...MBA Admissions Essay Powerful Tips for Improving Your Odds of Gaining Admission to the MBA Program of Your Choice Admissions essays are easily the most challenging part of the MBA application process, and it’s no wonder. Most people don’t like to write, and even those of us who do enjoy writing can come up blank when called upon to write about ourselves, especially when so much is at stake. The fact remains: If you want to go to business school, you have to be able to generate one or two thousand carefully chosen words that sum up your background and experience, your career goals, your reasons for seeking the MBA, and why you’ve chosen the program to which you’re applying. Step one: Relax. Writing admissions essays is stressful—it’s supposed to be stressful— but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Everyone who has ever applied to business school has written admissions essays, and so can you. All you have to do is submit essays that are a little bit better than most of the others, and if you follow the advice we’ll cover in the following pages, it will be a lot less painful. How to Write a Successful Most MBA essays are mediocre The good news is that most MBA admissions essays are mediocre at best. If you can at least come up with a marginally compelling narrative, and if you can spell and punctuate everything correctly—or know someone who can—you’ll automatically have an advantage over much of the competition. This guide is designed to help you get started (the hardest...
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...Analyzing Written Essays The four types of essay organizations discussed in this week readings are topic, time order, space order, and informative process. One of the essays I read was “A Soul as Free as the Air: About Lucy Stone”. The characteristics that make this an expository essay are it states fact about the work and efforts of Lucy Stone. Examples of these facts are. She was the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She was also the first person in New England to be cremated. Also this essay uses the time order organization. The second essay I read was “How to Succeed as an Online Student”. This essay uses the informative process. It gives you step by step directions on how to become a successful online student. How to distinguish between the three types of organizations are: Space organization deals with location of people, places, or thing. Time organization is developed by time order it involves chronological organization of information from one time period to another. And informative process essay is a how to essay which gives you step by step instructions on how to do something. The organization can help the reader understand the subject matter of that essay by informative process of the “How to Succeed as an Online Student” explains in order to succeed you must follow these steps. And the time order of “A Soul as Free as the Air: About Lucy Stone” organize the events of her life in chronological order. Of the essays I read the one with the...
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...The book being reviewed for this essay is titled A Question of Identity: Iberian Converso’s in Historical Perspective, written by Renee Levine Melammed. It is divided into eight different chapters that deal with the complicated relationship between Christians, Converso’s, and the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. The plan of forced conversions in 1391 was indeed successful, but nobody was prepared for the aftermath of what transpired. How to deal with the massive influx of converts into Christianity was an enormous problem, and the question of identity became the central area of concern. As one will see, religious incentive was the dominant motivator for forcible conversion that ultimately led to the problematic question of identity amongst the...
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...economies of scale to have an advantage in competing against their rivals in the global market. Mr. Durban's reputation is known for being savvy with technology. This reputation was given to him because of his deal to take Dell private. If it becomes approved by Dell shareholders, it would be the largest corporation privatization since the financial crisis. Mr. Durban works for Sliver Lake Partners, a private-equity firm which focuses on investing exclusively in the tech industry, saw value in Dell's software and services operations, which allows him to gain knowledge about technologies. Another reputation that Mr. Durban is known for is being a “deal junkie”. He invested in companies, such as Zynga, Groupon, and Skype and all have turned out successful. Mr. Durban urges all investors to make calculated financial decisions rather than emotional ones. The approach is Alcatel-Lucent taking to stabilizing the organization is by pursuing a plan called, “Project Secular”, which allows the company to buy time by mortgaging key assets. This plan raised the company’s stock up more than 50%. According to advisors and clients, the company will eventually seek deeper changes since this plan wasn’t enough to keep the company moving forward. Another approach that Alcatel-Lucent needs to take is creating new innovations within their technology department. In the article, it seems as if Alcatel is discovering that it can't keep up in the global tech race....
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...Mauborgne, develops and explains how to beat the competition by reaching beyond it into new unexplored markets. The authors use the metaphor of the blue ocean as a direct contrast to red oceans. Red oceans are the battling grounds for typical market competition where firms fight for an already defined and stagnate market. Blue oceans, on the other hand, describe a strategy that breaks away from the blood red ocean into clear, uncharted oceans, or new markets (see Appendix A for the details of the differences). The authors studied the business launches of 108 companies, more than 150 strategic moves from 1880 to 2000, and more than 30 industries to uncover the key traits and practices of what they call "Blue Ocean Strategy." Kicking off the book with four analytical tools that promise to help firms find and exploit untapped markets, the authors offer a step by step approach, comprised of six principles, on how to break away from the competition of red oceans and execute a blue ocean strategy. They show how and why a blue ocean strategy leads to a market where competition is - for a time - obsolete. Each principle is explained and supported by real world examples from such companies as Ford, Cirque du Soleil, Dell Computers, Casella Wines, and even the New York City Police Department. The chart, figure 1, illustrates both the concept of blue ocean strategies, and the organization of the book, Blue Ocean Strategies. Lady using a tablet Professional Essay Writers Get your grade or...
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...External Environment Analysis Kristy Sanchez MGT/488 September-Sunday 11, 2011 Jeannette Guignard External Environment Analysis Introduction This essay is written in regards to the Home Depot and the evaluation of their external environment. The Home Depot is a highly successful retail industry that has expanded globally. The Home Depot has a wide variety of supplies and materials for all home improvement projects. They even have tools, equipment, and trucks that can be rented out to assist with any larger home improvement needs. The Home Depot has made a continuity plan to assist with protection of the customers, associates, and the industry if a crisis or disaster occurs. A continuity plan is basically the instructional list or procedures for the company in the event that a crisis or natural disaster occurs and how they will handle that event. This essay will look at how the external environment affects that plan. This essay will also look at the affects of the environment in three other areas as well, including general, industry, and competitor. Finally, it will look into the business ethics and see how they play a role when gathering information for competitor intelligence. The Home Depot has a continuity plan that they follow that can be found in their code of conduct and ethics manual. That continuity plan is as follows: “We are committed to taking all reasonable steps to minimize risks to our associates, customers, facilities, information assets and supply chains...
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...BUSINESS SCHOOL HARVARD SUCCESSFUL 65 APPLICATION SECOND EDITION E S S AY S APPLICATION BUSINESS SCHOOL HARVARD SUCCESSFUL 65 ECSNS A IYI O N S SE O D ED T With Analysis by the Staff of The Harbus, the Harvard Business School Newspaper ST. MARTIN’S GRIFFIN NEW YORK 65 SUCCESSFUL HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL APPLICATION ESSAYS, SECOND EDITION. Copyright © 2009 byThe Harbus News Corporation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For-information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. www.stmartins.com Library of Congress Cataloging...in..Publication Data 65 successful Harvard Business -School application essays : with analysis by the staff of The Harbus, the Harvard Business School newspaper / Lauren Sullivan and the staff of The Harbus.-2nd ed. p.em. ISBN 978...0..312...55007...3 1. Business schools-United States-Admission. 2. Exposition (Rhetoric) 3. Essay-Authorship. 4. Business writing. 5. Harvard Business School. 1. Sullivan, Lauren. II. Harbus. III. Title: Sixty...five successful Harvard Business School application essays. HF1131.A1352009 808'.06665-dc22 2009012531 First Edition: August 2009 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction ix xi I. Defining Moment Stacie Hogya Anonymous Anonymous David La Fiura Anonymous Avin Bansal Anonymous Brad Finkbeiner Anonymous 4 7 10 13 17 20 23 26 29 ii. UndergradUate experience John Coleman Maxwell Anderson...
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...Learning a new foreign language can be an extremely troublesome undertaking that demands large amounts of time, and effort in order to be successful in speaking the new language. How old you start learning foreign languages doesn’t matter, but it will often be connected with a substantial deal of self-doubt at first so experiencing that while trying to formulate even simple sentences can be a true struggle. Developing, we are most-likely taught a foreign language in school, a safe, and secure environment with supportive teachers and productive feedback, which cause us to feel more successful. There are however, other effective methods on teaching a new language, such as traveling to a country where you are expected to speak, read, and understand the native language constantly. With this theme in mind, David Sedaris began to learning a foreign language. David Sedaris, in his essay, Me talk pretty one day, tells the tale of how he undergoes learning French, which was far from sheltered, but however were fruitful in the end. In his essay, the 41-years old David Sedaris, writes about his experiences on learning French at an international school in Paris, France. Starting off with the minimal French-knowledge which he had obtained in a language class in...
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...ESSAY title: “What is Management: is it an Art or a Science?” Number of words: 1860 What is Management? Is it an Art or a Science? The objective of this essay is to settle the old argument that whether management is an art or a science. It aims to give a deeper and brief view about the topic of ‘Management’ and the point to which management fulfills the criteria for being a science as well as an art have been outlined. Management characteristics have been stated and discussed in relation to the characteristics of science as well as art by use of classical theories and principles which were derived by experts who are related with the study of management. It is difficult to define the word management since neither accurate nor approved definition is found yet. However, it has a traditional definition which states that management is “the art of getting things done through people” (Mary Parker Follet, 1868-1933). Still, this definition does not perfectly describe management therefore the meaning cannot be relied on; this is because the definition views the term management as an “art” while management may be both either a science or an art. Secondly, the definition does not consider the functions of management which were introduced in a new definition by Henry Fayol defining management as “to manage is to forecast and to plan, to organize, to command, and to coordinate and control”(Fayol, 1916). Every firm exists with some objectives or goals; in order to achieve these objectives...
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...developing world and particularly in Africa! The term ‘The BRICS’ was first quoted in Goldman Sachs report which was published in 2001, this term is an acronym for the emerging developing countries which are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (Wilson & Purushothaman, 2003, p. 2). In the last decade, these countries have been successful in the global economy and many developing countries across the world, predominately Africa are trying to emulate this success. The essay will show a brief overview of how successful the BRICS have become, once these reasons are established, the essay will focus on the core part of the question which is providing evidence showing how the developing world but in particular Africa are imitating the success of the BRICS. Finally the essay will finish with a conclusion which will summarise the main points which have been explained and discussed throughout the essay. The BRICS have been successful in the last decade, but forecasters believe that by 2050, the BRICs could become a very important source of new global spending and by the year 2032 Japan’s economy would become smaller that India’s and USA’s economy could shrink below China’s economy by the year 2041. If the BRICS combined their economies together, it would be larger than the G6 (Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, United States) by the 2039 (Wilson & Purushothaman, 2003, p. 3). Originally the term was the BRIC, however in December 24th 2010, South Africa were formally...
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...a very sharp businessman. Someone who is a tough negotiator, someone who knows how to build a brand and simply someone who does all this while building successful working relations with others. This starts my essay on why I admire Donald Trump. “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking about anything, you might as well think big.” Donald Trump. Entrepreneur Donald Trump, through set-backs, controversies and successes, is someone who comes to my mind as a person one can admire and emulate. Donald John Trump was born in Queens, New York on June 14, 1946; the fourth of five children of Mary and Frederick Trump. Frederick (1905-1999) was himself a real-estate developer. Donald’s parent hoped a military school education would greatly benefit him, as it did Dwight Eisenhower, Ted Turner, and Douglas MacArthur to name a few and prepare him to enter the family business. Being an active and energetic child, his parents sent him to the New York Military Academy (est. 1889), located in the Cornwall-on-Hudson, at age 13. They hoped the academy’s discipline program would have an influence on him. By attending the military academy, which was a private boarding school, Trump did well both academically and socially. By the time he graduated in 1964, he was a student leader, earning academic honors, and a star athlete, playing both football and baseball. After graduating from the New York Military Academy in 1964, he entered Fordham University, but transferred, after...
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...Adversity Essay Carla G. Guzman Penn State University OLEAD 409 Leadership Development Adversity Essay Successful business leaders — or people in general — don’t give up when adversity strikes. They find the ways and means to carry on. Sometimes, it takes a trip to hell and back to really open your eyes. And sometimes, really opening your eyes can change your whole life. (Pirouz, 2015). This essay will focus to explain how past life experiences shape leaders’ character and skills in order to leverage on adversity. Only leaders that take risks and make mistakes have the experience acumen to face hardship, overcome it or learn from it. According to Bennis, “Experiences aren’t truly yours until you think about them, analyze them, examine them, question them, reflect on them, and finally understand them. The point, once again, is to use your experiences rather than being used by them, to be the designer, not the design, so the experiences empower rather than imprison. (Bennis, 2009) His fundamental tenet is that leaders are made, not born. The worst problem they can face, says Bennis, is “early success. There's no opportunity to learn from adversity and problems”. (Bennis, 2008) As humans, we define our strengths and weakness in terms of experiences. We describe ourselves by how able we are handling certain situations or learning from them. Only exploring in depth these situations and dissecting the outcome, we will be able to understand our behavior and attitudes toward...
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...What Does Diversity Mean to You, and What Does a Diverse Insurance Industry Look Like? By Amanda M. White, CPCU, API As I was preparing to start thinking about the topic of diversity, I did what most of us do these days. I did an internet search on the term. The search results were overwhelming and easily set a picture of what diversity is, without even having to click on a single link. But, while the search results may provide a definition of diversity, those results do not reflect the importance of diversity in the insurance industry and the role of insurance professionals in its development. Diversity is so much more than just the surface qualities of race or gender. It encompasses all qualities that make us unique, as an individual or as part of a group. And it’s acceptance, respect, and understanding of those unique qualities. As today’s economy and business world continues to expand globally, diversity moves to the forefront. There will be more cultures, personalities, and talents at play. In order to be successful, a company must understand how all of those qualities affect motivation, communication, and performance. When it does, it will benefit from better communication and teamwork, enhanced morale, and a higher level of creativity. Now that I’ve given the formal explanation, let me try to answer the first half of the question posed. What does diversity mean to me? In simple terms, I believe that diversity is learning from others that aren’t the same as me. I grew up...
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...pretty much for any reason, in high school the teacher is stuck with you and they have to deal with it. But from these difference I realized that I was by no means ready for college and what it had in store for me this semester. We as students are expected to know this stuff before class has even started, but the teachers in the past they said they are making us ready for college that is there goal for us as their students, but they are just holding are hand and walking us through high school and across the stage for graduation....
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...during transaction progress. In other words, ‘best value for money’ is the purpose that firms seeking for long-term sustainable development. Thus it can be seen that more and more entities experienced the importance of manage suppliers. Moreover, the savings from transaction progress could contribute to a significant amount and also lead company products more competitive as well as provide funds for innovation. Therefore, it seems like procurers play an important role within firms. But how the firms could achieve best value for money in procurement management? It seems likely that firms should seek to ‘get their own house in order’ before attempting to deal with suppliers. This essay aims to discuss this issue and illustrated the discussion with some successful examples. In the following sections, it shows a standard purchasing & supply management process. Additionally, the factors of outsourcing decision will be pointed out, organization buying behaviour will also be included in the essay. 2. Purchasing & Supply Management Process 3.1 Standard Process In Figure1, this is a commonly standard purchasing and management process which used by different sizes of firms worldwide. However, some smaller entities probably skip some stages of purchasing process, but basically it appears sequence of operating procurement principle. It illustrated clearly that the best value for money involves internal and external management, not a single one can be omitted...
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