商学院ESSAY样例8
this cover letter serves as a sort of executive summary for your application. it is also the written equivalent of the first impression which you make when meeting someone for the first time. as such, it should reflect a great deal of time, thought, and energy. ideally, we will finish reading your cover letter eagerly anticipating reading the rest of the application. the cover letter should conform to the standards of business correspondence and be addressed to the admissions committee. it should point out the features of your resume that you believe to be of interest to the admissions committee, both in your education and in your work history. further, please comment on your career goals and those factors which influenced you to pursue an mba education at sloan. additionally, discuss which management track appeals to you and how it fits your professional aspirations. we are also interested in what you believe you can contribute to the sloan school and your fellow students, and we encourage you to describe your most substantial accomplishment.
i am a business consultant at corporate directions, inc., the first japan-based strategy consulting firm, as well as a part-time board member at aya network inc., a venture company providing outsourcing services in the telecommunications industry. my long-term goal is to establish a venture company in the multimedia field. in order to pursue this goal, i would like to enroll in a business school that emphasizes entrepreneurship in the high-tech industry. my career goals were shaped by my experience at the tokyo institute of technology. at the institute, i developed a breakthrough communications protocol for information
security. i consider this to be my most significant personal accomplishment. my research paper on the protocol was accepted by one of the most prestigious international conferences on cryptography (asia crypt). i presented the paper for hundreds of top researchers from all over the world. i was the only master course student speaker among many professors and phds.
to my surprise, after the conference, i felt empty, when i should have been filled with happiness. i tried hard to discover the source of my displeasure. finally, i realized that my project would have little meaning to me until it was actually used in new products and services that improve daily life. i concluded that i would never be happy working solely for money, fame, and status, and that i wanted a future career in which i could directly help people. my experience creating the protocol did not only influence my career goals, but it also increased my self-confidence. before i began working on the protocol, i did not expect that i would be able to concentrate for so long on one project. i always thought i would easily give up when faced with a difficult situation. however, in order to produce a successful protocol, i had to learn many new mathematical and scientific concepts. although i sometimes felt frustrated with my abilities, especially when i read research papers written by exceptional scientists, i did not give up. i forced myself to continue trying by continually thinking of my goals. my success in the project gave me confidence in my ability to work hard and excel at challenging tasks. i learned that accomplishment comes from believing in oneself, having a clear view of a goal, and pursuing that goal aggressively. whenever i face a difficult situation, i think about my success at the institute and gain confidence. another experience that has shaped my desire to go to business school is the time i have spent consulting. from hundreds of university students i was selected to intern at several different consulting firms: mckinsey & company, boston consulting group and cdi. i immediately found consulting to be rewarding. the strategy-implementation projects of the firms enabled the consultants to clearly perceive their influence on their clients' lives and to share their pleasure in their work's results with their co-workers. i was greatly impressed by cdi's philosophy that 'a consultant must become an agent of real change who brings actual innovation to the client's organization and our lives.' its strong entrepreneurial atmosphere and its close-knit culture as an independent japan-based consulting firm attracted me as well. i decided to become a business consultant at cdi after my graduate study. as a project leader at cdi, i had the opportunity to manage many business start-up projects, mainly in the communication and electronics industry. these projects satisfied my inquiring mind and my wish to make new products and services. direct and quick feedback from customers enabled me to vividly perceive my own contribution. my greatest accomplishment at cdi was a market entry project for a cellular phone operator in the tohoku region of japan. i successfully built a market entry scenario, delineated plans of action, facilitated discussion with team members, and administered the various parts of the project. as a result of my efforts, the phone operator company was able to increase its market share. it currently has a lower termination ratio than any sister company. the clients greatly appreciated my work. after the project, the company's director offered me another six-month consulting project. such an offer was extremely unusual, because normally the clients deal only with vice-presidents of cdi. the director told me that he valued my professionalism and persistence over the senior consultants' experience. at that moment, my mission in this profession was clear: i wanted to be a business start-up consultant. i continued consulting at cdi for the next five years.
however, i eventually began to suspect that consulting was not for me. i often felt frustrated because i was only involved in a small part of managing businesses. my influence over client companies was limited to my consulting role during the contract period. i started to consider other occupations in which i could exert greater influence on improving people's lives. i concluded that entrepreneurship, although it had high risks, best suited my career goals. i decided to establish my own venture company. my short-term goal is to build a multimedia 'edutainment' venture company. my company would be based on the idea that children should enjoy learning. i think the current education system is boring. there is therefore a great need for an 'edutainment' company. since education and entertainment are both areas where people spend a lot of time and money, i think this business would create a large market in a few years. in addition, progress in communication and electronics technology would make it possible to soon produce truly valuable multimedia 'edutainment' product or services. moreover, the key factor in this type of business is not company scale