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BizBuzz Different paths lead two students to same solution.
Rajesh A. Jaghai (BBA ’06), son of Jamaica’s largest thoroughbred horse breeder and nephew of three other entrepreneurs, and Sunil Kurup, college-educated and long employed in Russia, both have found satisfaction in the College of Business Administration’s Master of International Business (MIB) program and as graduate student assistants in the Ryder Center for Supply Chain Management. U.S. education gives Jaghai prestige at home. It took Jaghai just one year at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) to realize that a future in aerospace engineering and design was not for him. “I was good at math, and in high school thought about a lucrative career, which led me to engineering,” said Jaghai, who opted to come to the United States for college because he felt a U.S. degree would be more highly regarded in Jamaica. “But it’s in my blood to be an entrepreneur or in business. That’s where my passion lies.”
Although his family’s businesses are very different—horse breeding, seafood distribution, tire distribution, and a trucking company, “they are entrepreneurial at the core, and I was surrounded by the entrepreneurial spirit and always able to share my thoughts,” he said. The college attracted him because, “The business school’s undergraduate and graduate programs in international business capture high ratings,” he said. “I was no fan of going back to school, so the one-year Master of International Business suited me. The sequence of classes, all of which are interrelated, really makes the program stand out.” After international stints, Kurup finds ideal graduate program in Miami. Kurup developed an interest in what was the USSR when he was young. An exchange student experience to Moscow led to his college education there—having quickly mastered the language. He remained for a dozen years employed and making use of his master of science in systems engineering from Moscow Automobile & RC University.
Returning to his native India, he was involved in trading ventures between Russia and India but wanted a graduate degree in business. When he decided to pursue it, he applied only to Florida International University’s business school, which he heard about from friends and read about on the web. “I can complete the Master of International Business quickly, I am adding background in finance to my knowledge, and the program structure enables me to work while I go to school,” he said. Along with Jaghai, he logs twenty hours a week at the Ryder Center. “We work with Walfried Lassar, Ryder Professor and director, Ryder Center for Supply Chain Management, on research related to best practices in green supply chain management,” he said. Learn more. Master of International Business program: |
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