How can MBA FInance students get themselves to be market-ready?

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In addition to passing their exams, what are some of the key things that 'Students who are doing their MBA majoring in Finance', can simultaneously do, with a view to getting themselves to be ready for the job / entrepreneur market?
Both dos and don'ts.

Raju Venkataraman
81 months ago

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The more financial markets integrate sustainability concerns, such as climate change, safety, diversity and the like, the more any aspiring MFA graduate will need to know something about sustainability. Acceptance of sustainability integration is not universal in financial markets, but it is growing fairly rapidly. Along with that growth comes a lot of writing about how the lack of uniformity in all sustainability ratings hampers the inclusion of sustainability into portfolio construction and management. I believe that this is misguided. Financial ratings are hardly uniform--it's not at all uncommon for different analysts looking at the same company's financials to rank the company very differently, and that has noe proved to be an encumbrance in finance. On the contrary, different views of both financial prospects and sutainability management are unlikely ever to be uniform, but that is actually a source of differentiation among analysts, and a spur to innovation. That sentiment is likely coming from financial professionals who are reluctant to admit that continuing to be a financial expert may involve mastery of new disciplines--or at least competence. But that's the future. Financial professionals will need to be at least conversant with the materiality of the parameters of sustainability.

Julie Gorte
81 months ago
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Internship or externship with a leading VC or private equity firm. Students get a lot of theory but not enough applied experience to be ready for the real world post-graduation.

Raoul Gruenberg
81 months ago
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Functional proficiency is, of course, important.
That said, in today's age, the real business value and opportunity comes in cross-functional capacity. When you can look up and downstream from your point in play, and work collaboratively towards the common corporate goals and enterprise objectives, all parties win.
Know the impact of your decisions, understand the implications of your actions, and/or at least know who to turn to for that validity and feedback and you'll go a whole lot further, a whole lot faster!

Michael Kotowski
81 months ago
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i am reminded of a quote by Piet Hein, a Danish Author.
“Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.”

Glenn Frommer
81 months ago
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For organisations to be successful in delivering products and services to customers, they need to work cross functionally and they need to be forward looking. We typically work on some forecast of demand (until we can get to a real time signal of demand.)Typically organisations, driven by finance, work in functions (or silos) and are backward looking. Finance is reporting on status. One of the most exciting and at the same time dysfunctional areas of the organization is the supply chain or value chain and how this works. Supply chain metrics with a high correlation to market capitalization are Forecast accuracy, difotai and roic. If there is sufficient interest, I would be locating a supply chain finance person and speak directly to them about their challenges, what they are doing to enhance the cross functional supply chain operation and how they perceive finance to be assisting in that process. This is a key area for potential disruption and in my opinion, needs special customized focus from finance.The opportunities resulting from getting this right are very significant for many organisations.

Lisa Mitchell MApp Stats MBA FAICD
81 months ago

Have some input?