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I saw business school as an excellent
opportunity for me to learn more about effectively managing other people,
solving complex, interdisciplinary problems, and gaining useful insights
about organizational
influence and effectiveness. In short, I chose business school
to help me learn how to become a more effective leader in my future career.
I chose Stanford Graduate School of Business for three main reasons: its
reputation for serving as an excellent managerial training ground; its focus
on public management and non-profit leadership education, and its friendly
and supportive student and faculty culture. Stanford puts substantial resources
toward its public management program, which offers subsidies for non-profit
internships, a meaningful loan forgiveness program, public sector leadership
opportunities, and many other
support-systems for students seeking careers or board positions
in the public sector. I value this public management program tremendously
and came to Stanford in large part because of it.
I worked at Environmental Defense for three years prior to business
school, and I plan to continue a career in environmental management
at some point in my future. I am particularly interested in the
field of conservation real estate and may choose to pursue this interest
further. During the fall and winter quarters of this past year, I worked
on a project for The Nature Conservancy in exchange for course units.
This project was a terrific learning experience and one that I hope will
help launch part of my future career.
This past year, I served as the co-president of the Stanford Business
School Environmental Management Club, one of the most fulfilling
leadership opportunities I have held thus far because it gave me
a chance to interact closely with other business school students interested
in environmental issues. |
