Background Information: An investment banker reflects on ‘long-term’ value creation as a virtue that has helped him thrive in his career and be effective for the community as an advisor for Teach for America (TFA)
Theme: Long-Term Thinking
Theme (Explained): In government, non-profit, and entrepreneurial roles, long-term thinking is essential to create systems, processes, and policies that benefit all stakeholders. For the essay, the applicant is strategically aligning his long-term value creation with the impact he is creating for TFA by highlighting the stagnant performance in Math and Reading among grade 4th and grade 8th students.
Profile: Consultant
Industry: Education, Non-Profit
MBA Essay Strategy: I didn’t want to directly start with the TFA narrative. Rarely will an applicant have two different traits in two different roles. Most of the time, a person’s creativity, integrity, long-term thinking, emotional intelligence, communication, and courage will shine across professional, extracurricular, and volunteering engagements.
For the essay, I have focused on long-term value creation by citing a trend of his peers being let go while he remained in the role through the chaotic pandemic and the recessionary condition that followed.
Opener: Addressing the stereotypical qualities, one associates with Investment bankers is the best way to disarm the reviewer of any biases or prejudices. I have started with the cliched impressions to pivot into the reality of value creation and pressure to perform in the industry.
Yale SOM MBA Commitment Essay Example: Long-Term Value (Investment Banker and Teaching) (496 Words)
Wolf of Wall Street, ‘Greed is good,’ ‘Finance Bro’ – the caricature of my job is plenty.
The reality is that AI has taken over the role of what entry-level analysts used to do a decade ago. Adapting to the change, I committed to learning and thinking from my client’s perspective. From the year our world stood still to 2024, my superstar friends were all let go.
I wondered why I wasn’t. Finally, at one deal celebration party, I built up enough courage to ask my boss, and he, in a plain manner, said, “You ..
