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As my dad has always been a businessman as far back as I can remember, I have never thought of being anything else but a successful businesswoman myself. Although the aspiration has always been there, I had never thought about the category of business I was interested in until I went to Jamaica wi..

161-word version: International Business & Business Administration– All Schools I believe Business Administration would enable me to channel my quantitative and conceptual abilities in analyzing business-related issues and would open up new avenues of research for me... 232-word vers..

Early in my childhood, the Internet was a mere luxury, but it has now become a necessity. When I was four years old, my father regularly traveled to Europe to start his textile company, leaving me and my mother all by ourselves...