Susan Petty

Susan Petty

Susan is Director of Admissions for the Berkeley MBA for Executives Program. She has nearly twenty years of experience in marketing and advertising, having worked in several different industries including technology, travel, healthcare -- and many others from her media planning days at J. Walter Thompson where her clients included Chevron, Kaiser Permanente, Nestle, and Ford. She enjoys advising prospective students and guiding them through their personal MBA experience.

Posts by Susan

Berkeley EMBA student Sarah Reichenbacher

Women in Leadership | 2 MIN READ

Video: Finding an MBA community of like-minded women

For Sarah Reichenbacher, meeting the Berkeley MBA for Executives community made it easy to choose the program for her MBA. "I wanted to be sure that ...
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Uncategorized | 2 MIN READ

What exactly do people do with an MBA? Stories from Berkeley Haas

What exactly do people do with an MBA? There are as many answers to that question as there are students—maybe even more if you consider the changes ...
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Tom Duggan (left) with a friend.

Uncategorized | 2 MIN READ

An Executive MBA: worth so much more than the financial ROI

As an engineer, Tom Duggan (above left) took an analytical approach when considering whether an executive MBA (EMBA) would be worth the time and ...
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Tansy Brook

Uncategorized | 2 MIN READ

A Berkeley EMBA takes marketing from design thinking to systems thinking

Tansy Brook has always been passionate about business as a vehicle for positive change. After more than a decade of experience designing and ...
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Product Management | 2 MIN READ

An EMBA paves the way from consulting to product management

Ask Berkeley MBA Ashok Sundararajan about how an executive MBA (EMBA) can take you from consulting to startups – the degree enabled him to make that ...
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Berkeley Haas EMBA students

Applying | 5 MIN READ

Secrets to crafting your best MBA application

Not to scare you off, but applying to an MBA program is a big deal. It takes a lot of planning, rigor, and yes, self-reflection. But, if you were ...
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Applying | 3 MIN READ

Berkeley executive and part-time MBA application tips: the GMAT

For Berkeley EMBA student (and now podcast co-host) Manoj Thomas, taking the GMAT meant taking a standardized test for the first time in nearly 20 ...
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Product Management | 2 MIN READ

How an executive MBA paid off for this product marketing director

For product marketing director Adam Kerin, EMBA 16, it hasn’t taken long to see the return on investment (ROI) from his Berkeley Executive MBA. One ...
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Diversity and Inclusion | 2 MIN READ

At the Diversity Summit for Working Professionals

This fall, Berkeley Haas students in the Evening & Weekend and MBA for Executives Programs organized a Diversity Summit for Working Professionals.
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Diversity and Inclusion | 2 MIN READ

Six questions for Air Force reservist, MBA student Ricky Cornejo

"Haas opens all the doors and then you get to choose which one you walk through," says pilot, military reservist, and MBA student Ricky Cornejo of ...
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Diversity and Inclusion | 2 MIN READ

Why a part-time or Executive MBA works for a wide array of people

An MBA can have a transformative effect on your life and career. But, is it right for you? What if you want to continue working or have a family? How ...
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Uncategorized | 1 MIN READ

Video: The engaging and rigorous Berkeley EMBA classroom

Step into a Berkeley EMBA classroom, and you will be stretched and challenged both by your professors and your peers.
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