Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
After my glorious graduation as the Valedictorian of BAU Class of 2018, I have been directly accepted to the MBA program of BAU Graduate School of Business—supervised by a special board consisting of the leading business executives in Turkey, under BAU Graduate School—on merit-based full scholarship. I took some fantastic courses about Strategic Management and Marketing.
UPDATE (July 2022): I have successfully defended my thesis (BTW, my CGPA is 4.00 😁🎉😎)
My Thesis: A Model Proposal for Automobile Brands to Be Successful in the Era of Smart and Sustainable Mobility
My thesis advisor is Dear Prof. Ahmet Beşkese—Professor of Management & Industrial Engineering, and one of the Vice Presidents of BAU (along with Dear Prof. Tunç Bozbura), who was also my advisor during my bachelor's degree. As mentioned in my graduation post, Prof. Beşkese and his close colleague Prof. Bozbura have been great masters and mentors to me. I am a proud follower of their management school, particularly their strategic management and intellectual capital approach. Besides, it has been highly inspirational for me to witness their career advancement over the years and their promotion to the Vice President positions of BAU.
Thanks to BAU's high-profile network, I took Globalization course lectured by Dear Mr. Servet Akkaynak, ex-CEO of Bosch Rexroth Turkey & ME, and Consumer Behavior course lectured by Dear Mr. Altay Ayhan, ex-VP of Yıldız Holding (Pladis). Professionals and executives also joined us in our other courses as guest lecturers.
As part of an intensive MBA curriculum, I have done assignments galore, including great team projects, case studies and in-class presentations. In addition, Dear Dr. Selcuk Tuzcuoglu, my precious marketing professor, encouraged us to submit ad campaigns weekly and we discussed them regularly during his lectures. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the half of the spring 2020 semester was conducted online. Even though, my teammates and I made a fantastic online team presentation by adapting to the new normal rapidly. Among my individiual assignments, my most favorite one was the presentation that I volunteered to make about how 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics affected China's globalization journey (as a coming out party).
BAU GSoB's MBA program has enabled me to gain business acumen and improve my conceptual skills as well as learning management and marketing theory. I am so glad that my network has expanded with great professors, experienced business people and lovely classmates from different professional backgrounds and countries 💗
Multi-cultural Globalization class of Mr. Servet Akkaynak, 2020.
As the leading private university in Turkey's region in terms of full-time international student enrollment, BAU provides a multinational classroom experience.
With Mr. Altay Ayhan while signing his branding book for me, 2019.
And I would like to end my post with a photo from BAU Industrial Engineering Society's alumni panel conference in December 2018.