Lord's Cricket GroundLBS MBA2010 is a group of 320 people from all over the world. Our group’s nationality diversity was highlighted when we played the “International Citizen Game” on our first day of orientation. We created around 25 teams based on nationality and each team prepared a two minute presentation on their culture and what it’s like to work with people from their country. The Chinese won first place, followed by a team from the U.S. (interesting given what happened at the Olympics!!).
One of the most anticipated events of orientation took place on Wednesday – finding out study groups. The school creates our study groups to for us, and there’s no changing them. I think I got lucky; my study group looks like this:
- A Swedish guy who most recently lived in Brussels with a background in operations management
- A Bulgarian guy who managed businesses in Bulgaria
- A Colombian woman who most recently lived in the U.S. with a background in corporate finance and investment banking
- An Israeli guy from the telecom industry who formerly served in the Israeli military
- A Canadian guy who most recently lived in Vienna and is a concert pianist
I think it’ll be great to work with all of these people, and I know I’m going to learn a ton from them.
Thursday was our “Away Day”. We ventured up in to the English countryside to a corporate training site for team building exercises. The really fun stuff was on the ropes course, and two best events involved climbing up 40 foot telephone poles. (I hope to post a photo soon!) Many of us were skeptical about how much we would take away from the day, but on the way home we all agreed that it was a fantastic experience that provided us a chance to get to know all our team members extremely well.
After a great orientation week it’s finally time to get to work – 6 hours of business statistics on Monday, ugh…
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