"It's probably the only chance I'll have to spend that much time in the same room with such a brilliant man, " said James Albert, another Tippie MBA student.
It was "a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet with one of the world's most successful and knowledgeable businessmen, " according to Anne Thimsen, a second-year student who organized the trip for 27 MBA classmates at the University of Iowa's Tippie School of Management.