Eric Johnson by Eric Johnson, Executive Director of Kelley School’s Graduate Career Services George Eliot* has been credited with saying, “It’s never too late to become the person you were always meant to be.” This is good news to people like me, who aspire one day to be Matthew McConaughey. I reflect on this quote every… Read more »
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GLOBASE Partner Wins Global Development Award
A global Kelley partner, the Chinmaya Organization for Rural Development (CORD) facilitates integrated and sustainable development in rural India through self empowerment. Congratulations to the Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development (CORD), one of our Global Business and Social Enterprise Program (GLOBASE) partners, on winning a Global Development Award. The nonprofit organization won first prize (and $30,000)… Read more »
To the Class of 2017: Enjoy Your Journey
By Nate Buyon, MBA’16I’ve never liked biking in the rain, but especially never liked waking up at 5 a.m. Early mornings and soggy jerseys were common during my cycling career, but I accepted it as it made me stronger, tougher and faster. These were the attributes I needed in order to achieve my goal of… Read more »
IGOE-sponsored Event Receives IU’s Latino Faculty and Staff Award
IGOE fellows and partners, from left: Rene Lopezvictoria, Sofia Nuñez, Joaquin Pereyra, Cesar Sanchez, Claudia Tavera, Jesus Salinas, Juan Ramirez, Giordana Mesquita, Henrique Koch, Santiago Hope, Aurora Fuentes, Daniel Medina and Maite Rivero By Sofia Nuñez, MBA’15 The Latino Faculty and Staff Council (LFASC) hosted an awards reception on April 24 at Oliver Winery. I… Read more »
Mexican Kelley Students Attend MBA Conference in Chicago
Rene Lopezvictoria, Sofia Nuñez, Santiago Hope, Miguel Cruz, Luis Contreras, Daniel Medina, Aurora Fuentes, and Claudia Tavera By Jesus R. Salinas, MBA’16, IGOE Global Fellow The fifth MBA Mexico event took place at the Kellogg School of Management on April 17 and at the Chicago Booth School of Business on April 18. For this event,… Read more »
How the Business Marketing Academy project prepared me for my summer internship
By Rama Srithara Ramanujam, MBA ‘15 The Business Marketing Academy has a tradition of announcing the academy project teams during the BMA annual holiday party, and I was excited to have been assigned to a project for an American multinational conglomerate. As I reflect on my academy project experience, I realize its importance in preparing… Read more »
Kelley Team Wins Latin Business Case Competition (Again!)
By Cesar Sanchez, MBA’16 Last month, the Owen School of Business at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted the second Latin Business Challenge. The case competition provided a scenario in which a nonprofit organization (Nutri-Plus) developed a nutritional peanut based product (Mani+) to help reduce malnutrition in Guatemala. Currently, Guatemala has the highest rate of… Read more »
Bloomington Audit: Sulay Alvarenga, MBA’15
Sulay Alvarenga, MBA’15, and her favorite things. Kelley Experience Weekend is this Thursday through Saturday at Indiana University. More than 100 prospective MBA students will visit the Kelley campus and see what our program—and our thriving city—has to offer them. We asked Sulay Alvarenga, MBA’15, to recap some of her favorite things about Bloomington. Browse… Read more »
How I found my leadership niche in Guatemala
By John William Scott IV, MBA’15 I recently traveled to Xela, Guatemala for Spring Break as part of the Global Business and Social Enterprise Program (GLOBASE). My team and I delivered an inventory management tool to one of the best restaurants in the country—and definitely the best in the state of Quetzaltenango—called Tertulianos. We wanted… Read more »
In the Consulting Academy, working with clients builds invaluable experience
By Ellen Gartner-Phillips, MBA ‘15 Last year I was assigned to a project engagement with a local veterinary hospital. We spent the Academy Week mapping out the engagement: Meeting and building a relationship with our client, scoping the work we would be doing, laying out a project plan and timeline, and finally presenting the week’s… Read more »