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MBA portraits

Students' profiles
 

Alexey Bogdanovich

Alexey Bogdanovich
MBA 2005 Russian, 32 years old
Degree in applied mathematics
10 years of work experience

How did you decide to study for an MBA degree?

I regarded the MBA as an opportunity to access up-to-date international business management know-how, to develop my personal strengths while studying with fascinating and diverse people from all over the world, and of course, to increase my career growth prospects.
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Christian Peter Blom-Stokstad

Christian Peter Blom-Stokstad
MBA 2007 Norway, 29 years old
Royal Norwegian Academy
Executive Officer, Royal Norwegian Navy
5 years of professional experience

Why did you choose to attend an MBA?

Although I very much enjoyed the experience in the Norwegian Navy, both out of personal and professional reasons, I was looking for a career change and I knew an MBA could help me reach this objective.
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Alain Versace

Alain Versace
MBA 2007 France, 32 years old
Mechanical engineering
Project Manager, Fiat Auto
5 years of professional experience

Why SDA Bocconi?

I enjoyed the Italian lifestyle and at the same time I wished to get a deeper knowledge in the finance area and Bocconi is well-known for offering a strong preparation in this field. The School's good positioning in the rankings was also part of my decision, plus I planned to work in Italy after the MBA and knew that Bocconi would offer me the best chances.
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Irina Nedashkovskaya

Irina Nedashkovskaya
MBA 2007 American born in Belarus, 25 years old
Business-Economics
Senior Analyst, Hilton Hotels Corp
4 years of professional experience

What about your background?

I was born in Belarus where I went to high school and also did stretches at high schools in Rome and the US, thus obtaining 3 different high school diplomas. I graduated in Business-Economics at UCLA and during my studies had different work experiences at Guess, Hervé Leger and Ascendant Pictures dealing in marketing, customer service and office management. After having graduated, I worked at Hilton Hotels Corp. as a Senior Analyst in the e-commerce sphere.
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Mirko Rubeis

Mirko Rubeis
MBA 2007, Italian, 30 years old
Mechanical Engineering
Project Engineer, Kuwait Petroleum
4 years of professional experience

Why did you decide to take an MBA?

Although I was satisfied with the experience, I was getting in my company (I'd actually just received a promotion) I felt I was specializing too much, limiting my experience to a single industry.
Seeing how managerial skills are needed in various different fields, the MBA was the right answer.
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Kristina Buckley

Kristina Buckley
MBA 2007, American
Human Sciences
Marketing Manager, Ferragamo USA
6 years of professional experience

Why did you choose to attend an MBA?

Having worked for 6 years in the luxury sector, in a marketing function, I felt the need to expand my business acumen. So far my contribution to the companies for which I worked had been mainly from the marketing perspective. With an MBA, I felt I could gain a better appreciation for different functions and industries, gaining a more diversified and strategic insight into the business world while taking a step back from my career to evaluate the direction of my professional path.
Also, as a woman, an MBA degree would be a strong complement my past experience and expand my options in the future.
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Sebastian Gründer

Sebastian Gründer
MBA 2007, German
Economics and Computer sciences
Consultant, Porsche Consulting
5 years of professional experience

Why did you choose to attend an MBA?

I've been studying in the US, where everybody thinks of doing an MBA as the next step after taking business studies. So the idea has always been in my mind. After working for 5 years in a consultancy company I realized that I had learnt a lot - I had 2 promotions in 4 years - but that many of my decisions came from a mix of experience and intuition, and I really didn't know why that decision was the right one. So I wanted to understand the principles, and to learn also through the experience of other people, as it happens in the MBA. I'm a very practical person and I thought this was for me the best way to learn.
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