Changing Climates
Climate change is a hot topic among thought leaders, business strategists, and concerned citizens. I’ve experienced a dramatic change in academic climate in recent months, as I enter the second year of my joint degree MBA/MEM program.
After a year of resource economics, land use principles, and environmental law at the Nicholas School, I am now at Fuqua, where I’ve been spending my time learning the principles of accounting, marketing, and finance. The heavy emphasis at business school on team projects and the six-week term structure has meant a change of pace from the Nicholas School, and I’ve been re-oriented to life as a graduate student with a new set of norms, expectations, and challenges.
Since our arrival at Fuqua, we’ve been consistently reminded of the business school’s intention of graduating “leaders of consequence.” As the university launched its new global expansion this fall, the mantra became “global leaders of consequence.” I wonder, as our climate changes across many fronts – meteorological, political, economic – what will it mean to be a global leader of consequence?
Overheard on campus:
“So you stop being real and you start drinking sherry.” – Fuqua Dean, on the dangers of complacency
