Hiten Shah Addresses OSU Freshmen on Entrepreneurship

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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

 

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