Coming into the Whitman School as a first-year MBA student has been one of the most dynamic experiences of my life. First of all, I cannot stress enough how welcome and special the admissions staff made me feel. Between my interview,…
Fun run with Chancellor Syverud through campus
This morning, we were able to participate in the first ever inauguration run through campus with Syracuse University’s 12th Chancellor Kent Syverud. Amy McHale, Angela Nikolaus and I were on hand to represent the Masters Programs office in addition to…
An Opportunity to Experience
-Content by Jack Weigle ’14 MBA- I completed an experiential learning project this past semester for my Corporate Financial Policy & Strategy class with Professor Barkley. We worked with Driver’s Village to determine whether or not the company should enter…
Can’t be thrifty for Macklemore…
-Content by Aishik Barua ’15 MBA- …But we SU students did not need to think twice about it. Being an SU student got us tickets for only $15 to see Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (as opposed to a $100 for…
Thanksgiving in Alaska
-Content by Jinbin Ma ’14 MBA- When my friends heard of my Thanksgiving break would be in Alaska, their first reaction was “you don’t feel cold enough in Syracuse?” After a ten hour flight from Syracuse to Anchorage, along with…
The city that beckons
Content by Aishik Barua ’15 MBA Up until a few months back, New York City was a dream. However, this Thanksgiving was the fifth time I visited the city (that’s what we call the city that never sleeps, here in…
Whitman Graduate Students Celebrate International Week 2013
Content by: Aayushi Chiripal ’14 MBA From November 12th through November 15th the Whitman School of Management was all about fun, food and fiesta as we celebrated the Whitman International Festival 2013 in association with Whitman Graduate Student Organization and…
Whitman MBAs win annual Duke MBA games for second year in a row
Fifteen MBA students from the Whitman School of Management took first place at the annual Duke MBA Games this past weekend at Duke University in Durham, N.C., repeating their 2012 victory. The annual competition, which raises money for Special Olympics,…
Investment Analysis-Experiential Learning, Davis Hull ’13 MBA
“Buy”, “Sell”, “Hold” These are phrases people commonly associate with investments. Recently, as part of Whitman’s experiential learning program, we served as portfolio managers over millions of dollars in virtual money. We had to pick investments weekly and were judged on our…
Pursuing dreams far away from home …
Hello !! I’m Ishani and am currently a first year MBA student at Syracuse University, majoring in Supply Chain Management and Finance. I was born and raised on a beautiful island, Sri Lanka, which is in the middle of the…
Lara Marto: MBA PepsiCo Intern
Hello everyone! I have a very dear friend in the MBA program who wanted to share her internship experience with all of you, and hopefully you will enjoy her perspective from an international internship! So without further ado, I introduce you to…
Summer in NYC – Davis Hull ’13 MBA
Time is flying by. I have already been in NYC for five weeks. It’s a culmination of sorts as I waited forever for this summer to get here and now it’s flying by. Allow me to reintroduce myself. I am…
Let the journey begin…
Greetings Everyone! My name is Porsche Nichols. I am originally from Los Angeles, California and began my journey to obtain a Master’s degree at Syracuse University last summer to pursue my MBA in Marketing and MS in New Media Management.…
Introductions and Internship Beginnings
Hello everyone! My name is Eliza Spencer and I’m a rising 2nd year MBA student concentrating in marketing. I’ve been asked to blog this summer about my internship and future plans, but first I’d like to tell you a bit…
End of 1st Year Reflections- Davis Hull ’13 MBA
So as the 1st year of my MBA program comes to a close I am amazed at how fast the year has flown by. This is exactly what students and administrators told me. I feel like just yesterday we started…
Real Work for MBAs
A recent interview/article from the Wall Street Journal discussed how MBA programs are engaging students in increasingly larger projects for companies. Dr. Pepper/Snapple recently turned over its Yoo-hoo chocolate milk drink brand to be managed by two students from UT…
Yearly Banquet for Whitman
A banquet was held for all Whitman graduate students and faculty Friday, April 13th at Syracuse Stage to celebrate accomplishments and unwind as the semester comes to a close. We had a really unforgettable night! With an opportunity to relax…
Syracuse Wins Duke MBA Games
Over the weekend of March 30-April 1 I had the amazing opportunity to compete in the Duke MBA games. The Duke MBA games is an event for MBA programs to network, compete in events (such as crabwalk, brief case toss,…
What Makes the Whitman MBA Experiential Learning Program Unique?
Last month I had the opportunity to present on the topic of “Measuring Experiential Learning Outcomes” at the GMAC/MBA Roundtable Leadership Conference. Following my presentation, the subsequent discussions confirmed that our program is unique in at least a couple of…
The Corporate finance class
“Corporate finance is the most helpful course I’ve taken, and it works especially well in my internship”, a second-year MBA told me last semester. Indeed, it covers quite a lot financial principles in the practical world, and also includes several cases; one group project and one simulation that help students to have a better command of the fundamental knowledge of corporate finance.
The online homework seems a little bit tough at the beginning, and I got many poor scores at first. This discouraged me a lot, to be honest. However, I do understand the ideas better through completing these assignments.
The group project topic we chose was “IPO analysis—Energy Industry in China”, which aimed to find the best time for a company to have its initial public offering in this specific industry.
Whitman Experience Day
We (current students, staff, alumni, and administration) had such a great day getting to know a handful of our admitted students this past Saturday at the Whitman Experience Day. We had a full line-up of conversations that included a student…
KeyBank Case Competition – Davis Hull ’13 MBA
Can you say pressure to perform on a big stage? This was our feeling leading up to the Key Bank Case Competition in Cleveland, OH on 2/24 – 2/25. This was the first case competition that myself and the other members of our team had participated in. While we had done dozens of case analysis and presented plenty of times in class, this was different.
While we did not place in the competition, we learned so much. We sat in on competitors presentations and saw different ways to convey our message. We talked to the judges afterwards and found out exactly what they liked and did not like about all the different school presentations. This feedback was useful as it helps us get better for the future.
WGSO- Emily Bolton ’12 MSE
At Whitman, we have a great resource for students- the WGSO, Whitman Graduate Student Organization! This is essentially the student government that helps bring together MBA, M.S. Finance, M.S. Accounting and M.S. Entrepreneurship students socially, academically and professionally. I’m the…
Internship Season – Davis Hull ’13 MBA
Class in the morning, group projects in the afternoon and filling out internship applications/calling contacts in the evening, sleep, shower, and repeat. This has been my life since late December when I started applying for internships. While I only started…
My Move to Syracuse
The first time I got to know about Syracuse was from a student forum, where a current MS student took a picture of Whitman covered by thick white snow at night which was really beautiful. When I came here in…
Meet Josh LaFave, Director of Graduate Enrollment
My experience for the past seven years has included a wide range of higher education disciplines. I have experience in most facets of graduate enrollment management including recruitment, admissions, yield and retention. I have researched and developed models for more efficient…
Renyi Pan ’12 MS in Finance
Hi, I’m an MSF from Shanghai, a coastal city in China. Before completing my undergraduate degree at Shanghai University last year, I had two internship experiences – one in a commercial bank, and one in a fund company. I decided to apply for the…
Learn by Doing as a Whitman MBA
I am the inaugural Director of Experiential Learning for the Whitman MBA program. The experiential learning requirement was introduced for the Class of 2010. Full-time MBA students build an experiential portfolio through internships, consulting, specialized courses, community engagement, and other practical…
Get to Know Rebecca Schied
My name is Rebecca Schied, I am 22 years old, and from a tiny town called Bradford, NY. I have always been into sports and have played tennis, basketball, softball, and rugby. I am also a huge fan of football…
Emily Bolton ’12 MS Entrepreneurship
I’m an MS Entrepreneurship student originally from Cincinnati, OH. Some of my favorite things to come out of that city are Skyline Chili, the Bengals and Graeter’s ice cream. I completed my undergraduate degree in Philadelphia as a double major…
Meet Davis Hull ’13 MBA
Waking up to a few inches of snow is what living in Syracuse is all about! Living in Syracuse has definitely been an adjustment for me. I am originally from Mississippi and have lived in Houston, TX for the last…
Meet Allie Chapman ’12 MBA
Hi! I am Allie Chapman and I am a second year MBA student concentrating in Supply Chain and Marketing. Prior to returning to school I worked in Inside Sales for 5 years in Boston, MA. In my time here at…
Open Houses go Virtual: Fulltime MBA Program
Last fall, the Masters Program Office embarked on a new project of creating an open house experience for students that were unable to come to campus in person. Understanding the questions students have about our MBA program, a comprehensive open…
Experiential Learning Towards the Full Time Job Search
Jennifer Dodd, ’10 MBA
I just started the first week at my post-MBA full time job at Carestream Health, a medical imaging system manufacturer headquartered in Rochester, NY. My first days as a Marketing Analyst have been going pretty well, and looking back I feel that the Experiential Learning component of the MBA program at Whitman made me well-prepared to enter the working world. In addition to classroom work, I had three distinct internship experiences, all helping me get a step closer to the elusive full time placement.
Experience Matters: Rony Funes, ’10 MBA
Rony had several years of experience in Transportation & Logistics in his native Honduras, which sponsored him as a Fulbright scholar to pursue his MBA in the United States. He applied that experience and his Whitman class work to a…
Experience Matters: Jennifer Dodd, ’10 MBA
“The Experiential Learning program has greatly impacted my ability to add value to a loosely-defined project in my new career in Marketing at Carestream Health. For example, if two years ago my supervisor had given me a file of data and said, ‘Find something useful that we can do with this,’ I would have had no idea where to start. But that exact scenario happened to me early on, and I found that I had a lot of ideas that could positively impact our business.