{"id":12320,"date":"2016-06-08T10:59:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T08:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/?p=12320"},"modified":"2016-06-21T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T10:01:13","slug":"eternal-mba-memories-from-the-eternal-city-of-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/news-en\/eternal-mba-memories-from-the-eternal-city-of-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Eternal MBA memories from the Eternal City of Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12321 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mariana_Jaume.jpg\" alt=\"Mariana_Jaume_Torpay_s\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mariana_Jaume.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mariana_Jaume-810x475.jpg 810w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mariana_Jaume-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by <strong>Mariana Alejandra Jaume Torpey, LUISS MBA Class of 2015<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an old saying, <span style=\"font-style: normal !msorm;\"><em>Tutte le strade portano a Roma<\/em><\/span> (<i><span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\">All roads lead to Rome<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\">)<\/span><\/i>, and in my case it has become true. I fell in love with Rome seven years ago and while I was throwing a coin to the Trevi fountain I wished with all my heart to live here at least for a year\u2026 today that dream has come true.<\/p>\n<p>My name is <strong>Mariana Alejandra Jaume Torpey<\/strong>, I\u2019m Mexican and a specialized labor law lawyer. When my father decided to put me in charge of our legal firm <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>I realized I didn\u2019t have any experience or knowledge to run the whole organization as a business, so I decided to do an MBA<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Besides its unique and magical location, <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>LUISS Business School<\/strong><\/span> seemed like the natural choice for me: it is <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>accredited by EQUIS <\/strong><\/span>and I wanted a program that was focused on delivering a<span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong> solid general management education<\/strong><\/span> and could give me access to <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>world-leading professors<\/strong><\/span>. I also wanted to attend a school <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>that pushed people to learn soft skills<\/strong><\/span> and to develop an <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>international network<\/strong><\/span>. All of this is LUISS Business School, so the decision was obvious\u2026 and till this day it has lived up to my expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Coming from America<span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>, the program has also allowed me to learn more about business in Europe<\/strong><\/span>, thus, expanding my vision and comprehension of how the business world works.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive right alignright wp-image-12334\" src=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2929.jpg\" alt=\"CASS_London_Symposium_LUISSBusiness\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2929.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2929-810x608.jpg 810w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2929-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2929-1900x1425.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>LUISS Business School offers a mixed group of high achieving students from around the world where you <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>socialize with people from different backgrounds<\/strong><\/span>. All of my colleagues are at least\u00a0incredibly smart. This naturally makes you improve in order to keep up with them, and also gives you a different perspective in life and in business that helps you build a strong network of future leaders.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great perks you get doing your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mba.luiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MBA at LUISS Business School<\/a> is that the program is in English, but because <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>you are in Italy, eventually you either\u00a0learn or improve also your Italian<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Friends are not the only source of future memories: the professors are top quality and all of them are the best in their field, making themselves approachable and available for our needs. Many of their sessions will stay with me because of their sincere life advice.<\/p>\n<p>Besides being international, <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>the program is <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>also national<\/strong><\/span> and attended by some Italian students. With their characteristic hospitality and warmth, <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>they help you call Italy home<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Every course is perfectly structured in order to learn and understand every concept; through every <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>case<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>group work<\/strong><\/span> assigned <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>my leadership style and my strengths as a leader have improved<\/strong><\/span> like I never imagined.<\/p>\n<p>As a student <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>I am very involved in all the extracurricular activities<\/strong><\/span> that the school proposes and offers for our improvement: a coaching program, social and\u00a0sport events, and lately one of\u00a0the best experiences of my life, <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>the opportunity to\u00a0attend the CASS London <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>Symposi<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>um<\/strong><\/span> (an annual event organized by Cass Business School in London providing MBA students an opportunity to meet leaders of different fields of life). I was selected to attend the event and could therefore take advantage of the good international relationships that LUISS Business School has with other top business schools.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive left alignleft wp-image-12332\" src=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2596.jpg\" alt=\"Marketing_CASS_London_LUISSBusiness\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2596.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2596-810x608.jpg 810w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2596-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2596-1900x1425.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>This experience was <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>rewarding and fulfilling as it<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong> gave me an opportunity<br \/>\nto<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong> meet a real astronaut, brilliant CEOs, political figures, role models,<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>etc.<\/strong><\/span> I was fortunate to enjoy London in venues like the Science Museum, Tower<br \/>\nBridge, Wellcome Collection, the Royal Institution, and visited different international and important companies. On the first day of the symposium, <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>my colleagues and I won an opportunity to make a marketing pitch to London and Partners<\/strong><\/span> showing how much we have learned and how well we work as a team.<\/p>\n<p>My MBA studies have so far been an intense eight months of hard work, but also of personal growth and learning. My advice for the future members of the LUISS Business School family is to <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>always keep your goals and desires in mind<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>: <\/strong><\/span>once the program starts<span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>, it goes by fast, so keeping your goals constantly in mind is the only way to ensure they get accomplished, and believe me \u2013 with the support of the school they will<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I have travelled around the world, but <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>Rome is still the most beautiful city I have ever seen<\/strong><\/span>, so start your application process. Believe me, when I tell you, here you will grow but also <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>create memories that you never expected<\/strong><\/span>, memories that will be impossible to forget, <span style=\"font-weight: normal !msorm;\"><strong>memories that will be like the city: eternal<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mba.luiss.edu\/brochure\" target=\"_blank\">DOWNLOAD BROCHURE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">09 June 2016<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Mariana Alejandra Jaume Torpey, LUISS MBA Class of 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"twitterCardType":"summary_large_image","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mariana_Jaume_tw.jpg","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"Master":[],"class_list":["post-12320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12320"},{"taxonomy":"Master","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/Master?post=12320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}