Friday, March 18, 2011

Real MBA

One thing we emphasize here at North Carolina's Jenkins MBA program is the word Real. What is meant by the tagline "The Real MBA" is that we form key alliances with real companies to work on real projects. In my second semester I'm already working on an actual software sourcing project for a $2 Billion dollar health care company where we are tasked with saving at least $600,000 from their software procurement budget each year. At first I wondered how we could even accomplish this but the funny thing is, by applying what we are learning in our Supply Chain class we are developing a plan that should easily save much more than our target savings. We speak weekly with the Chief Procurement Officer and CIO who are working with our team and eventually our report will be sent on to the CEO of this organization where it will be implemented. The fact that we are getting experience as both external consultants and supply chain analysts if extremely valuable to us when we are only 1/3 of the way through our MBA degree.

There are dozens of other opportunities in the Jenkins MBA program to work for real companies, from initial start ups to Fortune 50 companies. Without this program I don't think I would have had this same opportunity and it's another benefit of getting an MBA at a nationally recognized school.

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