CEO fo Amgen, Founder of Apple, and Managing Director at McKinsey

How would you feel if you met all these folks, shook hands with them and asked them podernign questions on future?

Well, this is what Oxford can do. Prepare the 27-year (alas, I turned 28 last week!) old non-so-popoular figures and make them meet with industry figures you cannot even imagine.

CEO of Amgen:
http://www.amgen.com/about/leadership_team.html
Mr. Kevin Sharer, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Amgen, Inc. visited Said Business School on for the introduction speech. Amidst the crowd of 300, I stood up and asked, "Do you really use any MBA tools and techniques in your day-to-day life? What is your advise on how we treat this academia?". He laughed, looked at the new Dean, smiled again and said, "The best thing that your MBA does to you is to shape YOU. You guys really do not know how important it is to get an MBA from Oxford. You sure are gifted. If you walk upto my company's door and introduce yourself as an Oxford graduate, we are gonna hear you just for that".

Founder of Apple:
http://www.woz.org/
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple (Yeah, the same apple from Forest Gump) visited Oxford a couple of weeks back to promote his new book. He seemed too technical (Steve Jobs apparently was the business mind behind Apple?), a born-genius kind. The speech was very motivational and informative. Apparently, he is very proud of his accomplishments.

Managing Director and McKinsey
http://www.mckinsey.com/ideas/wef2005/biographies/dominiccasserley.asp
Dominic Casserley, head of McKinsey in the UK, Ireland and the Middle East, talked on "What will the Global Company look like in 2020". The corwd was a selected (yeah, me included!) 40 folks. 20 of them (Yeah, yeah, me included) were selected again to go further for a formal dinner with him. To be honest, I did not realize his power (greatness?) until I came back to home that night and looked up the internet! hmmm.. I need to keep on top of events - so some research before the event. Why leave an oppurtunity for question - I asked him his opinion on India and China becoming the newer markets in 2020. He mentioned the developing countries are posing a threat, but will nto replace US/EU. "What is your opinion on consolidation? WOuld we be left with 4 big companies in each sector by 2020?". He answered, "No. As companies merge and acquire, there will be more players entering the market."

Obviously these answers were not exact to the word. My understanding and language are mixed in the above text.

Go Oxford!!!