Reality Check, part 2
About two weeks ago, I started to share how my experience at ESADE has compared to the expectations I had before coming. I’ll finish up this line of thought today, sharing the last two of my main reasons for coming here. Then it’s on to Career Week!
#3: I sought a 1st rate general MBA education as well as research centres relevant to my specific interests in social innovation.
Reality: Right now I’m excited about a meeting that a group of us students had yesterday with Professor Alfred Vernis of ESADE’s Institute for Social Innovation. Thanks to the initiative of classmate Marcin Bortnik, Professor Vernis has offered us the opportunity to create a business plan for a start-up designer retail outlet that provides employment to people with mental illness. We will visit the client this coming Friday, so fingers crossed! If everything works out, it will be a nice way to apply important classroom knowledge to something I care about in the real world.
#4: By completing my studies in Spanish and study with a truly international student body, I wanted to become truly fluent and adept at working with intercultural teams.
Reality: I’ve studied and used Spanish in professional settings before, but the immersion experience is allowing me—and forcing me!—to work on more elusive aspects of language and style. My big challenge right now is to master not only the differences between direct vs. indirect communication but also the different between being indirect and being diplomatic.
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