Hiten Shah Addresses OSU Freshmen on Entrepreneurship
MES President, Hiten Shah was invited on March 1st, to talk to a group of freshmen at the Max Fisher School of Business, The Ohio State University. The main objectives of the presentation have been tri-fold:
- To introduce the students to the characteristics of our global sourcing and supply chain management model, emphasizing the importance of entrepreneurship and identifying a need in the market you can cater to.
- To explain the vast career opportunities along the supply chain, whether up or downstream as well as the skills and attitudes managers will seek in a newly business school graduate. Among the latter: understanding specific industries and products, looking at everything in a global perspective, understand your competitive advantage, ability to understand and address clients’ pain points.
- To underline the importance and responsibilities of the Financial Manager. Since most of the attendees are currently declaring a major in Finance, it is of utmost importance that they understand its cross departmental function. Cost control, budgets, internal audits, planning, risk management, etc. are impossible to perform without a perfect understanding of the activity of each and single department, be it Strategy, Operations or IT. Ultimately, the Financial Manager is a visionary, a negotiator, a mediator and a regulator and will wear the hats accordingly.