Dressed for success in his three-piece, Professor El Nemaki, shows up always 20mins before class setting up his computer and PPT slides for the day's lecture. While his students straggle in 5-15mins late for class everyday.
After sitting in his class for two weeks, I really enjoyed his class tremendously. I did learn content, gathered some additional analytical frameworks of breaking down global business issues, and improved my free-hand chart making skills on flip chart paper rather than a white board. However, it was Prof. Nemaki's real life work experiences, his travels, and stories that sticked with me. He worked at Philips Medical, McKinsey Consulting, providing consulting services to Fortune 500 companies and maintain ties to various government organization around the world. Needless to say, he's a man with global business experience. This is something that is hard to find in any top US MBA school. Who can say that he has three properties around the world - Dubai, Holland, and Thailand. A person who meets with dignataries from China on a frequent basis. He was able to bring his real life stories and understanding of a country's culture of doing business was the to key a success or failure of a business decision or strategy made my a big corporation or by one person.
The exercise of analyzing the case study of the day with your group was fun. My teammates were Margot, Gemma, Jane, and Eric. I had a good team. Not too big like other teams which had more than 8 people. We worked well together with good discussion, involvement, and contribution by all. But when it came to frameworks, charts/graphs, and diagrams, I took the initiative. The professor called us the chart making team. Our team stood out with our charts as well as our analysis as pictures was used to convey our message to our international group of classmates mainly made up with Chinese and European students. I was surprised that the rest of the team didn't bring their chart making skills until toward the end our the course which brought out my competitive nature to bring newer and better frameworks out of my tool bag.
In short with the first class completed, there are major differences taking a MBA course at UW and SJTU. I will not say for good or bad, but different.
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