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Corporate Champions

As a UB MBA, you'll participate in the Corporate Champions program, a unique opportunity that will help you become more involved in business and the community as you gain a real-world perspective on what you learn in your classes. 

Corporate Champions are representatives from the Western New York business community who partner with teams of first-year MBA students to help strengthen students' understanding of the world of business and their connection to it.

Throughout your first semester, Corporate Champions work with you in a series of activities, including MBA Advantage, an organizational analysis project, a company shadow day and an end-of-semester reception.  These distinctive interactions allow you to build relationships that will assist you with your career for years to come.

Read more about the Corporate Champions in Buffalo Business. 

2009 Corporate Champions

What others are saying about the Corporate Champions program...

Faculty

"The Corporate Champions program provided a setting for our student teams to apply their knowledge of organizational behavior, several teams, in their class presentations, talked about how much they learned by seeing organizational behavior theories and concepts in action in real organizations."

Jo Zubek
Assistant Professor 
Organizational and Human Resources 

Corporate Champion

"We were excited for the opportunity to meet these students, as they are potential future associates for Rich's. It also gave us  the opportunity to showcase why Rich's is a great place to work in Buffalo."

Erika Marabella
JD/MBA '04
Associate Corporate Counsel
Rich Products Corporation

UB MBA Student

"The Corporate Champions program is a definite asset to the MBA program. The best part for me was simply the opportunity to work with another corporation.  Although I have many years of work experience, most of those years have been spent with relatively few organizations.  It is invaluable to experience as many corporate cultures and industries as possible."

Christopher Bodkin
Second-year MBA
Team IBM 

Corporate Champions Board Members

Gwen Appelbaum, Assistant Dean and Director, Career Resource Center
Jaimie Falzarano, Assistant Director of Graduate Programs
Samantha Roth, Second-year MBA, Graduate Management Association President
John Shellum, Assistant Dean and Director of Alumni Relations
Cynthia Shore, Senior Assistant Dean and Director of External Relations
Ezra Staley, 2009 JD/MBA, Banking Officer, Credit Administration-Special Assets, M&T Bank
Josephine Zubek, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Organizational and Human Resources

2008 Corporate Champions