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A new MCF Adventure: the Ethics, Leadership and Communication Course.
Since the beginning of my experience as responsible of MCF stage and placement, I have discovered how skilled and well equipped are our students regarding the technical abilities while how poorly trained are in what is normally referred to as “soft managerial skills”.
The MCF trains participants to read and analyze firms, to quote them, to understand the fluctuation of stock prices, to understand the different organizational structures, but did not train them to arrive in time to interviews, to dress accordingly, to arrive prepared on what product the firm has launched or what deal it has recently signed. I have always thought that these concepts should have been learned before or better that participants should have been learned them by themselves.
Then, I discovered that, during the master period, participants mostly focused their attention on learning technical skills and methodologies while perceiving as not relevant for finding a job leadership capabilities, networking abilities, ethical skills, good understanding of the environment and its issues, education and professionalism. Unfortunately, nowadays, these are the extra required capabilities to differentiate a curriculum.
This is way I have decided to introduce in the MCF program a course, Ethics, leadership and communication: the MCF way (ELC). The course includes and systemizes all the activities that we have done in the past 10 years to prepare students with soft managerial skills. Of course, the course is thought for participants that have the desire to pursue a career in corporate finance and uses the suggestions and ideas from recruiters, professors and participants themselves.
The course runs from the beginning to the end of the MCF focusing:
• in creating a good learning environment and a good class experience;
• on their personal attitudes and work aspiration in the corporate finance world;
• on developing leadership and communication skills to allow them to prepare for interviews;
• on the different and challenging work environments that they can expect to work for.
Lucilla Tealdi
The MCF Community
Dear Prospect,
343 individuals so far, who are spread all over the world, make up the MCF CommUnity. There is no typo in the previous sentence: it is really a CommUnity because it fosters the unity of commons.
Are they of the same kind only because they all got the same qualification? Not at all. MCF provided them with much more: analytical skills, problem-solving mindset, team-working attitude, sense of responsibility, commitment toward the future, action and passion; or better, passionate action.
Passionate action is the only real “toxic” asset for good, as it really makes the difference between record books of faces and flesh and bones. You see, there’s no need to hold any master qualification in order to understand that the real value and importance of any network ultimately rests upon its members’ likelihood to take action.
Whenever asked about the reasons of their success, plenty of business leaders out there say that their main achievements can be considered as the outcome of three key components – taken luck aside: knowledge, abilities/experiences, and connections. The MCF program provides you with the first two, while the CommUnity covers the third dimension of the big picture. The network performs a number of interlocked activities that strengthen up one another, just like the ropes of a fisherman’s net: organizing presentations in Italy and abroad; circulating documents of common interest; introducing friends/colleagues as candidates for the next intake; offering internships and sponsorships; supporting those who are engaged in bridging over troubled waters.
In one sentence, we are linked in, and there’s a bond between us. This bond will never expire, as we can always count on each other. Hope to count you in this CommUnity, one day…
Andrea Benocci
MCF network Administrator
MCF Around Europe
This year will occur the 10th anniversary of SDA Bocconi Master in Corporate Finance (MCF).
From the first edition, the program grew incredibly and achieved amazing results on the international market, now representing a worldwide benchmark in the Master education.
To properly celebrate this anniversary, the MCF has organized a few events and presentations around Europe.
The first one has been arranged in London last February 11th, thanks to the kind support of Nomura, who hosted the MCF faculty and friends in their amazing building in Canary Wharf, and gave them the chance to reinforce the MCF brand on the UK financial market.
The second presentation took place in Athens on March 23rd at the Panteion University, thanks to the support of Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Atene. This has been for MCF a unique opportunity to meet the Greek potential candidates and to share with them thoughts about what does attending MCF actually mean.
"In these two occasions we had the chance to meet many candidates and many past MCF students and friends. It is always a real pleasure to see how strong the relationship between our alumni is, and how deep is the connection with the program and with our School", says Barbara Rovetta, Director of the program. "The MCF friends’ network is our most valuable intangible assets. It is based on a bond, between our past students and the School, between our alumni all over the world and between the past and the future of our program."
So, that's what the MCF is. A program with a solid and long history that aims to build a bridge with the future: the future of finance, the future of the MCF candidates, the future of education.
Sustainable investments: some thoughts
by Lucilla Tealdi, Professor of Corporate Finance, SDA Bocconi
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