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As a way of sharing what works in graduate management education, Graduate Management News occasionally looks in-depth at specific programs in business schools, such as the part-time Global MBA at Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School and Warwick Business School’s online MBA.
As an MBA student in Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Daniel Hest wanted to strengthen his skills in finance and analysis to prepare for a career in strategy and marketing in media/technology companies. Cornell’s immersion program offered the chance to dive deep into those areas through intensive, integrated courses and related field work. But Hest found the school’s immersion track in managerial finance to be a little too narrow for his purposes.
Fortunately, though, Cornell also offers MBA students the option to customize their immersion experience, enabling Hest to develop his own robust curricular mix. He cherry-picked finance classes, adding courses in consulting, including one with a focus on critical thinking. He was also able to integrate part-time work he had started with the strategic planning group at the New York Times.
“The customized option is a great alternative for students whose career interests don’t fit perfectly into one of the more popular immersion tracks,” Hest said. “It allowed me the flexibility of selecting specific courses. Instead of a practicum from an immersion, my practicum was my part-time work [with the Times], and what I learned in my coursework was directly applicable to the demands of the job.”
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