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AGSM MBA STUDENT MAGAZINE | ISSUE 19 | NOVEMBER 2015
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Originally from Orlando, Florida, CHRISTINE SAVAGE is a Mechanical Engineer who has worked in the Aerospace/Defense industry for the past 5 years. Originally from Cali – Colombia, TATIANA RIVERA HADAD is an Economist who has worked in a consumer product company in the business development/strategy and finance division for the past 4 years. Originally from India, NANDINI GAUR is a Fashion Technologist, who has worked in the Retail Industry for past 3 years, as a Buyer. Cover page | Photo Credits: Provided by author Page 2-3 | Sydney | Photo Credits: Erik Burkhalter
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This month at STAR, we would like to formally welcome the Session 3 exchange students from top universities all over the world. We hope you are having an amazing time in Australia and at AGSM; we are happy to have you here. This edition features an article on Elca Gobler’s amazing journey from an MBA to owning a NGO in India as well as career advice from Sandrine Blanes & Rachel Guest. Don’t miss out on the articles on AGSM ICE club’s events and NYU exchange student, Aksana Fitzpatrick’s experience at AGSM. Lastly, we want to encourage everyone to participate or donate in the AGSM social impact “Movember event”. The Movember Foundation is a leading global organisation committed to changing the face of men’s health. They achieve this by challenging men to grow moustaches during Movember (the month formerly known as November) to spark conversation and raise funds for prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health problems. If you are able, please make your donations through http://mobro.co/australiangraduate-school-of-mo As always, thank you for your continued support and we hope you enjoy this edition of STAR magazine. Cheers, Christine, Nandini and Tatiana AGSM 2 2AGSM
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ELCA is the Founder of the My Choices Foundation, an innovative organization addressing India’s most pervasive forms of violence and exploitation of girls and women: domestic violence and child sex trafficking. Prior to moving to India in 2011, Elca worked for 7 years in Financial Services. She then left the corporate sector, and worked for 4 years with Opportunity International Australia - a world leader in micro-finance in the developing world. Elca holds a honours degree in Econometrics and Mathematical Statistics, a CFA and MBA from the AGSM @ UNSW Business School.
I was always passionate about the plight of vulnerable women and children. I was passionate to serve, to empower, to use my expertise and resources to be the change. I spent 12 years getting the education I thought would help me be the most effective change maker, and worked for 11 years to gain experience. My most formative experience was my time with Opportunity International Australia - a world leader in micro-finance in the developing world. Yet nothing could prepare me for the confrontation of the reality of India’s women and girls; the violence, abuse and exploitation they face, and the challenges that society faces in addressing it. The journey that led to the My Choices Foundation required me to put aside everything I had learned and experienced and simply listen. I began by speaking to women and listening to the stories from individuals, groups and organizations about the challenges they face and what their needs were. With my expertise in finance, I assumed that I would be most effective in empowering women through financial options and education. When I put my ear to the ground so-tospeak, I heard that what women were asking for was not what I planned to provide. The resounding request women were making was for help to deal with abuse and violence in their own homes. With the cause - domestic violence - identified, the question then became how to address it. Fortunately, serendipitous friendships developed into partnerships with My Choices’ co-founder. We again listened to women going through this problem and realized the need for a solution that worked within their social, cultural and religious parameters, rather than against them. We developed the PeaceMaker Program to harness the power of the local woman to become a change agent in her own community by providing free counselling, rights education and legal aid to victims of abuse. My Choices Foundation is now 4 years old and runs 2 initiatives, Operation PeaceMaker and Operation Red Alert, which address domestic violence and trafficking of young girls for sexual exploitation, respectively. Through 4
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Operation PeaceMaker we have successfully handled over 1,600 domestic violence cases and educated nearly 7,000 women and school girls on their rights and protections from abuse. Our program has received accolades from the U.S. Government for its innovation, and partnerships with Indian state police because of its proven results in ending the cycle of abuse in families.
From MBA to EMPOWERING Women & Children by Elca Gobler AGSM MBA, 2006
Operation Red Alert is a 1.5 year old initiative that is shifting gears from its research phase into operations in 2015 by launching a 3 pillar approach to trafficking prevention. Operations are starting with our first pillar; rural education of key stakeholders. By December 2015 our Village Toolkit will equip 168,000 people in 240 rural, high risk villages with the knowledge, familiarity and resources needed to keep their girls and villages stay safe from trafficking. The high impact of the two operations have largely been the result of the education and work experience that was brought to the projects. While the process of identifying the biggest needs, and the methods of redressal required me to lay aside everything I thought I knew, my skills have meant that I have been able to lead a young NGO with world class standards and methods for finance, transparency, reporting, sustainability and best practices. We are learning every day, and constantly improving. Yet, the impact we have achieved in just 4 years has been tremendously more than I could have hoped for when I first moved to India 5 years ago and found myself to be an alien, not only to the culture, but to the real needs of the country. In short, my journey from MBA to empowering girls and women can be summarized in one sentence: When trying to solve a problem, always ask “what don’t I know” then be prepared to use everything you do know with a vigorous application of perseverance, prayer, patience and pushing to tackle it. Learn more about My Choices Foundation on our website at www.mychoicesfoundation.org or our Operation’s Facebook pages! www.facebook.com/MyChoices.asia www.facebook.com/RedAlertAsia
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RACHEL joined the AGSM Careers team in 2010 to project manage the first online eYearbook. Her project coordination role evolved to focus on Student Engagement in 2013 and following a strategic realignment within the Careers team, Rachel was appointed AGSM Career Relationship Manager in late 2014.
Finding the next job or career path is all about mapping out a game plan, setting targets and taking the steps to get where you want to be. With Careers Month behind us (for many of you this would have been a target to reach) it may be time to re-focus and start investigating plan B and C. For all alumni, current full time students, students in our part time programs and those who are about to graduate, here are the Career Development team’s 8 tips to finish 2015 with a bang! 1. Update your resume on and offline: For those of you who have been studying this year, remember to add projects, internships, class work and Industry Club activities that you have undertaken as part of your studies to your resume so it’s ready at any time to pass on to a potential employer. For the alumni out there looking to take the next step in your career journey, think about your achievements for the year whether professional or extracurricular. Did you lead a team to deliver a project two months earlier than expected? Save your boss a ton of money? Did you complete the Oxfam Trailwalker Challenge? Did you start your own venture or begin a blog? Make sure that updating your resume isn’t a daunting task when something interesting comes up and have these extra achievements added already. Equally important is ensuring your LinkedIn profile is up to date. Any changes you make to your resume need to be reflected on your LinkedIn profile, let your professional network know about the goals you have kicked this year. If you need either your resume or LinkedIn profile reviewed, feel free to send it through to the team for us for a fresh set of eyes! 2. Join new groups; refresh your outlook on networking: The AGSM’s greatest strength is our incredible network and generous support of our alumni. Make sure you take some time to think about who you have connected with this year, who could 6
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be helpful in planning your next move, who did you meet that was just an excellent person you would like to have a beer with? Australia is a relationship based country and networking your way to your new job is a marathon, not a sprint. There is no need to be scared of networking. The secret to it is to just ask a lot of questions, be polite and gracious and always follow up with a thank you. Think about how you would want to be approached when you are in the thick of an 80 hour week and what would make you try to help that person as best as you can? 3. Reflect on 2015 – What have you learnt? The MBA is such a transformative journey and we routinely hear students’ outlooks changing monthly depending on where they are in their studies. It is likely that what you thought you wanted to be when you grow up is now something different. You may have thought that data analysis would be like pulling teeth but you actually really enjoyed the course or you may have had a view on a particular company that has done a 180 after meeting someone who works there. You may have reluctantly taken on extra responsibility at work that reignited your desire to be challenged and work outside your comfort zone. Take the lessons learnt throughout 2015, be they professional or personal, and think about where they could be leveraged as we look towards 2016.
Time to refocus your CAREER PLAN?
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4. Plan of Attack – start setting goals for 2016: Just going and getting a new job can be pretty daunting, particularly if plan A didn’t work out. Take the ‘scary’ out of it and break down your job search strategy into your Plan of Attack, pieces of the puzzle you can start assembling towards the bigger picture. Set yourself timeframes and targets; e.g: “I will meet with two alumni a week till Christmas,” “I will restructure my resume for a marketing focused role and a strategy focused role by XYZ.” Being able to tick these incremental but essential job search activities off your list will give you the edge over the competition (as you know not everyone will be that proactive regardless of our advice) and the confidence that you are taking your career into your own hands. One of the main themes to come out of the company presentations over Careers Month was that successful candidates must be prepared to drive their own career progression, so take their advice and put this into practice.
are currently doing an MBA or undertook one in the first place. Maybe you were looking for a different direction, wanting to sharpen up your business acumen or just make a ton of cash. It’s also easy to forget to give time to loved ones when you are in the middle of the storm so remember to take time to relax, take your board out, fire up the BBQ and remember that all the stress and angst is worth it! And for goodness sake, call your parents!
5. Sydney goes on holiday – get your coffee catch ups in now: Summer in Sydney (and Australia) means that business tends to go very quiet over the Christmas period as Sydneysiders generally opt for the beach (or the pub!) instead of the office and the decision makers take off on holiday. Now is your time to get those long awaited coffee catch ups in the diary, meet the leads you have been meaning to contact for months for a coffee and cement that relationship so in February, when the market picks up again, you are front of mind!
8. Keep checking in with Careers: This is the time of year where our structured Career Development programs and events get put to bed and we move into a more personalised individual service depending on your needs/position/thoughts so it’s even more important to keep us informed of where you are at. As you may know, we are a mouthy bunch and are still talking to employers and alumni daily as we both wrap up this year and start putting plans in place for 2016. If we don’t know where you are and what you are interested in, we can’t offer you the best advice or connect you with opportunities that align with your current goals.
6.Don’t forget what your kids/dog/cat/BBQ/surfboard look like: It’s easy to forget the reason you
7. Not based in Sydney? Going on Exchange? Great! AGSM is everywhere – in most large cities around the world there will be an AGSMer ready to welcome you! Now is the time to reach out to them in anticipation of arriving and/or start the conversation so you don’t miss the annual AGSM Alumni meet up, or the invitation to the New Year catch up. There are many ways to stay in touch while you are away including LinkedIn groups, emails, continue to read the newsletters!
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by Sandrine Blanes AGSM MBA, 2014
When I list the following words “consulting”, “Cirque du Soleil”, “Strategic Workforce Planning”, “Sydney”, “Agrochemicals”, and “Switzerland”, I am amused by the apparent lack of relation between them, yet they all led me to this point in my career. I had been a manager in consulting for seven years before I joined AGSM in 2013 to transition into entertainment. My dream of running a show for Cirque du Soleil was met by a few strong challenges: how to enter such a particularly closed industry with no personal network? How to be given a chance without prior entertainment experience, when it seems an important criterion? How to get selected and sponsored, when many North American applicants meant less hassle for the organization than a “Frenchie” needing a visa? For the above reasons and a few others, I made the decision during the final semester of my MBA to open up once again to other possible roles and in various geographies. When someone from my personal network connected me to an opportunity of doing Strategic Workforce Planning for a world-leader in Agrochemicals in Switzerland I jumped at the opportunity. Even though it was something I had never considered before I made the move and only four weeks later I was living in Switzerland 8
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I would like to share my experience of Strategic Workforce Planning with you and maybe plant a few seeds for your future career aspirations. Strategic Workforce Planning as a discipline has only been around for a few years.Consulting firms such as BCG and Accenture, among others who aim to help organizations facing future global workforce challenges, mostly provide it. Old economies with ageing workforce are threatened with lower efficiencies and motivation, loss of knowledge and expertise as seniors retire, while clear capability gaps show in key skills and make them costly to get. In booming economies, systems have not yet been built with the capacity to provide higher education to hundreds of millions of incoming students. Having relevant strategic workforce foresight has become key to move from reactive Human Resource (HR) practices to proactive long-term thinking and planning. Companies generally plan for sales, budgets, capital investments, projects, etc. but they often don’t plan for the people required (40% of organizational costs!) and capability needed to deliver their strategy! For those companies that open up to Strategic Workforce Planning, they often obtain it from external consult-
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Strategic Workforce Planning: My unexpected journey from external to internal CONSULTING SANDRINE is French and lives in Switzerland where she is a Strategic Workforce Planning Manager for Syngenta, a leading agriculture company. She graduated from AGSM in 2014, after living in the US and Australia. She is an adventure-enthusiastic, a solo traveler and passionate about entertainment.
ants because, even though it is quite expensive, they might not require a full-time team based on the size of their workforce to be analyzed. My employer Syngenta (nearly 30,000 employees) decided to be one of the pioneers to internalize this capability. The deployment has been fragmented into projects, each applied to a piece (geography and function) of the organization over 3 to 9 months, following a clear 6-step process. The process involves data collection, conversations which challenge the status quo and modelling tools. The first step is to set up the project with a team, charter, a time line and some business and skills mapping. Then we model how the current workforce will be impacted by retirement and attrition if nothing gets done to slow them down, as well as how the strategy for the next 7 years translates into quantitative and qualitative workforce requirements. The results from the modelling helps us to identify future workforce gaps that can then be addressed and removed early by selecting and implementing the relevant workforce initiatives. Strategic Workforce Planning is about helping companies to have the right people and capabili-
ties at the right place and time to support the business goals. This role is an interesting alternative to external consulting, gets much internal exposure as it constantly interacts with the Senior Management, and is new enough to build one’s employability for holding a scarce expertise. So, are you curious to explore? Allow me to leave you with a few calls to action for inspiration! 1. Keep an open mind when looking for your next role: You might dare take on an adventure you had never thought of! 2. Network hard: Meet new people and connect with them on a personal level, ask questions, share your interests, plan the next catch up as they might lead you to your next job, or the following one! 3. Explore upcoming trends happening in the job market via consulting reports: you might decide to go pioneering new areas!
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Beyond Student EXCHANGE by Aksana Fitzpatrick
by Luis Miguel Vegas & Federico Albarellos ICE Club President & VP, AGSM MBA, 2016
With the vision of being recognized as Australia’s leading school in entrepreneurship, the purpose of the Innovation, Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Club is to foster the entrepreneurial & innovative spirit among the AGSM Community. The ICE Club aims to provide its members with resources and opportunities to facilitate a significant step in their entrepreneurial and commercial ventures. It offers a space where members can share their ideas and experiences, and connect with the community to build a stronger and broader network of AGSM entrepreneurs. Moreover, given the diversity of our members, fostering a global commercial mind-set is also one of the goals of the Club. The ICE Club kicked off the year with a guest speaker panel event, “The Leap into Entrepreneurship”, and a visit to the Commonwealth Innovation Lab. During our
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LUIS has a bachelor in industrial engineering and has worked in business development, sales and marketing roles in different industries: personal care, telecommunications and household plastic. In the future, Luis plans to start up his own business, ideally in the tourism industry.
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first few months in the program, ICE Club members were invited to the “AGSM Strategy Meets Start-up” drinks function, the “Start-up Games” pitch competition presented by UNSW Innovations and sponsored by Deloitte, and welcomed angel investor, Garry Visontay, who came to share his experience in “Early stage start-up funding”. In September, the AGSM Entrepreneurial Guest Speaker Series was launched. So far, The ICE Club has had the honour of presenting several insightful speakers as a part of the series. Franki Chamaki, Co- Founder of Coca Cola’s Accelerator program based in Sydney, came to talk about “Building disruptive business models”. Telstra’s Cecilia Hill shared with the Club her journey to implement “Design thinking in Telstra” and Adam Dong, CEO of Oneflare, one of Australia’s most trusted online marketplaces for local services, discussed the topic of “Growth”. This is only the beginning as more presentations are planned for the series, so stay tuned for the next upcoming speakers! Moving forward, the plan is to continue promoting the entrepreneurial spirit at AGSM by inviting Australia’s leading entrepreneurs to come and share their experiences with the club. We will continue to organise engaging workshops and expand the club’s reach within Australia’s start-up community by visiting start-ups, accelerators, and networking with companies that embrace innovation. Join the ICE Club to be a part of it all!
Currently VP of the ICE Club at AGSM, before joining the Full Time MBA program, FEDERICO worked as Finance Manager at The Strategist Co., a digital marketing start-up in Buenos Aires, and before that, as Liquidity and Investments Product Manager at the Commercial Bank in Citibank Argentina.
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – O. W. Holmes With a growing emphasis on globalization, exactly how important is it for MBAs to have the ability to see the world through different lenses? Today’s MBA curriculum heavily focuses on providing a global perspective to students at top universities through courses in international expansion, strategy, and emerging economies. Many students also choose to study abroad, which comes with a variety of benefits including cultural experiences, expanding personal and professional networks, access to new business opportunities, and immersion in the ever-changing economic environment in the host country. From the broader perspective, going abroad does not only offer opportunities, but also raises awareness of important issues around the world and inspires creativity. Graduate Prospects in UK has recently ranked the top places to study abroad. Australia was ranked in the top 5 countries behind Spain and France, with US and China ranking #1 and #2 respectively. Interestingly, every country brings a plethora of unique opportunities to MBA students looking to shape their own future and make a meaningful contribution to the society. Australia, for example, is viewed to be in a unique position due to its impressive economic growth over
the past two decades and an increased focus on the Asia-Pacific region, offering many opportunities for MBAs and international businesses. I personally decided to do my exchange at AGSM because of the focus on innovation and a growing start-up culture in Australia which has received a lot of support from both the government and the private sector. As the country continues to evolve beyond its traditional industries, the workforce is expected to become increasingly multi-national, further solidifying the need for strong cultural intelligence. It is no surprise that in any major economy, acquiring a global view and understanding cultural differences makes for more effective leaders. It is not enough to have international experience, whether academic or professional, but it is the global mindset that sets the leaders apart. Dr. Stephen Cohen, the founder and Principal of the Strategic Learning Collaborative said that a global mindset “requires simultaneously recognizing situations in which demands from both global and local elements are compelling, while combining an openness to and awareness of diversity across cultures and markets with a willingness and ability to synthesize across this diversity.” It is this global mindset that gives MBA students a competitive edge in the workplace.
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In today’s competitive and rapidly changing markets, business leaders rely on innovation and entrepreneurial skills in order to grow and improve organisational performance. Throughout the world, companies in different sectors and industries have started to realize the importance of having employees and leaders with an entrepreneurial view. With this in mind, it is vital for AGSM students to develop their entrepreneurship skills throughout their MBA, whether they are considering starting up their own business or targeting the corporate world.
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AKSANA is an MBA candidate at New York University who is currently on exchange at AGSM. Before her MBA, Aksana worked in investment banking for 5 years where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions. Her great loves in life include travelling, pets and tango.
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Industry Insights Banking in Argentina: Dealing with the ‘silo mentality’ by Federico Albarellos
AGSM MBA, 2016
Currently VP of the Innovation, Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Club at AGSM, before joining the Full Time MBA program, FEDERICO worked as Finance Manager at The Strategist Co., a digital marketing start-up in Buenos Aires, and before that, as Liquidity and Investments Product Manager at the Commercial Bank in Citibank Argentina. Photo provided by the author
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Even though private banks in Argentina are very profitable (32.7% ROE in 2014), it is very common to see many deals and revenue opportunities lost because of the silo mentality. Since banks are divided into different sectors— each with their own goals and KPIs—instead of a unified vision for the whole organisation, employees operate for the maximum benefit of their ‘sandbox’, often times damaging the bank as a whole. For example, the owner of the bank’s liabilities (customer’s deposits) is usually not the Lending Unit. Hence, in addition to negotiating the terms with the customer, the Lending Officer has to negotiate internally to get the funds at a reasonable rate to gain a good spread on the operation. Because both the liabilities’ owner and the Lending Officer want to get the maximum benefit for their respective businesses, even though the terms with the customer might be beneficial for the bank as a whole, the internal negotiations may fail, thus cancelling the deal with the customer. While this deal would not have been good for the Lending Officer, it may have been profitable for the bank. Moreover, it likely would have allowed the opportunity for cross selling with the customer. From my experience and observation, an individual can overcome this issue is by maintaining a good relationship with key stakeholders around the organisation. This might sound simple, but often people are so worried about their own KPIs and goals in the shortterm and fail to recognise that they can benefit in the long-term by understanding this principle. Furthermore, an organisation can remove this mentality by setting a unique vision for the entire company and aligning the KPIs perfectly to it.
Industry Insights Asset Accounting: A Global Niche by Justin Chmielewski
AGSM MBA, 2016
Asset-intensive companies in industries like mining, oil & gas, telecommunications, transportation, and utilities exist all across the world. However, one of the biggest challenges these companies face is getting the right information to the right stakeholders at the right time. Typical enterprise resource planning (ERP) software doesn’t maintain detailed asset data, which results in individual departments trying to collect and manage what they need on their own. For example, the accounting department is more effective with accurate asset retirement specifics, the regulators can better estimate customer rates with capital project tracking and the tax team can be more aggressive with their tax strategy when they have better insight into costs related to capital expenditure versus maintenance. So what’s the solution? Specialized niche software created by companies like PowerPlan Inc. based out of Atlanta, Georgia. These software suites deliver on all of the needs above, plus more, in order to help asset-centric companies make the best data-driven business decisions. By integrating information across operations, accounting, regulatory, financial planning and tax, financial performance can be optimized resulting in millions, or even hundreds of millions, of dollars in savings.
JUSTIN previously worked at Walt Disney World as an Industrial Engineer while studying at Georgia Tech. After graduating, he began working in the Software Consulting Industry at PowerPlan Inc. In his spare time, Justin loves to travel and hopes to add to the 35 States in the USA and 26 other countries he has had the pleasure of visiting. Photo provided by the author
While working at PowerPlan Inc., Justin had the opportunity to quickly take on responsibility with different client projects all across the United States while also learning about asset accounting, different industries, and client management. He played a key role in different departments within PowerPlan including delivering software upgrade projects that moved clients to new software and implanted new features, supporting users on a daily basis for a client with over $125 billion in assets and helped revamp and launch a new software module based on new U.S. tax regulations. Post-MBA, Justin hopes to take his technical and consulting skills, plus new business knowledge, into the Finance world.
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DRINK N LINK by Kaoru Nishinakagawa
External Relations Manager (AGSM MBA, 2016)
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Drink & Link #4 was held at Martin Place Bar on Friday, October 9th. We opened the night with champagne and nibbles sponsored by AGSM. Throughout the evening, Alumni, MBA(Executive) and Full-Time MBA students mingled with one another and enjoyed chatting about diverse topics, including their experiences at AGSM. Drink & Link is slowly, but surely, becoming more known among MBA(Executive) students and Alumni, attracting new faces as well as loyal repeaters each time. In order to continue this momentum and avoid any confusion, the venue for the next Drink & Link will be fixed at Marin Place Bar, a perfect location for professionals working in the CBD, and with a designated private section already reserved for us. As this event is gaining more and more traction, we continue to explore new ways to innovate and improve on it – new venues, themed discussions, reservation based, etc.
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Since Drink & Link is an initiative organised by students and hosted for students, we own the flexibility to adapt the event to suit whoever wants to join.Drink & Link #5 will be held in early November at Martin Place Bar, which will be the last one for this year. Again, champagne and nibbles will be provided by AGSM to celebrate all the great accomplishments from the year. We are looking forward to meeting more MBA(Executive) students and Alumni to finish off 2015 together.
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