Business Beyond Usual

Go behind the scenes and hear what it’s really like to be an MBA intern at some of the world’s largest companies.

In this episode, Ramu chats with MBA students who spent their summers working with Boston Consulting Group, Microsoft, 3M, and L’Oreal.

In an upcoming episode, we will interview Soojin Kwon, director of admissions at Michigan Ross, and we want to ask her your questions. Have questions for Soojin? Drop us a line at BBUPodast @umich.edu

We want to hear your feedback. What do you like about the show, what can we improve, and what would you like us to talk about? Leave a review to let us know, or you can reach us at [email protected].

Business Beyond Usual is brought to you by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

• Host: Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Executive Producers: Christopher Ankney, Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Editing: Jonah Brockman

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Hear three incredible stories told live by business school students. We’re bringing you some powerful clips from the finale of the Michigan Ross event “Story Lab,” which is developed by the Sanger Leadership Center and the Design + Business Club here at Ross.

After their stories, NPR’s Guy Raz, host of popular podcasts “How I Built This” and “TED Radio Hour,” will join us for a story of his own and thoughts on the power of authenticity in storytelling.

Story Lab is a semester-long event where Michigan Ross students participate in workshops and personal coaching from professional storytellers to understand how to tell powerful, emotional stories. They develop skills that will allow them to better inspire teams, motivate individuals, share their passions, and share a more authentic version of themselves with the world.

Special thanks to Guy Raz for joining us, the Sanger Leadership Center, and the student storytellers for allowing us to share this event with you.

See pictures of the storytellers: http://myumi.ch/aG59E

We’ll be back in the fall with more new episodes!

We want to hear your feedback. What do you like about the show, what can we improve, and what would you like us to talk about? Leave a review to let us know, or you can reach us at [email protected].

Business Beyond Usual is brought to you by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Ross Student Government Association.

• Host: Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Producers: Christopher Ankney, Ramaswamy Annamalai, Akta Mehta
• Executive Producers: Jerry Won, Heather Byrne, Maria Karpiel
• Editing: Christopher Ankney, Jonah Brockman

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In this episode, we’re pitting MBA students against their professor in a live, on-stage debate about a hot topic in the business world: Should U.S. companies voluntarily offer paid family leave for parents?

Paid time off for parents is mandatory in many countries, but not in the U.S. Several states, like California, have enacted separate paid leave policies, and support for a federal-level paid leave law has been gaining traction. But questions about the economic viability of the policy remain, and opposition to national regulation is also strong.

Listen as students Sathya Vijayakumar, MBA ‘17, and Lizzy Corn, MBA ‘17, take on Professor of Strategy Aneel Karnani!

The Great Debate 2017 at Michigan Ross was organized and developed by Sandy Mervak, MBA/MPP ‘17, and the Ross Student Government Association.

We want to hear your feedback. What do you like about the show, what can we improve, and what would you like us to talk about? Leave a review to let us know, or you can reach us at [email protected].

Business Beyond Usual is brought to you by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Ross Student Government Association.

• Host: Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Producers: Christopher Ankney, Ramaswamy Annamalai, Akta Mehta
• Executive Producers: Jerry Won, Heather Byrne, Maria Karpiel
• Editing: Christopher Ankney, Jonah Brockman

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This past term for first-year MBA students at the Ross School of Business was anything but typical.

They’ve spent the past seven weeks working on projects for real companies and organizations as part of the required Multidisciplinary Action Projects course at Michigan Ross. They’ve traveled all across the country and around the world to meet with executives, conduct research, and immerse themselves in the work. It’s the only class they’ve taken this term, and these projects have been their sole focus -- 400 students working with 74 different companies in 25 countries.

In this episode, we talk with five of those students as they finish up their projects.

We’ll hear from:

• William Stockert, whose team is working directly with the CEO of the
  luxury brand Shinola to expand into a new product line
• Claire Fletcher, who is in India, helping GE Power bring affordable electricity to parts of the country;
• Caroline Vidal Netto, who is working with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help them expand the number of wishes granted in a given year;
• Parker Caldwell, who is working with a startup to bring life-saving healthcare technology to patients in India; and
• Ignacio Calvo, who is helping IBM explore business possibilities within their cloud computing enterprise.

To learn more about Ross MAP projects, visit the Michigan Ross Website:
https://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/full-time-mba/curriculum/map

See pictures from these projects and more on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/rossmap/

We want to hear your feedback. What do you like about the show, what can we improve, what would you like us to talk about? Leave a review to let us know, or you can reach us at [email protected].

Business Beyond Usual is brought to you by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Ross Student Government Association.

• Host: Akta Mehta
• Producers: Christopher Ankney, Ramaswamy Annamalai, Akta Mehta
• Executive Producers: Jerry Won, Heather Byrne, Maria Karpiel
• Editing: Christopher Ankney, Jonah Brockman

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Three teams of MBA students, each representing a different cohort of business school social life – a team of single students, a team of married students, and a team of students in long distance relationships – face off against each other in the first ever edition of the Business Beyond Usual Quiz Show!

On the line: Glory! Respect from classmates! And also actual prizes!

What’s it really like to experience an MBA with a partner? If you come into a program single, what’s the dating world like? Is the long-distance thing even possible with busy schedules?

We want to hear your feedback. What do you like about the show, what can we improve, what would you like us to talk about? Leave a review on iTunes to let us know, or you can reach us at [email protected].

Business Beyond Usual is brought to you by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Ross Student Government Association.

• Host: Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Producers: Christopher Ankney, Ramaswamy Annamalai, Akta Mehta
• Executive Producers: Jerry Won, Heather Byrne, Maria Karpiel
• Panelists: Chris Feasby, Andrew Kelley, Caroline Larose, Jonathan Lorentzen, Mariel Montuori, Brian Weber
• Audio Engineer: Jonah Brockman

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Women are incredibly impactful leaders, but there is still a lot of work left to do to open the doors of opportunity for women throughout the business world. Today, women make up less than 5 percent of CEO jobs at fortune 500 companies – despite mountains of research and evidence showing that having more women in leadership roles leads to better business performance.

In this episode, we'll hear from an expert on why it's important to have women in these roles and what has been holding that progress back, we'll hear a bit about how men and allies can help, and we'll hear from two students working hard to empower future women leaders while they’re pursuing their MBAs.

Freakonomics Podcast - "The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap"

Lean In from Sheryl Sandberg

Research from Professor Cindy Schipani

More about Michigan Business Women

We want to hear your feedback. What do you like about the show, what can we improve, what would you like us to talk about? Leave a review to let us know, or you can reach us at [email protected].

Business Beyond Usual is brought to you by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Ross Student Government Association.

• Host: Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Producers: Christopher Ankney, Ramaswamy Annamalai, Akta Mehta
• Executive Producers: Jerry Won, Heather Byrne, Maria Karpiel
• Panelists: Molly Hope, Alexandra Espinoza De Franco
• Audio Engineer: Jonah Brockman

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We received an email from a listener who had some questions about how to prepare himself for two years of business school. So Ramu went on a quest to find some answers.

We want to hear your feedback. What do you like about the show, what can we improve, what would you like us to talk about? Leave a review to let us know, or you can reach us at [email protected].

Business Beyond Usual is brought to you by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Ross Student Government Association.

• Host: Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Producers: Christopher Ankney, Ramaswamy Annamalai, Akta Mehta
• Executive Producers: Jerry Won, Heather Byrne, Maria Karpiel
• Editing: Christopher Ankney

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As we heard in the first part of this episode, the role businesses should play in society is a topic of much debate in the world today – and there’s no question that MBA students and the leaders of tomorrow will play a big role in shaping the outcome of those discussions.

So, how are business school students preparing themselves for working at the intersection of business and society? In Part Two of our episode exploring this issue, Ramu and guests talk with leaders working in the social impact space, and discuss some of the unique ways they’re able to make a difference while still in school.

We want to hear your feedback. What do you like about the show, what can we improve, what would you like us to talk about? Leave a review to let us know, or you can reach us at [email protected].

Business Beyond Usual is brought to you by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Ross Student Government Association.

• Host: Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Panelists: Blake van Fleteren, Brianna Brazell
• Producers: Christopher Ankney, Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Executive Producers: Jerry Won, Heather Byrne, Maria Karpiel
• Audio Engineering / Editing: Jonah Brockman

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It's said that the world's largest corporations have more money and more power than most countries on Earth - but does that mean they are obligated to be good stewards? Are the economic incentives of socially conscious business strong enough to make it an imperative? Or - should the bottom line and shareholder value be the only measure by which we evaluate business success?

These are big questions being played out in the press and the business world every day. Today, we talk with two professors at Michigan Ross School of Business who have some differing views on what role businesses should play in society.

We want to hear your feedback. What do you like about the show, what can we improve, what would you like us to talk about? Leave a review to let us know, or you can reach us at [email protected].

Business Beyond Usual is brought to you by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Ross Student Government Association.

• Host: Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Panelists: Blake van Fleteren, Brianna Brazell
• Producers: Christopher Ankney, Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Executive Producers: Jerry Won, Heather Byrne, Maria Karpiel
• Audio Engineering / Editing: Jonah Brockman

Copyright 2017 - University of Michigan

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Technology is the fastest growing industry in terms of hiring MBAs, and more than 20% of the Michigan Ross Class of 2016 took a post-Ross job in Technology. What’s behind the boom? And what does it mean to pursue a technology career during an MBA?

In this episode Ramu is joined by two guests who can help him answer those questions. We’ll also hear from someone on the ground in Silicon Valley, making connections with fast-growing tech companies looking to hire MBA graduates.

Learn more about Technology jobs for MBA graduates:
http://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/full-time-mba/careers/high-tech

We want to hear your feedback. What do you like about the show, what can we improve, what would you like us to talk about? Leave a review to let us know, or you can reach us at [email protected].

Business Beyond Usual is brought to you by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Ross Student Government Association.

• Host: Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Panelists: Noah Granieri, Akta Mehta
• Producers: Christopher Ankney, Ramaswamy Annamalai
• Executive Producers: Jerry Won, Heather Byrne, Maria Karpiel
• Audio Engineering / Editing: Jonah Brockman

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