Certain recent courses undertaken in the program have kindled my entrepreneurial instinct, for e.g. like the Cornell Management game/Simulation course. This game deals with product/market expansion and segmentation and its influences to a company's share value. Simulation rounds involve making decisions w.r. to finance, operations and marketing management, competing with companies within a given industry. This game in essence allows for product, capacity, market and revenue planning, which in the process, gives you that feel for 'real-world-like' impact of complex managerial decision making perspectives which are very similar to real life situations. In an actual work environment, there are several unforeseen and adhoc organization specific economic influences and finer points of managerial soft-skills.These can create heavier influences in strategic thinking and its application.
The game involves a few decision making rounds, where a team might find itself in one round leading and on top of the world and other rounds perhaps prefer to bury their heads in the sand. Fortunately my team won the game for our given industry, and emerged taking home the grand prize. i.e. an A+ ! Congrats to my team mates - Mike & Pablo!
So I keep telling myself, all it takes is the determination to learn everything you can,with teamwork and patience; strategically then use that knowledge when the right moment comes and be disciplined about it. Business school grads have historically had a lot of fantastic career options and I too sense the same, having embraced the power of knowledge through this program. So in hindsight, if I actually turned down or postponed this opportunity, I probably would have kicked myself for the rest of my life. That said, I am looking forward to a cheerful summer and to continue to add items to the list titled 'things to do after May, once I graduate'!
