GBUS 8411 - What Do You Want? A Transition Guide to the Real World

Graduating MBAs will spend the next 35 years of their lives working very hard. What is it they will be working for? To maximize their wealth? Fame? Happiness? Power? Peace of mind? Energy? Salvation or spiritual peace? To be loved? Friendship? A family? How do these all fit together in their definition of success and in what proportion? How do they avoid losing one for the sake of the other? This course will explore the pros and cons and the ins and outs of various answers to these and the fundamental question: ‘What do you want?’ and guide students on how not to become professional anecdotes for books such as Career Success, Personal Failure, and Must Success Cost So Much? The readings, films, film clips, and cases will be focused on related questions that examine the meaning of life, career, and the nature of success. Students can use this course to put their business educations in the context of managing their careers over their lifetimes before reentering the working world and actually experiencing the consequences of their decisions.

Credits: 1.5