Wine with dinner

Since I can remember, wine has been an important part of my family dinners. When all of my siblings, who have scattered around the US, come home for the holidays, I know that I can look forward to an amazing home cooked meal and an incredible bottle of wine – chosen to highlight the type of food that we’re having. I hope to be the person who can bring the next amazing bottle of wine to our holiday dinners. 

Besides learning more about what to look for when choosing a bottle of wine, I’m real excited for the lessons that I can learn about the wine industry and how to apply those to my chosen field in the future. My background is in supply chain / operations and I’m fascinated by how complex logistics and production is for perishable goods. Wine production – from the selection of agricultural fields, to the building of small and large scale production facilities to its distribution – will be a thought provoking industry to learn from.

Additionally, I’m looking forward to extracting learnings from the 3-tier system in the wine industry and applying them to the broader consumer products segment. Although I’m unlikely to begin a career specifically in the wine industry after the GSB, I’m interested in consumer products and retail and can’t wait to use the global wine industry as a proxy for thinking about complex market structures for consumer products.

Really though - who could pass up a class with so much potential, where we also get to try wine? I’m looking forward to a great quarter!