Dear
mbaMission / JenK,
Thank you for going through my post. Details are as follows -
Work Experience/Highlights1. Founded Web Infrastructure as a service business during undergraduate first year.
2. After completion of undergraduate degree, incorporated the business.
3. Currently, it is one of the top 10 Indian companies in the industry by size (8000+ customers including world's largest companies)
4. Will complete 5 years by matriculation, excluding the 3 years part-time work during undergraduation.
5. Manage a team of 25 sales, support and development personnel as well as outsourced staff.
6. Have been offered and declined Angel and VC funding.
7. Manage operations in 19 locations worldwide (10 countries) with dozens of vendors.
8. Manage customers from 115 different countries.
9. Handled company and client acquisitions in USA, Germany, Netherlands and New Zealand.
GMAT - 720 (Q:49 / V:39 / AWA: 4.5 / IR: 8)
Education:B.E. Computer Science from University of Pune. First class with Distinction
10th/12th - First class with distinction
Awarded National Talent Scholarship in 2004.
Extra-curricular:College football captain/vice-captain during under graduation.
Part of school swimming, tennis and football teams during different years.
Organized and managed college events (sports and web-design)
Completed Jugend Kurs Eins (German Language course) from Max Mueller Bhavan
Post MBA Goal -A career change from Technology Entrepreneur to Consulting (mainly product/service delivery and customer service).
Target -Top 10 MBA programmes.
I had applied in haste to Harvard Business School and London Business School in R2 (Jan 2014) and got dinged in both. I had not mentioned career change , and the recommendations were from my business partner and an employee at my firm (both of which may have reduced the quality of my application.)
Do you think Top 5 / Top 10 programmes are possible with my profile ? Should I re-apply to HBS/LBS this time ?