What to Consider Before Investing in an MBA Education - Nina Godiwalla
Erik Michielsen: What questions should early career professional asks themselves
before applying for an MBA program?
Nina Godiwalla: I think the whole business school experience, it can be
transformational, if you allow it to be. So, I don’t think they have
to know exactly what they're doing. But I think they should have a
sense of what they're going there. What they're going there for. I
don’t think it has to be laid out the way we do lay out our business
school applications. And I think a lot of people say I just laid it out
because that’s what I supposed to do.
But I think you should have a sense of what you're going in there
for and I also think, a lot of people, when I was in business school,
especially entrepreneurs felt this was a very stifling environment.
And there were a lot of people that were a little bitter that they
were there, but there was a group of people that thought that this
was the right experience for me. And a lot of them had wish that
they had research and a little bit more.
Business school is an animal of its own. And just going in to go to
business school to get the letters, I just don’t think it make sense,
and especially when you're putting your investment with it, in that
kind of a way.
I should think you just have a clear picture of what it is, if these
two things I'm trying to really create that network for my self and
I'm trying to find something that really resonates in the business
world and I want this broad exposure. I think that makes more
sense than saying, I know for sure when I wait here, I'm going to
be a management consultant, specifically in a healthcare industry.
As if you completely define what you're doing after that, you can
put blinders on and one of the things that was a little surprising to
me, I never thought I’d would ever use this in the business world is
when I did something I was really passionate about it, while I was
in business school. I was involved in a lot of different things, but I
started the meditation program there.
And how would ever thought, like later on I've actually used that in
the business world. I did it because I wanted to expose business
school students to something that I felt was very valuable. And
then later in my life I've actually used it to create my own business.
There's no way and it's me or anyone else, so I was sitting there, I
would have thought that that’s something I would have used in the
future in terms of business. And I think that was a good example of
taking that opportunity to do things that you're excited about,
because you're going to learn something about yourself to that
experience.
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