Tim Pearson, an executive MBA student at MIT Sloan School of Management, once spent 12 hours getting home from his class.
Mr Pearson, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, commutes 300 miles to Massachusetts for the programme, which meets every third weekend over 20 months. One January evening, a combination of bad weather and delays meant his usual eight-hour journey took an additional four hours.
But he was undeterred. “Because I made a focused decision [to attend MIT Sloan], anything that happens from a travel perspective is immaterial,” says Mr Pearson, a senior adviser in product management at Ciena, the network systems company.
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