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anujbairoliya
Joined: 24 Sep 2015
Last visit: 20 Oct 2018
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Location: India
Concentration: Strategy, Finance
Schools: HKU MBA"18 (A) HKUST '19 (D) NUS '19 (D) NTU '18 (D) ISB '18 (D) Carlson '19 (D) SMU '18 (A) Olin '19 (D) HEC Jan 2018 Intake (D)
GMAT 1: 720 Q49 V39
GPA: 3.54
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Schools: HKU MBA"18 (A) HKUST '19 (D) NUS '19 (D) NTU '18 (D) ISB '18 (D) Carlson '19 (D) SMU '18 (A) Olin '19 (D) HEC Jan 2018 Intake (D)
GMAT 1: 720 Q49 V39
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| FROM HEC Paris Admissions Blog: Traveling to Dubai for a Consulting Club Trek |
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To prove that spending Spring Break on a Consulting Club Trek can be almost as impressive as being on a sandy beach in the French Riviera, we asked two trek participants, Izaan Allugundu and Omar Ramadan, to keep a journal of their week in Dubai. Here’s what they and their 17 classmates experienced during their April visit: Daily Trek Highlights Day 1: Our group’s arrival in Dubai corresponded with the 5th annual gala organized by the local HEC Alumni chapter. We spent the evening on the top floor of the iconic, sail-shaped Burj Al Arab (the world’s only 7-star hotel), meeting with the more than 135 alumni and spouses who attended the lavish event.  Izaan (right) at the gala Day 1, Key Takeaways: What an eye-opening experience to meet personally with HEC’s Arabian Gulf alumni! Gala attendees included everyone from recent graduates to people who had earned their diploma 30 years ago. There were consultants from Boston Consulting Group, A.T. Kearney and Bain, regional sports celebrities, alumni who had founded designer furniture firms, entrepreneurs, and even associates working at the $1Tn national sovereign wealth funds. Day 2: We met with Delta Partners, a telecom, media and digital-focused consulting firm, where we received a very warm welcome from Eudald Pous, an Associate Partner. While Delta Partners is a young, sector-focused firm, its small size means that it’s possible to work on technology projects anywhere around the globe from its Dubai office. Afterward, we headed to Alix Partners’ office, where Managing Director Eugenio Berenga provided a company overview, then invited us for a 2-hour-long aperitivo where we met many of their consultants in a relaxed setting. Day 2, Key Takeaways: Throughout the day, we witnessed firsthand the exciting opportunities of working in smaller consulting firms. Despite their smaller size, these companies work on critical projects across the most important industries in the region. Days 3 and 4: Strategy consultants are not only found at specialized consulting firms; several large industry firms have internal strategy teams. We visited a few of these firms – Emirates, Henkel and Schneider Electric. Each has hired at least one HEC Paris MBA alumni in the past.  Consulting trek participants at Emirates headquarters Days 3 and 4, Key Takeaways: At Emirates, the Senior Vice President and the Vice President of the Internal Strategy discussed how their team helped make Emirates a powerful player in the airline industry. One of our trek participants, Gautam Sharma, received a summer internship offer from them. Day 5: We started the day at Simon-Kucher & Partners, the world’s leading consultancy for pricing policy. Later we moved to EY’s offices, then Monitor Deloitte.  You can see Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, from the meeting room at Monitor Deloitte Day 5, Key Takeaways: We learned that Simon-Kucher recently arrived in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and has aggressive plans for expansion. Bonus: Thanks to the trip, our classmate Chaitanya Rachabattuni will join them for a summer internship! EY and Monitor Deloitte are stepping up their management-consulting services, especially in the GCC. Both firms invited all of us to apply in September. Day 6: This was the BIG day where we met the leading consulting-sector firms in the GCC. Managing Chairman & Partner Advisor Jean-Marie Pean, (MBA ’83), greeted us at Bain & Company. He founded the Middle East offices of Bain and we listened in awe as he described his and the company’s journey in the region. He explained how the company has designed government bodies, restructured most of the region’s biggest oil companies and helped manage Trillion Dollar sovereign wealth funds. After Bain, we moved to the Strategy&offices. The firm, formerly Booz & Company, was the first company to set up shop in the GCC in 1993 – 10 years before any other firm. In the early afternoon, we moved to McKinsey. Instead of greeting us at their offices, they met us in a coffee shop. The small-group setting offered an amazing opportunity to form a genuine connection with their consultants.  Visiting A.T. Kearney Our last, but not least, stop was at A.T. Kearney where we met four HEC Paris alumni, including Partner Gael Rouilloux, Manager Naman Sharma, Associate Consultant Augustin Cabrera and Management Consultant Mohamad Yamout, as well as some of their colleagues. Day 6, Key Takeaways: We learned insider information about each firm’s sectors, work environment and organic growth strategy in the GCC region. They also gave personalized feedback and advice for our future applications. In the Evenings Of course, we also made sure our group had plenty of time to bond and had loads of fun in the evenings. Overall, it was a great experience! The post Traveling to Dubai for a Consulting Club Trek appeared first on HEC Paris MBA News. |
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18 Jul 2017, 03:00
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| FROM HEC Paris Admissions Blog: Learning Ethics from a Benedictine Monk |
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At exactly at 12:30 p.m., we began the 6-hour journey from campus to Chomelix, a medieval village of less than 500 inhabitants. My seven MBA colleagues and I were heading to a monastery there, to spend four days grappling with questions of right and wrong during the Ethics and Performance elective offered three times a year by the HEC Paris MBA. The facilitator of this four-day seminar, Father Hugues, greeted us in the traditional way he greets all of the students he hosts: by ceremoniously washing our hands. From the second we arrived until the second we left, this former lawyer and current Benedictine Monk showed us amazing hospitality and made us feel very welcome. I shared with him that his name means South in Russian, and that this was especially poetic due to our long, 500 km journey to south-central France to meet him. The Notre Dame of Sereys Monastery is remote, situated in the middle of the woods with just a few neighboring houses. During the seminar, every day began with breakfast, followed by 1 hour of personal reflection time. At 10 a.m., the group discussions started. After dinner, we dedicated our free time to walking around the monastery’s property and having long discussions that lasted into the night. How often do you get the chance to have a private conversation with a person who manages over 250,000 employees? During one session, we debated the real and very tough ethical decisions faced by Vincent Schürr, the CEO of Invelis. It was amazing to discover some of the dilemmas that he had faced during the 40 years of his fascinating career – none of which I can disclose here due to the confidentiality that we all agreed to at the beginning of the elective. On the third day we talked about the ethical challenges that each of us had already personally encountered in our professional lives. As a group, we looked at past and future dilemmas. Everyone was fully engaged in the conversation thanks to the uniqueness of the topic. We discussed how the business world can confront you with ethical dilemmas caused either by malicious decisions or by innocent human errors; how sometimes you need to choose between a bad solution and a worse one; and how sometimes being a leader means making painful decisions. The last day was the most interesting. We met with Philippe Wahl, CEO of La Poste, and spent the entire morning and lunchtime with him. How often do you get the chance to have a private conversation with a person who manages over 250,000 employees? We flooded him with questions, and he didn’t stop surprising us with his answers. We asked him about his moral and ethical challenges, the issues he faces leading such a large organization, the strategy of a postal company in an instant-electronic-messaging society, his work-life balance, and much more.  And of course, we were in France, which meant four days of fantastic food, cheese and wine. What else could you ask for? Every meal was a celebration of French and regional cooking. My favorite was a Gazpacho starter, followed by duck with mashed potatoes and onions and a salad. A cheese plate was offered at the end, and just as we were about to leave the table we were surprised by a desert of strawberries with whipped cream. Unfortunately, all good things come to an end, and our amazing long weekend in the monastery was over. Father Hugues hosted a goodbye drink for us and walked us to our cars. The only thing that softened the sadness of leaving was the knowledge that we had beautiful scenery to gaze out upon on our way back to Paris. The post Learning Ethics from a Benedictine Monk appeared first on HEC Paris MBA News. |
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