By: Terri Cramer, Associate Director with Kelley Graduate Career Services The Greek philosopher Heraclitus wrote, “Change is the only constant in life.” It’s a potent quote to apply to your work life these days as a growing percentage of the workforce suffers job losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether it’s the market, your… Read more »
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My First Semester at Kelley and Abroad
Kazu Maeda, MBA’21 After my first semester at Kelly, I’ve found that it has provided me with a bunch of great opportunities that I have never had before. Everything I have experienced here so far is far beyond my expectations. Among them, Integrated Core and Study Abroad. Integrated Core Classes In the first semester, we… Read more »
Welcome to the Kelley MBA family
Sam McFadden, MBA‘21 One of the hardest parts of leaving my former job to enter the Kelley Full-Time MBA Program was saying goodbye to the people I had spent so much time working with. Over the course of ten years working in a small government office, my coworkers came to feel like a sort… Read more »
The Kelley MBA: a program designed for the career changer
Amanda Sharpe, MBA’19 When I was first thinking of getting my MBA, I was a financial analyst for a semiconductor company in the Bay Area. I was budgeting, conducting product analysis, creating PowerPoints, and using Excel a lot. Fast forward 2 years and now I am an Associate Brand Manager at E&J Gallo managing two… Read more »
Managing the Most Valuable Resource – Your Time
Allison Lawler, MBA 2020 During my first week at Kelley, my Me Inc. facilitator noted that our most valuable resource during the next two years would be our time. She was candid that we would need to be selective in deciding what to become involved in, balance the demands of a full-time MBA with personal… Read more »
Embrace What You Don’t See Coming
Bill Murphy, MBA’20 When I made the decision to go to business school, I knew what I wanted out of it; a career shift that would bring me more job satisfaction and more money. I’m fairly certain that I’m not the first person to attend B-school with those simple goals in mind. I’m also pretty… Read more »
Alumni Spotlight: Paul Alfaro Valle, MBA’2019, our first MBA/MSIS joint degree recipient
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your background and what brought you to Kelley? I am from Lima, Peru and have a degree in computer science from PUCP University (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru). Before enrolling in the Kelley MBA program, I worked for several international organizations in their subsidiaries in Lima,… Read more »
A Crash Course on Senior Leadership Thought Process
Javier Angulo, MBA’20 My first week back on campus for my second year is an exciting time: catching up with old friends and making new ones, usually accompanied by, “How was your summer?” It is amazing to hear what my classmates were up to this summer – product management at big tech companies in the West… Read more »
Pondering a Dual Degree? My JD/MBA Adventure
Scott Miller, JD/MBA’2020 I have a confession, for most of my life, I never knew what an MBA was. I had heard the letters strewn together before, knew that it was an upper-level degree, I had even taken some courses at the Carlson School of Business while getting my Bachelor’s in Sport Management from… Read more »
How Kelley Prepared Me: First-year to Internship
Whitney Hamilton, MBA’20 This time last year, I was preparing to start a new chapter of my life at the Kelley School of Business. I had just quit my job in Chicago and celebrated at my going away party with friends and family. An entire year later, I look back with CORE behind me, new… Read more »