Well, it's official. As of today, I can actually live up to the name on my blog. No longer an MBA Candidate, I'm finally a full-fledged MBA!
In celebration of my graduation from Case Western Reserve University, I have put together this one minute elevator pitch of what I've been able to accomplish with 'An MBA on MMA' during my final year as an MBA student.
Rather than an ending, I think of my graduation as a milestone for the blog and hope to continue regular contributions.
Recently, I was notified by the Marketing department of my school that I have been selected as a finalist being considered for the 'Outstanding Marketing MBA Student Award!'
Specifically I was told:
Marketing faculty has chosen you in recognizing your fine academic performance as well as your interest and dedication to the field of marketing among all the graduating MBA students this year.
They further explained the next steps in the process:
To help the marketing faculty learn more about your accomplishments and intentions, we ask that you...submit a video version of the application that helps us highlight and showcase you on the department website. The video should be no more than 2 minutes. This is the next step in determining a winner of this award. Your application will assist us in selecting the most deserving finalist for the award!
As you can imagine I am both excited and humbled by my selection as a finalist for this award. It's an awesome opportunity and I want to make the most of it. As a result, I've decided to post my video submission on this blog where I can easily share it with friends and family. I hope you have as much fun watching the video as I did making it. Enjoy!
I stumbled upon this video courtesy of HDNet and was struck by the candor of Lorenzo Fertitta and by his obvious passion for the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. He touches on some very important and interesting business topics as they relate to his job as Co-owner and CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Enjoy!
Fighting Words with Mike Straka - Lorenzo Fertitta Interview
Lorenzo Fertitta: Me and my brother are 50 – 50 partners on everything we do…and when we started drafting the partnership agreement…the lawyers came to me and said: ‘What if you and Frank can’t agree?” I’m like, we always agree…we’ll figure it out, we’re brothers. They go, no legally we kind of have to have some dispute resolution in there…so we kind of came up with this concept, thought it would be funny but it’s true. 3 Five minute round – sport jujitsu - Dana’s the Referee, but we use the point system.
