Bulletin No. 1, 2015

A Date with Warren Buffett   25  A Date with Warren Buffett S eventeen MBA students saw their dreams come true when they were chosen to represent the CUHK Business School in a trip to meet investment guru, Warren Buffett , in his hometown Omaha in November 2014. They were joined by about 160 students from seven other business schools in the US, and felt honoured to be the only ones from an Asian university. Led by adjunct finance professor Thomas R.M. Bain , the group of CUHK students spent three days in Omaha, meeting and interviewing Buffett, having lunch with him, as well as visiting three companies in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio: the Nebraska Furniture Mart, Borsheims, and Oriental Trading Company. CUHK’s students share a unanimous impression of the wily 84-year-old man as being extremely humble, easily approachable, down-to-earth and humourous.