Q:Where is your hometown?
A:Mumbai, India
Q:What did you study at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business and what is your graduation year?
A:MBA – Finance, August 2018
Q:What did you do in your corporate residency? What were your responsibilities? How did you impact the business?
A:I started my corporate residency at Parexel International, Inc. in July 2017, and I worked as a Financial Analyst.
Q:What skills did you build at D'Amore-McKim that you are using in your corporate residency or will use in your future career?
A:Team work, initiative, and leadership – they are an essential part of any task/ work and needed for success.
Q:What was the biggest take-away from working toward your MBA at Northeastern? What can you do today that you couldn't do before you started your MBA?
A:Understanding different perspectives and analyzing a condition under different lenses.
Q:What was your most valuable experience?
A:The Global Project – providing consulting to a company based on live scenarios.
Q:Why did you choose D'Amore-McKim?
A:The courses at D'Amore-McKim are holistic with a good balance between class and practical experience. The residency and the global (opportunities) provide an opportunity to apply the concepts I learned in class. Also, the large pool of options to select the classes within our concentration, helps to grow our knowledge deep in our areas of interest.
Q:What would you say to a prospective student considering D'Amore-McKim for their business degree?
A:The culture and experience at D'Amore-McKim provides a strong ground to be “success-ready.”
Q:Where do you see yourself in 5 – 10 years?
A:At 10 years from today, I see myself at a senior management position involved in strategic decision making of the organization.
Q:How has D'Amore-McKim helped you to become more?
A:D'Amore-McKim, is the place where I have grown. Grown intellectually through coursework, analytically by solving case studies, socially by networking with diverse set of people, and personally because all this has helped me raise my confidence in my skills and abilities and face the world more skillfully. In short, D'Amore-McKim has made me grow more holistically.