Carolina Ragolta
MBA Student at Stanford Graduate School of Business
What is your current job/where are you working? Any career highlights you’d like to share?
I am currently attending Stanford Business School, where I am in the first year of my MBA. Before school, I worked as a product manager at Kespry, a drone hardware and software startup. During my time at Kespry, I helped launch our drone system into two new industries and led the charge on a redesign of our web-based analytics platform.
Why did you decide to sign up for CORe?
I had been considering business school as the next step in my career. I saw CORe as a great opportunity to learn business fundamentals, gain exposure into the kind of content I would learn in business school, and help determine if going back to school was the right choice for me.
What did you enjoy most about learning with Harvard Business School Online?
I enjoyed how the principles in the courses were grounded in concrete applications to the real world. I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an undergraduate, but the content of the Business Analytics and Economics for Managers courses showed me new ways for using the theoretical foundations I already had. Plus, I had no background whatsoever in accounting so I was excited to finally understand what financial statements meant!
How are you applying what you've learned in the HBS Online courses you’ve taken?
I've been fortunate to apply what I learned in HBS Online both in the professional world and back in school. As a product manager, I did a lot of analytics, so the Business Analytics course had the most immediate impact on my career. Going back to school, I have referred back to my accounting and economics notes in my foundational accounting course and an advanced pricing class. HBS Online made me feel confident in pushing myself to take more challenging courses in these topics.
Any advice for people who will be taking HBS Online courses?
My advice would be to take good notes - you will certainly find many opportunities to refer back to the coursework in your career!
I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an undergraduate, but the content of Business Analytics and Economics for Managers showed me new ways for using the theoretical foundations I already had.
Carolina Ragolta, MBA Student at Stanford Graduate School of Business
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