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| FROM IMD Admissions Blog: Emotionally numbered, analytically sentimental |
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I need to apologize for my long silence in the blog. I must acknowledge, that my IMD experience goes far beyond schooling, projects or class experience. When I packed my suitcases to come here six months ago, I thought I knew everything I put there. However, just like in books of Milorad Pavic, all of a sudden I found the whole bunch of stuff. In my childhood, clumpy sea shells with loud wave illusions were popular to keep at home, and to surprise visitors from time to time. And here, in my virtual sea shell collection, of which I personally had no idea up to date, the first specimens were rather small and negligible, while the last one almost deafened me. Hopefully, that was the biggest one… I want to say "Thank you" to my classmates and all the people at the IMD, and to my friends, who helped me regulate the volume of noise and hear other beautiful sounds of the world around. We all are here, at the IMD MBA, the best place to learn and explore ourselves in leadership from the business context. Those looking to come, just be prepared for the internal journey, too. Putting your house in order might help find the better version of yourself in many areas of your existenceJ This week at school was unbelievably full of learning discoveries, accomplishments and light sadness, as we completed finance and strategy courses, and a class on sustainability. I didn’t notice, when exactly the financial terms and concepts became a regular part of my thinking and communication, but yesterday, when I listened to my classmates making presentations on various financially-related topics of versatile businesses from all over the globe, I was amazed to admit, that we were a completely different group of business people, juggling with sophisticated topics, asking each other tricky questions and going back and forth from finance to economics, from marketing to leadership, from communication to negotiations etc. (not to mention quality of slides and speakers!). My heart was almost bursting, when we were applauding to our finance professor Nuno Fernandes. I also want to thank our strategy professor Mikolaj Piskorski, who taught us cybernetics of strategic thinking and made us dig very deep beyond trivial in searching for real answers. Debates in the class were very hot, while the level of respect to individual opinions together with unexpectedly brilliant navigation of the class discussion by Misiek sometimes brought us from decision-making to realistic futurism. Well, despite bitterness of farewell, the thought, that we belong to the IMD community, and that the door for us will be open, keeps me looking forward to the new paragraphs with IMD and beyond. So, no time for sentiments, exams are just around the corner! Till soon, Aysylu |
| FROM IMD Admissions Blog: This one is for Nuno! |
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Classes are done, so much happened in the last couple of days and exam preparation time started. One of the most memorable event was our last Finance class with the mighty professor Nuno Fernandes. I would like to take this space to thank him once more on behalf of all my colleagues for the unforgettable classes he gave us, the fun and sometimes tough learning experience, the eye opening speakers he brought in, but most of all, for his genuine care about our learninf and about us, the people behind the students. Here are a few pictures from our last calss with Nuno, some of the presentations we gave and our traditionnal class picture. ![]() Thank you for everything Nuno! Fouad |
| FROM IMD Admissions Blog: Strategy masters |
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With all classes finishing, our strategy class has also come to an end. I might have been slightly presomptuous with a title like "Strategy masters", but I can defnitely say that, thanks to Misiek, our view on strategic thinking will never be the same as it was before this outstanding class. Thank you for engaging us in class and coming back to each one of us to push his reasonning to the extreme in order to make sure we understand the implications of every strategy we discussed. Thank you Misiek for the great lievely classes! Fouad |
| FROM IMD Admissions Blog: Going back to the future |
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All good things must come to an end (cliche overload!!!!). And so do our core classes. More late nights, more sharing some more caring and in the end of it all some more exams marking the end of our academically intense period at IMD. When we came to IMD in January we had traded our suits and ties for backpacks and tees. How happy we were to not bother matching the colour of our belt and shoes. But as the "student" period draws to a close and as we prepare for our "executive" engagements, the formal attire is back. Slick looking guys and gals are all set to make a quiet but impactful entry back into the business World. No we are not done here yet! We still have a while to go before we can claim to be a part of the esteemed IMD Alumni community. But our remaining time here will be spent outside the classroom, in the midst of executives. Not just listening to them but also engaging them in a dialogue on key business topics. End of this month we will all be headed to one of the three major European cities, Zurich, London, Munich, where we will present our work on various topics concerning business and human challenges to executives from top companies. This will be followed by discovery expeditions around the globe. So in a way the student life comes to an end one more time. It does make me a bit nostalgic to realize that all 90 of us may not be sitting in the same class again until Graduation but then I am also proud of the fact that I will forever remain in the company of these exceptional 89 people and many more. But for now it is time to go back to the future Kunal |
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