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A Nobel Lecture at the HSG MBA
Blogs Jay - 04-27-10
Richard Feynman, the delightful physicist, once described his Nobel prize as one of the most irrelevant and boring things which happened to him. He was alluding to the rock-star groupie like behavior it tended to produce on an uncritical general populace and the demands it placed on an uncaring scientist.
But knowing that doesn’t prevent me from being terribly excited - hey!!! I am going to meet a Nobel Laureate tomorrow!!!
Tomorrow, one of our electives at the HSG MBA starts with a guest lecture by the Nobel Laureate Dr. Richard R.Ernst, the Swiss Chemist who pioneered the science which led to MRI scans. I have met one Nobel winner before, the Indian economist/philosopher Dr.Amartya Sen. But then I guess economists are a different breed and a public intellectual like Dr. Sen even more so compared to a physical scientist like Dr. Ernst.
The elective, in which his lecture is a part of, is Corporate Ecology to be taken by Prof. Claude Siegenthaler. Offered for the first time as part of the MBA program, it is definitely not a ‘mainstream’ MBA course. I am sure more of my classmates have signed on to a more ‘typical’ MBA course of ‘Credit Risk Management’ by Prof.Simone Westerfeld which is also starting tomorrow. In fact, have to admit that yours truly too is not taking the elective but just ‘sitting in’ due to a schedule conflict with the latter part of the course.
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Jay is an Engineer and an MBA Candidate for 2010 at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. More about him and by him at his homepage.
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