Blog Posts

by Sasha Abraham, MBA ’13 The Strategic Marketing Immersion provided me with a good foundation to succeed in my summer internship. The Immersion’s in-class lectures and case studies taught me a lot, and the semester-long team Immersion Project taught me even more. Interestingly the best part of the project was also the toughest: the freedom […]

by Hilori Kaloti, MBA ‘13 As a former participant of the Strategic Operations Immersion, I’d like to share some keys to achieving success. Consider using these insights as you explore your options and, eventually, pursue an Immersion: Network and get to know your peers – Embrace the opportunity to learn from a group of classmates […]

by Jeff Damian, MBA ‘13 Like most Johnson students, I had a great summer internship. I worked for a prestigious management consulting firm and was based in one of its offices in Southeast Asia, one of the fastest growing regions in the world. I was staffed on a transformation case that involved one of the […]

by Bob Hatanaka, MBA ‘13 Having completed the first year of our two-year MBA program I can confidently say this experience has changed my life and prepared me for career success. Although we all share this time with our classmates, each student’s MBA experience is unique. We arrive with different backgrounds, needs, and goals. One […]

by Anvar Jay Varadaraj, MBA ’13 As I reflect on my general MBA experience, my summer internship at Mars will always hold a special place. I thoroughly enjoyed my summer as an intern on Mars’ seasonal business, and I owe much of my success to the strong marketing skills that I received during the Strategic […]

by Tom Stokes, MBA ’13 After participating in the Strategic Marketing Immersion last spring, I headed west to S.C. Johnson as a marketing intern. The Immersion’s curriculum was highly valuable in providing marketing knowledge that would allow me to succeed as an intern, and I believe it gave me a significant advantage compared to interns […]

by Michelle J. Drevet, MBA ‘11 The Immersion Program at Johnson truly helped prepare me for my career switch to consulting. It provided real-world experience that I could talk about in interviews, it reaffirmed course learning so I was better prepared to solve organizations’ most pressing strategic issues, and it brought me closer to my […]

by Vinay Badami, MBA ‘13 This past summer I interned with a global strategy-consulting firm out of its Boston office. I had a fantastic experience working on projects spanning the private equity, retail, and aerospace industries. Both obtaining this internship, and succeeding in leaving with a full-time offer in hand, was in large part due […]

by Paul Margarites, MBA ‘12 The Capital Markets and Asset Management Immersion (CMAM) is an excellent set of courses and lectures covering a breadth of financial products and markets. The classes were a great environment for forming and developing opinions on the global financial markets and expressing actionable decisions on how to adapt to movements […]