Question: What are your short-term and long-term post-MBA goals? How will Darden assist you in attaining these goals?
My long-term goal is to be an effective, dynamic leader of a company that helps people and companies succeed. I have been very successful as a banker and that would continue if I did not go to business school. But one of my key reasons for going to business school is the career choice certainty that will come from testing my experience against other people's experiences and Darden's top-ranked Career Development Center. While there are opportunities within many companies and industries that provide an outlet for my long-term goal, my objective in business school is to determine what career is best suited to my passions of connecting people with ideas, seeing opportunities for improvement and effecting that change, and being involved directly with the customer to make these things happen.