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2011-2012 MIT EMBA Essay Questions and Analysis
| Q1. | SOP (500 words) |
| A statement of purpose, indicating your qualifications and why you are pursuing the MIT Sloan MBA for Executives | |
| R) | The part on your own motivation to pursue an EMBA and your professional background and qualifications is straightforward to answer. Highlight strengths such as leadership, global business experience and also show how you are prepared to handle the rigor of being back to academics and a demanding curriculum e.g.your past performance in high level training programs within your organization itself. Given the next stage of your career goals, why do you think you need an MBA to get to these goals? For e.g. you may have acquired significant exposure and experience in a specific functional area in your industry, but lack the breadth of experience or general management exposure to be considered for top management roles. Considering that MIT EMBA program has just been launched, you have mostly their website to research regarding why you want to pursue this program. But bear in mind that the program will draw on the expertise of MIT Sloan's well known faculty and their extensive real world business knowledge- plus how do you plan to utilize linkages such as MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership. |
| Q2. | Contribution (500 words) |
| The educational mission of the MIT Sloan School of Management is to "develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world." Please discuss how you will contribute toward advancing this mission. | |
| R) | The answer to this prompt must emphasize your commitment to innovation, improving global business and the leadership role you will play in doing this. It sort of asks you about your long term goals in an indirect way, such that your goals are expected to bring about all of the above. Therefore, lay out the general direction for your career in the long term - how do you propose to encourage ethical business and innovation in getting to this goal? What kind of leadership role will you assume e.g. as an entrepreneur who sets up a solar energy company or as an investment banker who will champion new regulatory norms etc. |
| Q3. | Opinion (500 words) |
| Please describe a time when you changed your opinion, and why | |
| R) | The Adcom wants to evaluate your analytical abilities through this -from the position where you held a certain opinion, because of particular reasons, how did you evaluate the situation which finally prompted you to change your opinion. Your answer must therefore, explain your earlier position and also the course of reasoning you followed which made you change your opinion. What were some compelling points which motivated you to do so? You could end by briefly stating what impact this had on you - how you felt when you had to change your opinion and what you learnt about how such a change affected you. |
| Q4. | Organizational goal (500 words) |
| Please discuss an occasion when your resources and time were limited and you needed to achieve a significant organizational goal. What did you do, and how did you do it? | |
| R) | All MIT EMBA candidates are expected to have at least a decade of professional experience, so selecting one such instance which fits the essay prompt should not be difficult. Describe the goal and what kind of resources you needed to achieve the given goal. What factors made such resources scarce e.g. you were setting up business in a new country and you needed to assemble a team very quickly. How did you meet the challenge - did you think laterally and come up with innovative ideas to beat the resource and time crunch? Finally, you could summarize your learnings in a line or two. |
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