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akshaychaturvedi007
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Schools: HBS '16 (D) Kellogg 1YR '15 (S) Yale '16 (S) ISB '15 (M$) Oxford (A$) Wharton Exec '16 (D) NUS '16 (A)
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14 Mar 2014, 02:06
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Kunal, so where are you headed to - ISB / Oxford / Duke?
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| FROM Oxford Admissions Blog: The human side of the MBA |
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We are MBAs. We are supposed to be about business, strategy, maximising profits; so the most common words you should be hearing in the business school should be “show me the money!”, Jerry Maguire-style. But that is not what I heard or have been hearing at Saïd, at least recently. It is about the human side of the MBA. Dean Tufano felt that human element of the MBA had to be highlighted in some form so he engaged with ace photographer Robert Fogarty to take a series of photographs of MBAs painting various thoughts or themes on their bodies. The exhibition of these photos was opened by the dean this week. In the opening speech he mentioned that when he was watching one of the photographer’s exhibitions he was touched by a picture of a cancer survivor with the words “Survived Cancer” painted on his body. He said that it was a poignant and powerful message. That’s when he realised that it’s the human factor. We might be all MBAs and be business leaders of the future, but at the end of the day we are all humans with feeling and benevolence. With that message the exhibition was declared open. And as I went through the pictures of last year’s Dear World Project with messages like “Love” and “Peace” painted on the MBAs, I could feel the human spirit. The second piece of wisdom was from our professor for the course, Developing effective managers. He said the key to any organisation is its people. “Many of you want to go into social impact and social entrepreneurship; there it’s the people. You will need to know how to manage them to be an effective leader.” I looked at some of my classmates who had come from the social impact space, I think about the conversations I had with them. It was never the money, rather the impact of money on the lives of people that drove them. The human element of the MBA, Saïd and the Skoll centre struck me. The third and most powerful message was in the concluding lecture for our marketing course. A visiting professor from Harvard taught us marketing. As a parting note he said, “I am glad I came to Oxford. This is an institute that has been educating youngsters for almost 1,000 years. The empire sent its young men to Oxford to study PPE so that they could go on and rule the world. I think the British Empire was one of the most benign empires in the world and they ruled well. “The future rulers will be MBAs in the form of large corporations and you are in the right place.” These words just kept ringing though my mind all day, I felt special about being in Oxford and being an MBA. I felt human, humble and a world leader all at the same time. So with these words my friends, I want to sleep; but I have assignments to do, job applications to fill “And miles to go before I sleep” (R Frost). Happy weekend all! Originally published in the FT on 14.03.14 |
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