Yesterday we spent the greater part of the day today visiting two companies in a town with the almost unpronounceable name of Szekesfehervar. Tongue-twister it may be, but it’s a good chance that there is a household gadget in your home, component of the computer you’re using, or a bit of the car you drive that was built or assembled there.
We went to see Visteon, which was spun off from Ford Motor company and which makes various automotive components, and Videoton, a former mass-producer of electronic equipment and TVs for the eastern bloc, and which re-invented itself post communism as a very entrepreneurial subcontractor for (among others) household names in electrical assembly.
In the evening the group took some time out to listen to a concert at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in the much more pronounceable capital city. It was a quintet of returning former students and they were really outstanding.
Today the three groups have been working on their presentations tomorrow. The mood all week has been excellent, and several members (who come from different intakes in different countries) have remarked on the twin benefits of meeting others from the MBA and immersion (even if only for a brief, Budapest spa dip) in the culture that the companies we are visiting live in all the time.
By coincidence, there is a world MBA tour fair here in the city this evening, and Henley is being represented there, so hopefully we may see some more Hungarians enrolling, though given the current pressure on the Forint, and the unpredictable nature of domestic politics, it might be a tall order to recruit here.
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