Taking Classes in 12 Different Cities feat. Mike Narvaez ‘20
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English - January 18, 2023 10:00 - 35 minutes - 33 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsSociety & Culture Business rice business rice university rice biz rice owls rice business school b-school alumni university alumnus Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Mike Narvaez describes himself as a “husband, father, manager, student and volunteer trying to make more right decisions than wrong.”
Right out of undergrad, Mike was a system safety engineer at the GHG Corporation, identifying hazards affecting the International Space Station (ISS) and astronauts by providing real-time support at Mission Control. He spent time as a manager of safety and risk at Sysco in 1999 after that, and eventually joined BP where he is currently a workplace services manager for the U.S. and Canada, driving the implementation, execution and monitoring of bp workplace operations.
This Houston native sits down with host Maya Pomroy ’22 to talk about how his son pushed him to get his MBA, maintaining connections with his cohort even though he did the online MBA program, and being a lifelong learner.
Episode Quotes:
What Mike wanted from an MBA program
22:21 - I really wanted to learn from the other people in the program. And so the more diverse that is, whether that's something as simple as geography, it certainly makes the program more enriching for me because I learned just as much from my fellow students, as I did from my professors.The soft side of time management
31:25 - Understanding who you are, your values, and what you prioritize. That's the soft side of time management that most people don't think about, but it plays a huge part.With online MBA, cohort was all over the world
21:40 - We had a Naval officer that was stationed in San Diego at the time that was on my cohort. We had people that were on the East Coast, the West Coast, people like me that went to Texas A and M that were in a whole other state. And so it was fun to have that connection of somebody that went to school, but was often another part of the world or another part of the industry.
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