Motivations for pursuing an MBA at Ross School of Business

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Thank you for your courtesy and consideration, and for the opportunity to apply for admission to the MBA program at the Ross School of Business.

The curriculum and course descriptions are compellingly for me, in particular a few that I will mention in this essay. But I want to express how impressive it was for me to see on the home page of the Ross School of Business site that Ross students "seek to revitalize, redefine Detroit."

An activist, educated and well-balanced approach to revitalizing our cities and our infrastructure -- using young educated talent with business knowledge and undaunted energy -- is precisely what America needs right now. I wish to be a part of this new push to help regenerate the business environment, and rebuild where it is possible, in Detroit or elsewhere, to bring the United States back to the forefront of global innovation and economic success.

In his State of the Union speech President Barack Obama called for Americans to roll up their sleeves and help provide the leadership in industries. "At stake is whether new jobs and industries take root in this country or somewhere else," he said. I want to receive the education and business training at Ross School of Business so I can contribute to making America the "best place on Earth to do business," as the president indicated.

The Business Economics courses offered at Ross School of Business are well respected and very desirable for a person eager to work hard and learn from the top tier of instruction. In particular, I am impressed with BE 527, Energy Markets and Energy Politics. I am very eager to learn the dynamics of -- and the history of -- the environmental and social impacts of institutions in the United States.

Institutions that have enormous power and influence on public policy -- that is of great interest to me for many reasons. Discovering the workings of energy markets, transportation linkages, and the politics of those fields draws my attention immediately. President Obama and many other leaders in business and politics have been promoting renewable energy sources for years, but the country has not yet reached the point where we should be vis-a-vis clean energy sources.

I want to be part of the generation that helps rebuild and revitalize America, and that means being part of the generation at the ground floor of the innovations. I want to use my education at Ross School of Business to give me the tools to understand and become part of the processes -- linked to pivotal business decisions -- that can lead to producing and marketing clean energy, non-polluting automobiles, and policies that help families and schools in communities across the country.

Another course that intrigues me is BE 555, Non-Market Strategy: Shaping the Rules of the Game. The course is "about the rules themselves" -- and about how they were created in the first place and how they are enforced. I am very interested in learning how government policy affects business, and how business as an industry can "change the rules of the game."