Dear Buffy,
Hello Ms. Filippell I am from Brazil and I would like to ask you a couple of questions? I have a considerable sports background (9 years) as a professional basketball player (Brazil & Europe)and marketing (HSBC Bank Brasil).I'm planning to apply for a MBA degree with emphasis in sports management/marketing next year. Which program/business school would you advise me to apply for considering that I plan to work inside the sports industry after receiving my MBA degree? I have two names in mind (UCLA and Indiana U.) Are there better options? Thank you very much and I appreciate your attention.
Sincerely,Foreign Student
Dear Foreign Student,
As a member of the Board of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, it is hard for me to recommend another university. Nevertheless, there are a few other graduate business schools which may also be interesting to you, and please forgive me if I leave out some others. Obviously Harvard Business School is outstanding and they do support a sports marketing group, as does Duke University, Stanford, Kellogg School of Business (Northwestern), and Arizona State. UCLA and USC also have had, if not currently support, sports marketing programs. Then there are top notch sports management graduate programs, particularly University of Massachusetts and Ohio University, just to name the obvious ones. So many of the better business schools have some programs that support the field, and you should try to find out who are their graduates in sports management and what programs support sports management.
- Buffy
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