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Welcome to
the Class of 2004
Students, staff, faculty and local
corporate leaders gathered at the home of Professor
E. Han Kim on Friday, June 13th to officially
welcome the AGMBA Class of 2004 to Ann Arbor.
Despite the ominous date and the previous rainy
night, guests enjoyed a beautiful evening and took
advantage of the opportunity to build connections
across the borders of the academic, corporate and
global realms.
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University
of Michigan Business School Associate Dean, Gene
Anderson, welcomes the AGMBA Class of 2004 at a gathering
of students, staff, faculty, and local business
leaders hosted by Professor E. Han Kim.
EAMDC was honored to host several
prominent business and academic leaders including
Won-suk Cho, President of Hyundai American Technical
Center; Gene Anderson, Associate Dean of the
University of Michigan Business School; and Shinya
Miwa, Assistant Professor at Kokushikan University.
Professors Bill Lanen, Jane Thomas, Pris Rogers and
Ken Lieberthal joined the party as well as
Professor Emeritus Gunther Dufey.
UMBS
Associate Dean Gene Anderson and Professor E.Han Kim
converse with Professor Ken
Lieberthal (left) while Visiting Scholar
Shinya Miwa and his wife, Mihoko Miwa, get to know
students from AGMBA Class of 2004 (right).
After spending days driving around
Ann Arbor for an hour and half looking for the
School of Business and getting settled into their
new homes, everyone was ready to relax and
celebrate.
AGMBA Class
of 2004 students feeling very welcomed in Ann
Arbor from left to right: Yuki Saito of Nomura
Securities, Akiko Saito, Mikiko Iizuka, Shinnosuke
Iizuka of Sumitomo Bank, Soji Saito of RECOF, Kae
Saito, Soo Ho Kim of Hub-net Broadcasting, Seong Jib
Kim of Kookmin Bank, Tae Eun Kim of SK Telecom, and
Jong Wan Kim of Industrial Bank of Korea.
Putting
Theory Into Practice
After 18 months of building their
knowledge
base, gaining insight from cross-cultural
relationships and practicing the art of
self-directed learning, the Class of 2003 brought
all their varied educational experiences to bear on
the real world MAP projects. Their
contributions make a strong impact not only on their
own learning experience, but also on the companies
they have collaborated with while improving actual
business practices.
In their final presentations students
had one last chance to demonstrate their business
acumen and gain a few more grains of wisdom from the
instructors who supervised their projects.
Professors Jane Thomas,
Michael Johnson, Jay Anand and Bill Lanen
guided and evaluated the progression of the MAP
projects.
Keita
Hamaguchi of Recruit delivers his portion
of the Avon Gear Company MAP presentation
while teammates Youngdo Kwon of KNIT, Yosuke Sumita
of Mitsui Life Insurance, Sangho Byeon of Maeil
Business News, and Tetsuhiro Nishi of Nomura
Securities wait for their portion.
Professors Bill Lanen, Michael Johnson and Jay Anand
evaluate their projects from Ann Arbor, while
Professor Jane Thomas joins in from Korea.
After
all the hard work, MAP faculty sent the following
message to the students.
Dear Asia GMBA Class of 2003:
The Asia MAP faculty would
like to extend our congratulations to you on
completion of MAP. We appreciate the hard work you
all did on your projects. The reports and
presentations reflected well your ability to apply
the theories and concepts from your coursework to
the important business challenges faced by the
sponsoring companies. Your reports and your work
will help the companies face these challenges.
Although we know that you
will be returning soon to your companies, we want to
remind you that we are only an email message away.
We have enjoyed working with you all. Please stay in
touch.
All the best from all of us:
Jay Anand
Michael Johnson
Jane Thomas
Bill Lanen
The first
hurdle of earning an MBA from the University of
Michigan:
Understanding
the Paperwork
In a time-honored hazing ritual,
AGMBA students are bombarded with a confusing array
of forms, webpages, guide books, and a laundry list
of "helpful" hints as soon as they arrive
in the U.S. As a test of their mental acuity,
EAMDC gives them the most important information
while they are still sleepy from jet lag.
However, the Class of 2004 is full of intelligent
students and successful businesspeople. Soon
they figured out how to access the school's wireless
LAN, how to pay their
bills, and how to get to Meijer's
Grocery and Discount Store.
Working
to gain all the information that was presented
during orientation are AGMBA 2004 students Jong Wan
Kim of Industrial Bank of Korea, Song Shik Hong of
Korea Development Bank and Insoo Eom from Daewoo
Securities in Korea.
Spouses
Orientation
Spouses of AGMBA 2004 students were
given the same opportunity to experience the
bewildering process of reading complex legal forms
written in a foreign language. Luckily, Samira
Pardanani of the University of Michigan
International Center was there to help them navigate
their way. The spouses gained knowledge
on getting
settled in Ann Arbor, recreational, cultural and
educational opportunities as well as important
health and safety tips.
Linda Huff-Brinkman of the International Center
helps the AGMBA 2004 spouses understand the options
available to them during their time at the
University of Michigan.
Multi-Class
Gathering
Capitalizing on the good weather and
their briefly overlapping schedules, the Classes of
2003 and 2004 gathered together to socialize and get
to know one another better. Continuing to
build those networks of relationships that will
enrich their professional careers, students and
their families gathered on Friday, June 20th in the family
housing complex for dinner and soccer.
Students,
spouses and families from both AGMBA classes
gathered for a friendly picture....
...but
once the contest between Class of 2003 vs. Class of
2004 began, the competition was fierce!
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