Each year, thousands of MBA students spend their summers interning at companies across the world. But what do they do, and what do they learn from the experience? We’ve rounded up a number of posts we’ve found on the topic, and shared some of the best insights to how MBA students spend their summer internships.
Poets and Quants– As a student in the Dual degree (MBA/MMM) Program at Northwestern (Kellogg) Lauren Meyer spent her summer as a Product Manager at an AI Startup in San Francisco. During her summer, Meyer learned the value of “being nimble,” and learning how to produce a work product that while not fully baked, was good enough to keep the progress moving forward.”
Yale SOM Internship Spotlight – Jordan Woll (Yale, SOM ’20) spent her summer on the merchandising team at Wayfair up in Boston, where she evaluated how her team should sell a highly specialized and customizable product, and what the customer experience should be for buying that product.
NYU Stern: Summer Internship Series – During her summer internship, Emily Barry (NYU Stern, ’20) spent her summer in a Brand Management internship role at Mars, where she worked on the Twix brand worked alongside an advertising agency to redesign the Twix website
UCLA Anderson: Day in the life Internship Takeover – As a Summer Consultant at EY, Mare Claire Flanagan (Anderson, ’20) shared her experience working as a Summer Associate at EY, and a day in the life as a consultant looks like as an MBA Intern