An MBA, and a little yoga along the way
Yoga clubs and classes are providing stress relief for high-pressure MBA students, reports Business Week magazine. Yoga is growing in popularity among MBA candidates at University of Chicago, MIT, Harvard, and Northwestern. Business students "tend to be extremely self-driven and highly competitive. To have an hour [that's] not about self-improvement prevents burnout to get through the hectic part of the semester." Do you think it is possible for the tenets of yoga to creep into the business world? Or are business and yoga, for the most part, incompatible?
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I think yoga and business are absolutely compatitble. We'd probably have a higher number of ethical, passionate business men and women if the two worlds converged more often.
Posted by: Melissa | July 24, 2008 03:01 AM
Billionaire bond trader Bill Gross ("the Bond King") does an hour of yoga every morning. One article about him (there are many more):
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/03/04/319098/index.htm
If business and yoga are not compatible, then I'm not sure what yoga journal is doing with all of the ads and products.
Posted by: neijia | July 24, 2008 08:14 PM
I agree with Melissa - it seems we would be rewarded with more ethical, passionate business men and women. I'm happy (and jealous) that some firms are taking it into their own hands and hiring licensed yoga practitioners for private sessions for their employees. We could all use a little dose of inner peace to manage our hectic lives. Did anyone else catch this WSJ article that says just that?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121684836042178485.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Posted by: Anna | July 29, 2008 12:00 AM