The making of an MBA

Book Overview ByAmritPal Singh Bedi

Goodbye Mr. president

• Peter Robinson-left presidential office in

1988 as speechwriter to the then

president Reagen to persue MBA from

“Stanford business school”

He was having background in:

LAW

MBA college- Inferno begins

POET

Mathematics

Essentials of

Accounting

OB

Surrounded by

Maths Activity- love maths with practical examples

If you fold single piece of paper in half, folded it again in

half and keep on folding it in half a total of thirty-two

times, how thick would the sheet be?

Answer: 271 miles

Orientation- journey continues

Initial Computer Camp: making of excel spreadsheets

Introduction to college, classmates, environment

Students with Rich and Poor family backgrounds.

Inside classroom: Snapshots from “HELL”

Decision making Under

Uncertainty

Statistics

Computer Modelling

Micro-economics

Financial Accounting

Question in his mind

I do not understand-

• Statistics

• Computers

• Micro

• Accounting

I do understand OB, but I don’t like it. So,

What am I doing in a B-school?

Student life: More Snapshots from Hell

Restless

nights

Painful

subjects

Difference

in thoughts

No/little

time

For family

Midterms: the Horror

2 phases:

The week before exams The week of

exams

Being student VS Being exam takers

Glimpse of Midterm conversation

Result of Midterm

PassedAccounting

Computers

Micro-eco

“H” in OB

Among 333

students,

ranked 8th * in

“Statistics”

*(from the bottom)

Stockholm Syndrome

named after Stockholm bank robbery incident

“I am responsible for my failure, not Stanford”

Finals

Preparation

Day start at 6:30 followed by light jog & balanced diet in menu to ensure good mental/physical health

Group study NO MORE-solitary study

Outcome

Change from

“Nothing about business”

to“Face complicate business situations”

Shopping with girlfriendParty with colleaguesNow more Business minded

It’s party time now- Christmas break

Party over- Back to Hell, Back to Inferno

Endless looking chain of Case studies, Mathematical formulaes and

long unreadable books.

Numbers Numbers Numbers

Interesting Operation VS painful Cost Accounting

Case study-Japanese Car Manufacturing

Definition of MBA degree holder

• Luxurious cars Porsche

• High salary with glamorous jobs

Questions of life ahead MBA

Marriage Money

Some return to their home place for jobs, refusing offers that they got

“Even big guys like P&G make mistakes”