ESCP Business School MBA Recommendation Questions
The ESCP Business School MBA application requires two professional recommendations, preferably from a direct supervisor or someone who can speak to your professional qualifications and leadership potential. The ESCP MBA recommendation questions for the current admissions season are below.
2025-2026 ESCP Business School MBA Recommendation Questions
Section 1: Referee details
How long have you known the candidate and in what connection?
Section 2: Candidate rating
Please rate the candidate’s abilities with regard to the criteria listed below.
- Leadership potential
- Maturity
- Analytical skills
- Practical orientation
- Intellectual ability
- Creative innovative approach
- Aptitude for teamwork
- Oral communication skills
- Written communication skills
- Perseverance
- Organisational ability
- Ability to operate in an international environment
Referees are to use the following scale: excellent, good, average, poor, very poor
Do you have any additional comments concerning this applicant that you believe to be relevant?
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My long-term goal is to move into the healthcare/healthtech ecosystem, potentially in areas such as healthcare consulting, product management, healthcare strategy, or healthtech startups. I am particularly interested in leveraging my clinical background rather than moving into a completely unrelated field.
I'm currently evaluating MBA programs in Europe and Asia (Singapore, Japan, HongKong)
For context, I have a GMAT Focus score of 575 with 4 years of work ex within the clinical and corporate side of the healthcare sector
Background: 27, male, SouthAsia (non Indian). Top national undergrad, GPA just under 3, strong GRE (330/167Q).
Experience 5 years: Founder of a cross border consumer-electronics venture (led a successful B2B pivot) operating over 3 continents, and Director of Ops & Supply Chain at a Regional distribution company (in a similar domain to my own business).
Leadership: Elected civic role (thousands of constituents); founded an award-winning COVID relief effort.
Goals: Short-term consulting (MBB/T2, ops & transformation). long-term to build an advisory firm for emerging-market SMEs.