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After graduation, Chand had
ample opportunity to put his learning
to the test.
"When I returned to India, they
were starting a new stock exchange in
Bombay, which would be totally electronic.
I came back to take up membership
and to work on that," Chand
says. "It was incredible. This was back
when the Internet wasn't being widely
used, and India did not even have
telephones that worked properly. And
here we were developing a country-wide
system using modems, the Over
the Counter Exchange
of India. That's no
longer in business
because they came up
with an even larger
concept to trade all
stocks, called the National Stock
Exchange of India. I was part of that.
I saw the writing on the wall. I was
one of the first members of the
National Stock Exchange when it was
formed in 1994. It was set up to take
on the 100-year-old Bombay Stock
Exchange, which had become very
unsystematic. It was run by a club of
brokers and didn't always work in the
best interests of investors."
With the advent of the cohort system,
students also found themselves
working intensely with others from
around the world. Richard Murray-Bruce,
a native of England who
turned his summer job at the Boston
Consulting Group in London into a
full-time position upon graduation,
says the cohort system has had "a sea-change
impact on the culture of the
school. Having that collaborative
experience built into
the core curriculum
promotes instinctive
teamwork."
Then and now
Jack Curley and Tom Jones have
never met Richard Murray-Bruce
or Nivee Amin. But chances are
they would have a lot to talk about
if they were to sit down at Jon M.
Huntsman Hall this fall over coffee:
how Wharton has changed, and how
it has stayed the same.
Although the school has changed
dramatically in many ways – not least
of which in the quality and quantity
of the buildings that students, faculty,
and staff call home – the forces that
drive students to excel and to make
their marks in the world are the same
as they always have been.
Says Webber: "We attract students
who are highly self-disciplined and
highly ambitious. They want to be
movers and shakers, and by and large
they're willing to put effort into that."
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