Smith MBA Essay Sample 1
What are your specific post-graduate short-term and long-term goals? How will the Smith MBA assist you in achieving your goals? Finally, please discuss your motivations for pursuing a graduate degree.
[tooltips keyword = ‘Early-on in my career, I realized my passion for developing businesses and swiftly identifying and capturing untapped new business/market opportunities’ content = ‘excellent start for a career evolution story focused on a managerial career’] . [tooltips keyword = ‘Starting my career in Insurance Underwriting that included Risk Management, Proposal Writing and Pricing of Insurance products, I moved over to Banking to increase my knowledge of banking products. I thus advised Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) on complex financing issues – offering a Single Point Solution for their needs. My growth from functional (client relations) to zonal business responsibilities followed as turnaround objectives were achieved – often quicker and “more profitable” than expected. Steady promotion to the next level of challenges and increased strategic and leadership responsibilities followed. Functioning as an intrapreneur, I could successfully integrate the launch of new products with marketing and analytics and reduce costs to achieve a turnaround’ content = ‘steady career transition and growth from underwriting to line management functions – and with results mentioned broadly’] Over the last 6 months, I have steadily transitioned from handling SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) clients to large-scale corporations – thus broadening my exposure across various functions and products and the entire spectrum of market segments.
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Smith MBA Essay Sample 2
If salary was not a factor and your living expenses were covered, what would you do for a living and how would you spend your time?
The above question brings to memory some of my interactions with quite a few of the rural Small-To-medium Business (SMB) entrepreneurs, who, as yet, face challenges relating to financing and growth to global scales of competitiveness. I often admire their courage, determination and ingenuity watching them create and sustain successful businesses with limited capital investments. The strongly collateral-driven approach followed by the banking system often makes it difficult for them to fuel further organizational growth. [tooltips keyword =’If salary is not a factor and living expenses are covered, I will invest my time in empowering the rural community by facilitating entrepreneurship in rural areas through business ventures/projects/micro-enterprises’ content = ‘excellent linkage of current profession with a passion that is also very altrustic and a win-win for the world as well’]. To a significant extent, this passion for solving business problems also corresponds to my Long-Term Goal of establishing a Strategic Business/Management Consulting Practice
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