Jack Bloom, MBA Full Time, 1984-1985

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 do not know how to begin but I would not be where I am today without the Wits Business School Education. I am actually emotional writing this. I attended the MBA programme at WBS from 2015 through 2016 and it has transformed my life completely. I have had two solid engagements ever since then, and…

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…