At the business school graduation in June 2022, Yara Khoshnaw from IBL was chosesn as one of the valedictorians to give a speech. Here is her speech in full. Thank you Yara and we wish you all the best for your career. Dear graduates, guests and all of Metropolia staff My name is Yara and…
Category: Alumni
Alumni story – from IBL to exchange in Hong Kong to master’s and investing
Kasimir Kunnas IBL14 Graduated 2017 I first became interested in business in my early twenties when I was working for a large telecom company in Helsinki. I wanted to learn how a business works and how it operates. My studies on IBL in Metropolia UAS started in 2014. The international aspect of the programme suited…
Alumni greetings from Singapore
Aliisa Wolf EBA10; graduated 2014 My journey started in 2013 with my EBA internship. At the end of my exchange year in La Rochelle, I was accepted for a 6-month internship in a global IT transformation program. The company, Allianz Technology based in Munich, is the internal IT service provider of the Allianz Group, a…
Successful Alumni Stories: ERKKI PAUNONEN
By: Nhi Nguyen, IBL 18 Who you are and about your history in Metropolia Business School?Hi, my name is Erkki Paunonen and I’m a Metropolia IBL graduate. I started in August of 2016, and graduated November 2019, group A, at the Myyrmäki campus, as a resident Finnish student (no exchange). During my BBA degree, I…
How to write an award winning thesis?
By: Katja Palovaara An interview with Maria Yakovleva, IBL13 who won an award scholarship for the best Bachelor’s Thesis chosen by LOGY, Finnish Association of Purchasing and Logistics. The title of your thesis is “Managing Last Time Buy Components”. To start off with, 1)How did you decide on the topic? Some of my colleagues in the…
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