Thunderbird Student Voices

By Christen Pechman ’10, Traditional Full-time MBA Program

PRAGUE — I have just finished my first year of Thunderbird’s traditional MBA program and ended my second trimester on a high note with six weeks in Prague, Czech Republic. I start this blog as I embark on a two-week Summerim program on Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies, which takes me through Budapest, Hungary and Ljubljana, Slovenia. (A Summerim is a three-credit, two-week course at the beginning of the summer, and most of them take place outside the United States).

By way of introduction, I am an American citizen but spent the majority of my life living in the Dominican Republic and consider that to be my home. Prior to coming to Thunderbird, I was the COO of the World Trade Center Wisconsin and also own a Pub in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I used to live. Post MBA I plan to work with SME’s, helping them penetrate and expand operations within emerging markets.

I am pleased to be a part of this new blog series for the Thunderbird Knowledge Network, as firsthand student accounts are a great way to get a feel for a program. When I was determining which B-schools to apply to, I found student blogs were instrumental in helping me make my decision and hope that this blog can do the same for future T-Birds. This is my first attempt at a blog so, if you have any suggestions or comments on what you want to know about etc., please let me know.

Posted: 04|29|09 at 3:44 pm.
Filed under: Christen Pechman.
Comment | Trackback