Optional essay for MIT Sloan School of Management

1. Ryota Tsutsumi
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Optional Essay
For MIT Sloan
The Admissions Committee invites you to share
additional information about yourself in any format. If
you choose a multimedia format, please host the
information on a website and provide us with the URL.

2. Ryota Tsutsumi
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Summary of this essay
・ I use this essay as an additional material of
・ my candidacy for MIT Sloan.
・ I’m a steel business marketer and brand creator.
・ I’m a democratic leader with great teamwork.
・ I love bridging culture gap and taking actions.
・ I’m passionate about new challenges.
・ I’ll contribute Sloan as a student and alumnus.

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Ⅰ. Who am I?
Name : Ryota Tsutsumi (Japanese)
Career : Eight years in Nippon Steel & Sumitomo
Metal Corporation (NSSMC)
I’ve honed my skill as marketer
・launched B2B brand SteeLinC
・to strengthen steel value chain
・established marketing strategy
・for construction machinery
Family : Spouse (Ai) and
Daughter (Saki)
[With my daughter Saki]

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Ⅱ. Leadership style
I’m a democratic leader, initiating people through
team discussions and building consensus.
In business reestablishing projects, I tried
various ways to make each member motivated.
・ 1. showed prospective profit to managers.
・ 2. stimulated engineers’ technical curiosity.
3. brought key members to
3. customers to learn how to
3. process.
4. arranged contingency plans.
→ achieved +2% share in 2015[On-site discussion] [Celebration party]

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Ⅲ. My personal value
I demonstrated my value through thesis in Kyoto
U, interviewing 11 visually impaired couples(*).
(*)My father is visually impaired, I was impelled to grasp his situation.
Bridge culture gap between the disabled and me
・I tried to integrate myself to their community.
→ I’ve aspired to be open-mind and adaptive.
Try hands-on actions with intellectual curiosity
・Even in unknown field, I got
discoveries through the
fieldwork.
→ I believe collecting firsthand
→ information is invaluable.
Adaptive
<I’m here>
[My personal value]
Open
-mind
Hands-on

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Ⅳ. My personal attribute
To gain new experiences, I entered into overseas
real estate investment ($100K in Laos).
Besides agents’ data, I calculate profitability
and quantitatively evaluate risk and return.
I researched the feasibility on-site, discussing
with local developers and agents.
→I nurtured my passion for
1. new challenges
2. curiosity for diversity
3. decision making
4. learning quantitative methods
Gain new
experiences!

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Ⅴ. Contribution to Sloan’s community
Being sociable marathon runner, I acted as a
coordinator of my relay team.
・By grasping members’ traits, I socialized and
・created communication in the community.
→ I’ll lead Golf Club and Japan Club at Sloan!
As an alumnus of Kyoto
U, I cooperated recruiting.
→ I’ll activate MIT Sloan’s
→ community in Japan!
→ Utilizing my network, I’ll
→ organize social events
→ and conferences.[With my company relay teammates]

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Sloan’s
Experience
SteeLinC
In the Globe!
Current
Situation
End