Dannis keefe对苏州班同学的寄语
发布时间：2011-11-25 18:55:43 发布人:何小群
Dear MBA Class,
Studying for an MBA is not an easy task. Unlike getting a masters degree in, say, one of the sciences like biology, or one of the arts, like history, successfully learning for the MBA involves a wide array of multidisciplinary studies. You need to know quantitative analysis from a course in Statistics, a course in advanced Finance or one in Economics; you need to learn about the legal and regulatory world from courses ranging from Business Law to Human Resources, and you need to have a solid understanding of psychology and sociology as reflected in Marketing and Consumer Behavior. No small task.
In addition, however, you are confronted with the additional burdens of a full-time work life, and in many cases you have responsibilities for your new families and perhaps you parents as well. No small task. And when you consider that you are doing much of your work in a foreign language, it is clear that you are involved in an exceptionally great task. Add to that, you are at one of the finest, and most demanding schools in China, the University of Nanjing.
But despite the great work load and the almost daunting challenges now, what you are learning is worth it. Your additional knowledge will help you not only in your business life, but will also allow allow you to take higher responsibilities, often with commensurate increases in your salary. Congratulations.
But perhaps even more important for our world is the future contribution that you can make to your family, your community, your country and to a better world. An MBA is for business primarily, but it also gives us the knowledge that we need to better organize a wide variety of nonprofit organizations, be they schools, parks, museums, hospitals and even our forests and nature itself. Your children will also benefit because you will, now, from these multidisciplinary studies, have a better perspective of just how each educational study, be it chemistry and engineering or even history and literature, can have practical benefits for them.
Congratulations, and if I could leave you with just few more words as a kind of summary: think of your MBA not only for yourself, but also for your children and your family, your friends, your company and country, and for everyone in the world who can benefit from just a little better way of harmoniously organizing work life more efficiently and effectively whether others share your beliefs and convictions or not.
Best of luck, and best of health,
Dennis Keefe
November 22, 2011
