Fish Hooked On Profits

May 5, 2008 by Mark | 1 Comment

Times Online:

When making money is what motivates you, good commercial decisions are vital, so studying for an MBA is a great way to develop business nous.
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Lee Fish must have seemed a fairly reluctant student when he enrolled on an MBA at the University of Strathclyde.

“I hate learning, I hate books,” he says. “I like to do things, not read about them.”

Nonetheless, Fish, the master franchisee of O’Briens, a sandwich chain, in Scotland, regards his MBA as one of his most valuable business experiences. He studied law as a first degree, then decided to go into business. “I was always commercially minded. I wanted to buy and sell.” His first job was as a commercial finance manager at M&S, responsible for profit and loss, “making sure that stores were making money”.

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