Student Profile: Curt Webber

Curt Webber (right) with Jeff Hughes
Program and year: MBA '11
Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah
Number of visits to Nicaragua: 1

Which seminars did you teach?  Operations

What surprised you the most about Nicaragua and your experience visiting the country?

I was mostly surprised by the resourcefulness of the business owners and the people in general.  Watching the business owners do everything that they knew how to and to strive to learn how to be able to improve their businesses and their own livelihood was not as much surprising as it was inspirational. 

While we were there to teach business seminars and help to uplift business owners, I feel that it was us, the MBA students, that perhaps learned the most from those that we taught.  If we, as students at a prestigious university, were to use our resources to the capacity that the Nicaraguan small business owner does on a daily basis the extent of our accomplishments would be virtually endless.

How has Project Nicaragua affected your business school experience?

Project Nicaragua was the first reason I even thought of coming to Wake Forest.  I have always had an interest in business development in Latin America and was seeking a b-school experience that would incorporate a relevant learning experience.

The best part of Project Nicaragua was getting to know my fellow students outside of the classroom and seeing how all of us that come from different backgrounds with varying concentrations were able to collaborate in a real world context. The friendships that were formed on the trip, both among the students and between the students and business owners, will no doubt be long lasting.