The vet, the diplomat and the Class of 2010…
Feb, 2009
The School welcomed 55 full-time and 92 part-time students to their first day of class last week. The full-time MBA continues to have a distinctly international flavour, with twenty-five different countries represented, making for rich and interesting classroom discussion. And with backgrounds ranging from engineering, to business, science, law, arts and medicine, the ambitions of the Class of 2010 are incredibly wide and varied.
Full-time MBA student Jason Chuei (28) from the UK has travelled to study from the UK. His career as a small animal vet and technical manager for a company that specialised in nutraceuticals has taken him all around the world. He declares he loves Melbourne. “It has character, and in comparison to New York, London or Sydney, it is smaller, more relaxed and intimate”. He hopes to establish a non-profit organisation to promote animal welfare and an international neutering program after his MBA.
Teresa Korbes, another full-time international student has an equally diverse background having spent 15 years working as a diplomat for the German Federal Foreign Office. Her longterm ambition is to establish her own travel business, specialising in niche or special interest travel and sees the MBA as a great way of assisting her move into the private sector. “In Germany there are a flood of new business schools offering MBA programs but MBS has a very good international reputation and well-known deliverables.”
With a program of integrated alumni and student events planned for 2009, we hope you’ll take the opportunity to meet with and learn more about the School’s most recent alumni-in-waiting.
