Dr Manny Pohl, MBA, 1976

Tony Norton, MD of Standard Merchant Bank addressed our MBA class. He talked about merchant banking and corporate finance- stock exchanges, raising capital, mergers, acquisitions financial instruments, risk and reward, and corporate valuations. I knew definitively that I wanted to go into investment banking. When the first opportunity arose I fortuitously joined SMB. Most merchant…

I graduated with my MBA from WBS in 2007. The MBA changed my life, but in small ways, bit by bit, by ensuring that my practice always had structure. As a social worker, running a non-profit organisation, it ensured that I applied business acumen and thinking to my desire to address social problems. I am…

Precious memories came flooding back to me as I walked through the grounds of our Business School for the first time since I graduated in 1986. I remember very long days and late nights, I remember challenging exams and demanding case studies. Being both exhausted and exhilarated. My MBA changed my life and I will…