Dear Professor xxx,
I am seeking to pursue a doctoral degree in strategy with a focus on entrepreneurship and in the process of application preparation. However, my interest towards strategic entrepreneurship is "love at a second sight" and my background is a little bit complicated.
After getting a bachelor degree in finance from a top 20 university of China, I was directly admitted to the doctoral program of IESE business school. My proposed area was finance then. I did not worry too much about the strategy and ob oriented curriculum since, on the one hand, I was too young and naive to forecast the difficulties in further study and research, and on the other hand, a former student told me all the finance students can have one year exchange study in the finance department of Northwestern University. Unfortunately, IESE lost the key contact person in my entrance year and I did not get the exchange opportunity. Therefore, from the second semester on, I began to learn core finance courses by myself while taking normal doctoral courses in IESE. I managed to pass the qualification test, but found myself seriously in lack of systematic training for finance research in the process of writing my dissertation. Too disappointed about myself, I left IESE and found a job as a financial market analyst in a British company's Shanghai branch.
However, the fire in my belly to do research, to pursue an academic journey and to stay in the cutting edge has never been extinguished. After a thorough research on and deep thought of different disciplines, I found a great match between strategic entrepreneurship with my background and interest.
My brief profile is as below. Do you encourage me to apply to your doctoral program or do you pursued me not to since my background is too weak and weird?
1. GMAT: 720+5 TOEFL: 111
2. Bachelor GPA: 3.5/4
3. Relative Courses taken: strategic management, organizational behavior, anthropology, sociology, microeconomics, statistics, multivariate analysis, econometrics, research methods
I'm interested in entrepreneurship research in family business and have found some of your previous publications in google scholar. Could you please send me the full version of the following papers for further reading?
"corporate entrepreneurship in family firms: a stewardship perspective"
"the entrepreneuring family: is it time for a new paradigm"
"family involvement and new venture debt financing"
-- by 会员 judydongxueni (2012/5/21 8:02:19)
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