SMSU MBA Video

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A couple of years after I attained a bachelor's degree I decided that I wanted to

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Pursue an MBA,

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But I never actually made the leap into the program. However twenty two years

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After getting my bachelor’s degree I decided it was actually time to go back to school

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And start working on the program.

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The SMSU

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MBA Program

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Is the executive MBA program.

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This one is designed for

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Managers

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Those people that are currently working either they are assistant managers

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Or those that are

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Not working but would like to have an MBA so they can pursue

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Management opportunities. It’s essential that anybody graduating today with a

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Bachelor’s degree, plan

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on finding some way

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To get a master’s degree

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or an MBA in five to ten years.

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The pragmatic

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Elements of our MBA program

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Are things that you can use tomorrow on the job.

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I was able to take night classes

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but also be able to

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continue my job and really apply the things I was learning at the university

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into my job experiences.

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You identified body of theory and then you apply it to your regular work place

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you apply it to solving problems. If you have a passion about something

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I want you to speak up. Sometimes I will deliberately throw things out in

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The classroom

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that should

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Get them to the high end to the people in the room.

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I’m interested to see who steps forward and then

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Will challenge that. The professor challenged me to implement one of the concepts that he

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Had taught us into my current role.

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I’m very pleased to say that I took his advice and implemented

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The concept and within six months it generated enough revenue that it was able

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To pay for the entire cost of the MBA program.

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That happened before I even completed my second semester. Almost every professor

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we have teaching the program

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Has had outside business experience.

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The curriculum is fresh it's on topic

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it's up to date

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the professors are well-read

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and have a lot of life experience. They key in on the life experiences of the people we met in our classes.

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The MBA program offered a wide variety of classes; it wasn’t just the business aspect

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Of managing a business that it focused on. You also have the opportunity to take strategic marketing, a market research class, as well as leadership and team management and organizational behavior.

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I teach the legal and ethical environment of management.

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so what this class then does is it helps to provide that survey of law that the students

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should

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uh... be aware of but goes more than that and it puts the student in the

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position where they actually have to react. Half of the students were like me

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They had done their undergrad and just when on right to get their masters and the other

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half were students that were working professionals.

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I found that uh... regardless of what age you are uh... people have a

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lot to teach others because whether it's been online courses I’ve taken

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or physically in the classroom, we’re talking

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Diverse groups of people

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ranges of ages

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men and women, sometimes when we have some kind of discussion in class

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We come up

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With so many different

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answers and their experience and it’s what we learn every day.

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When I took managerial accounting, we had

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several cpa’s and several accountants from major corporations in the room.

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There was a lot of group work involved

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a lot of support from both the professors and your fellow classmates.

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Everyone in the MBA program took the class seriously, they put forth the effort, they

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want us to succeed. I was really able to leverage my strengths

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one of my favorite things to do was to really be creative and really get into my

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presentations and that was one of the things that I was known for in my MBA program.

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when i first started the MBA program I just felt so overwhelmed

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And I was ready to drop out thinking

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I’m in my late forties and I don't belong here

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and uh... I’m not even sure why I did this.

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However, they convinced me to not quit

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To stay with it

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and that everything would be okay.

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I am very cognizant that

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Those students who are in the MBA program have other lives.

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They are very understanding, you shoot them an email explain

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What you’re doing, explain to the professors you’re working with and she wrote back and said it was no problem.

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I always tell students that if you come half way, I’ll come half way.

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There’s absolutely no reason why a student couldn’t be successful in the graduate program at SMSU.

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It will help you expand your career no matter where you’re at.

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It differentiates you from a lot of other people who are applying for a job.

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I was a husband, a father, a working professional, and a student.

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I think it’s really prepared me to do whatever I’m going to do wherever I end up.

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It was easy to incorporate into my schedule into my life,

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Which made it an attractive opportunity for myself.