Rebecca Cook Executive Director I’ve been the Executive Director of the Kelley School of Business’ MBA program for the past 18 months, and I’m thrilled for this opportunity. Since my graduation from the MBA program in 1996, I worked in investment management for about 14 years at a variety of sell-side and buy-side firms. I… Read more »
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Develop Your Mindset to Allow Personal Growth
As an executive coach, I’m in the business of personal development and growth-helping others achieve their goals and aspirations through positive yet challenging techniques. It is an amazing experience to watch someone grow along their own developmental axis, pushing their “learning edge” in ways that they may not have believed possible before. What I notice… Read more »
My Home Away from Home
Namrata Rao Kelley MBA’19 Pursuing a business degree is a tough decision to make, especially when you plan to pursue it in another country. Nothing can be a polar opposite from my previous chaotic lifestyle in India than my structured and composed life in Bloomington. When I decided to seek an MBA, I wanted to make… Read more »
Four things to consider when visiting full-time MBA programs
Andy Pyon MBA’19 Having taken the GMAT, you know you’ll have to make decisions with incomplete, and often imperfect, information. The same holds true when selecting a full-time MBA program. You’re not going to know everything until you jump in, but to aid your decision, here are four questions to consider during your visits. What… Read more »
Kelley MBA’s Succeed Together
Jennifer Solomon1st Year MBA Student “WE SURVIVED THE CORE.” The four words I heard the most throughout the night after our final case competition, which was the conclusion of our first semester at Kelley. There were tons of cheers, hugs, and smiling faces between first and second-year students, all of whom were decked out in… Read more »
Become the Person You Were Meant to Be
by Eric Johnson, Executive Director Kelley 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 for people like me, who aspire one day to be Matthew McConaughey. I reflect on this quote every morning, without fail. It’s part… Read more »
How To Turn Your Internship Into a Full-Time Offer
Written based on the expertise of Eric Johnson, Executive Director of Graduate Career Services. For the full version of Eric’s talk, click here. With the stress and pressure involved in finding the right internship, it can feel like the war has been won when you finally hear that you got the offer. Truth be told,… Read more »
5 Questions All International MBAs Have Right Now (and the Answers to Them)
When families look back on the generations who came before, it’s always a particular point of pride for a member of the older generation to say, “I was the first person in my family to attend college.” In a world where a master’s degree is the new college degree equivalent, what is holding students back… Read more »
Not Your Average Networking Post
Written based on the expertise of Cindy Hosea, Associate Director of Graduate Accounting Program and Information Systems Graduate Program – Kelley Graduate Career Services. Cindy Hosea Jane* conducted her job search like just about most other college students. She applied to jobs that fell within her scope, showed up for career fairs, and went… Read more »
Don’t Sell Yourself Short: 5 Things to Do Before Signing on the Dotted Line
Written based on the expertise of Kendell Brown, Associate Director of Alumni Relations – Kelley Graduate Career Services. You’ve had your eye out for this job for months, endured multiple rounds of interviews, and waited weeks in agonizing silence to hear your fate. The day has finally come where the silence has broken and… Read more »