 Peter Regan teaching
MBA Math at Tuck |
|
About MBA Math - Past Board of Advisors
The MBA Math Board of Advisors consists of current MBA students from top MBA programs who used
the MBA Math course before starting business school. As experts in the MBA first year experience, they are uniquely
positioned to provide guidance and feedback on priorities for improving and extending the MBA Math course.
This page is an archive of past advisors who have completed their MBA programs
and therefore their MBA Math service. Thanks and best wishes to all.
Below, they introduce themselves, their pre-MBA efforts, and their first-year experience.
Tumi Adebiyi, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Class of 2007
I come to the Tuck School of Business with an engineering degree from the
University of Michigan and work experience at Ford Motor Company within three
functional groups. As a Manufacturing Engineer, I developed expertise in
logistics, supply chain management, and the launch of new warehouse operations.
I then transitioned into marketing. Within marketing at Ford, I was responsible
for helping in the development and management of the 2004-2005 Ford Motor
Company African American Corporate Communications Campaign. Finally, I
transitioned to finance within Ford where I worked on Sarbanes Oxley compliance
and financial controls on inventory management.
At Tuck, a general management MBA program, I am gearing my studies to have a
focus on my future career in finance. When I applied and was accepted at top
MBA schools my quantitative background fooled me into thinking that advance
preparation was not needed. After sub-par performance on a pre-enrollment
assessment exam that focused on MBA math concepts, I quickly turned my focus to
the MBA Math online tools.
MBA Math was the cornerstone of my MBA preparation because it:
-
Was extremely comprehensive. Having all of my information housed in a central
location and having my progress tracked in a central hub allowed me to travel
to other countries during my summer without interrupting my studies.
-
Offered me a variety of dynamic learning tools. The online lectures were very
clear and direct and the reference guides served as a quick reference during
the problem solving exercises.
As a result of my preparation using MBA math, I started off my MBA career with
the solid understanding that was needed to thrive in my fast paced MBA program.
I even referenced MBA Math during my first term at school when I needed to
quickly refresh my understanding of key concepts.
|
Edmund Aziabor, MIT Sloan School of Management, Class of 2007
Prior to attending business school, I worked in the financial services industry
for 6 plus years with Merrill Lynch. In order to prepare adequately for the
quantitative requirement of the MBA curriculum I came across the MBA Math
online course and chose it over other expensive in-class preps which were not
necessarily structured particularly for the MBA program.
The flexibility of the MBAMath.com tools and exercises allowed me to pace
myself and served my needs in all the coverage areas that I needed to refine,
having been out of school for some time. I highly recommend this to all
prospective MBAs.
|
Stefano Pardi, London Business School, Class of 2007
After graduating in economics and business administration from L.U.I.S.S.
University in Rome, I spent more than five years working for Andersen Business
Consulting and Deloitte Consulting and one year and a half in industry as a
corporate controller.
I am now studying for my MBA at London Business School, focusing on Strategy
and Finance. A year ago, once I learned that I had been accepted by LBS, I
started considering the subjects that I would like to review before the start
of the program. Looking at my first year curriculum I soon realized that
quantitative skills were the basis of the entire first year. So I decided to
focus my effort in that area, and, even though I have always been familiar with
math, both from an academic and professional perspective, I wanted to be sure
that I was up to date with the skills required by the program.
I found MBA Math ideal for my goals because it:
-
Allowed me to tailor my study in terms of schedule and format--training through
quizzes, quick review of formulas, lessons
-
Covered all the main areas I wanted to review before the start of the
program--statistics, finance, spreadsheet modeling
As a result I felt extremely comfortable when tackling my first statistics,
finance, and accounting assignments during my first term.
|
|
