MBAsians: The Asian MBA Podcast

We did it! This is the last episode of MBAsians season 2. In this episode, we want to remind you and also ourselves why we started this amazing podcast journey 10 months ago. We also want to share our takeaways from doing this podcast and talking with those great, inspiring guests. Lastly, we want to thank all our listeners for following us. Hope you all the best and stay in touch. In this episode we talk about: Why MBAsians? Our biggest takeaways from this podcast Last words for our listener Meet Jacob Yu and Jay Park, your MBAsians Hosts!  // Jacob Yu Born and raised in Taiwan, Jacob worked in marketing and public relations at a tech company. At a young age, Jacob studied as a foreign exchange student in the US, understanding the challenges of being an international student. While studying at Ross, he has witnessed peers struggling in navigating MBA lives, motivating him to support and inspire others by creating the MBAsians Podcast. Learn more about Jacob LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-ch-yu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobyutw/  // Jay Park Born and raised in South Korea, Jay worked as a business developer and sales manager at an international trading company. Jay experienced countless trials and errors from preparation towards his MBA to adapting himself into first-ever foreign country life, motivating him to make MBAsians. As an adventure enthusiast, Jay is still continuing his life journey through MBA.  Learn more about Jay LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayp88/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaehongp88/  // Listen to MBAsians on all major platforms: Web: http://www.MBAsians.comApple: http://apple.mbasians.comSpotify: http://spotify.mbasians.comGoogle: http://google.mbasians.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagra.com/mbasians/ Like us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/mbasians Logo created by Michelle NamEdited by Jay Tran  // Join the Asian Podcast Network:Web: https://asianpodcastnetwork.com/Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/asianpodcastnetwork/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asianpodcastnetwork/ MBAsians is produced by Just Like Media:Web: http://www.justlikemedia.comInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/justlikemedia

We invited Erica Luong, a Yale School of Management Class of 2018, to share her post MBA career experience as a consulting & analytics senior manager at Visa. You will learn more about how to utilize your time at work and make your MBA life more meaningful. Meet Erica LuongBorn and raised in Vietnam, Erica went to college in Singapore and started her career as a consultant. During her Yale MBA program as a class of 2018, she did an internship at McKinsey in Singapore, but one of her goals of MBA was to work in the US, so she decided to full-time recruit in the US and entered Visa by utilizing her consulting skillsets. She wanted to help her fellow Asian MBAs in whatever ways possible and came to MBAsians! In this episode we talk about: Overview of Visa and working life as a Senior Manager, Consulting & Analytics How to be flexible and use your own time at work How to utilize and structure your  2-year MBA life Connect with Erica! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erica-luong/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erica_luong/Meet Jacob Yu and Jay Park, your MBAsians Hosts!  // Jacob Yu Born and raised in Taiwan, Jacob worked in marketing and public relations at a tech company. At a young age, Jacob studied as a foreign exchange student in the US, understanding the challenges of being an international student. While studying at Ross, he has witnessed peers struggling in navigating MBA lives, motivating him to support and inspire others by creating the MBAsians Podcast. Learn more about Jacob LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-ch-yu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobyutw/  // Jay Park Born and raised in South Korea, Jay worked as a business developer and sales manager at an international trading company. Jay experienced countless trials and errors from preparation towards his MBA to adapting himself into first-ever foreign country life, motivating him to make MBAsians. As an adventure enthusiast, Jay is still continuing his life journey through MBA.  Learn more about Jay LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayp88/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaehongp88/  // Listen to MBAsians on all major platforms: Web: http://www.MBAsians.comApple: http://apple.mbasians.comSpotify: http://spotify.mbasians.comGoogle: http://google.mbasians.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagra.com/mbasians/ Like us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/mbasians Logo created by Michelle NamEdited by Jay Tran  // Join the Asian Podcast Network:Web: https://asianpodcastnetwork.com/Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/asianpodcastnetwork/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asianpodcastnetwork/ MBAsians is produced by Just Like Media:Web: http://www.justlikemedia.comInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/justlikemedia

We invited Janette Hwang, a Fuqua MBA graduate from class of 2019, to share her experience of working as a consultant at McKinsey in the US. In this episode, you will learn about the day in the life of a management consultant. Janette aslo shared her tips on how to build relationships and stay connected with people in the workplace.  Janette HwangJanette was born and raised in Korea, Seoul, Korea. Prior to MBA, she worked as a PR agent for over 4 years. She interned as Summer Associate at McKinsey Seoul office, then joined the New Jersey office as full-time consultant after graduating from Duke Fuqua.  In this episode we talk about: The difference between working at Mckinsey in Korea vs in New Jersey Challenges as a new hire in the US Tips for students who interested in Consulting  Connect with Janette HwangLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janettehwang90/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flowered_h/ Meet Jacob Yu and Jay Park, your MBAsians Hosts!  // Jacob Yu Born and raised in Taiwan, Jacob worked in marketing and public relations at a tech company. At a young age, Jacob studied as a foreign exchange student in the US, understanding the challenges of being an international student. While studying at Ross, he has witnessed peers struggling in navigating MBA lives, motivating him to support and inspire others by creating the MBAsians Podcast. Learn more about Jacob LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-ch-yu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobyutw/  // Jay Park Born and raised in South Korea, Jay worked as a business developer and sales manager at an international trading company. Jay experienced countless trials and errors from preparation towards his MBA to adapting himself into first-ever foreign country life, motivating him to make MBAsians. As an adventure enthusiast, Jay is still continuing his life journey through MBA.  Learn more about Jay LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayp88/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaehongp88/  // Listen to MBAsians on all major platforms: Web: http://www.MBAsians.comApple: http://apple.mbasians.comSpotify: http://spotify.mbasians.comGoogle: http://google.mbasians.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagra.com/mbasians/ Like us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/mbasians Logo created by Michelle NamEdited by Jay Tran  // Join the Asian Podcast Network:Web: https://asianpodcastnetwork.com/Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/asianpodcastnetwork/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asianpodcastnetwork/ MBAsians is produced by Just Like Media:Web: http://www.justlikemedia.comInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/justlikemedia

We invited Rajat Goel, a Ross MBA graduate from 2020, to share his post MBA career experience as a consultant at Mckinsey & Company. You will learn more about how to utilize MBA networking to adapt yourself into the new working environment and find a best company fit for your recruiting

For this episode, we invited Yoonki Lee, a Fuqua MBA graduate from class of 2019, to share his experience of working in a healthcare company, 10x Genomics, in the US. He will also share the challenges he faced as a financial analyst when the company is transitioning from a startup to a public company.

share his Commercial Leadership Program experience at Amgen. In this episode, you will learn about the company Amgen and how YC successfully switched his career from HR at McDonald's to sales and marketing roles in the healthcare industry.

We invited Hannah Chen, a Ross MBA and MSI (Information Science) class of 2019 dual degree graduate , to share her Product Marketing career life at Microsoft. In this episode, you will learn about what the Product Marketing role looks like at Microsoft and what kind of challenges you would face in the marketing position as a international employee.

Hiroki Tanaka, a Ross MBA graduate from 2020, shares his post MBA career experience as a Program Manager at Google. Tune in to learn more about what a data center program manager role is, his responsibilities, and how an MBA can help you to succeed in the role.

Meet Mark Baukaew, a Ross MBA 2019 grad and current Senior Program Manager at Amazon. Learn about his MBA journey into tech, the challenges he faces in his role, and his best tips for current MBAs looking to get into tech.

Jay and Jacob are back for Season 2 and they share what you can expect in the coming 12 weeks!

MBAsians Final Episode of Season 1. We’ll share the best quotes from guests and ask ourselves about “one thing we wish we had known before coming to MBA.” Thank you to everyone who’s staying tuned to MBAsians. We’ll be back in 2021 with more priceless content. See you next time / 期待下次相見 / 다음에 또 만나요

In the previous episodes, we mostly focused on the topics like school life or recruiting . But, even with all the classes, events and assignments, There is still plenty of free time that you can decide how to use. It could be after school hours, weekends and holidays, or breaks between semesters. How you spend those free time can really change your overall MBA experience. We invite Yiran Huang, who is currently a second-year MBA student from Chicago Booth, to share how she manages her off-campus free time with us.

MBA is a journey for a new career path. And to find a better career path, many MBA students visit various companies and meet numerous people to learn more about different industries. To facilitate this point, many MBA programs or clubs do “professional trek,” which means they organize a trip for companies. For example, Tech Trek goes to big tech companies in the west coast and marketing trek goes to Chicago to visit several famous marketing companies. It really varies by schools or clubs. So let’s talk about this more with Sendy,Chen a second year MBA student from University of Southern California, or USC Marshall.

MBA is such an inspiring experience. It’s more than just getting a good academic result or finding a great job. More importantly, It’s a place where you can meet very interesting people from around the world, learn about their stories, and make meaningful, lifelong friendships. That being said, a lot of these bondings are happening outside of the classroom. For example, during social events. That’s why there are so many social events in the MBA. In this episode, we invite Warittha Chalanonniwat, a second-year MBA student from Duke Fuqua, to share her MBA social life experience with us.

Taking an MBA program in the US is a big, huge decision. And if you already have a family, it becomes 100 times more difficult. Today’s topic is about MBA and Family. Many international students had to decide whether they came to the US with family or not. Some partners may give up their career. Some couples ended up living separately. If they have a baby, how would they handle all difficulties in the country where they’ve never been. What a crazy situation. Let’s welcome Kazrin Khairul Anuar, a second-year MBA student from MIT Sloan, and listen to how he dealt with these issues.

You cannot talk about student life without mentioning homework and assignments. In MBA particularly, a lot of assignments are group projects based, which means, you have to work with other students and rely on each other to finish it together. It’s not easy for international students to participate or contribute under the group project setting due to a variety of reasons. We invite Doyoun Kim, a second-year MBA student from Cornell Johnson, to share his group project experience and to tell you more about why the group project is important as a part of your MBA experience.

The pandemic has changed the world a lot in 2020. People started to wear masks everyday and canceled their meetings with their friends, family and even wedding ceremonies. MBA is no exception. Most Business schools are doing virtual classes. Recruiters don’t come to the campus anymore. Many social events have been canceled or reduced. In other words, the Class of 2022 MBA students’ experience would be entirely different from other classes. With Jun Takahashi, 1st year MBA student from Ross, University of Michigan, we talk about what challenges they have and how they‘ve been going through this unprecedented time.

As the most popular post-MBA career path for MBA students, recruiting for consulting is very competitive. Therefore, it is very important to have a clear recruiting strategy to be successful. We invite Kelly Song, an MBA2 student from Tuck Business School at Dartmouth to share her consulting internship recruiting experience from networking to case preparation with us.

Many students come to business school not only to learn academics such as accounting, finance, strategy, or marketing, but also to look for career changes and get a new job. That’s why people spend most of their time to prepare for the summer internship recruiting right after starting the semester. However, it’s a tremendously difficult process for international students to compete with domestic students. We invite Chrissa da Gomez, an MBA2 student from UC Berkeley Haas business school, to share her summer internship recruiting process with us.

Even though many people think MBA programs are about networking and getting a better opportunity for a job, we can’t discuss MBA life without academics. Each MBA program has unique core classes and numerous electives. Also, having a brisk discussion and sharing ideas in the classroom is another attractive feature of MBA classes. However, there are many difficulties too. Many professors cold-call students in the class or use the casing teach method with which international students are not familiar. We invite Ryan Yu, an MBA2 student from Harvard Business School, to share his academic experience with us.

There are many kinds of clubs that can help your MBA journey. From professional clubs to fun and social clubs, you can have various opportunities to learn new things during your MBA life. However, it’s impossible to join every club you want to participate in; you should prioritize and make some tough choices.. Everything during MBA life is about how to distribute your time. We discuss a wiser way to join and use clubs during MBA life with Jung Lee from UCLA Anderson.

Some B-schools have a trek before the program starts or during the semester, travel purely led by students. Unlike professional treks, you do not need to worry about recruiting or networking, you just enjoy meeting new friends and learning new cultures. Incoming students can also listen to 2nd year students’ experiences and get lots of tips for their MBA lives. We invite Weber Lu from Northwestern Kellogg to share his KWEST experience, one of the most popular non-academic opportunities at Kellogg.

Orientation is officially the first time you meet your classmates from all over the world. You may be excited about meeting new people and starting the new chapter in your life, but at the same time, feel nervous. We invite Hiroki Mochizuki from Japan to talk about his stories during the MBA orientation period and share his advice on ice-breaking and getting close with new friends.

Moving to another country for your MBA is a big deal. There are so many things that need to be considered and be taken care of before school starts. We invite Neha Tadichetty from India to talk about her experience of preparing for the MBA journey and share her advice on how to deal with housing options and how to adjust to a new environment.

Hi, we're Jacob and Jay. We are two MBA students who just finished our first year of MBA life and decided to create a podcast specifically for MBA students from Asia. Learn more about our stories and why we chose to launch MBAsians.

MBAsians is a podcast for and by Asian international students currently earning or applying to MBA programs in the US. Hosts Jacob Yu and Jay Park share actionable tips and recommendations to make your MBA journey more pleasant and successful by interviewing current and recent MBA graduates from various programs. MBAsians will feature deep dive discussions focusing on diverse parts of the MBA experience, academic, professional, and social, covering important topics such as language and cultural differences, networking and managing relationships, and building a community of support.