Greg Gorman, MBA '11

Home residence: Greenwich Village, New York, NY
Job: Chief Financial Officer, GreenTech Research LLC
Outside interests: Travel, Movies, Theater, Mystery Novels
Interesting Fact: Worked as a White House journalist and part of the presidential press pool

October 14, 2009

My classmates and I have officially been immersed in the Stern Executive MBA program since the middle of August when we subjected ourselves to the Arrowwood residency program better known as, “How did I get myself into this?” 

The Doral Arrowwood is a conference center north of New York City in Westchester County where the NYU Stern School of Business takes its incoming Executive MBA students for a week of bonding, eating and lots and lots of homework all the while subjecting us to a nonstop class schedule. I should also add that it was one of the most exhilarating things I have ever done in my life. 

The buildup to Arrowwood was a time of nervous excitement for me as I imagine it was for my classmates as well. I was ready for the challenge of business school but I spent more than a few nights wondering about how it would feel to spend a week with fifty strangers. After the week was completed, I had fifty new friends and aside from the lack of sleep that I suffered, I also had a genuine respect and appreciation for the Executive MBA program itself and for all the people who make it happen. I can write here without fear of contradiction that the Stern faculty and staff are some of the finest people working in academia today.

My classmates and I have been in the program for a few weeks now and the week before the Arrowwood residency seems like a lifetime ago. I used to watch hours of mindless television and dream about things other than marketing cases and accounting midterms. Now I spend my days doing homework and dreaming about graduation day,  standing with my friends and classmates at Stern as we reminisce about that first week in mid-August when we had no idea how great of an adventure we were about to begin.