This article was originally sourced from the post on Kellogg’s news & events site, “CIM Week 2014.”
The Kellogg School of Management kicked off the 2014 school year with Complete Immersion in Management (CIM) Week. The week long happening welcomes the incoming class of MBAs to Northwestern and what lies ahead on their MBA path.
Dean Sally Blount ’92 said the new students should look at their education as a chance to grow both personally and professionally.
“We’re here to make you these growth-minded leaders who can thrive in this era when change just keeps moving faster and faster, and when technology creates new capabilities,” she said. “We’re here to show you how to find new opportunities and not be daunted by it but be energized by it, be psyched by it, by the potential to change the world and how it works.”
CIM has been a Kellogg tradition since 1969. In this welcome week of challenges and events, incoming MBAs test their skills while getting to know their surroundings and their peers. The Kellogg esperience should also be a chance for students to grow their knowledge, said Associate Dean of MBA Programs and Dean of Students Betsy Ziegler.
“I really want you to take advantage of the power of the pioneering thinking that’s going on here all the time,” Ziegler said. “This is your opportunity to learn from the world’s best, both from your professors but also from the people that are in this room.”
Blount said that students should look to their education as a way to become who they want to be. The Dean spoke from example, calling back to the days where her own time as a student at Kellogg helped define her own path.
“You have no idea who’s sitting next to you and what they’re going to become,” Blount said. “There are many of you sitting in this room today who are going to be CEOs within 20 years from now. And if not that, a number of you are going to be in the C-suite or doing your own startups.A lot of where you land is going to be because of the choices you make about what you want to do with this amazing education, about the person you want to become.”