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2008-2009 IE Business School Essay Questions and Analysis
2009-2010 IE Business School Essay Questions and Analysis
| Q1. | Ask the president (500 words) |
| If you had the opportunity, what would you ask the president or leader of your country, and why? | |
| R) | IE students are expected to be socially responsible business leaders and the school emphasizes the role of business in driving social change.With this in mind, what issue do you find pertinent to both your future professional role and to your country's social and economic environment, which you think you could discuss with the country's leader? Explain how this issue impacts you and your country. You could also state your position on the same issue. |
| Q2. | Difficult situation (500 words) |
| Cite the most difficult situation you have faced in your professional life and how your input helped to resolve it. | |
| R) | The Adcom wants to get a sense of what you consider challenging and how you respond to it. From a difficult work related experience, explain what combination of factors made it especially so e.g. tough client, recessionary environment, new team etc. What was the impact of all these upon you and others who might have been involved in the experience? What steps did you proactively take to work around these complexities, and how did they help in solving the problem? |
| Q3. | Leadership impacted (500 words) |
| Cite at least one example in which your leadership impacted or changed a situation and discuss how you think IE Business School will help you refine, focus, or enhance this skill. | |
| R) | From your bank of leadership experiences, which one stands out in terms of organizational impact and where you think a certain positive aspect of your leadership played an overwhelming role in helping you succeed? Perhaps, you played a key role as a leader in bringing about an understanding among rather divergent stakeholders -your negotiating and persuasive skillswere at the forefront. Describe the incident highlighting how you applied this quality. At IE what factors such as the tremendous diversity -by requiring you to understand and reconcile so many diverse viewpoints, will help you refine this skill? |
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