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Joined: 16 May 2010
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Concentration: GMO/Sustainability
Schools:<strong>Darden '13</strong>
MBA Goal
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02 Nov 2010, 08:44
Hi everyone. I have a question, and it's very similar to a question that somebody else recently posted. I am in the midst of my b-school applications and, like everyone else, I am working on my essays. The reason I want to earn my MBA is because I want to learn how to build and run a business. I have a humanities undergrad degree (Spanish), and after college I became an officer in the Army. In college I had no idea what I wanted to do, but in between then and now I have realized that I want to run my own business. Because of my military service I haven't had much exposure to the business world, and I'm not exactly sure of everything that is out there. I know business school isn't where you go to "find yourself", but is it unaccepable that I want to get an MBA to help transition my leadership experience from the military to the business world? I am very much interested in small businesses and entrepreneurship. So I guess my question is, since b-schools want to know if your experiences plus an MBA from their school will equal success, or even makes sense logically- is having entrepreneurial goals, with no idea of a specific industry or business plan a bad thing?