Christopher Scott

Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business

“I believe that compounding actions empower us to monumentally change the world each day.”

Hometown: Worcester, MA

Fun Fact About Yourself: As an RIT Alumnus, I coached the 2016 RIT Poetry Slam Team to Nationals in Austin, Texas.

Undergraduate School and Major: BS in Chemical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology

Most Recent Employer and Job Title: Honda R&D Americas, Materials Research Engineer

Describe your biggest accomplishment in your career so far: In 2015, I spent a year as one of the youngest engineers developing and launching the new Acura NSX Supercar at Honda’s brand-new Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio. I got to work with some of the best associates Honda employs; and yes, we got to take the cars out for a track day!

What quality best describes the MBA classmates you’ve met so far and why? Uniquely compassionate. Fisher’s tight-knit, familiar MBA program has a unique tendency of creating more than just “cohorts,” but families of students who care deeply for one another and for the community around them. They spend the majority of their days finding ways to improve and lift up the students to the left and right of them. The atmosphere is best described as constructively competitive.

Aside from your classmates, what was the key factor that led you to choose this program for your full-time MBA and why was it so important to you? Fisher is at the turning point for a significant program redesign that leads the way in how the MBA experience develops future leaders. A favorite facet of Fisher’s MBA program is the Global Applied Projects program, which sends first-year MBA students on international consulting engagements in teams of 4-5 students every year in May to deliver real results to overseas organizations. With my desire to move into consulting post-graduation, this program is a unique primer that will prepare me for my first internship and is something that few programs in the world offered to the caliber that Fisher does.

What club or activity are you looking most forward to in business school? Besides Fisher Consulting and Strategy Club (FGFA), the one organization I am most looking forward to being a part of is Fisher Board Fellows (FBF). This organization places current second-year MBA students on the boards of local non-profit organizations in a mutual effort to provide strategic business assistance and give Fellows the opportunity to experience what it means to hold a seat on an organization’s board for a year. Students undergo a rigorous interview and selection process to ensure they’re paired with the right board.

What led you to pursue an MBA at this point in your career? Simply put, it was time for a change and a new learning opportunity. I had spent nearly five years in engineering roles and had become more and more attracted to the consulting industry as the next step in my career. An MBA is the best possible way to fill the gaps in my business acumen that my engineering degree had left and to make the transition into consulting. Stagnation only leads to mental starvation, and I was hungry to learn more and take on bigger projects.

How did you decide if an MBA was worth the investment? If you ask my fiancée, she’ll tell you I have a spreadsheet for everything. Being the quant that I am, I sat down one day and compared my current salary and salary prospects to what I felt I could earn with an MBA, and then justified my decision with a quick Net Present Value calculation. However, I don’t think you can put a price-tag on surrounding yourself with one hundred highly intelligent and competitively-wired future leaders in Fisher’s MBA program for two years. The experience is unparalleled.

What other MBA programs did you apply to? Along with Fisher, I also applied to NYU, Columbia, and Harvard.

How did you determine your fit at various schools? I spent an unhealthy amount of time on Poets & Quants. As an engineer and a poet, I’m a firm believer in the power of storytelling, both through statistics and through anecdote. I read blog posts, compared rankings, spoke with current students, and spent time researching which companies recruited at various schools. Most importantly, I visited campuses and met with students and faculty members. A key feature to Fisher’s recruiting process is the Fall Preview Day, which allows prospective students to come on campus for a day in order to shadow a class, meet with the admissions team, have a closed-door discussion with a current student panel (to ask the nitty-gritty questions), and finally wrap up with a happy hour. A few things became major priorities during my visits. One was the ability to craft my path and decide for myself which gaps needed filling in my resume. Whereas some programs will try to put students into a box and require them to declare one major or another, Fisher guides us to handcraft a curriculum path that can incorporate one or multiple specialties. The second priority was a focus on student-centric development and interaction. All of my applications went to schools that focused uniquely on this characteristic, but Fisher certainly knocks it out of the park in regards to personalized growth.

What was your defining moment and how did it shape who you are? Mine was less of a moment and more of a memory or timeframe. My brother and I grew up in a single-parent household, raised by a mother who defines what it means to be hard-working and relentless. I watched her shift mid-career from technology to teaching middle school Spanish to pursue something that fulfilled her purpose. Because of that shift, she frequently worked multiple bartending jobs on nights and weekends to make sure my brother and I never knew need, and attended night school to get her Master’s in Education. I am the person I am today because of her grit and absolute refusal to let external factors define her. On days when my schedule seems too stressful, my path too ambiguous, or my brain too tired, I remember what she went through and realized that nothing I’m doing could be more difficult than what she overcame. She is my light. 

What do you plan to do after you graduate? After graduation (and during my upcoming summer internship), I plan to join a leading consulting firm and apply my knowledge of manufacturing, operations and product development to projects in the automotive, energy, and CPG industries. Having done a bit of freelance consulting in the Columbus area before starting an MBA, I’d like to bring my skill set to a major firm and continue helping great companies produce and deliver amazing products worldwide.

Where do you see yourself in five years? Five years from now I’ll be three years out of my MBA, so I see myself as a consulting manager or engagement manager leading high-impact projects and pursuing a track to make partner. More importantly, I’ll be continuing to work with Fisher to recruit and develop the next generation of business leaders. I’m a huge proponent of remembering where I came from and giving back.

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