October 19, 2008
Introduction from Shweta
Hello Prospective MBA students!
I'm Shweta Malik and I come from India. I was a physician in India and obtained my residency in Nuclear Medicine following which I worked with Philips Healthcare as a Product Manager for its medical device business. Post-MBA, I want to pursue a career in consulting and have plans to start my own venture in the long term. I chose Ross for its generalist approach to MBA education and for its breadth of resources for entrepreneurships.
We are just done with first 7 weeks at Ross. The exams are over, assignments submitted and we are into the first break as Fall A semester comes to an end! These 7 weeks have been hectic but fun. Getting up at 7am and rushing for accounting class, reading strategy cases late night before next day's class, working on numerous microeconomics assignments, doing case competitions, attending corporate presentations and then shaking a leg in salsa classes took a whole lot of time. The fun came from learning new concepts, meeting new people from across the world and professions and working on real life cases in all 4 subjects.
We had the following subjects:(in order of my liking) Applied Microeconomics, Corporate Strategy, Applied Statistics and Financial Accounting, in this term. "Creating value for the shareholder is the primary purpose of business" might sound cliched, but this profound statement is the basis of business management. Economics tells you 'What' is a value (for producers and consumers) and Strategy helps you identify 'How' to create that value. Statistics has been a revelation! Regression analysis works like 'Magic' and is a powerful tool for making sense of huge and abstruse data. In Accounting, I found Accrual accounting a very clever and simplified way to record and represent 'economic reality' of a firm.
Few other significant highlights of first 7 weeks have been:
1. My selection into Frankel Commercialization Fund's Healthcare Team. Frankel Fund is a student managed venture capital fund that seeks to invest into ideas developing in University of Michigan and around. Frankel Fund provides a unique opportunity to learn about early-stage investment and we would actually work with entrepreneurs and investment advisors. More information about the fund is available at www.frankelfund.com
2. RLI (Ross Leadership Initiative)-A series of 6 action-packed days to welcome our batch (Class of 2010) and to give us time and opportunity to bond with each other. We not only listened to some interesting speakers talk about leadership, teamwork and change but also played short games in small groups, worked on mini-projects, and spent a full day in Detroit at 'Greening of Detroit' school farm project while getting to know each other better.
3. My appointment as a student ambassador to help people curious to know about Ross School of Business from a current student's perspective.
Many first year MBAs are attending West Coast Forum on 23rd-24th Oct. Its a wonderful opportunity to have first hand experience of the companies on West coast through attending company tours and meeting alumni working on West coast. Will talk more about this in my next post.
Signing off for now!
-Shweta
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