Biographies...

[Tokugawa]

Jonathan Kindred - trader, premier banker, personality

Jonathan B. Kindred is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, President and Representative Director of Morgan Stanley Japan Securities Co., Ltd. and Head of Morgan Stanley’s Fixed Income Division in Asia. He additionally serves as a member of the Firm’s Asia Executive Committee and chairs The Tokyo Management Committee. Mr. Kindred has been based in Tokyo since January, 1989, and previously worked as a senior trader in Morgan Stanley’s synthetic securities business in London. He originally joined the Firm in New York in 1983, was promoted to Managing Director in 1995, and to President and Representative Director of Morgan Stanley Japan Securities Co., Ltd. in 2006. Mr. Kindred graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and received a Bachelor of Science degree (magna cum laude) in Economics.

[Tokugawa]

Had 10 minutes tet-a-tet time with above person, who insisted NOT to go for MBA. :)

[HustleR]

Had 10 minutes tet-a-tet time with above person, who insisted NOT to go for MBA. :)

so why he woudn't recommend MBA? because of his personal experience?

[Tokugawa]

Sorry for the late response, I've missed your post.
The person above openly told me that he himself was never in MBA (although he could have gone for one easily) and the things I would learn at MBA could be acquired at job environment.
What I think is, to some degree I agree :D with him, but still desire to study is stronger. For management of our firm it's catastrophic when someone leaves for business school, because usually they never come back, but look for "better opportunities".

so why he woudn't recommend MBA? because of his personal experience?

[Tokugawa]

Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)

Milton Friedman is the twentieth century's most prominent economist advocate of free markets. He was born in 1912 to Jewish immigrants in New York City. He attended Rutgers University, where he received his B.A. at the age of twenty, then went on to earn his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1933 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1946. In 1951 Friedman won the John Bates Clark Medal honoring economists under age forty for outstanding achievement. In 1976 he won the Nobel Prize in economics for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." Before that time, he had served as an adviser to President Nixon and was president of the American Economic Association in 1967. Since retiring from the University of Chicago in 1977, Friedman has been a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

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