Day One: The start of MBA 38

MBA 38 - 2014 MBA Programme 

The start of MBA 38, our thirty-eighth year as an MBA programme, is rapidly approaching with orientation on Friday the 4th and classes beginning on Monday.  We have a total of 60 students across our programmes, some full-time and part-time, some just beginning their MBA and others striving to finish their capstone 540 business consulting engagement. We also unofficially have twelve nationalities represented among our students, including Australia, China (w/Hong Kong), India, Indonesia, Kiwi (Maori & Pakeha), Vietnam, South Africa, Finland, Pakistan, England and Scotland.  Their backgrounds range from IT consulting and project management, to finance/accounting, banking, healthcare, construction, public service, media/marketing, hospitality, HR consulting and film production. Plus, we have one professional snowboarder in this year's class, an individual striving to make the transition to the business side of action sports.

Our core MBA programme is designed as four terms of three courses each lasting eight weeks, with students kicking off the year in Organizational Leadership, taught by Professor Julia Richardson from York University in Canada, a perennial top lecturer in our programme; as well as Economics and Statistics & Decision Tools taught by our own standout lecturers Paul Hansen and Elizabeth (Beth) Rose, respectively.  It's an exciting time, with the Otago MBA management team striving to get everyone registered, conduct final checks on course designs, and help our students adapt to their new home.

We welcome our new students to the programme and look forward to

continuing to work with returning students.

Cheers,

David