Category: student life entrepreneurship

Guatemala, Here I Come! My spring break with BU GVC

A Little More About The Blogger… Kristen is a 2nd year in Boston University’s General MBA program. This summer, Kristen conducted a health promotion assessment for IBM employees through IBM’s Global Summer Internship program. Professionally, she is interested in strategic human resource management, corporate responsibility and women’s leadership development. In her free time, she serves on […]

Diverse Backgrounds Provide Unexpected Insights

Post By: Phil Duffy International MBA, 2012 Prior to joining the International MBA program, I’d read multiple sources that claimed learning from classmates constitutes a major part of the MBA experience. However, as a slightly older student with 16 years of management experience, I was skeptical that classmates with less experience would significantly broaden my […]

StartUp Scramble

Post by:Phan HuynhMS-MBA, 2013 If I ever got a tattoo, it’d say “fortes fortuna adiuvat.”  Fortune favors the bold.  A fortune. I don’t pursue goals, I pursue fortunes. And I don’t mean gold. I mean vast amounts of freedom – the freedom to scoff at forty hour work weeks, the freedom to teach unpaid at […]