Spring Break
Things I've learned, with Dr. Aronhime of Entrepreneurship and Mgmt.
Issue date: 9/25/08
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A graduate of Hopkins, he spent several years in the private sector as a business consultant and an accountant before returning as a professor.
The News-Letter talked with Professor Aronhime this past Tuesday to discuss his time as a Hopkins student, his experience in business and teaching and his take on the current state of the U.S. financial markets.
News-Letter (N-L): Since you were also an undergraduate student here at Johns Hopkins, could you tell us a little about how the school was during your student days, how things have changed, and how things have stayed the same?
Lawrence Aronhime (LA): The thing that stays the same is probably the most obvious - people work really hard here. The students probably, at least from what I've heard, have the same complaints now that they had when I was an under[grad], that there wasn't a whole lot of fun here. You know, if you wanted fun, you went down to College Park at Maryland, or to the Naval Academy sometimes - but students here work hard. They've always worked hard.
One of the great changes that I've seen that's truly amazing is the incredible diversity of the campus now. It was obviously a much less diverse place in the 1970s than it is now. But it's marvelous to see people from all over the world, from all kinds of backgrounds here now.
Obviously that's a change. I guess that's one of them, the other is that when I was a young man, we actually believed we could escape the military-industrial complex.
You all are a much savvier generation, a much, if I can use that word, wiser generation - you have much greater exposure to the world, and a part of that is a function of the diversity of the campus. Just the sense of globalization, that sense of being a global citizen, and the sense of needing to care deeply about everything and everybody in the world, is a big change.
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