Narrative Essay For Mba Class

Prompt:
It is the first day of class in business school. You are in Aldrich Hall meeting your "section." This is the group of 90 classmates who will become your close companions in the first-year MBA classroom. Our signature case method participant-based learning model ensures that you will get to know each other very well. The bonds you collectively create throughout this shared experience will be lasting.

Introduce yourself.

Essay:
I grew up in Old Louisville and traveled halfway around the world to start a chicken factory in the slums of a country battered by revolution. When the violence in Tahrir Square played out on televisions across America my parents and my childhood friends called me to come home. But I had moved to Cairo after university in 2009, when it was rich with opportunity like China before its 30-year double-digit growth, and inspired by a freshly forming democracy, I saw even greater opportunity despite political instability and wavering markets.

Hello, I am a “chicken man.”

I started seeing myself as such shortly after I began volunteering at a free supplementary school in Cairo’s most depressed slum, Saft El Laban. The

Mo’men wanted a procurement program like KFC’s but because of the military’s de facto monopoly on the chicken market they couldn’t get the appropriate permits. However, since we were in a slum I knew that with the right team I could setup a factory extralegally until we were operational, in which case it would be easier to get the authorities to issue backdated permits. I wasn’t comfortable with bending the rules but in the face of an unfair and unyielding system, it seemed to be the best choice. So, Mostafa and I partnered with Hossam, an experienced chicken man, to establish the