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 be forever grateful!
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…
One Memory that stands out, the Syndicate meetings before classes.
I had arrived from Kenya at WBS on February 17th 1993 to join the full-time 1993-94 MBA class. As the first Kenyan student to enrol on this MBA program, I had been warned against going to South Africa in 1993 and had been repeatedly requested by family and friends to wait till the first democratic…
The most prominent memory is of studying and debating statistics in the courtyard with my ‘syndicate’ group.
What an honor it is to be joining WBS at this remarkable milestone.
Awesome Course, good as post Graduate, and overall experience was great…….Sets you up well for future career I felt…