There are few greater joys in life than the liberation you feel after letting down your guard. You know that moment when you see their eyes widen – that smile of acknowledgement appears on the others’ faces. You are no longer a stranger, a colleague or a classmate – you are recognized for you, the individual. It wasn’t until 3 months of weekly phone and Skype calls, ongoing online chats, 1 weekend together in Philadelphia, and 4 days in Athens, Greece that this moment finally happened with my Kelley Direct AGILE study abroad team. (more…)
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How AGILE Greece Strengthened My Kelley Direct Online MBA Relationships
There are few greater joys in life than the liberation you feel after letting down your guard. You know that moment when you see their eyes widen – that smile of acknowledgement appears on the others’ faces. You are no longer a stranger, a colleague or a classmate – you are recognized for you, the individual. It wasn’t until 3 months of weekly phone and Skype calls, ongoing online chats, 1 weekend together in Philadelphia, and 4 days in Athens, Greece that this moment finally happened with my Kelley Direct AGILE study abroad team. (more…)
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Why MBAs Should Be More Like Noah and Less Like DRose
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uch as it hurts me to say this, Derrick Rose is approaching his off-court role as a Chicago Bull all wrong. He did not see it as his job to recruit talent such as King “flop-master” James to the team when we so badly needed him. I like everyone else outside of Miami will diss LeBron, but that’s only because he’s so freaking good and would gladly take him on my team. Back to my point: Rose said he didn’t have a problem with recruiting and would do it if the team asked him to do so. That, my fellow MBA candidates and alumni, is precisely the attitude that results in 2 championships in ANOTHER CITY. (more…)
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How My Kelley MBA Landed Me My Dream Job & A Second Home
10,000 feet above the ground, I see the California mountains from my window seat as I’m headed home. My new home as of 3 months ago. I left Chicago, the city that raised me for all 29 years of my life (this is when all the people living downtown cringe and make sure I know “Aurora is not Chicago”). No one who knows me – including myself – could have pictured me leaving the greater Chicago area (happy?), much less for the state of Indiana. “Why don’t you and Bhumi go somewhere nice?” asked Naitik, my younger brother who had just returned home after grad school in Berkeley. I would be lying if I said I didn’t have similar thoughts about the location to where I was about to move to. (more…)
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What Does the Flexibility of an Online MBA Do For You
How important is “flexibility” to you when it comes to managing your schedule? That’s something every prospective MBA student must consider. For me it came down to choosing between 90 minutes of commuting on a weeknight and using that time to get work done instead. I haven’t thought about it much since I started my MBA, but I took out a few minutes to think about what the flexibility of an online MBA has meant to me over the past year and quickly came up with three scenarios. Read the first story about the flexibility of an online MBA below: (more…)
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The 2013 Kelley Connect Week Takes MBA Students into the Emerging African Market
I just got back from my second Kelley Connect Week, the week-long experience that Kelley Direct MBA students get to share with their classmates and professors each year. I did not expect to learn about Africa much less Swahili from my MBA program, but that’s exactly what I got this week.The Kelley Connect Week Experience
Before I go into the details of this Connect Week, I want to describe what this experience is like for the uninitiated. During these Connect weeks, we attend classes with some of the same professors who teach our MBA classes and get to spend a lot of time with other students. As online MBA students, this is something we cherish and really take advantage of. Part of the reason you get your
MBA is to meet and build relationships with other motivated people. Kelley Connect Week not only gives us the chance to do this, but really encourages it. Something new that KD tried this year was giving us open meal vouchers to spend at any Bloomington restaurant. That was a great way for us to go explore Kirkland Ave on our own – although I should note our team just decided to go back to Nick’s (IU’s most popular campus bar) because we were craving good pizza. -
Kelley Direct Ranked Top 3 Online Business Graduate Program – Infographic
UPDATE April 2014: Kelley Direct was ranked #1 this year by U.S. News.
Kelley Direct claimed a spot in the top 3 in the US News Best Online Graduate Business Programs list released earlier this month behind Washington State University and Arizona State University. It’s great to see your MBA school getting recognized by others. The more positive visibility the better, and that has been the case since I joined the Kelley Direct Program in 2012. In addition to getting bumped up to the top 15 ranked business schools by Bloomberg Businessweek, Kelley was also recognized for having the best MBA teachers and career services in the US. It’s no wonder why Kelley MBA students are the most satisfied B-school students in the country.
Even though number 3 isn’t bad, I was curious as to why Kelley Direct didn’t rank higher on this list. So I decided to take a look at other rankings that prospective students and employers typically look at and my suspicions were confirmed. One of the main ways a B-school gets its reputation is by its full-time ranking and its ability to place its students into jobs. This is not to take anything away from the other schools on this list, but Kelley takes these things very seriously (and I love it because of that). Here’s a quote from faculty chair of the Kelley Direct MBA Program, Phil Powell after seeing the US News rankings: “Our goal is to be number one,” Powell said. “Number three is good, but our goal is to become number one.”
Here are the results of my Online MBA Program Rankings study: (more…)
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Kelley Direct – Top Ranked Online MBA Program in Bloomington IN
I am a student in the Kelley Direct MBA program at Indiana University – Bloomington, and I chose to go there over Booth because it made more sense for me. I am writing this post because I want to help you make an educated decision about your future, especially if you’re considering Kelley Direct. Yes, this post is for you taking the GMAT next month (hope you’ve discovered www.beatthegmat.com), and you applying to the top ranked part-time MBA programs near you, and definitely you who didn’t even know what Kelley Direct was until a few days ago.
First of all, congratulations on your decision to pursue an MBA while working and good luck on your GMAT and applications. Depending on where you are in the process (more…)
