Voices

GDI Client Company – Spain

GDI Client Company – Spain, Chief Executive Officer, Fall 2023 (Over-the-counter Medications)

I am writing to highly recommend the Global Development (GDI) Program – having had the pleasure of working closely with you over the past few months at Mucosa Innovations. The (Student) Team has constantly demonstrated a strong commitment to professional development and a passion for addressing global challenges.

Jacob Gonzalez, BS in Accounting

BS in Accounting

I was admitted to The University of Texas at Dallas and offered the JYSP scholarship. Without this scholarship, that you so generously helped fund, I probably wouldn’t have gone to college. Now, the opportunities are endless, and my goals of becoming a CPA and working for the FBI are closer than ever before.

Scott Lloyd, BS in Finance ‘18

Senior Manager, People Insights and Analytics, DaVita Kidney Care

DMHP played a hugely important role in preparing me for my professional career. The organization provided me with so many opportunities to be a leader on campus, and to learn valuable skills that were critical to both my personal and professional development.

Xuying Zhao

Associate Professor in Operations Management
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

At UTDallas, I met so many excellent professors and classmates, who have become my life-long mentors and friends. The professors are internationally recognized leaders in their areas, full of passion for research, extremely brilliant, and also hard-working. Meanwhile, they devote huge amount of time to helping and guiding PhD students. I feel very lucky to complete my PhD study in Naveen Jindal School of Management at UTDallas.

Jenna Lowenberg

I always knew UTD was the place for me, as it offers challenges, invites growth, and delivers opportunities. I am appreciative of the prestigious degree plans and excellent faculty and staff that have set me up for success in my future!

SeoYeon (Soy) Choi

Master’s in Information Technology Management, Class of ’21

Be prepared to allocate few hours a day to mold your cover letter to fit your dream companies. Start early, apply to many, and importantly, set your boundaries – focus on specific job title(s).

GDI Client Company – Sweden

GDI Client Company – Sweden, Company Co-Founder, Spring 2022 (Rural Broadband)

We took part in the GDI program in 2022. The students who worked with us were very helpful in providing market data that assisted us in our further work for entering the USA market. We would recommend any company, globally, that considers approaching the USA market to take advantage of the facilities and services a GDI Student Project Team can provide.

Oscar Urrutia

At UT Dallas:

Junior in Healthcare Management

What’s the most surprising thing about being in college?

The most surprising aspect of college is the amount of new information you learn in one hour when you go to class. There’s so much to process and that forces you to ask questions in order to understand the topic. This is critical to your development, since asking questions will enhance your understanding of objectives and the task at hand.

What is a class you enjoy and why?

I am enjoying Medical Terminology. The information I have learned has been fascinating. If I decide to pursue a career in a hospital setting, knowing medical terms will allow me to better interact with doctors and staff, while also making good decisions that support the hospital.

What is a class that was particularly hard that, in the end, you mastered?

The hardest class I have taken so far was Financial Accounting. If you have never taken anything related to accounting, the course gets really difficult really quickly. In all honesty, it took me a while to find a way to comprehend this class, but I developed new study habits and began solving practice problems to get better at recognizing different accounting scenarios. I finished the class with a good grade and with the relief knowing I was done with it.

Akash Singh Verma , MSF SPRING 2022

During my time at UTD, my best experience has been at the trading lab. As a top performer in the UTD stock track competition, access to financial databases at the trading was crucial to my success. In addition to that, the peer learning environment at the lab helped me enhance my skills, which made me more competitive in interviews. Overall, I can confidently say that the Trading Lab contributed to my development not only in the technical aspect but also helped me form connections and networks I will cherish forever.

Julio Tovar

At UT Dallas:

Sophomore in Accounting

If you work off campus, are there things you’ve learned at UTD that you apply at work?

I am part of the environmental services at UT Southwestern. Thanks to some of my Jindal School classes, I have been able to understand how management works on a much larger scale and see how inventory is managed.

What’s the best thing about UT Dallas and Jindal School so far?

I think the best thing has been learning and being able to understand how systems work. When I was kid, I would always wonder how and where businesses would get large amounts of food or supplies and how they would keep track of it all when there were at least 100 items on every order. Understanding the infrastructure of companies has been the thing I have been intrigued with most. Jindal School classes have been answering those questions.

How have your personal goals changed since you’ve been at UT Dallas?

My idea/goal when I got here was that I would be here for four years and get my degree. But now I see that these four years are for me to better myself.

GDI Client Company – The United Kingdom

GDI Client Company – The United Kingdom, Company Founder & CEO, Fall 2022 (Automotive Insurance Marketplace)

The GDI program was extremely valuable, the work was accurate following the project specification and in depth. Learning weekly on our project calls gives a true feeling of progress making our calls something exciting to look forward to. Working with the students was something I had never done before, personally, it was a rewarding experience, taking the chance to talk about your business and your plans to a new audience is a fantastic refresher experience and one I would recommend.

Jay Trivedi, BS in Finance and Healthcare Management ‘20

Client Services Associate, Fisher Investments

DMHP has given me so many amazing opportunities in addition to some of my closest friends. The classes from DMHP have been the ones that have brought the most memories, teaching me how to differentiate yourself at an exceptional level. This experience for me has become special and I wouldn’t trade anything for it.

GDI Student – Swedish Company

GDI Student – Swedish Company, Class of Spring 2022 (Rural Broadband Development)

Thank you, Mr. Howorth! And I also want to say thank you for all the help and opportunity you provided me during the Global Development Initiative in 2022. That experience has been priceless during my job interviews as it gave me first-hand involvement working on data procurement and consultation. It was always a talking point and helped me get my current job at Murphy Oil Corporation, so I truly appreciate what you and Professor Zydorek did for us during that course! Thank You!

Priya Rupramka , MSF FALL 2021

Working with Dr. Liping Ma and serving in the finance trading lab was the favorite part of my UTD journey. I feel fortunate that I received an opportunity to join the lab right after coming to the US. Each day at work was a learning experience and helped me grow my skills including event organization, time management, and networking. I would recommend incoming JSOM students to take advantage of the lab facilities and the resources available. Being a part of Finance Trading Lab has helped me transform my professional career and made me an all-round individual.

Mina Ameri

Assistant Professor
The University of Pittsburgh

I started in the Jindal School of Management knowing nothing about research. But during my 5 years of PhD, I grew from being a student to being a researcher. And it was all because of the help and guidance I received from the kind and caring people there and especially my amazing advisors. Now, my professors and classmates have become my lifetime friends and I will always have what I’ve learned from them, how to work hard, how to not give up, and how to help others on similar journeys.

Pratiksha Tonpe, BS in Marketing ‘20, MS in Marketing ’21

Analytics Strategist, Carmichael Lynch

Honors students like me are so passionate about learning and challenging themselves and DMHP offers us the perfect outlet for our curiosity. I have loved my DMHP experience because of the wonderful people I have met and experiences I’ve shared with them. There’s just some sort of excitement with the honors classes and it’s because you aren’t sitting in a room full of strangers; you’re sitting with the person you sat next to on the subway when you went on the DC/New York trip or the person you knocked out when playing dodgeball at Group Dynamix. You don’t just get that kind of classroom environment just anywhere.

Bharadwaj Kadiyala

Assistant Professor, Eccles School of Business, University of Utah

The PhD program at UTD provides a fantastic environment for learning and sharing ideas with faculty who are widely regarded as experts in their respective fields and with other highly motivated PhD students. The faculty are extremely enthusiastic about identifying and rigorously addressing interesting research problems. I feel lucky to have been a part of that environment during my PhD and it is through my interactions with the faculty that I have been able to develop my own academic research agenda.

Brendan Kouns

BS in Healthcare Management, Internship in Cape Town, South Africa

Learning is finding one’s passion and having the motivation to pursue it no matter the obstacles.

Jess Cornaggia

Alumni Professor of Finance, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University

The PhD program prepared me for a successful career in academia. I had ample resources to conduct high quality research and, most importantly, I had helpful mentors who really invested in me and taught me the nuances of the profession.

GDI Student – Israeli Company

GDI Student – Israeli Company, Class of Spring 2023 (All Terrain Vehicles)

I had the pleasure of being a project leader alongside my team members, coach, and mentor. We gained meaningful international business experience in a domestic learning environment. Various skills such as time management, business meeting conduction, and industrial research were utilized. It is one thing to take classes and learn about global business, it is another thing to be engaged in consultation with an international company.