Tuesday, December 28, 2010

What I Learned from Three Months in China... and how my MBA Prepared Me for It


I spent the last three months on an MBA exchange to Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing. It was the fulfillment of a lifetime dream. It was my first time in China, or anywhere in Asia for that matter, and my first time living abroad from the U.S. The experience is so fresh, the realizations so numerous, and the feelings so strong while there, that it's difficult to begin to unravel exactly what I learned. But all that can be done is begin. So here goes.