David Riley

Bangor Grammar School

University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

I had the fantastic opportunity to go back to university and work to gain an MBA. This was a part time course which spanned three years and included a diversity of modules including accounting, organisational behaviour, entrepreneurship, global political economics and management.The most interesting and rewarding parts of this course were the field trips. We had the opportunity to work in New York with the board of Thomson Financial for a week, conducting focus groups and engaging… Show more I had the fantastic opportunity to go back to university and work to gain an MBA. This was a part time course which spanned three years and included a diversity of modules including accounting, organisational behaviour, entrepreneurship, global political economics and management.The most interesting and rewarding parts of this course were the field trips. We had the opportunity to work in New York with the board of Thomson Financial for a week, conducting focus groups and engaging with senior management in relation to their merger with Reuters, and in the second year we traveled to Warsaw to work with a small interior design company on a strategy for future growth.The MBA experience is one which was both hugely rewarding and enjoyable and I am thoroughly convinced of the positive impact which this had upon my life. Show less

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