Part of the purpose of this blog is for current and potential Your Marketing Guy clients to get to know who I am.

A common quote I like to use is this one:

“People do business with people they know.”

My hope is that the content of this blog sheds some light into who I am and by reading my thoughts/feelings people will get to know me.

In this post I’d like to share a dream of mine, in hopes that it sheds some light into what I value from an educational standpoint.

I earned my undergraduate degree from the Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University. Ever since I graduated I have had the desire to go on and get my MBA. However, I really don’t have an interest in getting an MBA from Western Michigan or any other middle-of-the-pack university; my only interest is to earn an MBA from The University of Michigan.

The biggest reason for this selection is because the Stephen M. Ross School of Business is a perennial top business school in the country and by far the best in the state of Michigan.

I don’t know exactly what this says about me, but that’s my dream…

Why don’t I have a desire to earn an MBA from anywhere but the top business school in Michigan? Maybe it’s because an MBA is not a mandatory thing and, in my eyes, to put the effort into something of little value (middle-of-the-pack MBA program) makes no sense. Or maybe it’s my desire to be attached to something that people respect and look up to.

My other thought is that I search long and hard to find the best marketing books, the best business brains, and try to soak up all I can from the best and brightest sources. I view U of M’s MBA program as being one of the top sources for further education.

I wouldn’t read a business book that doesn’t expand my knowledge and make me think.

I wouldn’t want to earn an MBA from a university that doesn’t expand my knowledge and make me think hard.

Earning an MBA from U of M is an interesting dream of mine and someday I hope to make it a reality. In the meantime, Ill get back to my not so prestigious task of diaper changing.