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2016Purdue Krannert Executive Forum: Speaker Mark Kent
Purdue University Krannert Alumni Mark Kent returned to speak at the Krannert Executive Forum.
The Krannert Executive Forum is a management class (MGMT 40100) that features top-level executives and community leaders sharing their experiences with students. It has been a unique and valuable addition to Krannert’s management curriculum since 1973.
The Forum is designed to provide opportunities for the exchange of ideas and discussion of topics and issues facing business and management education between students and leaders who have achieved high levels of success and recognition. These exchanges are directed toward an understanding of problems and solutions, opportunities and the need for educational preparation of future business leaders. Dialogue develops that gives the students, faculty, and business leaders a better understanding of themselves, their responsibilities and their relationships with each other.
This one-hour class meets each Friday at 11:30 am the Krannert Auditorium. The class offers students from every school on campus a practical business and management perspective seldom found in other courses. Master’s degree students and faculty are also encouraged to attend, and the Forum is open to the public as seating permits.
The Krannert Executive Forum continues to be a meeting place for the exchange of ideas and thus an excellent vehicle for improved understanding between the executive suite and the academic classroom.
.@MarkKent01 “You have to be true to yourself and your heart. You can’t live for anyone else. You have to live for you” Krannert
— Purdue Krannert (@PurdueKrannert) February 5, 2016
1st experience as a business man: Kent’s dad paid $10 to mow grass but he paid a friend $6 “I was a business man & that’s who I am today”
— Purdue Krannert (@PurdueKrannert) February 5, 2016
Kent’s career path was set by this dad to become a doctor but switched in college. Double major in nursing and finance. Krannert
— Purdue Krannert (@PurdueKrannert) February 5, 2016
.@MarkKent01 “I wanted to open my own company. My first company had 3 employees” Krannert Executive Forum
— Purdue Krannert (@PurdueKrannert) February 5, 2016
.@MarkKent01 Eventually sold part of his company to Humana. 1st title at Humana: Project Manager (1/2)
— Purdue Krannert (@PurdueKrannert) February 5, 2016
(2/2) @MarkKent01 “It is not about the title – it’s what you do. The role that you have is critical” Krannert Executive Forum
— Purdue Krannert (@PurdueKrannert) February 5, 2016
.@MarkKent01 Called working in groups in college “the best learning you can ever have (1/2) Executive Forum
— Purdue Krannert (@PurdueKrannert) February 5, 2016
(2/2) “Now is the best time to learn to motivate and move someone” @MarkKent01 Executive Forum
— Purdue Krannert (@PurdueKrannert) February 5, 2016
.@MarkKent01 “What you’re doing today is your investment and your belief in you. You must always have an appetite to learn”
— Purdue Krannert (@PurdueKrannert) February 5, 2016
.@MarkKent01 One key to leadership: “Focus on the needs of others; not yourself” Executive Forum
— Purdue Krannert (@PurdueKrannert) February 5, 2016
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