Immersions

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Gaining Practical Experience for Successful Summer Internships

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 […]

|Michelle J. Drevet

How the SSO Immersion Helped Prepare Me for My Consulting Career

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 […]

|Vinay Badami

Aspiring Consultants Benefit from Collaborative, Rigorous Consulting Program

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 […]

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Leveraging Key Learnings from the CMAM Immersion

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 […]

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My Internship Experiences in the Human Resources Function of a Consumer Packaged Goods Company

by Hilori Kaloti, MBA ‘13 The Strategic Operations Immersion provided me with a solid background for my internship this summer, where I worked for a Consumer Packaged Goods company. When I heard business leaders refer to concepts regarding capacity planning, supply chain management, and human capital management I immediately had a deeper theoretical and practical […]

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Develop Practical Skills through Performance-Based Education

by Kanon Armstrong, MBA ’13 Having taken ‘Management Cases and Problem Solving Process’ prior to my summer internship, I can say that this course played a pivotal role in my internship success, and ultimately, my full-time job offer from a large multi-national life sciences company. This class specifically helped me to: Understand Multiple, Complex Business […]

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Joining a Powerful Female Network

by Carolyn Chen, MBA ‘14 The Women in Investing (WIN) Conference was founded in 2010 by Johnson’s Director of the Parker Center for Investment Research, Lakshmi Bhojraj. The Boston-based conference helps educate women about the rewarding career opportunities in investment management – a field in which women are underrepresented. At this year’s conference, more than […]

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How the Managerial Finance Immersion Managed to Surprise Me

by Raul Trevino, MBA ’13 Having worked in corporate finance for nearly four years at two multinational companies prior to Johnson, I didn’t think there was going to be much more for me to learn about corporate finance. So upon learning about each of the Immersion Program offerings, I wasn’t immediately sold on the Managerial […]

|Michael Hendrix

Exploring Johnson’s Marketing Association for SMI Students

by Michael Hendrix, MBA ’13, Marketing Association President I often get asked why I ran for president of the Marketing Association (MA). Would it look good on my resume? Would it be an easy way to connect with recruiters? While in some eyes these would be valid reasons to run, mine were different. In fact, […]