The MBA Candidate

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As a former Obama Appointee and a Senior Policy Advisor to the Mayor of New York, no one would be surprised if Michael Cox eventually became a US Senator.

So... what brought him to The Georgetown McDonough School of Business?

Ben Onukwube (Wharton Class of 2020) is an engineer who loves people and products.

Ben is the co-founder of a 501(c)3 that teaches children of color about the wonders of STEM, and he's the author of book about how to ace your behavioral interviews.

In this episode, Ben explains why he runs towards his fears, what it feels like to fire someone, and how he plans on picking his next boss.

Brittany was the top rated basketball player in the country when she graduated from high school.

She was the first woman to participate in the McDonald's Slam Dunk Contest (alongside LeBron James), and in college she played in the Final Four of the March Madness Tournament.

But Brittany took a few tumbles in her basketball career. At one point, she couldn't even walk.

Now she's got her sights set on becoming a Chief Operating Officer because she wants to "run shit and be a boss".

Tune in as Brittany (Owen Class of 2020) discusses mediocre white men, bisexuality, and corporal punishment.

Today's episode is special.

My good friend Joey (Michigan Ross) and I talk how a non-profit called "The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management" helped us get into business school.

If you're applying to any top tier MBA programs and you're committed to diversity & inclusion, we highly recommend you look into The Consortium.

Being the only woman in most of your computer science classes is tough.

The guys at Swarthmore excluded Marjani from many of their cool passion projects.

So, Marjani pivoted. She put down the keyboard and traveled the world.

Before she could finish her applications to law school, Marjani made the leap to Google's People Operations team.

And today she's a first year student at MIT Sloan, where she's hoping to make another transition...

Listen in as we dive deep into her goals of entrepreneurship, strategy, and social impact.

Ashley is in love with New York City, and she's determined to make the leap into a career on Wall Street in investment banking. But does a being an LGBTQ woman of color from a non-target school put her at an advantage or a disadvantage?

She certainly has a unique perspective to bring to the industry.

Addie has her first Michigan Ross business school class next week on Monday morning!

And it's been a long time coming for Addie.

She applied to Ross last year, and got denied. And back in college, Addie switched her major from nursing to journalism at the very last minute.

Also, Addie graduated during the height of The Great Recession, so instead of getting a great job in marketing or PR back in 2010, she accepted a 1-year internship at Greyhound Lines, and had to network her ass off in order to get to where she is today.

#GoBlueOR

#GoHome

Jonathan had a massive stroke. It left him paralyzed for 6 months. That's why Jonathan's heading to business school at HBS. He's is hoping to make the transition from financial analyst to healthcare strategist... and eventually to executive director for a non-profit that helps children with disabilities.

Garry McBerryhill has gone thru a lot in life. As a 36-year-old Native American who's lost both of his parents & didn't graduate from college until he was 28... Garry was an unlikely candidate at The Tuck School of Business. But listen in as Garry explains how he scraped his way from call center rep at a bank to the CEO of his tribe's investment fund. It's no wonder he got a 100% scholarship to Dartmouth's full-time MBA Program.