Dear FIA International MBA Candidates,
We are rapidly approaching the start of our 2009 International MBA Class, in just over one month.
I am very pleased to say that we are looking forward to working with a very international, well experienced and diverse group of candidates. Our group is made up of participants from the USA, France, Italy, Brazil, India, Colombia and Peru, and has an average 6 years of work experience. Industry areas represented by the candidates include IT services, oil and gas, marketing, retail, pharmaceuticals, banking and financial services, consulting, food and beverage, and agri-business.
The financial crisis that is affecting world markets is continues to have somewhat less impact on Brazil. Although export markets for commodities are down, currency fluctuations and lower energy prices are reducing the net effect, and internal domestic demand remains important, although slowing. As we saw in a recent workshop at FIA, in late December, with 3 economists and over 70 businessmen and alumni , Brazil’s GDP growth is forecast at 2.5% for 2009, fairly good when compared to -1% for the US and Europe. All in all, an exciting time to start an international MBA program and to study how companies and countries deal with turbulent times!
I look forward to seeing you in February!
Regards,
James Wright
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Professor James T. C. Wright, PhD.
Director - International MBA
FIA Business School
Tel 55 11 3732 3520
Website : www.fia.com.br/internationalmba
1 comment:
I am one of the Indian Student, going to start 2009 International MBA in FIA. For me this MBA is not the ultimate goal, but more as the start of a personally rewarding journey and to improve my draw back and flaws and take the advantage out of this global slow down. I am looking this MBA as another milestone in my career. I feel Study in FIA will bring me understanding of how to isolate issues, root causes and how to identify appropriate actions.
Because of global recession, 2009 is going to be challenging for domestic and international jobs market. In country like India, higher interest and exchange rates brought down the GDP projection gradually to 8.4% by 2009, which is down from 9.4 percent in 2006. Now a day job satisfaction, job security is general topic of discussion between employee of Indian IT industry.
I feel this is the right time to do MBA and take it as a great investment and I hope my investment in FIA is going to give me long term returns.
Regards
Manish Verma
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