Hello everyone! My name is Hoda Malakouti and I’m the newest member of the MBA Admissions team having joined in September. I graduated from the Honours Business Administration program at Ivey and the Honours Bachelor of Health Science program at Western in 2004. After having worked in Toronto for a few years, it’s been great to be back at Ivey! I’m lucky to be able to work for the School that has had such a significant impact in my life.
My role on the team is recruitment and admissions with a special concentration on the Health Sector (HS) stream. I have to admit it’s not difficult to represent a school and program I believe so much in. I’m at Canada’s best business school and working on one of the only growing industries – health. I was just reading the current issue of Fortune Magazine with the ranking of the top 100 employers and I counted 17 that were in the health field! So working for a company that’s #1 (Ivey) and working for an industry that’s (by most accounts) #1 is an exciting opportunity.
Presently, I’m organizing an event called The Great Debate: Public versus Private Health Care to be held on February 11th at 7 pm at our Toronto Ivey-ING campus. It’s a panel event with a number of our alumni on both sides of the issue battling it out and Murray Bryant, one of our HS professors, as the moderator.
I think health care evokes strong emotions in almost everyone because we’re all deeply affected by the system. But to have experts discuss the two extremes of the delivery model will definitely be exciting to watch. This debate should make the Obama/McCain debates seem like friendly conversation! If you’d like to attend, you can sign up on the Health Sector website.
If you have any questions about the MBA Program or the Health Sector stream, you can email or call me hmalakouti@ivey.ca or 519-661-4149.