrating technology solution, managing customer service, and ensuring that the company’s strategic goals are achieved – a pre-cursor to her long-term goal of growing into a CXO role.

Sample LBS MBA Essay: Post-MBA Goals - How Prior Experience & LBS MBA will contribute (488 Words) (Financial Risk Management to Consulting to Operations)

Q1. What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words)


Following my double major in Economics and Political Science, I was hired to develop a risk management software. The banking team in London was at the cusp of introducing an AI-powered customer evaluation tool when we faced a major data breach that reinforced the need for developing solutions that address human weaknesses. The breach was an elaborate social engineering exercise that gained..
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