WMBA Career Fair

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Tasha Burman

The Women’s MBA Association (WMBA) participated in the National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA) 2016 Annual Conference and Career Fair, held at the Hilton Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut from October 20-22. The event was devoted to helping women MBAs and women in business graduate programs network and grow professionally.

Second-year MBA students Franziska Schmid, Sasha Alexandra Murr, and Alison Digesere represented Penn State at the event on Saturday, October 21. The five-hour Career Fair was focused on promoting awareness about the many jobs and Continue reading →

Smeal Vets Head to Chicago

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Tasha Burman

Despite multiple flight cancellations at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, the Smeal MBA veterans managed to land safely in the “windy city” for the 2014 MBA Veterans Conference. Because of the timing of the event this year, only four Smeal veterans managed to brave “pre-finals week” for the yearly trip to Chicago.

Just as in previous years, over 30 prestigious Fortune 500 companies traveled to the Continue reading →

Smeal Veterans Tackle Chicago

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Tasha Burman

Vets1 By Ryan McCool, MBA Class of 2015

On October 17^th, seven of Smeal’s finest MBA Veterans headed to Chicago to attend the annual MBA Veteran’s Conference. This exclusive conference was open to just 325 MBA Veterans in the country from the top 50 business schools. With 30 Fortune 500 sponsors such as Google, Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson, and J.P. Morgan, the vets were eager to get some quality face time with their target companies. Continue reading →

Impact Chronicle

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Tasha Burman

By Ezra Nanes, MBA Class of 2012

I took a risk in committing the time and money to attend the Net Impact Conference at the end of October, and the payoff was immediate. I feared that being cooped up in a car for the 7-hour drive to Ann Arbor had the potential to suck, but the road trip was actually one of the best parts of the experience. Being “stuck” in a car with my classmates was both fun and really quite liberating. All we could do was talk and joke and listen to music – a precious luxury in the life of an MBA. I rode out with Susan Slopek, Matt Jones and Alex Rosenthal and rode back with Ryan Mallet, Rangarajan TC and Alex. We all share an interest in and a passion for sustainability in business, Continue reading →

Solar Power International 2009 – Anaheim, CA

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Tasha Burman

Brian Conry, Executive Director, PSEN, MBA Class of 2010

Sometime during my career search, I decided that I was going to get into solar energy. The industry has been given a new lease on life in recent years; the biggest benefit coming from stimulus programs, like the recovery act and renewable portfolio standards (to name a few). But looking at the list of corporate partners and recruiters that come to Penn State, the top five companies aren’t in the solar business. How was I going to meet solar companies and eventually land myself a job? Continue reading →

NAWMBA National Conference & Career Fair

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Tasha Burman

By Margret E. Ortega, MBA Class of 2010

For a day it was easy to forget that women are a minority in the MBA program and in the workforce. Everywhere I looked I saw women in business professional attire, shaking hands with recruiters and going in and out of the ladies room for a make-up retouch. I, along with other first year classmates, was at the National Women’s MBA Conference held in Stamford, Connecticut. Continue reading →

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