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Graduate Career Management – Fall 2017

This edition of our digital magazine for graduate student employers provides recruiting tips and highlights recent and upcoming activities at Broad.

Groundbreaking

The Broad College officially broke ground on its Business Pavilion and celebrated the momentous milestone on September 8 with a formal groundbreaking ceremony. This project is unlike any other the college has seen: it will position Broad as a top-of-mind business school through its modernized spaces designed around the student experience, team work, and efficient career management. Broad plans to complete construction in 2019 and have minimal disruptions in the meantime. Learn more about this project, and what it means for Broad’s future, by visiting the Pavilion website.

Leadership Changes

To Our Corporate Partners, Supporters and Friends:

I hope this finds you well and your fall is off to a good start! It is with great pleasure that I can announce new faculty leadership appointments at the Broad College of Business:

These appointments are a result of new roles we have created as part of the Broad College’s Strategic Plan. Specifically, I have reconstituted our career services function into a single “Career Management” unit that will serve both our undergraduate and graduate students and provide a unified organizational structure to our employers. Further, to emphasize our commitment to outreach and engagement, I have dedicated new resources by appointing a faculty member into a dean-level position and elevating the Director of Executive Development of the Broad College to also a dean-level appointment.

These individuals will work alongside you to foster connections with diverse and high-performing undergraduate and graduate students; provide unique and compelling executive education and professional degree programs; and share faculty research and insights.

I am thrilled to have them leading these endeavors, and we look forward to strengthening our partnerships for years to come.

Go Green!

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Sanjay Gupta

Eli & Edythe L. Broad Dean

New Recruiting Systems

To most effectively connect candidates to employers (and vice versa) while taking advantage of the latest technology, Broad migrated to two new systems over the summer:

Handshake

Handshake is your default system for all on-campus recruiting activities. Seamlessly recruit across all undergrad and graduate business programs at MSU.

GradLeaders

GradLeaders is an MBA/graduate job board with student profiles and resumes.

Impactful Company Presentations

For many companies, student-facing information sessions prove the single most important part of on-campus recruiting strategies. How do you know if you are making an impact? Harvard Business School polled their MBAs, who said the following six elements were the most important in company presentations:

Company culture
Typical MBA career trajectory
Description of a day in the life of an intern
Experience of former interns & recent hires
Is U.S. work authorization required?
School alumni & former interns in attendance

New Programs: Facilitated Learning

Keeping in the spirit of strategically pursuing new opportunities to expand and strengthen our relationships with corporate partners, we are experimenting with facilitated learning as a bolder, novel method of corporate engagement. This approach blends active learning with guided problem solving and culminates with the implementation of organizational changes. It includes exploration of a corporation’s strategic direction (e.g., business model, capabilities, and transformational challenges) and the collaborative development of sessions that blend lectures, case discussions, and the development of strategies and solutions unique to the corporation. Our faculty bring world-class expertise to the classroom, but they primarily serve as coaches and facilitators, as executives actively develop their knowledge and solutions in teams.

Our experiences with this model have been rewarding. A logistics company was grappling with the challenge of implementing a balanced scorecard across multiple divisions. Our facilitated learning methodology guided their CEO and C-suite executives through a process of designing their business model, strategy maps, and the balanced scorecard.  At another organization, our facilitated learning helped them blend financial and strategic thinking into their business cases for critical projects. Over the coming weeks, we will be working with another organization to implement quality management in their highly dynamic, omni-channel retailing environment.  We hope that your interest is piqued by this novel model as you think about your own corporate transformation and enhancement opportunities.

I look forward to hearing from you and discussing facilitated learning at the Broad College. Contact us for questions or more information: engage@broad.msu.edu.

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Dave Frayer

Assistant Dean, Executive Development & Professional Programs

Intern Spotlight Series

In its third year running, Broad put 100 of its students front-and-center for the annual Intern Spotlight Series. Summer 2017 internships mirrored the reputation of the college’s academic programs and the diverse student body, ranging from finance, supply chain, and data analyst roles at companies like Cisco and GM; international product planning at Jeep; and learning the ins and outs of tax policy and accounting at Deloitte, Plante Moran, EY, and others.

Did You Know @ Broad?

Broad’s Master’s in Management, Strategy and Leadership (MSMSL) degree is designed for working professionals who need the flexibility of an online program. Students typically have a non-business background, but have moved into a business-like role and seek a formal business degree – without the rigor of an MBA. As employers, consider MSMSL candidates to fill hands-on leadership positions across the country:

  • Two-thirds of Broad’s MSMSL students live outside of Michigan.
  • If your organization seeks candidates with military backgrounds, nearly one-third of its students are veterans.

A publication of the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University