Author’s Rationale
I have attended countless reunions over the decades: high school, college, professional meetings on the pretence of meeting old colleagues, as well as corporate get-togethers built in to some calendar of their own, and B School reunions. Mostly, I have avoided these ‘happy’ occasions, regarding most of them as cringe worthy as the more successful members of the class were given an audience to flaunt whatever it was they wished to display.
I have however made it a point to attend my five yearly B school get-togethers. The wide intervals and the fact that alumni come from all corners of the world give them a certain validity. They do provide a time-out and a chance to catch up on old friendships that were forged in such an intensive hot-house cauldron all those years ago. Even there, or maybe I should say particularly there, in those early years, many could not resist the bit of show and tell, whether it was turning up in the stretch limo, or a series of extravagant and exaggerated ‘war’ stories.
Having experienced it at first hand, I thought that the environment was fertile ground to be explored as a setting. I have not yet dug deep into this project, but my ideas for it are listed in the summary below.
The Story
The Reunion is likely to focus on the MBA Class of 2005 as they get together for their tenth reunion in 2015. The rivalries and jealousies that have festered and endured since their time at business school result in extraordinarily high stakes and death as ruthless financiers and business rivals jostle for commercial and financial advantage. Their partners, both financial and marital, get caught up in the machinations. The maelstrom of jealousies and rivalries ensures that the brawling is not confined to the principal actors as the hangers on to the power brokers fight to ensure that their wealth, families or place in the social and pecking order is not threatened.