Rebecca Cook Rebecca Cook, MBA’96, is the Director of Coaching and Development for Kelley School’s Graduate Career Services. Prior to joining IU in 2009, Rebecca Cook was a portfolio manager and senior equity analyst with Voyageur Asset Management. She has over 13 years of investment management and non-profit experience. Sometimes we spend too much… Read more »
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Early-Career Communication Part 2: Getting Buy-in
Kendell Brown By Kendell Brown, Associate Director of Graduate Career Services The ability to influence is essential to leadership. If you can get people to buy into an idea that you set forth, you’re golden. But how can you get people to listen and take you seriously when you are the most junior person on the… Read more »
10 Insights on Inspirational Leadership
Introducing a new guest blogger: Scott Mautz, MBA’94. Mautz is an award winning keynote speaker and 20+ year veteran of Procter & Gamble, where he currently runs the company’s largest, multi-billion dollar business. He is also the author of the book Make It Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning, which has been recently nominated for “Leadership Book… Read more »
Latin America: The Land of Opportunity
Clinical Professor of International Business Roberto García introduces the first speaker at the Doing Business in Latin America conference. Guillermo Kalen By Guillermo Kalen, MBA ‘17 Every year, the Institute for Global Organizational Effectiveness (IGOE) and the Latino MBA Association organize an event focused on Latin America. This year we had a conference titled “Doing Business in… Read more »
Everything I Needed to Get through My MBA, I Learned from Yoga
Jordan Leopold By Jordan Leopold, MBA’16 I started mentoring a group of first year students through the leadership academy as a part of my growth and development as I continue on my MBA journey. Last week in one of my coaching meetings, I caught myself saying, “Take inventory of yourself and what you need and… Read more »
Why Rocky Never Gets Old
Nicolette Michele Johnson by Nicolette Michele Johnson, Associate Director of Kelley School’s Graduate Career Services I was introduced to Ryan Coogler, the twenty-something creator and director of Creed, the seventh film in the Rocky series, while watching The Daily Show with Trevor Noah last weekend (I often record the show and watch a week’s worth in… Read more »
Early-Career Communication Part 1: Expressing Dissent
Kendell Brown By Kendell Brown, Associate Director of Graduate Career Services How can you express dissent without sounding like a troublemaker? The key is to respectfully and intelligently highlight your thoughts and opinions without letting your emotions get in the way. Here are several strategies you can utilize. Each strategy works best in a particular scenario…. Read more »
Bloomington Audit: John W. Scott, MBA’16
John W. Scott, MBA’16, and his favorite things. Not only is the Kelley MBA program among the top in the world, so is our location in Bloomington, Indiana. This incredible college town boasts natural beauty, a low cost of living and is nationally recognized for its food, theater, music and adventure. That’s why we’ve asked… Read more »
MBA Career Advice from A “Betterman”
Eric Johnson By Eric Johnson, Director of Graduate Career Services Some people can quote Socrates. Others can quote Chaucer. Me? I can quote Vedder. Eddie Vedder. As in the lead singer of Pearl Jam, my favorite band for the last 20 years. [And writer/singer on the hit song, Betterman, if you are too young to get… Read more »
IGOE Fellows Take Full Advantage of NSHMBA Conference & Career Expo
From left to right: Thiago Barreto de Araujo (MBA ‘17, IGOE Fellow), Christina Naguiat (MBA ‘17), Vignicius França (MBA ‘17), Sara Marinov (MBA ‘16), Manuel Tejada (MBA ‘17, IGOE Fellow) By Thiago Barreto de Araujo, MBA ‘17 MBA Fellows of the Institute for Global Organizational Effectiveness attended the 27th NSHMBA Conference &… Read more »