German Mateus

MBA 2019

Hometown: Colombia
Pre-MBA: Private Equity

German Mateus

Post Graduation Goals:

Transform agriculture in Colombia

Highlight of my Week:

Participating in C4C - Challenge for Charity!

Thursday

07:00am

Start my morning with a running class on the Cobb Track and Angell Field.

08:00am

Online Marketplaces class. Guest speaker was Maria Perez, Data Scientist Manager at Airbnb. She gave an interesting lecture about A/B testing.

11:30am

Golf class in the Stanford Range. Professor Jake is amazing, and we were practicing swings with a special device.

01:30pm

Lunch to learn about “Farm Worker to Farmer Program: how immigrant farmers become organic farmers”. Interesting opportunity to learn how immigrant farm workers in Monterey County are becoming independent farmers and get involved in various research projects.

03:00pm

Finance class. Our guest speaker was Peter Copses, Founding Senior Partner of Apollo Global, an alternative asset manager with $200+ billion of investors commitments.

05:00pm

Study time at Bass library. The fourth floor is a great place to concentrate and get things done!

Friday

08:30am

On Fridays I have Advanced Operations class with Professor Lee. He brought a real bullwhip to class to illustrate the Bullwhip Effect in a supply chain.

12:30pm

Lunch with the MBA Student Association (SA) International Committee, where I am the CFO. We talked about the Committee's plan for the coming academic year.

01:30pm

Off to Capital Markets and Institutional Investing class.

03:00pm

Managerial Accounting class. We had a videoconference with Martin Koehler, Board member of Lufthansa. We talk about Board’s best practices and experiences around the world.

04:30pm

Visited Stanford Office of Accessible Education (“OAE”) to formalize my contract as a note taker.