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The making of an MBA
Book Overview ByAmritPal Singh Bedi
Goodbye Mr. president
• Peter Robinson-left presidential office in
1988 as speechwriter to the then
president Reagen to persue MBA from
“Stanford business school”
He was having background in:
LAW
MBA college- Inferno begins
POET
Mathematics
Essentials of
Accounting
OB
Surrounded by
Maths Activity- love maths with practical examples
If you fold single piece of paper in half, folded it again in
half and keep on folding it in half a total of thirty-two
times, how thick would the sheet be?
Answer: 271 miles
Orientation- journey continues
Initial Computer Camp: making of excel spreadsheets
Introduction to college, classmates, environment
Students with Rich and Poor family backgrounds.
Inside classroom: Snapshots from “HELL”
Decision making Under
Uncertainty
Statistics
Computer Modelling
Micro-economics
Financial Accounting
Question in his mind
I do not understand-
• Statistics
• Computers
• Micro
• Accounting
I do understand OB, but I don’t like it. So,
What am I doing in a B-school?
Student life: More Snapshots from Hell
Restless
nights
Painful
subjects
Difference
in thoughts
No/little
time
For family
Midterms: the Horror
2 phases:
The week before exams The week of
exams
Being student VS Being exam takers
Glimpse of Midterm conversation
Result of Midterm
PassedAccounting
Computers
Micro-eco
“H” in OB
Among 333
students,
ranked 8th * in
“Statistics”
*(from the bottom)
Stockholm Syndrome
named after Stockholm bank robbery incident
“I am responsible for my failure, not Stanford”
Finals
Preparation
Day start at 6:30 followed by light jog & balanced diet in menu to ensure good mental/physical health
Group study NO MORE-solitary study
Outcome
Change from
“Nothing about business”
to“Face complicate business situations”
Shopping with girlfriendParty with colleaguesNow more Business minded
It’s party time now- Christmas break
Party over- Back to Hell, Back to Inferno
Endless looking chain of Case studies, Mathematical formulaes and
long unreadable books.
Numbers Numbers Numbers
Interesting Operation VS painful Cost Accounting
Case study-Japanese Car Manufacturing
Definition of MBA degree holder
• Luxurious cars Porsche
• High salary with glamorous jobs
Questions of life ahead MBA
Marriage Money
Some return to their home place for jobs, refusing offers that they got
“Even big guys like P&G make mistakes”