Essay Questions

INSEAD Essay Questions 2015-2016

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Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires

Full-time MBA program – Application essays
  1. Briefly summarise your current (or most recent) job, including the nature of work, major responsibilities, and where relevant, employees under your supervision, size of budget, clients/products and results achieved. (short answer)
  2. What would be your next step in terms of position if you were to remain in the same company? (short answer)
  3. Please give a full description of your career since graduating from university. Describe your career path with the rationale behind your choices. (short answer)
  4. Discuss your short and long term career aspirations with or without an MBA from INSEAD. (short answer)
  5. Give a candid description of yourself (who are you as a person), stressing the personal characteristics you feel to be your strengths and weaknesses and the main factors which have influenced your personal development, giving examples when necessary (approximately 500 words).
  6. Describe the achievement of which you are most proud and explain why. In addition, describe a situation where you failed. How did these experiences impact your relationships with others? Comment on what you learned(approximately 400 words).
  7. Tell us about an experience where you were significantly impacted by cultural diversity, in a positive or negative way(approximately 300 words).
  8. Describe all types of extra-professional activities in which you have been or are still involved for a significant amount of time (clubs, sports, music, arts, politics, etc). How are you enriched by these activities? (approximately 300 words)
  9. Is there anything else that was not covered in your application that you would like to share with the Admissions Committee? (approximately 300 words)
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