First Boutique program

The degree will be hyper-focused on becoming a Certified Financial Analyst (CFA).

Our degree in Business and Finance Management will prepare you for any number of sectors, leadership for all your endeavors, and renaissance like qualities to connect with people across the country and around the world.

Candidates will be playing with live fire.  

Parts of their experience will include using real money to invest, real money to start a business, and real money to support or start, a non-profit.

Firing guns at a range in the NorthWest area near Yellowstone Park.

Cooking fires with your patrol, and camp fires with 63 of your peers .

Enjoy fire-like sunsets on the cruise ships, and so many more experiences.

As the lingo goes, The MAC is fire!

This program is likely to be one of the more travel intense designs, because connections are the heart language of business.

One of my more memorable, academically elitist, quotes is from Thoreau.

"I want to cut a broad swath out of life, drive it into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms".

Connections are the heart language of business.

Being able to bypass conscious and subconscious barriers, to do business with others, by engaging in common identification - a bond, related to shared but separate experiences.

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Let me use the firing guns as an example.  (it did add to some cool word play earlier)

Here's the setup.  (enter stage left)

You work for a firm in Los Angeles with a potential "whale" in Wisconsin.  As you were groomed at The MAC, you indicate you could be a good first connection.

You are meeting the CEO in Green Bay.  You know he has a son.  You tell the company to get three tickets to a Packers game.

The man and his son are late meeting you at the gate because "it was opening day for hunting deer", he says.

(from my experience it is a good thing opening day is early September, especially for the Packers game). 

Screw your moral, ethical, political beliefs about guns - that is for free time.

Business is about connections.  

Here's where your experience at The MAC really shines!

You say, "oh what do you hunt with"?

'You just turned the whale into a pilot fish'.

He's proud to share about how both he and his son both use .308 Winchester.

He responds, "why, do you hunt"?

You, "no, but I was lucky to shoot "x,y,z" guns at a range while I was in college at The MAC.  It was something I had never done, and (lie if you have to, or play neutral) "it was exhilarating", "the power was impressive", or "I liked the "x gun" the best".

Quickly followed by, "plus, if it had been a hot day in "the Dells" I would've been late too, because their water slide parks are awesome" - because you have been there.

The son agrees.  Obviously.

You got dad.  You got son.  You got "street cred".  And you got your manager.

That's a good fishing day!

Or you are a big-time investor in New York City, looking to do business with a client in New Mexico, it is likely that you will have both been to the famous hot air balloon event, or the Blue Hole, and now you are connected beyond just business.

You should be able to extrapolate how other parts of the business relationship can be enhanced as the connection grows e.g. maybe the client is about to go on vacation and you can share a spot to eat or some event you liked because you were there.

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Candidates will complete the CFA Institute academic programming while enrolled.  They will still need to complete 4,000 work hours in a minimum of 36 months, that may begin during or after enrollment.

My hopeful scenario is that degree granting authority is accomplished swiftly, and be able to begin the first cohort in July 2027.