6:00 A.M: Alarm clock blares. I tell myself “Hey, wake up – Seize the day! Enjoy your MBA student life!” I Get out of bed leaving my wife and a brand-new baby still sleeping. Just enough time to wash down some bread with milk and then on to catch the bus.
7:00 A.M: On the train I skim the headlines in the Nikkei Newspaper before going into the Corporate Finance section more carefully and associating case-studies from yesterday’s class with some of the articles.
8:00-9:00 A.M: On the phone with commodity brokers in Sydney, sharing views about short-term market trends.
9:00-12:00 A.M: Calculating the value of an investment project by using the Discounted Cash Flow Method. Group work in Finance Class gave me an intro to working-capital assumptions and how to time cash-flow estimates.
1:00 P.M: Join in on a telephone conference with an overseas joint venture partner to discuss environmental issues on a project.
3:00 P.M: Make a presentation to some of the high-level management regarding Q2 financial results and a revised budget. It’s always important to remember key points I learned during Business Presentation Class.
5:00 P.M: Brainstorm with team members on a new market entry plan. Marketing frame-works learned in class enable me to facilitate the meeting helping us all put together some really great ideas.
6:00 P.M: Leave the office for Globis University. “Time to enjoy class!!”
7:00-10:00 P.M: Participate in Accounting Class and once again, plenty of exciting buddies from interesting personal and professional backgrounds in here.
Life as an MBA student goes on…
It’s a really demanding time, but it’s also the most exciting and rewarding time in my whole life.
Shinichiro Sugihara
