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When students enter the Midland MBA, they are starting on a path to reach their potential as business leaders. At graduation, all are set up to succeed in this goal, and to help their employers succeed as well. One of the ways this is accomplished is through the Global Consulting Capstone, the final step on the road to graduation that allows students to both synthesize all that they have learned and directly apply it as a global consultant.

Brianne Mathew, Class of 2016, doesn’t only aspire to climb the corporate ladder. She makes it happen.

“I’m on my fifth job in five years with Union Pacific. I guess when you save the company $3 million, you gain some visibility,” she says with a smile.

Most people work 40 hour weeks. George Jarjour, Class of 2016, is used to 80. “I’ve cut it back to 60 so I can study,” he concedes with a smile.

Before George began Midland University’s hybrid MBA program, he was already a hardworking young executive with a travel schedule that kept him too busy for full-time school, even though he knew he needed it. By finding the right program for him, he hoped to be able to grow his skills and experience, while fitting school into his demanding schedule.

“Eat your children before someone else does.”

On our first day of Corporate Strategy, Professor Ed Ivey used that particularly evocative metaphor to help describe Apple’s strategic choice in 2014 to cannibalize their own products with larger iPhones. They were losing market share to larger phones from rivals like Samsung, so they chose instead to lose market share to themselves. It led to record iPhone sales in 2014, while Samsung’s sales flagged.