AGSM The Star November 2016 | Page 2

Photo Credit: Benjamin Fan Editors’ welcome In a land far, far away, lies a fabled magical city filled with ping pong tables, bean bags and hoverboard gliding people with dreams to take over the world. Victoria Momsen gives us a glimpse of her trip through the land of startups – Silicon Valley. #Wakeup opens our eyes to not just the shiny picture Silicon Valley paints for us, but also the challenges the industry is facing with the culture of constant disruption. Peter Sahui artfully combines an MBA journey at AGSM with the joy of children’s storytelling. Find yourself relating to loveable characters that go through the trial and tribulations in the life of every MBA student. Heather Schmidt, now becoming a regular STAR columnist, gives us a profile piece covering our very own AGSM experts in Oil & Gas – Cody Aaron, Jeff MacGuidwin, Munib Dar, Yulia Staneva and Seema Verma – who help build the birds eye view of the Oil and Gas world. Rachel Guest shares the story of AGSM glory at the 3rd annual PwC InterUniversity Case for Change. AGSM’s team, Six Piece Suit, laid the path to victory with their unconventional solution to Teach For Australia’s growth strategy. Jones George leads the Global Periscope column with his experience working with the new digital revolution. Baume & Mercier and AGSM have a new partnership in the works, flip through to find out the new and exciting anniversary announcement! AGSM 2 2AGSM