Markus Vodosek is a clinical associate professor in Management and Entrepreneurship who joined Kelley in the Fall of 2019. He teaches Navigating the Global Business Environment, a new elective on managing in an era where success means balancing globalization with de-globalization. What is the most rewarding aspect of your job? Without question, the most rewarding… Read more »
Current MBA Student
Women and the Kelley Direct Online MBA: Experience, support, and opportunities
Earning an MBA creates powerful career opportunities for women—for advancement, for increased earning potential, and for executive positions. A common concern of prospective students is how to balance MBA coursework with a full-time career and personal commitments. The Kelley Direct Online MBA provides the flexibility and customization to make it possible. “The Kelley Direct… Read more »
The pitfalls of managing a star
Bill Gates once said, “A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.” We live in the age of the superstar because one’s production is no longer (or at least less) tethered… Read more »
How to Prepare for an Unknown Future Economy
By: Terri Cramer, Associate Director with Kelley Graduate Career Services The Greek philosopher Heraclitus wrote, “Change is the only constant in life.” It’s a potent quote to apply to your work life these days as a growing percentage of the workforce suffers job losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether it’s the market, your… Read more »
An Immersive Experience to Help Solve the Unemployment Crisis
By Damien Potocnik, MBA’20 My first experience in the Kelley Direct Online MBA program—one of two on-campus Kelley Connect Weeks—was both eye-opening and exhilarating. I was out of my comfort zone, realizing how much I leaned on my technical knowledge to be effective in my current role, with little to fall back on when preparing… Read more »
Get the Most Out of Your Online MBA Graduate Career Services
By: Stephanie Gray, Associate Director of Graduate Career Services, Kelley Direct The Top 5 questions you should be asking when narrowing down your online MBA search Planning for your future career and how to make yourself the most marketable in your industry has never been more important. During times of economic uncertainty, we often… Read more »
Kelley MBA Students Put Their Skin in the Game as Healthcare Consultants for the Moffitt Cancer Center
Four online MBA student teams from all over the U.S. lead by Professor Shannon Threlked from the Kelley School’s Bloomington campus just returned to their homes after spending a weekend together in Tampa, Florida. Two Kelley faculty coaches, Sam Misar and John York, joined them at the Moffitt Cancer Center where they met the center’s… Read more »
7 Insights About Using Analytics to Better Understand and Improve Your Marketing
The Institute for Business Analytics at the Kelley School organized the Kelley Forum on Marketing Analytics to bring MBA and MS in Business Analytics students – such as my Kelley Direct classmates and myself – together with Kelley faculty and marketing analytics experts from all over the country in Bloomington, Indiana to share ideas and… Read more »
Gaining a Competitive Edge in China: An On-the-Ground Perspective
In October 2015, I traveled to Beijing along with thirteen fellow online MBA students from Kelley Direct to gain a better appreciation of how to successfully do business in China. This in-person portion of the Global and Domestic Immersions program represented the final module for a nine-week course focused on international business strategy; the lessons from… Read more »
Why a Global Immersion in Greece Has Been the Most Rewarding Experience in My Kelley Journey
My Kelley Direct Greece study abroad course was not an academic exercise. Our focus and motivation throughout the term came from the desire to make a difference for a real business in Greece, not to get an A in the class. This one-of-a-kind experience could not have been delivered within the boundaries of a classroom. This… Read more »