Graduate / Indian Institute of Managment, Ahmedabad (IIMA) PGPX - Essay -1 [7]

I am applying to IIMA PGPX and I'm a first-timer at applying to grad school, so I'd love any and all input you have on how I can make these better. Thanks

My experience spans over 10 years as a legal professional from being an academician at National Law University, Jodhpur - one of the best law school, to being an in-house counsel in Reserve Bank of India - country's Central Bank and Monetary Authorty. In this professional journey I have had the opportunity of learning about the theoretical aspects of law as well as how legal prescription can shape public policy especially in banking and financial sector.

In modern times law and management has become inextricably intertwined and a manager without legal perspective and a lawyer without managerial perspective cannot excel in corporate world. IIMA PGPX gives me the managerial insight and allows me to develop critical thinking of a business leader. The PGPX programme has a general management focus, including an emphasis on managing across borders and cultures and therefore is complimentary to my legal knowledge.

IIMA PGPX is a unique program which will not only give me an opportunity to get trained in advanced management education but also this challenging program will prepare me to blend my present knowledge of law with cutting edge business knowledge and hence prepares me for an active and diverse career.

In the above backdrop, I expect to gain the following from PGPX:
(i) IIMA PGPX will give me the opportunity to interact with top business academicians and learn from the experts as to how I can leverage my background in law in the areas of business.

(ii) The focus of PGPX is on general management and my background in law is the most fit for the same. In modern times the organizations operate in an increasingly complex world of emerging regulation across national and international boundaries. A business leader will be incomplete unless he has a fair understanding of legal underpinnings of any business decision. Therefore, PGPX's training will make me an atypical professional who has not only been ingrained in legal training but also has a general management perspective. Such professional can play a very crucial role in varied fields of business such as corporate strategy, merger & acquisition, legal and regulatory compliance, corporate restructuring, risk management, corporate insolvency, project finance decisions, et al.

(iii) A legal professional like me who has 10 years of experience varying from academia to industry with qualifications like Company Secretary, CAIIB etc. can accelerate his career with a general management degree of the rigour of PGPX. PGPX can be a game changer for my career and can catapult me from a legal professional to a management professional with strong grounding in law and thus open new and varied career vistas for me.

Hence, PGPX is the best programme, which will help me leverage my knowledge in law and launch me into a career in business and thus will enable me to make my career shift from a legal professional to a management professional with decent knowledge of legal and regulatory framework. In peroration, what I expect to gain from IIMA PGPX is an intellectually challenging environment, which will potentially transform me from a legal professional to a management professional with substantial training in law.