The Existential MBA

The MBA candidate entered the room slowly, like he had a case of the jitters, and offered us a firm handshake before sitting down in front of us. Even we, the interviewers, were a little nervous.  We’d been waiting for an interview with Yesh, the head of the MBA program, and she’d just walked out of her office and asked if could interview one of the candidates first. Keeping everybody on their toes was just Yesh’s style; you could never be sure she wouldn’t give you a pop quiz.  Our job was to rate whether the candidate should be part of the 1 percent, the 13 out of the 1300 that actually make it into the only entrepreneurship MBA in India.  The candidate looked a like a kid and pitched like one, too.  He had this business idea about a gym with different soccer fields that was pretty bad.  We lean in and start ripping some holes, and I’m impressed that the kid keeps his cool, never flusters.  He certainly wasn’t ready for the failure that might come to his business, but he had some gusto. We check the box that said “recommended, with reservations.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganhartley/2012/10/23/the-existential-mba/