While visiting the LFM-SDM office to check on my mail after TPP orientation, I discovered the freshly minted Sloan picture book of 2005. But when I opened the book, I couldn't find a single picture of anyone from my SDM cohort. I flipped the book multiple times but I only found pictures of students from the MBA, Sloan Fellows, Undergraduate, and Doctoral programs. I know this may sound trivial to some people, but I am really upset by this lack of representation of SDM in the Sloan picture book. Isn't the SDM program a part of Sloan? This is yet another incident that confirms the bigger pattern of the SDM program as being a second class citizen at Sloan. We often have to operate in "guerilla" mode to get around the limited Sloan elective that every SDM students are constrained with. Not to mention that we get ZERO assistance from Sloan career placement office. I can continue ranting but I am going to restrain myself for now.

In closing, I have this personal observation to share. The SDM program is a joint degree program between Sloan and ESD. So all SDM students are technically part of both Sloan and ESD. I have observed that even with the lack of goodwill and respect from Sloan, most SDM students will more likely identify themselves as students from Sloan than from ESD. All this despite that the fact that ESD holds the SDM program on a higher pedestal, hosts the SDM office in its building, and provides administrative and logistical services to SDM students. I guess the Sloan brand name is hard to beat, huh.

9/1/2005 12:49:13 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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