Use your UCD Smurfit MBA to pursue that dream.
Ciara O’Brien (weekend eMBA 2014), founder of iSave, recently joined UCC’s start-up accelerator Ignite. My advice to new MBAs is to really make the most of every resource that’s available to you within...
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Golf in Historic Surroundings – A Day in the Luscious Parklands of...
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all. Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results. Sir Ernest Shackleton Just ahead of our recent exams and final assignments, we...
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Smurfit MBA- ON THE HORIZON
In the blink of an eye, 8 months have passed. As we return from our International trip and begin to re-immerse ourselves into our regular routines of lectures and assignments, I realize that we are...
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It isn’t often that you get to represent your Country in a World Cup
On the 12th April we travelled to Danville, Virginia to represent UCD Michael Smurfit Business School as the only Irish University competing in the MBA Rugby World Cup. A group of 44 MBA and MSc....
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THE YALE TALE
Remember the first time you fastened your seat belt to drive your first car? Nervous hands on the steering wheel with the feet juggling among 3 pedals? – The thrill to drive, fear of failing, anxiety...
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‘The World travelled road to Washington’
MBA case competitions are a quintessential part of the MBA experience for many ambitious students. Eoin and I found a Case Competition titled ‘IBM Case Competition, The Challenges of Digital Strategy’....
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Women’s 21st Century Leadership
Susan McDonnell and Oonagh O’Grady joined a cohort of MBA students from around the world at Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley in early June for an intensive 5-day module titled...
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“They think its all over…. it is now”
2 weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak at a Smurfit MBA reception attempting to debate the future of big brands and the importance of innovative communication with Damien McLoughlin. I’m going to...
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Back to Where it All Began
After 12 transformative months and a year like no other, I found myself walking through the tranquil gardens of Blackrock’s Michael Smurfit Business School with the MBA cohort of 2020. We had just...
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Trust the Path
When I decided to come to Ireland for an MBA, I knew that I was in store for change. What I underestimated was how quickly I would adapt to a new country, university, and peers. The weeks have been...
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