by Lewis Nelson | 25 Aug 2017 | Career, MBA
Originally published on LinkedIn When I applied to the Executive MBA program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, I didn’t even know what I planned to do with the degree. I figured the worst case scenario was my MBA would be a valuable tool for...
by Lewis Nelson | 3 May 2017 | Career, MBA
Originally published on LinkedIn For as long as I can remember, I always had a word to describe myself. From early childhood through graduating college, it was very easy: I was an athlete. After college, I enlisted in the U.S. Army the day after the 9/11 attacks and...
by Lewis Nelson | 20 Oct 2016 | MBA
When we started our Darden EMBA journey back in August 2015, the career advising center recommended we wait until after our China trip (which was last month) to make a career move as we would then enter electives and a slightly less aggressive schedule; I probably...
by Lewis Nelson | 19 Oct 2016 | Career, MBA
I hope I’m not alone in this, but blogging consistently has always been hard. I’m always in love with the idea of writing. I’ve thought of and even launched multiple blogs in the past on veterans issues, travel, family life… some of my old entries are recycled into...
by Lewis Nelson | 22 Feb 2016 | Career, MBA
This morning, members of the Darden Military Association (DMA) had breakfast with retired Navy Vice Admiral and current President and CEO of the world’s largest credit union, Cutler Dawson. We were the benefactors of Darden’s executive leadership...
by Lewis Nelson | 2 Jan 2016 | MBA
For anybody seriously considering Darden for business school, I highly recommend taking some time to watch some of the many great YouTube videos from Darden. I included some links at the bottom to help you get started. But I had a chance to sit with Brett Twitty...
