Stuart School of Business and Chicago Innovation Awards Create New Accelerated MBA
Illinois Institute of Technology’s Stuart School of Business and the Chicago Innovation Awards recently announced the creation of an all-new accelerated MBA program that focuses on the Chicago Metro’s growing tech and startup scene and gives students hands-on projects in the city’s innovation community. The program also gives MBA students who “demonstrates a continuing commitment to innovation in the Chicago region” a chance to earn a $10,000 scholarship from the Chicago Innovation Awards. Continue reading…
Smith School’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship Launches Bootstrapped Podcast
New media is everywhere, and comes in some many new forms — Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Apple News. Nowadays media, news and information is now delivered in every imaginable way across a plethora of internet platforms. Another example of new media on the rise is the podcast — essentially the internet age’s take on terrestrial radio.
Podcast rose to prominence and gained popularity thanks to groundbreaking journalism from “Serial”, storytelling like “This American Life”, and comedy like “The Joe Rogan Experience”. Continue reading…
How an MBA Can Help You Switch Your Career
Here’s a scenario for you to consider: You’re fresh out of undergrad school with the degree you’ve coveted since high school and land a dream job working for an awesome company that pitched you on “upward mobility.” You start your new job and work hard at it, only to realize that you’re not really going in the direction you like with your current career. Continue reading…
DePaul Welcomes Coleman Entrepreneurship Center To Its New Home
In April, the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC) — which serves as an entrepreneurial hub for DePaul Business students, faculty, alumni, and the surrounding business community — unveiled a new center, a new director and a new strategic plan to the Chicago Metro and beyond.
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Top MBA Recruiters: General Electric
In an age of start-up culture and hip, millennial driven neo-corporate American companies like Google and Facebook, General Electric (GE) has become a bit of an afterthought in the minds of some younger business students and MBA candidates. Continue reading…
Alumni Spotlight: Michael Quinlan, MBA ‘70
Whenever we do an alumni spotlight here at MetroMBA, we make sure to pick a prominent alumni to profile. In this instance the alumni is so prominent, that the graduate school he attended ultimately ended up re-naming their school after him. Sure, Michael Quinlan donated $40 million to Loyola University which undoubtedly played a part, but Quinlan’s impact on the school and each company he worked for revolves around more than just dollars and cents.
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