{"id":14261,"date":"2014-01-07T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T20:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=14261"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:39:09","slug":"what-i-learned-at-london-business-school-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/what-i-learned-at-london-business-school-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned at\u2026 London Business School, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our \u201cWhat I Learned at\u2026\u201d series, MBAs discuss the tools and skills their business schools provided as they launched their careers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nitzan Yudan is the CEO and co-founder of FlatClub<\/a>, a United Kingdom\u2013based online marketplace for short-term rentals\u00a0that connects verified members of exclusive alumni, employment and organizational networks. In Part 1 of this four-part series, Nitzan details his reasons for choosing London Business School for his MBA and why he decided to leave the finance industry for a career in entrepreneurship.<\/em><\/p>\n

My path to co-founding FlatClub came about after forgoing a more traditional career path in favor of the freedom\u2014and risks\u2014that come with creating a start-up company. Although I am an avid traveler, the idea of building a business focused on short-term accommodations and peer-to-peer flat sharing was not initially among my pre-MBA career goals or part of my educational background. I am originally from Israel, and I studied industrial engineering and management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, served in a special forces unit of the Israeli military and have 12 years of professional experience, primarily in financial services. After working at Israel\u2019s Bank Hapoalim for two years, I decided to pursue business school as a means to advancing my career in finance.<\/p>\n

When I was shopping around for MBA programs, my top choices were INSEAD and London Business School (LBS). Ultimately, I chose the latter on the basis of location and the potential to accelerate my career: I wanted to live in London, and the city seemed an ideal place to focus on my goal of moving up in the world of banking. I did not know it at the time, but LBS would also serve a crucial role in providing the financial support, entrepreneurial resources and confidence I needed to launch my own business.<\/p>\n

By the end of my first year of the two-year program at LBS, I received attractive post-MBA offers from both American Express and Deutsche Bank for full-time positions upon graduation, but I decided to reassess my career trajectory. I had secured desirable opportunities in my target industry but nonetheless found myself asking, \u201cWhy not try something else?\u201d I felt that I had a risk-free second year of education to explore a different field and decided to leverage my business school resources and get a start-up off the ground. LBS equipped me with an amazing space in which to take risks that I would never have access to again in my life. When I made that choice, I had no idea that FlatClub would emerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our \u201cWhat I Learned at\u2026\u201d series, MBAs discuss the tools and skills their business schools provided as they launched their careers. Nitzan Yudan is the CEO and co-founder of FlatClub, a United Kingdom\u2013based online marketplace for short-term rentals\u00a0that connects verified members of exclusive alumni, employment and organizational networks. 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