It’s been an interesting few weeks since we have returned from South Africa…on one side, we have been juggling company presentations almost every week with job application deadlines, cover letters, interview preparations, more networking to get that dream job while on the other hand we were also introduced to two new course modules –Negotiations and Finance.......and we wrapped up our Organizational Behavior and Global Political Economy classes....
Yes, just when most of us Finance averse folks thought that we were done with the last bit of Finance terror, we were proved wrong!! if anything makes the re-birth of IMD Finance acceptable, it’s the sense of humor and demeanor of our finance professor for this module – Prof. Salvatore Cantale. I guess we all can agree that both our Finance modules have been taught by interesting Professors….you heard about Prof. Nuno during the first 6 months and while Prof. Salvatore probably wont be spending as much time with us, I am sure the class is already beginning to feel his impact…in today’s class we covered everything from Option Pricing including a lot of excel magic to an interesting case discussion to a philosophical topic about taking responsibility for our choices with regards to the financial crisis …of course with lots of Sicilian humor intermixed in Finance…..
Then we have the new ICP projects…again including some really big names and brands with strategic challenges and then some unique small-mid size organizations....travel this time includes USA, Chile, all across Europe, China, etc...
Amidst all this, one common theme for me and many of my classmates has been the “new us”……ever since we have been back from South Africa, it seems like we have really come together as a class…or atleast we certainly behave in a much more cohesive manner while the 90 of us are together….we know much more about each other and also know how to make things happen much more faster….in the first part of the program, I often found myself checking our calendar for the rest of the year because in a way I was ready to get done with this intense program and be done with the year…….but since the start of this module, I have not done that even once because it would make me realize that we have only 3-4 months together and in fact August is probably the last month we will all be at the Lorange taking the same classes together….September is the On campus recruiting event, followed by ICP 2 in October followed by electives in November….
It’s a strange feeling I can’t explain…the intensity is still there, but seems like we know how to handle it better, the job stress is there but most of us know we will get through that ….and sadly the only thing we don’t know how we might handle is the fact that the program will be done in a few months from now………but perhaps it’s too early to get into that….
It’s been a long day especially with the new French elective I have started…so it’s time to hit the sack!
Adios!
Vikas
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