Ask Jordyn (Part 6): Master of Science in Business

Every wondered what an MBA would be like? What about an MSB? Let's get more info right now. 

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[00:00:00] Tuoyo Eresanara: So let's talk about the MBA just casually mentioned that , honestly, for me, if ever there was any program that you think about when you mentioned the word masters MBA, an MPH probably MPH is the second one that comes to my mind, the public's health, but the MBA is you.

[00:00:23] The first thing that comes to my mind, I'm like, Hey, so tell us the insights. How is an MBA? Really? What, what did you get from it? 

[00:00:33] Jordyn Ruiz: Yes. So my program is called an MSB program. It was masters of science in business for non business majors. M S B. And so I coming with a, like a science background I didn't have any idea about this business concepts.

[00:00:50] I maybe knew daily little from friends that were business majors, but I was not versed in, you know, the basics really. And [00:01:00] so I saw this as opportunity to sort of, widen my horizons a bit. And I love like knowing, kind of like a Jack of all trades sort of thing. I like to identify with that sometimes.

[00:01:10] And because I think it's, it's, it's important to sort of dip your feet in different fields. And I know a little bit about other other topics. And so I saw this as a great opportunity to get to a field that was, you know, kind of at the heart of almost everything. For, if we think about it, our whole life, we're engaging with some sort of business

[00:01:33] you know, whether it be your entertainment, going to see a movie they're marketing to you, they're trying to cause some sort of like emotional sort of connection. They're repealing you in some way. And so that's all business strategy. And so I basically knew that the direction I was going in medicine at the time, healthcare is also business.

[00:01:53] I wanted to be able to kind of understand it from that perspective. But as time was changing and I was [00:02:00] changing, I realized I can apply this almost virtually anywhere. If I want to go into, you know, accounting I'll need this. If I want to go into finance, I'll need this. I want to go into art, which is where I am now.

[00:02:11] I'll need this art as a business. As, as well as I'm like the creator of things, I'm also the marketer. I am you know, a one person team right now. It's important. I think for people who are interested in kind of running their own show one day and whatever it is, like entrepreneurship or whatever like a niche you're in, you're going to need some business strategies and some sort of skill set to optimize your business.

[00:02:41] Even if you're, if the business is you, it's hard. Sometimes for me to differentiate my art versus my business, it's sort of in one. And so I, I've been looking at this through, I think last semester, at least last two semesters from the artistic point of view and stuff, I've been really trying to like pull out the [00:03:00] components I need for, for that.

[00:03:01] But in general, the MSB, our MBA program, I think that it'll be beneficial to anyone no matter what field you're going into So, yeah, I, I, I think highly of it, I had a great experience. It was a small cohort and it was online. So we did our best to stay connected. But I learned so much from, from many different topics.

[00:03:23] So it ranged from leadership to how to negotiate effectively because that's a, that's a big thing in our everyday life, even to strategic business strategy, how to go about , your marketing sales, like how to, how to appeal to people in certain ways depending on your product and differentiating that product to get like competitive advantage in, in a certain, certain niche.

[00:03:44] So these are all like principles that businesses use and people use and can even improve. And so yeah, I, I think it was, it was a good journey to go on. And now that it's ended, I, I need to apply it. And so that's the exciting part.