Trinh Dang is an exceptional woman, who has managed to combine an intensive MBA with giving birth to her first child in the first month at MBA Solvay. A thrilling and intensive experience she has really enjoyed, to the point of highly recommending taking the MBA Solvay challenge.
Of Vietnamese origin, Trinh completed her university studies in London before moving to Belgium, where she quickly learned French and Dutch, and started working for a wholesale distributor of specialty technology products.
When Trinh was considering to apply for an MBA she had some doubts about it bringing value to her. But then she spoke to a friend and alumnus who had really enjoyed the amazing learning experience of MBA Solvay. With this insight she took the decission to apply. Having 5 years of professional experience she considered it was time to stop for a year and learn new management skills, taking into consideration her long term goal of starting her own company.
What does she think of her MBA? Its been just amazing. During the 10 months of the full time program she has worked with people from around the world, who have very high intellectual skills and who are very down to earth at the same time. Another highlight for Trinh is the faculty: amazing professors from top schools around the world, most of whom are also active professionals with current experience in business.
The interview was recorded right before the end of her MBA, during our Alumni Day 2009. Trinh Dang has graduated with her class and celebrated the end of a great 2008-09 year.
If you want to speak to a former student of MBA Solvay, you can contact Chiara Battistelli, our Admissions manager.
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Thanks to Sergio Barbarino, our Alumni Day 2009 was hosted by Procter & Gamble. He is a very committed alumnus and was very easily convinced to leave his testimonial about why he attended MBA Solvay.
Sergio came to Belgium in the midst of a difficult personal and professional moment. He was forced to move due to the closure of the company’s office in Italy where he used to work. He wanted a change and decided to apply to MBA Solvay. His new managers made a big effort to keep him in Procter & Gamble and with his MBA he has changed jobs into a more technical career. After the MBA program Sergio is working on innovative areas for his company such us the redesign of the supply chains and making small and flexible manufacturing processes for developing markets.
Today, sergio feels that he fits perfectly into the company, is proud of it and says that he owes that to MBA Solvay, because of all the experience and external freshnes that it brought to him.
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JiaYi Hu Duprez is one of the first candidates that was admited to the Full Time program of MBA Solvay this year. She will be graduating in 2010 and, although her courses will not begin until the end of August, she has already started to network with the MBA Solvay community at our Alumni Day 2009.
JiaYi comes from China, where she did her international business studies. She has an international professional background, starting in a Canadian trading company, going through India and recently moving to Belgium. Doing an MBA is a lifelong dream for JiaYi, who already set her mind when she was an adolescent. She was looking for an MBA fully in English and decided to check out MBA Solvay. She came to one of the information sessions where the academic director Hugues Pirotte presented the program. The interaction with the director and the alumni, together with the reactivity of the admissions department helped her decide to apply to MBA Solvay and to start the admissions process.
Her expectations are set mainly in the experience sharing that comes with the MBA (with faculty, students and alumni) and on better defining her career goals.
PS: The Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management is also known under its former name Solvay Business School. The change of names was motivated by the merger of the Economics Department of the ULB and the Solvay Business School. The school is sometimes referred to using the acronym SBS-EM.
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This post is not only a testimonial but a presentation. I am Ramón Suárez, the person writing this blog, current Recruitment and Communication Manager of MBA Solvay and also an alumnus that graduated with the class of 2008.
When I started recording interviews and testimonials of the alumni of MBA Solvay I did not think of including one of myself, but alumnus Cristian Catanescu rightfully retaliated when I was to record his testimonial during our Alumni Day 2009.
It was painless and very quick, and all I had to do was to answer the same questions I was asking :
- Why did you do an MBA at Solvay?
- What did you get out of it?
The main reason for me was to do a career change from public affairs to new media marketing in the private sector. I have managed to do it after a great full time experience in MBA Solvay.
During the MBA I was elected President of the Student Government and as such had an opportunity to live an even fuller experience. It was a very intense year where I also had a lot of fun and where I have developed a great professional and personal network.
Now, I am working for MBA Solvay and also consulting for other companies, vamping their marketing efforts with the use of new media and bringing the business perspective from my MBA studies.
This video is the first of a series of testimonials that will be published in this blog, so don’t forget to subscribe if you do not want to miss them.
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