A global co-op at Toyota taught him the value of ‘kaizen’
Jaime Bensadon, a third-year business student with a dive-right-in approach to work projects, learned to slow down and think ahead. A Belgium-based co-op at Toyota, the world’s top carmaker, introduced him to the Japanese continuous self-improvement philosophy of kaizen. “If I move too fast in the beginning, I’ll waste a lot of time later fixing the errors,” he says.