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11 Jan 2014, 12:00
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| FROM IMD Admissions Blog: First Impressions |
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After just 7 days on a new continent, in a new country, starting a new program with all new people- it has been a week of first impressions. The strongest impressions of the week have been the diversity and sincerity of the other 89 IMD MBA 2014 members, the professionalism and detail orientation of the IMD administrative team... and the opening remarks of Ralf Boscheck, IMD's new MBA Program Director. It has been both fascinating and exhilarating trying to meet 89 people who come from South Africa to South Korea, Bulgaria to Brazil, Nigeria to North America, Moscow to Milan- who were working and travelling from nearly pole to pole- Antarctica to the Norwegian Sea. With strong representation from the BRICS, the West, Asia and developing countries, I am looking forward to the fascinating debates of the year ahead. Though their geographical reach is impressive, people’s experience is even more so. We have engineers, CFOs, consultants, entrepreneurs coming from industries such as healthcare, oil and gas, education, consumer products, commodities, aerospace and the list goes on. I feel honored to be with such an impressive group of individuals. The quality of the IMD program does not cease to amaze me- and it has only just begun! Our orientation ran like a Swiss clock, from getting our professional photos taken for the CV book, to collecting our own personal preloaded iPad Air with the next few months’ schedule and course assignments; everything has been handled to allow us to focus on the course work, leadership transitions and real world projects that we will begin next week. In addition, though I know everyone mentions it- having the IMD lunch throughout the year is something to behold, not to mention the café with all the cappuccinos one could ask for! As we all gathered in the MBA auditorium this past Thursday afternoon, we heard about more logistics and were informed of final administrative requirements. Then, the curtain opened on what was in store for us for the coming year- and Ralf Boscheck was center stage. I had participated in Ralf’s open podcasts in the past and seen some videos of his talks, which were all impressive, but his opening remarks blew me away. He reaffirmed the IMD commitment to quality education, leadership and placement and presented a strategy for continuous improvement. His energy and drive to foster our growth as global leaders was palpable as delivered through a challenge to us, a class of diverse individuals, to work hard and play to win. We begin our first module with Ralf next week, and I am looking forward to trying my best to keep up with the intensity while going through Economics and Industry Analysis. Oh- I almost forgot to mention that new locations were announced for the Discovery Expedition.... more next week! Until then- Ashley Silver |
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13 Jan 2014, 00:00
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| FROM IMD Admissions Blog: A few days to warm up, and now it gets serious |
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Coming into the first day of the program last Thursday, I was expecting to have to hit the ground running and be handed a million assignments right away. I had pre-emptively set the expectations with my wife that once I left the apartment on my way to IMD on that first day, she would probably not see me very much anymore! It turned out that I was wrong (at least for how things went last week). The two days of orientation weren’t that crazy at all, and turned out to be a nice warm up before classes begin. In fact, as Ashley described sowell in her entry on Saturday, orientation was extremely well organized – it allowed us to get the necessary set up, get all our questions answered, and have lots of time to meet and mingle with the other MBA participants. I especially appreciated the fact that IMD made a point to include the partners in the welcome festivities. All partners were invited to the MBA fair and to lunch both Thursday and Friday. And in addition to his powerful welcome message to the class, program director Ralf Boscheck also had a session where he presented specifically to the partners, to welcome them and update them on what the IMD program is all about. Now that Monday is here, the real work begins. I am extremely excited and a little anxious to begin the Economics and Industry Analysis class with Ralf himself. “Come on time, and come prepared” is the message Ralf has embedded in all of our minds… maybe add an “or else…” to that message as well! As I walk out the door this morning, I will be hoping all my pre-program preparation was sufficient, and that I will have the right tools to succeed this year. Wish me luck! Marcelo |
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14 Jan 2014, 17:00
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| FROM IMD Admissions Blog: Running at full speed |
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As you can remember I wrote in my last post that we are at the start line. Now I can say we started to run. But not slowly to warm-up, rather at close to full speed. We started our class Monday morning with understanding Ralf’s concept about industry analyses. I have thought, I can not hear too much new information on this subject as I worked in this area and professionally I was quite interested in this subject for several years, so I read quite many books and articles as on this subject. Well, I have to say, that I enjoyed it a lot, as I received a new concept building on my previous knowledge, but giving a new perspective. It was a very intensive day of theory and case studies, but then came the real thing. We had to apply the whole system on our own industry. Of course most of us believed, that our industry is special, and we can not use the framework, but finally we realized, that it’s working. Today the story became even more interesting, because we discussed our presentation with classmates from other industries, and I immediately realised that this year will really open up my horizon. I’m sure you could hardly mention any other opportunity, where first we discuss the issues of the Russian luxury skin care business, later we see the specialties of the international development funds related business opportunities and at the end finish the session with the changing environment of the Indian football sector. That was really amazing, how many new things I could learn during this day. After the classes of course we received today as well some preparation tasks for the tomorrow session, therefore I have thought I will refresh myself with some running. It became a little bit too refreshing... The rain started to fall around two minutes after I stepped out from our building. I thought, „That’s not a big issue”, so I continued. I changed little bit my mind, when I felt the turning point of my path, that it is not water, but ice what is heavily falling. Yes, I switched to full speed... |
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