Based not only on where students interned, but also the fact that almost all of their organizations extended their internships into the fall, this past summer was considered extremely successful for the Bryan Day MBA.

Kelly Morgan and Yiyang Wang interned at AIG, where they conducted statistical modeling to analyze shifts in mortgage lending, and Jessica Houser spent the summer with Rock-Tenn Company Alliance Division. Crystal Pierce, who is interested in pursuing a career in health care administration, interned with UNC Health Care and Ashley Hennings’ summer intern with the Piedmont Folk Legacies Group continues into her second year as a consulting project. After completing a summer internship with BMW Manufacturing in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Nathan Lynch joined classmate, Alena Kharoshka, at B/E Aerospace where she has been interning since the end of her first year.

Darlene Broadhurst, who directs the internship program for Bryan Graduate Career Services, says that the willingness of Day MBA alumni to play a role in the career development of current students in the program has been an important factor in recent internships. Second year students, Grishma Kulkarni and Kalpesh Padhye both continued their summer internships into the fall at Southside Business Technology Center where they work with 2007 graduates, Varun Sadana and Chris Cousins.

Leslie McNeill, Bryan MBA ’07, recently returned to the Bryan School to recruit students for BB&T and Tammy Friedick, who completed her Bryan MBA in May and is now with Goodwill Industries of Central North Carolina, was a guest speaker at Base Camp at the start of the semester.

A recent facility tour of Team Connection, a sporting goods distribution center, for Dr. Gargeya’s Pizza, Picasso, and the Pyramids class was coordinated by Team Connection’s Operations Manager and 2007 graduate, Jessica Bays. Director of the Bryan MBA, Dr. Gargeya feels Jessica Bays exemplifies the successes of current Bryan Day MBA students and recent graduates.

“I didn’t expect that someone directly out of an MBA program with no prior professional experience could bring about this amount of change in such a short window of time,” says Herb Bolick, President of Team Connection, on the impact that Jessica has had on his company’s operations.

-October 2008