About Michael’s blog

I am pursuing an MBA to change the world.  Building on my engineering background, I’m looking to provide innovative and strategic guidance to new ventures in order to create high impact, high value organizations.

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EDUCATION

  • MBA Candidate, Class of 2008

Darden Graduate School of Business

University of Virginia

  • BS Electrical Engineering, 2002

University of Virginia

Graduated with High Honors (cum laude) as a Rodman Scholar with a minor in Religious Studies

ABOUT THE HEADER PHOTO

The image at the head of my blog is of a window in Barcelona’s Casa Batllo, designed by famed modernisme architect Antoni Gaudi.  In this house that defies convention, wood, tile, stone, and metal wave and flow evoking the feeling of an undersea paradise – complete with the scales and arched spine of a sea dragon for the roof.

This picture was taken during a 2007 Global Business Exchange in Barcelona to study “Strategy as Design,” employing the art and architecture of the city as a framework to learn about doing business in the realm of unexplored possibility.

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