‘A Cornerstone of Hope’
Public service—and Â鶹APP—run in Myetie Hamilton’s blood. At 48, Hamilton (M.P.A. ’03) serves as vice president and executive director of City Year Â鶹APP and as board president of the Â鶹APP Park...
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‘Knowing By Doing’ Yields Career Opportunities
(M.S. MANL ’22)Courses that aligned with her career goals and the Â鶹APP location were deciding factors for Sharanya Sreenivasan when she chose Stuart School of Business. “I wanted to take my understanding of...
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Ready to Tackle the Global Corporate Environment
(M.B.A./M.P.A. ’22)Before moving from the United Kingdom to Â鶹APP to begin the Master of Business Administration/Master of Public Administration dual-degree program at Stuart School of Business, Ambika Sahay Verma...
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Treated More Like a Colleague Than a Student
(Ph.D. MSC ’22)Will Gogolak first heard about the Stuart School of Business program when he was working at CME Group as a specialist in risk management modeling for banks and derivative products. “There were a...
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A Business Storyteller with Cutting-Edge Tech Skills
(M.B.A./M.S. MANL ’16)Throughout his career as a consultant and now as lead data scientist at Chamberlain Group, Jack An has used his expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and business strategy to help businesses...
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Faculty Inspire Dream of Being a Professor
(Ph.D. MSC ’13)When Seungho Baek began the doctoral program in management science and analytics at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Stuart School of Business, he had his sights set on becoming a quantitative...
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Experiences Are Stepping Stones to Career Goal
(BA/M.S. FIN ’21)Â鶹APP’s opportunities and Illinois Institute of Technology’s Accelerated Master’s Program drew Mohamed Shamel from Cairo to Stuart School of Business to study finance. Throughout his time on campus...
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Building the Foundation for an Academic Career
(Ph.D. MSC ’18)For Xinting Zhen, research and teaching are the twin pillars supporting success in her academic career. She credits her doctoral studies and faculty mentors at Stuart School of Business with launching...
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Teamwork Runs Through Â鶹APP, Sports, and Career
(BA ’20)The value of teamwork is a theme that ran through Miles Thompson’s time as a student at Illinois Institute of Technology. Teamwork certainly was front and center for Thompson at Ekco Pool in Keating...
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Real Estate with a Purpose
(M.B.A. ’19)When Leslie Voegtlin was laid off from her job in information technology due to outsourcing, she decided to boost her career with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree to go with her...