Most applicants get an MBA to step out of their comfort zones. But, what about pursuing your MBA and subsequent five-year marketing career in Hong Kong as an American?

Tony DeGennaro, who majored in Political Science and Philosophy at Rutgers, shares his winding journey to the CUHK MBA, one of the top-ranked business schools in Asia, to running a boutique marketing agency targeting Chinese consumers, to now working as a Digital Strategist for First Page Digital, an online marketing agency with offices in 9 countries. What has Tony learned from studying and working in Hong Kong?

Questions

• Tony’s background, pre-MBA goals, and reasons for applying to CUHK (3:45)
• Tony’s biggest challenge during the MBA (13:40)
• The two things Tony took away from his MBA experience (17:10)
• Can entrepreneurship be taught? (21:20)
• How Tony ended up running his own boutique marketing agency (22:10)
• Tony’s current role at First Page Digital (27:50)
• Tony’s thoughts on the future of digital marketing and the marketing industry in Hong Kong (29:50)
• Tony’s tips for landing a post-MBA job in a foreign country (33:30)
• Leading the Marketing Club at CUHK (37:00)
• What Tony would have done differently (43:20)
• How Hong Kong has changed over the past 5 years (45:20)
• Tony’s last tips to applicants (50:00)

About Tony DeGennaro

Tony DeGennaro is an Enterprise Digital Strategist at First Page Digital. Previously, he was Director of Marketing and Business Development for Dragon Social, a boutique marketing agency in Hong Kong. Tony graduated from Rutgers with a Bachelors in Political Science and Philosophy, and worked in sales and as an English teacher before attending the CUHK MBA.

Show Notes

• Connect with Tony on LinkedIn
• Meet Tony at CUHK MBA’s Information Session & Alumni Sharing Webinar on August 25, 2021
• Get your profile assessed by CUHK MBA Admissions Team
• CUHK MBA

Episode write-up and show notes: https://touchmba.com/taking-the-road-less-traveled-tony-degennaro-cuhk-mba/

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Samuel Adeoye, UBC Sauder MBA '22, has an amazing story to tell about applying to 18 business schools over two years, and getting full-scholarship awards at 8 of them. How was he able to do this? And what has he learned from his application journey from Abuja, Nigeria to Vancouver, Canada?

Questions

• Samuel's background (4:18)
• Samuel's 2-year journey applying to over 15 business schools (8:00)
• Samuel's advice to low income applicants on applying to business schools and winning scholarships (20:52)
• Why Samuel started City of Lane and LanePod (30:40)
• Samuel's Sauder MBA experience so far and landing an internship at Microsoft (41:54)

About Samuel

After getting his Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, Samuel Adeoye interned as a Highway and Transportation Engineer while launching a podcast tech startup, and then worked as an Implementation & Design Engineer for Arup, a global architecture and civil engineering consulting firm. He then worked as a consultant for The Bluepen Company, a boutique consulting company serving small and medium sized enterprises in Nigeria.

In March 2020, Samuel founded City of Lane, a community of MBA Alumni, students and applicants looking to leverage their MBA experience for an economically and politically inclusive Africa.

Samuel is currently a Mastercard Scholar pursuing his MBA at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, in Vancouver, Canada.

Episode write-up and show notes: https://touchmba.com/fully-funded-mba-samuel-adeoye-ubc-sauder-mba

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