Wharton Essay 2: Community Contribution (400 words)

設問

"How do you plan to make specific, meaningful contributions to the Wharton community?"

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Hook

• 自分の特徴が Wharton で機能する具体イメージ

Contribution 1: クラブでの貢献

• 具体的クラブ + 提案するイニシアチブ

Contribution 2: クラスでの貢献

• 自分の経験・視点がクラスにもたらすもの

Contribution 3: コミュニティ全般

• 個人プロジェクト・イベント

Conclusion

• なぜ自分の contribution が unique か

第1稿（草案）

[Hook]:
What I bring to Wharton is uncommon in three ways: I have practiced
both sides of the financial-product equation (selling and building),
I have done so within Japan's specific financial-industrial context,
and I have done so by stepping out of a stable career in a way that
forced me to reconstruct my professional identity.

[Body 1 - Wharton FinTech Club]:
My first contribution will be to Wharton FinTech Club. Beyond
participating, I want to lead a workstream I do not see in current
programming: Industrial FinTech in Asia. Drawing on my work at
MonotaRO—where I see firsthand how an industrial e-commerce platform
processes payment, financing, and risk decisions for nine million
SME buyers—I will organize a panel series and case competition that
brings together Wharton students, MonotaRO and Grainger executives,
and Tokyo-based FinTech founders. This is a niche that the U.S.
FinTech conversation rarely touches, but it is where the next
generation of B2B financial infrastructure will be built.

[Body 2 - Classroom]:
In classroom settings, I will offer the perspective of someone who
has marketed structured products to a regional bank in Saitama, and
also written the Python code that orchestrates marketing campaigns
to millions of customers. When the case discusses financial
innovation, I bring lived examples of why some innovations get
adopted and others die in implementation. When the case discusses
B2B platforms, I bring a non-Silicon-Valley perspective that grounds
the abstraction.

[Body 3 - Pivot Stories Initiative]:
Beyond clubs and classrooms, I will start a "Pivot Stories"
initiative—a small monthly gathering for first-year MBAs who, like
me, made career pivots that required them to reconstruct themselves.
Wharton's scale makes it easy to lose this conversation; the support
network it could create is exactly what I needed when I quit my
finance career and didn't.

[Conclusion]:
My contributions will not be loud, but they will be specific:
bringing knowledge that is missing, perspectives that are
under-represented, and a community for those reinventing themselves
mid-career. This is what I have to offer, and Wharton's particular
mix of scale, intensity, and intellectual range is the place I can
do it most effectively.

Word Count: ~395

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強み

• 3つの具体的 contribution（club, classroom, initiative）
• "Industrial FinTech in Asia" という未開拓領域の提案
• "Pivot Stories" という personal touch
• Saitama, Grainger, MonotaRO の固有性

注意点

• Wharton FinTech Club の現在のオファリングを訪問時に確認
• 「Industrial FinTech in Asia」が実在しないか調査必要

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