How fabulous to be treated like my opinions mattered and to be exposed to fascinating classroom discussion with a whole bunch of really sharp people. That is how I remember my year studying the HDPM (as it was called then) in 1987. Loet Douwes-Dekker was an absolute maestro in challenging the views of the class…
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 remember the day I finished my MBA…
Honoured to be part of this prestigious institution
The MMFI afforded me the richest learnings ever. It made me blossom into a fully fledged operations/support services practitioner/business partner. Memorable moments were Prof. Malikane’s lectures with his familiar refrain of “Woe Unto Thee” if ……
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…