{"id":3267,"date":"2020-05-11T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2025-01-17T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:32:17","slug":"businessbecause-music-to-mba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/2020\/05\/11\/businessbecause-music-to-mba\/","title":{"rendered":"Swapping Music For An MBA | Meet Two MBAs Who Made An Unusual Career Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"sep\"><p style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalo.edu\/access\/services\/service2\/archived-content.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This content is archived.<\/a><\/p><\/span>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2020\/05\/kate-jake.png\" alt=\"Kate Jarvis, Jake Walsh\" class=\"wp-image-3269\" style=\"width:348px;height:234px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2020\/05\/kate-jake.png 696w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2020\/05\/kate-jake-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kate Jarvis, Jake Walsh<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Written by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessbecause.com\/resume\/Jon-Oldaker-0\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Jonathan Oldaker<\/a>, BusinessBecause, April 30, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all MBAs come from finance, consulting, or big business backgrounds. These two former music professionals are reaping the benefits of an alternative start to their business careers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes an MBA candidate? You may think the typical MBA comes from a consulting or finance background, but this isn\u2019t always the case. Students from non-traditional backgrounds, such as science, technology, non-profit, and even the arts, are using MBAs as career pivots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a aria-label=\"Read the rest of the article on BusinessBecause (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"aioseop-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessbecause.com\/news\/mba-degree\/6865\/mba-students-career-switch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the rest of the article on BusinessBecause<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This content is archived. Written by&nbsp;Jonathan Oldaker, BusinessBecause, April 30, 2020. Not all MBAs come from finance, consulting, or big business backgrounds. These two former music professionals are reaping the benefits of an alternative start to their business careers What <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/2020\/05\/11\/businessbecause-music-to-mba\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Swapping Music For An MBA | Meet Two MBAs Who Made An Unusual Career Switch<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":3269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,4,5,11,1,12],"tags":[189,134,188,145,99],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career","category-career-resources","category-internships","category-student-life","category-uncategorized","category-why-ubmba","tag-businessbecause","tag-career","tag-career-switch","tag-mba-2","tag-mbaambassadors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5767,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/5767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/business-management-mba-ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}