Peter Smith: Blog

The “School of Business”:http://business.auckland.ac.nz/ held a diner at the “North Club”:http://www.northernclub.co.nz/ in cel­eb­ra­tion of this years com­plet­ing MBAs (who gradu­ate on Monday).
I was happy to be there, both as an alum’ of the pro­gram (MBA’95) and because I taught on the inter­grat­ing stratgy course last year.
There were MBAs there from every year. includ­ing two from the first MBA pro­gram — MBA of 84.
“Rob McLeod”:http://www.nzbr.org.nz/documents/releases/releases-2002/new_chairman.doc.htm was the major guest speaker. being rather right of centre, he did prompt some inter­est­ing debate. In many ways, his address felt like the “Greed is Good”:http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechwallstreet.html speach from “Wall Street”:http://www.imdb.com/Title?0094291. I seem to recall, that the speach was attrib­uted to some exec­ut­ive who gave it to an MBA class in the US. I’m not sure if it is true or not, but if it is true, it would be nice to find the orginal speach.