I’ve decided to focus my engineering classes in Data Science to broaden my technical skillset in an area that was previously outside my expertise. This year, we split our time between engineering and business electives. Students spend most of their time at the business school during the first year of the program. Engineering classes: problem sets are back! Others decided to explore the startup world after being in big tech for several years before HBS.Ģ. There were many people who worked on their startups continuing their projects from our first-year design class, Technology Venture Immersion. Students chose to spend their summers in a variety of ways. My summer internship was a great opportunity to try something new before committing with a full-time role.
I spent my summer at Facebook as a Strategy Intern, helping Facebook scale its data center capacity effectively and efficiently. One of my favorite things about the joint degree program is that despite the intensive curriculum to finish two degrees in two years, we have the summer off to pursue either our own startups or an internship. Summer: an opportunity to explore your interests. As a continuation of her post, here are 5 things on my mind, as we embark on Year 2.ġ. Last year, Valentina wrote about the 10 things she learned during her first month in the joint degree program.
Upon realizing that I will learn how to build the product, as well as how to launch a venture based on the product, I knew I wanted to be part of the first cohort of the MS/MBA program. I saw that the program consisted of not only engineering and business classes, but also integrated design classes that incorporate lessons from both engineering and business. I chose Harvard’s MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program because of its interdisciplinary approach to bridge the gap between engineering and business. I worked in a technical role as a Manufacturing Engineer at Procter & Gamble, and after a few years, I decided that I was not ready to give up engineering quite yet.
When I graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a degree in Electrical Engineering, I knew that I wanted to pursue an MBA in the future.