{"id":1069,"date":"2023-01-23T09:50:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T09:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2024-12-03T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T14:44:28","slug":"eeshan-gaonkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2023\/01\/23\/eeshan-gaonkar\/","title":{"rendered":"Eeshan Gaonkar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">MBA 2022, India<\/p>\n<p>Eeshan is an engineer by education and profession, looking to expand and foray into the world of business. Having worked in a tech start-up for the last five years, he says he realised that there exists a very exciting world out there full of opportunities for those with the skills and the will.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The quote by Sathya Nadela (below) perfectly summarises my way of thinking. It is exactly what I\u2019ve been doing too &#8211; I decided to pack up and move to a completely new country and do my MBA so that I can work in a completely new industry altogether. Keep learning and changing myself constantly are the words that I live by.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set up and ran a start-up for five years with no business know-how<\/li>\n<li>Steered the company through the challenging Covid-era and ensured smooth completion of projects despite insurmountable odds<\/li>\n<li>Brought in new businesses by integrating AI and ML into the company&#8217;s systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the MBA programme at Kent Business School and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The syllabus content, the location and the triple accreditation. I want to achieve my dreams and ambitions &#8211; both long-term and short-term goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I plan to work as a business consultant or in a hedge fund for 2-3 years, and gain enough business experience before foraying into the world of business with a start-up of my own. Although I\u2019m from a tech background, I\u2019m confident by the time I finish this MBA programme, I\u2019ll have the confidence and skills to be comfortable in running a start-up in any field and be successful at it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go for it &#8211; and go big while you\u2019re at it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLongevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Sathya Nadela<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2022, India Eeshan is an engineer by education and profession, looking to expand and foray into the world of business. Having worked in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2023\/01\/23\/eeshan-gaonkar\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79181,"featured_media":1143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249107],"tags":[249102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}