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We ask that your personal statement be a typed, single-spaced document of one to two pages.
Please number your responses as you:

1. Elaborate on your objectives in applying to ISM, describing your future career plans.

2. Give a candid description of yourself, highlighting the personal characteristics you
feel to be your strengths and weaknesses.

3. Describe your current research interests regarding the world of business.

In addition, please choose and answer one among the following three questions (two to three
paragraphs):

  • Describe your greatest area of professional growth in your career. What areas would you like improve on in the future?

  • Describe your most enjoyable/memorable professional experience. What did you learn about yourself and others from this experience?

  • Describe a particular frustration or difficulty (e.g., an ethical dilemma) that you have experienced in business. How did you resolve this situation and what was the outcome? What lessons did you learn from this experience?
 

PhD Testimonials

Anis El Khatib - PhD Student from Lebanon

The PHD program at ISM is highly distinguished.  In general, course structure, subject matter, and materials of the DBA...

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Fadi Esta - PhD Alumnus from Lebanon

ISM has the following competitive advantages: - Sharing of diverse experience due to the selection of students and facu...

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Abdelmaksoud Khalifa - PhD Candidate from UAE

ISM’s flexibility was the major reason why I enrolled. The program structure at ISM was the best choice for a wor...

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Turner White - PhD Candidate from the United States

As a PhD candidate at ISM, my studies so far have made a significant impact in my life in teaching. My courses at ISM h...

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Seth Feldman - PhD Candidate from the United States

ISM has been quite instrumental in improving my teaching and my overall knowledge-base. Following a course on Risk Cont...

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