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hi experts: i'd greatly appreciate your thoughts/advice/direction/etc. on specifically which schools i should apply to in round 2 this year (round 1 is most probably a no go, given gmat woes). preface: i have not taken the gmat yet, so please assume for time being that i have a 650 score.
-30 year old male, bi-cultural half-Japanese, half-American advertising/marketing professional.
-8 years w.o. at world's leading agencies (ogilvy & mather, mccann erickson, ddb) managing fortune 50 blue chip brands (mastercard, ibm). currently living/working in honolulu, hawaii, managing the hawaii tourism bureau account and leading new business for my agency.
-B.S. in Communication studies from NYU; 3.71/4.0 GPA, magna cum laude graduate. Dean's list and Lambda Pi Eta (National communications honors society).Very active at school: Chair of NYU Dean's Circle - led 50 students on research and study abroad to Havana, Cuba; President Japanese Culture Club; NYU - McCann Erickson Ambassador; American Advertising Foundation; NYU Stern Economics Club. Study Abroad: Florence, Italy (Fall 2001, Spring 2002); London, UK (Fall 2004).
-fluent in japanese and english; elementary proficiency in italian.
-solid extracurriculars: Board of Directors, American Marketing Association (Hawaii Chapter); Co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer of online cloud-based procurement system startup. Guest Lecturer at local university teaching Marketing Consumer Behavior course. Director (U.S. West Region) of high school alma mater.
-short term post mba goal: transition into management consulting, specifically in strategy consulting service.
-medium long term goal: general management, director position at a Japanese multi-national corp; industry flexible but passionate in Telecomm, Auto, and Consumer Electronics; utilize my professional (Marketing, MC), personal (Japanese who understands West), and academic (General Management MBA) background; strong position for long term goal - breaking into the Executive/C-Suite Office.
-loong term goal: Lead (as Chairman & CEO) a Japanese multi-national organization that will play a vital leading role in the future renaissance of Japan. Serve as an officer at Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) - advising political leaders, administrators, labor unions, and citizens on the future growth and prosperity of the Japanese people.
-why mba:
1) To develop foundational business concepts - such as Finance, Accounting, Statistics.
2) To hone my strategic and leadership faculties in an environment that encourages it, and to apply them in the classroom as well as in student-led organizations.
3) To develop my analytical and quantitative skills.
4) Enable job transition to consulting which would be difficult to do on my own from my current position.
5) Avoid getting pigeonholed into an exclusively Marketing/Communications role in an organization (breaking through into General Management).
6) Maximizes my opportunity to live/work around the world.
here is where i am currently with schools and would LOVE AND REALLY APPRECIATE your thoughts/advice/direction/etc, please.
Dream (probably stretch) schools - in order of preference: 1) HBS; 2) Kellogg; 3) Stanford
Reach (probably also stretching quite a bit) schools - in order of preference: 4) Booth; 5) Haas; 6) CBS
Safety (or safer?) schools: 7) Yale SOM; 8) UCLA
thank you so very much, in advance, your time and careful thought and attention to my circumstance.
-30 year old male, bi-cultural half-Japanese, half-American advertising/marketing professional.
-8 years w.o. at world's leading agencies (ogilvy & mather, mccann erickson, ddb) managing fortune 50 blue chip brands (mastercard, ibm). currently living/working in honolulu, hawaii, managing the hawaii tourism bureau account and leading new business for my agency.
-B.S. in Communication studies from NYU; 3.71/4.0 GPA, magna cum laude graduate. Dean's list and Lambda Pi Eta (National communications honors society).Very active at school: Chair of NYU Dean's Circle - led 50 students on research and study abroad to Havana, Cuba; President Japanese Culture Club; NYU - McCann Erickson Ambassador; American Advertising Foundation; NYU Stern Economics Club. Study Abroad: Florence, Italy (Fall 2001, Spring 2002); London, UK (Fall 2004).
-fluent in japanese and english; elementary proficiency in italian.
-solid extracurriculars: Board of Directors, American Marketing Association (Hawaii Chapter); Co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer of online cloud-based procurement system startup. Guest Lecturer at local university teaching Marketing Consumer Behavior course. Director (U.S. West Region) of high school alma mater.
-short term post mba goal: transition into management consulting, specifically in strategy consulting service.
-medium long term goal: general management, director position at a Japanese multi-national corp; industry flexible but passionate in Telecomm, Auto, and Consumer Electronics; utilize my professional (Marketing, MC), personal (Japanese who understands West), and academic (General Management MBA) background; strong position for long term goal - breaking into the Executive/C-Suite Office.
-loong term goal: Lead (as Chairman & CEO) a Japanese multi-national organization that will play a vital leading role in the future renaissance of Japan. Serve as an officer at Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) - advising political leaders, administrators, labor unions, and citizens on the future growth and prosperity of the Japanese people.
-why mba:
1) To develop foundational business concepts - such as Finance, Accounting, Statistics.
2) To hone my strategic and leadership faculties in an environment that encourages it, and to apply them in the classroom as well as in student-led organizations.
3) To develop my analytical and quantitative skills.
4) Enable job transition to consulting which would be difficult to do on my own from my current position.
5) Avoid getting pigeonholed into an exclusively Marketing/Communications role in an organization (breaking through into General Management).
6) Maximizes my opportunity to live/work around the world.
here is where i am currently with schools and would LOVE AND REALLY APPRECIATE your thoughts/advice/direction/etc, please.
Dream (probably stretch) schools - in order of preference: 1) HBS; 2) Kellogg; 3) Stanford
Reach (probably also stretching quite a bit) schools - in order of preference: 4) Booth; 5) Haas; 6) CBS
Safety (or safer?) schools: 7) Yale SOM; 8) UCLA
thank you so very much, in advance, your time and careful thought and attention to my circumstance.












