Or your MBA degree might just be taken away from you when you think you're this big and successful hotshot.
Don't be like this guy:
Stanford Takes Away an MBA Degree
Re that guy: changing grades on his law school transcript to make his parents happy? Really?! Give me a break. Begs the question of whether more stringent grading in American schools should be practiced so that students really put in the hard work of earning their grades, don't get misplaced confidence due to over-inflated A's and A-'s, and be used to the idea that not getting A's and A-'s is okay.
I tell you, it's too easy to get an A in the US educational system that grades don't really serve as a benchmark of academic performance anymore. A B in the MBA program is already something to be ashamed of. And that's, what, a 3 on a 4-point scale (which, on the Philippine university scale, is an 80 out of 100)? Whatever happened to C's, D's and F's?
Hah. Just wanted to say that first-year MBA students are intense when it comes to grades. Especially in the first semester of the program.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
CEOs when they were MBA students
I was going through No Debt MBA's entries yesterday, and found a link to this interesting article.
Fortune 100 CEOs: When They Were MBA Students
And just like No Debt MBA, I found inspiration in Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi:
Nooyi recalled how she was virtually broke in her first year as an MBA student. “Those were very tough times.,” she said. “At the end of the month, if I saved $5. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I was totally and complete broke. I had no money to buy clothes. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I worked the front desk of Hadley Hall from midnight to 5 a.m. at $3.35 an hour, the minimum wage. That money was the grocery money for the week.”
I read a case on Indra Nooyi last quarter, and her story is a definite must-read. She chose the night shift because it paid an extra 50 cents an hour. She didn't have the money to buy a well-made suit so she bought one from a discount store, and wore orange snow boots to an interview (and got rejected). A professor advised her to wear a sari for the next interview (BCG), saying, "if they can't accept you in a sari, it's their loss, not yours." She got the job.
One quote of hers that strikes me: "I am so secure in myself, I don't have to be American to play in the corporate life."
(Reference: International management: managing across borders and cultures. H. Deresky. 8th ed.)
Fortune 100 CEOs: When They Were MBA Students
And just like No Debt MBA, I found inspiration in Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi:
Nooyi recalled how she was virtually broke in her first year as an MBA student. “Those were very tough times.,” she said. “At the end of the month, if I saved $5. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I was totally and complete broke. I had no money to buy clothes. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I worked the front desk of Hadley Hall from midnight to 5 a.m. at $3.35 an hour, the minimum wage. That money was the grocery money for the week.”
I read a case on Indra Nooyi last quarter, and her story is a definite must-read. She chose the night shift because it paid an extra 50 cents an hour. She didn't have the money to buy a well-made suit so she bought one from a discount store, and wore orange snow boots to an interview (and got rejected). A professor advised her to wear a sari for the next interview (BCG), saying, "if they can't accept you in a sari, it's their loss, not yours." She got the job.
One quote of hers that strikes me: "I am so secure in myself, I don't have to be American to play in the corporate life."
(Reference: International management: managing across borders and cultures. H. Deresky. 8th ed.)
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