Inside the EMBA: Learning, Camaraderie, and Sustainability with Shilpika Basu (EMBA '26)

About this episode

Shilpika Basu shares her experiences and insights from her Executive MBA journey, highlighting the engaging learning environment and camaraderie with classmates.

In this episode Shilpika Basu, one of our Executive MBA students who joined the programme earlier this year, reflects on her EMBA journey so far: “Finance was always such a dry subject for me - but during the MBA, I had the most fun and camaraderie in accounting classes with Dennis Jullens. The lively discussions and banter made learning so much more engaging, and he was such an amazing person to learn finance from." Listen to the full episode to hear more about Shilpika’s EMBA experience, highlights of the programme so far and her advice!

People in this episode

Guest: Shilpika Basu

Topics covered

• EMBA
• finance
• camaraderie
• sustainability
• education

Keywords

• Executive MBA
• learning experience
• accounting classes
• Dennis Jullens

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: EMBA, Executive MBA, MBA

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