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What does MBA Alumnus from around the World say?

Dr. Nicolas Kfuri, Professor & Consultant leaving in Germany, gained his MBA at
Purdue University in USA says to carefully pick your future university of business
school. It would have critical impact on your career development.
Make your pick of the University or the Business School carefully, because that is going
to have a critical impact on the career development. First you need to decide what you
want to get out of the program and in which kind of area you want to work, based on
that you go do the screening of the schools. Also what I would like for the MBA people to
keep in mind is that even after the graduation, sometimes we do a bad job as schools
because we over excite people about the MBA and after graduating they think they are
managers already. MBA gives you tools, but that doesn't mean you are a manager, that
means you're a better equipped guy or let's say better equipped than when you started.
Specially the younger guys, they think ‘OK, here is my MBA degree so where is the
company hiring me?’. Relax guys, you still need to deliver results, it takes time to be
valued twice as you were when you started, again that applies mostly to younger
generations, because the executives are already on a bit higher level.
Kojenwa Moitt, CEO at Zebra, Hult international Business school , USA
For people preparing for the MBA I would say that it takes a lot of focus and dedication
and commitment and that sometimes it's a juggling act but that if you do everything you