{"id":18699,"date":"2017-05-15T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/?p=18699"},"modified":"2021-02-07T21:12:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T21:12:18","slug":"discovering-the-power-of-friendship-the-success-story-of-maria-clelia-pagliaro-mba-class-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/news-en\/discovering-the-power-of-friendship-the-success-story-of-maria-clelia-pagliaro-mba-class-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering the power of friendship: the success story of Maria Clelia Pagliaro, MBA class of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18693 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cLELIA_fB_SITO.jpg\" alt=\"cLELIA_fB_SITO\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cLELIA_fB_SITO.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cLELIA_fB_SITO-810x425.jpg 810w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cLELIA_fB_SITO-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>\n<p><strong>MBA 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I applied to the LUISS MBA program, I had just graduated with a Master\u2019s Degree in International Politics and Foreign Affairs. The business world was fascinating to me, and I liked the idea of challenging myself in a new and diverse career path.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, I had a gap compared with future colleagues having a background in finance, marketing or economics. So I decided to go London for an intensive Business English course: the more I could become comfortable in English, the more it would help me overcome my limits in the other subjects. So I took a flight and arrived alone in snowy cold London. By the summer, with great sacrifice and hard study, I passed the LUISS admissions exam, and I was an MBA student!<\/p>\n<p>The LUISS MBA program was rich, intense and challenging, and my class had a melting pot of different nationalities, languages and cultures. I had the chance to learn many topics in the business world, from statistics to corporate strategy, and this was fundamental to acquire the necessary skills to enter the job market.<\/p>\n<p>During the MBA I discovered the power of friendship. Not having experience in finance and economics, I was fortunate to meet two people who became my dearest friends. They were experts in those fields and helped me every day to learn these new topics. In return, I helped them to learn the more humanistic subjects. Together we overcame all the challenges (even the hardest, the unthinkable ones!) thanks to mutual support and patience.\u00a0 I will be grateful to them for all my life!!<\/p>\n<p>Following the program I got a position with the cosmetics company where I did my first internship. I am a junior brand manager in the marketing team. The MBA was a fundamental step in my career, and the decision to do it was the most important milestone of my professional life.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on my experience I would give this advice to prospective candidates: Give everything &#8211; your mind, your heart, your soul &#8211; and enjoy what will be one of the best periods of your life!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">15\/05\/2017<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2015 When I applied to the LUISS MBA program, I had just graduated with a Master\u2019s Degree in International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"twitterCardType":"summary_large_image","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Clelia_TW.jpg","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[157,2,359],"tags":[],"Master":[],"class_list":["post-18699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-be-inspired-blog","category-news-en","category-success-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18699"},{"taxonomy":"Master","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/Master?post=18699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}