By Rachel Z. Arndt
If you happen to be in College Station, Texas, on Aug. 5, don’t be surprised if you come across some MBAs from Texas A&M’s Mays Business School (Texas A&M Full-Time MBA Profile) acting in some very un-MBA-like ways. Teams of MBA candidates will be rescuing people from overturned trains atop one another in seemingly impossible formations. They’ll be extracting one live victim from a confined space. And they’ll be lowering another from the top of a two-story building.
There’s no need for alarm, though—these scenarios are just part of a day-long simulation at the Texas Engineering Extension Disaster City, where Texas A&M MBA and EMBA students turn from market-savvy businesspeople into fast-acting rescuers. During the disaster extravaganza, teams of “rescuers” and “communicators” work to save people from situations usually only encountered by emergency first responders.
Mays hopes students will learn how to think quickly and respond to problems that are completely unexpected—and highly unlikely, given their probable futures in offices and trading floors.
Read the full article: MBAs to the Rescue: Business School Disaster Simulation at Texas A&M