How Teo Ramirez is turning business strategy into community impact. For Teo Ramirez, business and government have never existed as separate paths. Instead, they have always been connected by a single question: how can leadership create meaningful impact in a community? Long before enrolling in Portland State University’s MBA program, Ramirez was building that intersection. As... Continue Reading →
How the PSU MBA Helped Ben Jacklet Move from Journalism to Solar Storytelling Born in Eugene, Oregon, Ben Jacklet was destined for a life shaped by curiosity and discovery. His parents were finishing graduate school when he was young, and both went on to become biology professors. Eventually, his father accepted a faculty position at... Continue Reading →
When Meena Al-Azzawe enrolled at Portland State University in September 2020, the world around her felt unsettled: Portland had experienced a summer of wildfire smoke, political tension was high, and the city seemed caught in a pressure cooker of grief and fury. Against that backdrop, Meena returned to school seeking something future-facing, constructive, and grounding.... Continue Reading →
When Andrew Osborn pursued his MBA at Portland State University, he already had strong analytical skills, the ability, as he puts it, to “know where to get the pollen and how to make the honey.” At PSU, he learned to see the bigger picture: how the whole system works and how improvements in one area can... Continue Reading →
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