“How has this experience changed you?” – The prompt for the final paper following our Mid-Semester Module foray around Singapore and Malaysia “I’ve gotten a little fatter…?” – My first thought in regards to the two weeks of Southeast Asian delights I have to admit, as thrilled as I was...
Every spring our students participate in MidSemester Modules. These curricular requirements can be completed stateside or abroad. Two of our U.S. Army veterans, Jonathan Brinks and Charles Stewart, who are first year students in the Two Year MBA program, travelled with their classmates to Brazil. Here are some postcard scenes...
Submitted by Leland Franks, Two Year MBA 2017 and Goizueta Veterans Club president. Nine days in wine country! We worked our way up and down Sonoma Valley tasting some of the best wines in the world. We ended up as members of an irresponsible number of wineries, and made a strong...
What an opportunity! This is the second part of the tech trek, and we are covering companies through Silicon Valley. Two days of visiting companies, meeting alums, discussing their work experience and life after B school. Overall it was an exciting experience and I even had some time to catch...
Block 2 was merciless on the Goizueta Business School students, who could be seen toiling hard and spending time at school and library with teams completing assignments at all hours of the day and night. The story wasn’t much different for me, but what kept me going were the thoughts...
“To travel is to live” – Hans Christina Andersen I’ve had great fortune in business school so far. When I first started at GBS, I had two regions that I wanted to travel to: Southeast Asia and South America. Thankfully, during my first year, the school sponsored a trip to...
The summer will fly by, they said. It is a ton of work but strangely you will miss it, they said. Being the skeptic I am, I found these words hard to comprehend. Yet, as I sit in the start of my fall semester, I can certainly confirm both of...
I am not Athenian or Greek, but a citizen of the world – Socrates What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? As business leaders, we can no longer operate with a focus on what is currently affecting our own countries. Globalization is nothing new. But how...