• MBA Insider

  • By: Al Dea
  • Podcast
  • Summary

  • The MBA Insider podcast is for career-driven professionals who want career guidance and practical advice about how an MBA can help advance your career,

    During each episode, Al Dea interviews former and current MBA students, MBA experts and leaders to learn about their career stories, MBA experience, business school school lessons to help aspiring, current and former MBAs like you to stand out, level up, and grow a successful career.

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Episodes
  • #231: The Unspoken Rules to Career Success
    May 13 2024

    Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes

    Gorick Ng is a HBS Alum and the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Start Your Career Off Right,. The Unspoken Rules is now offered at multinationals, professional services firms, startups, and non-profits around the world for onboarding, training, and diversity and inclusion. In 2021, Harvard Business School offered The Unspoken Rules to every MBA student. Gorick has been thinking about careers and jobs since he started helping his mother prepare her resume and apply to jobs when he was only a teenager. Since then, he’s gone on to help countless numbers of students and young professionals navigate their careers, and built his own career first as a management consultant and now as a career development expert.

    During our conversation, Gorick spoke about his learnings about careers over the years, some of the challenging events in his career that led to the ideas for his book “The Unspoken Rules’ ‘ and a wide-ranging conversation around career development advice for MBA students and Alum.

    Links:

    • Unspoken Rules
    • Gorick’s Website
    • Gorick’s LinkedIn


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    54 mins
  • #230: Breaking into Product Management with Felix Watson Jr
    May 6 2024

    Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes

    Felix Watson Junior is a UCLA Anderson Alumni, and the Founder of the PM Mastermind Group. After starting his career as an engineer, Felix pursued an MBA to pivot into a career in product management, and has done PM stints at Microsoft and Google. Now, Felix helps educate current and aspiring Product Managers through his PM Mastermind Group.

    During our conversation, Felix spoke about his journey into Product Management, and his advice to aspiring Product Managers.

    Additional Links

    • Felix’s LinkedIn
    • LinkedIn Product Management Mastermind Group




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    27 mins
  • #229: Building a Business while pursuing an MBA from Wharton
    Apr 29 2024

    Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes

    Breanna Atkinson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kokada, whose mission is to create good-tasting and healthy food with ingredients from around the world. After her undergraduate career, she spent some time in consulting. She was inspired to pursue her MBA early on, and applied to Wharton while launching her first company. Another large influence has been in her time as an athlete, playing as a student athlete at Duke, and then going on to be a member of the Jamaican national women’s volleyball team.

    In this conversation, we discuss her journey as a student-athlete, developing her pitch, the value of an MBA for an entrepreneur, and the challenges of starting your own business.

    Links

    • Website
    • Breanna’s LinkedIn
    • Instagram


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    24 mins

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