News and events from the Strategic Human Resource Management MBA
Why Do I Regularly Give Back to UW-Madison's SHR Program?
I remember that when working in Asia in 2014, I interviewed with the MBA programs at a couple of schools, but UW stood out. Professor Barry Gerhart and students like Dan Corry (now at Cisco) …
Big 10 Case Competition: Madness in March
The Big 10 Case Competition was hosted by Ohio State in partnership with Nationwide. While details of the case are confidential, the incredible experience I had is not! Each year, four students are chosen to …
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
“Can you hear me?” “I think you are muted!” It certainly isn’t conventional, but this is how interactions between alumni and me have sounded over the course of my first year at The University of …
Alumnae Kendra McAdams Answers Questions
This month, the Strategic Human Resource Management students were visited by a program alumnae, Kendra McAdams. Kendra graduated from the MBA program in 2012 and has since been working in various HR roles at Bank …
HR Summit: Virtual Edition
Each year, the Strategic HR Management Center sponsors an HR Summit in which industry leaders are invited to share their expertise on relevant issues. This year’s virtual edition was graced by the presence of UW-Madison …
GMBA Presents Multicultural Awareness: "Get to Know Your Classmates"
The Graduate Multicultural Business Association (GMBA) is a student organization with one simple goal and that is to promote cross-cultural understanding in a fun way! This year’s Co-Presidents are Deeptanshu Jha (DJ) and Jade Yeh, …
Championing Inclusive Leadership
On Tuesday, March 16, I had the opportunity to participate in the Ignite Career Accelerator Event: Championing Inclusive Leadership. The event featured UW MBA alum, Deanna Singh. Deanna Singh is a champion for marginalized communities …
Crossing the Rubicon
The M. Keith Weikel Leadership Speaker Series presented Jake Wood, co-founder and CEO of Team Rubicon, on February 4th. Wood discussed his past as an athlete, Business Badger, and Marine during the presentation. He was …
5 Things to Know as a “Career Changer”
In 2017, when I began the MBA application process, I never thought that I would be in Madison, Wisconsin, at the start of my final semester in business school in 2021. No one would have …