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Simon Alumna T’Keyah Andrews Shares How her Mental Health Struggles Transformed her MBA Experience and Life

5May

For T’Keyah Andrews, the MBA experience taught her far more than she could have ever imagined. 

Although she never envisioned graduating from a top-tier institution — let alone, at the age of 27 — she found herself joining The Consortium’s

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McCombs Alumni Remove Knowledge, Cost Barriers to Investing to Make Financial Security a Reality for All

19Aug

The truism goes that you have to have money to make money. But for those who lack access to financial literacy resources and education, how you go about growing your money is not always clear or easy. 

This is something

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Military Service Inspired Matthew Archuleta’s Dreams of Providing a Home for Veterans, Using His MBA as a Tool

13May

For Matthew Archuleta, the experience of growing up outside of Los Angeles and serving in the U.S. Army as a Special Forces Green Beret, although quite different from one another, pulled him in a singular direction — toward helping

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How Student Loans and Military Service Helped this MBA Learn the Value of Personal Finance

8Oct

For Michael Dunn, going to college always seemed certain. How he would pay for it was the hazy part.

Born into a family of modest means, Dunn and his younger brother were raised by their mother in Atlanta, Ga., where …

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Unemployed as a Result of COVID, This Incoming MBA Found Hope in Being Open to New Paths

28Aug

For Ryan Fleer, getting laid off was just the impetus he needed to shift his career trajectory.

After years working in financial services, first as an equity derivatives middle office analyst at a large French multinational bank, Fleer knew a …