Kelley School of Business

For the past four years, I have attended a private Jewish high school. Due to the schools small size, it was unable to offer many extra curricular clubs and activities for its students. One program that appealed to me more than the rest, was the DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America) business program, which I have participated in all four of my years in high school. It is hear that I found my passion for business and have been given knowledge which I hope will help me in attaining my goal of being admitted to the Kelley School of Business. My freshman and sophomore years I plan to work hard in order to be admitted through standard admission into the Kelley School of Business my Junior year. I am currently unsure which type of business…

I was in 10th grade and in my second year at one of the most prestigious college prep schools in the county; but I was miserable. I chose to attend this school because it impressed my parents and other adults, but I never considered whether the school was right for me. In 9th grade, I focused on my work and did not allow myself to feel the effects of the cold and unforgiving environment. However, in 10th grade my lack of connection to peers and teachers at the school became undeniable. I tried…

He is 44 years old, not a legal citizen of the U.S. and never went to school so he could start up this company. He now lives in Norwich, New York , and his net worth is around 1.97 billion. He started this company in the summer of 2005 with only five employees. He started this company because when he came to America he looked for greek yogurt as a consumer but soon realized that no other company was making what he thought yogurt should be. There was a yogurt factory that went for sale while…

medalist, after inspiring himself with photos from a surfing magazine. He began his entrepreneurship as a teenager, selling t-shirts, and eventually entered UC San Diego, due to its close proximity to the beach. In the early 2000’s, he led a failed Internet venture, a game company, which had raised $4 million dollars in funding, but flopped after a year. This failure, however, did not end his aspirations; it further inspired him to better himself and his worth ethic. He travelled to Australia…

When I first visited Indiana this past summer, I didn’t know what to expect. I had heard that the Kelley School of Business was really nice, but I never really thought it would be as amazing as it was. After our official tour, my father and I walked to Kelley and decided to check it out. At first, I was excited by the physical aspects of the building; a seemingly new school with incredibly facilities was exactly what I was looking for in a business school. As we continued our unofficial tour,…

“Analyzing the Lincoln Electric Company to Determine its Organizational Culture” This essay uses the framework from chapter eight of the textbook to analyze the Lincoln Electric Company in determine its organizational culture. The first feature to be analyzed is the influence of the founders on the company from when it started until now. The second group of features to be analyzed at the Lincoln Electric Company includes its incentive management plan, its performance appraisal system, its…

struggling academically due to stress at home. It was the beginning of the housing crisis in the United States and my Father is a residential real estate agent and my mother was a stay at home mom who was raising my younger brother who has Aspergers. The level of stress at home was at an all time high and I was not equipped to handle everything that was suddenly put on my plate, such as working and paying for my own car and “fun” expenses, trying to balance being on the golf team and school…

dance show when we were kids, I have thought about someday owning my own business. While most of my 9 year-old friends talked of being teachers or astronauts, I was trying to decide if my sisters and I should own our own construction company, or should we start a school of arts for children and teach them to sing and dance. As I matured to the independent age of 14, the tough decision was more whether I would start one of these businesses with my sisters, or go off and start one on my own. As…

I struggled with ADHD and dyslexia in my childhood, I never had the opportunity to be intelligent in a traditional way. After shifting between special education and gifted & talented through most of my elementary career, I learned to embrace different ways of thinking, which inspired in me a lifelong curiosity about human behavior and motivation. Also, I learned to appreciate and apply an understanding that people have different world views and skill sets, and that made me very successful…

In 1953, legislation created the Small Business Administration (SBA) to further business activities across the United States (U. S. Small Business Administration, n.d.). Specifically, the agency’s purpose was to aid those individuals in the start-up, management, and financing of their small business dreams, as well as provide opportunities to conduct business with the federal government (U. S. Small Business Administration, n.d.). Today, the 28 million modest companies provide more than 50…