{"id":2582,"date":"2019-01-21T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.darden.virginia.edu\/international\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2019-07-30T10:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T14:15:34","slug":"ben-leiner-class-of-2019-shares-thoughts-on-recent-darden-course-to-singapore-and-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.darden.virginia.edu\/international\/2019\/01\/21\/ben-leiner-class-of-2019-shares-thoughts-on-recent-darden-course-to-singapore-and-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Leiner (Class of 2019) Shares Thoughts on Recent Darden Course to Singapore and Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ben Leiner (Class of 2019) was born and raised in Baltimore, MD and graduated from Emory University. Before Darden, Ben worked in market research at a political polling firm and at the Atlantic Media Company. He also served as executive director of My Ride to Vote, an advocacy organization that partnered with rideshare companies to fund rides to the polls for low-income voters on Election Day.<\/em><\/p>\n

Currently a second-year student at Darden, Ben interned in product marketing at Atlassian, an enterprise software company based in Sydney, Australia. After business school, he hopes to work at a company using technology to improve civic life and strengthen democracy in the United States and abroad.<\/em><\/p>\n

Could you share a little bit about your global experiences prior to arriving at Darden?<\/strong><\/p>\n

B<\/span>efore Darden, I had some travel experience, but not a ton. I had traveled to Europe for some personal travel and attended a six-week summer study abroad program in Paris through Emory, where I did my undergrad.<\/p>\n

Through Darden, I attended a first-year global immersion course in Sweden<\/a>, where we studied entrepreneurship and innovation. That class, along with some travel on either end, really gave me a \u201ctravel bug\u201d and a desire to explore the world.<\/p>\n

Darden offers quite a few different global immersion courses. What drew you to Singapore and Sri Lanka?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were several reasons I decided to travel to Singapore and Sri Lanka<\/a>. I had never been to Asia and wanted to explore that part of the world. I didn\u2019t think of either country as a typical tourist destination \u2013 if I hadn\u2019t traveled to them through Darden, I\u2019m not sure I would have ever gone. Given my professional background in politics and advocacy, I loved the topic (\u201cNavigating Difficult Waters: Addressing Tough Problems in Business and Society\u201d). And, perhaps most important, I traveled with Professor Marc Modica<\/a> to Sweden and find him to be an excellent person to travel with.<\/p>\n

Singapore and Sri Lanka course is neat in that it offers a chance to compare two very different places and economies in one program.\u00a0 What did you learn through that process of comparison?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A truly difficult question given all that we learned over just ten days. But I\u2019ll give it a go.<\/p>\n

I think my best answer is that leadership really matters. Both Singapore and Sri Lanka came into being since World War II and both have faced their challenges. However, at a high level, the story of Singapore\u2019s success relative to Sri Lanka\u2019s struggles has been the character and the quality of each country\u2019s leadership. Successful national leaders articulate a country\u2019s aspirations, set ethical standards for how government, business, and society should interact, and outline an inclusive form of patriotism that recognizes the country\u2019s diversity. Both countries provided contrasting examples of how leaders have succeeded and failed across these goals.<\/p>\n

Whether we Darden students end up leading companies or countries, the course taught us the consequences of successful and unsuccessful leadership and forced us to consider how we can and should lead in our own professional lives.<\/p>\n

As you head into the last few months of your Darden experience and start to think about what you\u2019ll be doing after graduation, what did you learn through the Singapore and Sri Lanka course that you think will be most applicable when you start working?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Culture matters, and it\u2019s set by individuals. Any culture has strengths and weaknesses as they relate to creating value for society. As an early-career employee, I might not have as much power as a CEO to systemically address the flaws in my company\u2019s culture. However, through my own conduct, I can reinforce the qualities and values that improve the culture. As I grow in my career, I hope to refine my own beliefs as I exert more influence over the culture of the organizations I join.<\/p>\n

I may have been able to articulate that lesson before traveling to Singapore and Sri Lanka with Darden. However, I did not have as deep an understanding of the consequences of successful or dysfunctional leadership. The\u00a0course also showed me that I had been defining \u201csuccess\u201d in an American context as it related to American business. These countries showed me several different ways to define successful culture that are decidedly non-American.<\/p>\n

Any advice for prospective MBA students or first year students who are planning global experiences during their MBA degree?\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a difference between vacation and travel. You have your whole life to take vacations to parts of the world that make you comfortable \u2013 there\u2019s a beach everywhere.<\/p>\n

When you travel during your MBA, take advantage of opportunities to travel \u2013 to challenge your assumptions, ask tough questions, and perhaps be uncomfortable. If you do that, you\u2019ll come back having expanded your mind, stretched yourself, and gained a stronger understanding of how you can make a difference throughout your career.<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019ll even ride a few tuk-tuks<\/em>. If you do, take a negotiations course first. It\u2019ll help with the haggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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