Two-Year MBA

|Bob Hatanaka

At the Intersection of Structure and Flexibility

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 […]

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The Benefits of Combining Theoretical Knowledge and Practical Experience

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 […]

|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 […]

|Faheem Desai

Highlights from the Managerial Finance Immersion and My Internship in Corporate Treasury

by Faheem Desai, MBA ’13 I remember when my classmates and I were encouraged to make our Immersion Program selections, about a year ago. As excited first-year students, we were exploring opportunities and career paths that fit our aspirations and interests. Some of us were looking to switch industries and roles, and we needed to […]

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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 […]

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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 […]