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Regina Hughes: Business Foundations Program is an excellent addition to everyone's curriculum.
The certificate itself is modeled after the BBA core,
which means it's one class per every area or discipline of business.
Dean Bredeson: The Foundations Certificate is an efficient way to differentiate yourself from a lot of other applicants.
If you've got at least a foundational background in business, I think you are more attractive to a broader range of employers.
Eli Mercer: It's really much more about mentorship. It's about founding solid relationships,
that will stick with them through the course of their career. And what I like about Extension particularly,
and the Business Foundations Program, is the diversity it brings to the classroom.
Doug Devidal: Most of the students that are in my class have been in the business world for 5, 6, 7 years
And when they come into the class, they bring that experience with them.
Herb Miller: and that gives them a holistic experience that they
wouldn't get quite frankly, in a normal, academic environment.
EM: And what we find increasingly in business, is innovation doesn't come out of people
who are exactly the same, sitting in the same room, talking about the same old things
It's different people talking about new ideas.
Kaushlesh Biyani: You know, I've gone into the classes thinking, "oh, it's going to be theoretical.
It's going to be this. It's going to be that.." But I was seriously amazed at how hands on these classes are.
It's not just pie-in-the-sky.. oh, x-y-z example that I'm filling out a report for.
No. This is my business. This is giving me the hard questions to answer how to make my business successful.
David Verduzco: Everything usually does or should operate like a business.
So having that full foundation in everything helps, engineers, helps economists,.. helps every major and every discipline.
KB: You know, if you apply yourself, you are going to reap a lot of benefits out of this.
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