MSB Graduates New Crop Of Business Leaders
Posted by Nia Hightower
Escaping the threat of raindrops on the lawn, graduating seniors from the McDonough School of Business and their family and friends gathered inside McDonough Arena for their morning commencement exercises.
Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, addressed the graduating class, and left them with words to live by in the world of business.
“Don’t be scared of bad experiences, learn from them,” he said. “Don’t be scared of challenges, take them on. Be optimistic, but more importantly, enjoy the ride.”
As the MSB graduates will enter the work force with millions of other graduates across the country, they will face a job market that has already seen record numbers of layoffs, and Moreno urged the graduates to think hard about their first steps into the real world.
“… those first jobs, make such a lasting impression on the path that will be the rest of your life that you should take every challenge, every seemingly irrational pay, every unconventional job, for it, too, will make sense in the end,” he said. “Just like your first steps toward Georgetown were composed of many small tiny choices, you have all made it to this big day.”
