Alumni

As a member of the TU family, you join the ranks of more than 10,000 living alumni located in the United States and throughout the world, but we will always call TU home.

Thoughts From Our Alumni

Florin Pravai, Head of Domestic Market, Google Romania, EMBA graduate, Cohort 8

The EMBA program is the safest way to quickly climb a few steps on the self-development and individual improvement scale. I recommend this program fully supported by teachers from the U.S.A.; it combines an impressive experience in both the academic and the business area. Students are thus exposed to a different cultural experience, which requires more powerful interactions between them and their professors.

Mihai Neagu, CEO Perla Harghitei (Former CEO Mogyi), EMBA graduate, Cohort 15

About business in times of crisis and the help provided by an EMBA program.
I admit, as the CEO of this company (Mogyi Romania), that I have returned, frequently, to the manuals that are still visible on the shelves of my office, and I admit that I experienced again the moments when I was doing case studies on different real case situations, such as are made at Tiffin University.

Diana Țarfulea, Engineering Manager, Adobe, EMBA graduate, Cohort 10

The Executive MBA Program helped me grow professionally and personally and broadened my business perspective. The professors are experts in their fields, willing to share their rich experience and wisdom. The EMBA’s cohort class style offers a great opportunity to meet people with very diverse professional and educational backgrounds, to learn from others’ experiences and to explore beyond your comfort zone.

Flavius Porumb

Managing Director YERYO International, EMBA graduate, Cohort 11

Leadership, Learning, and Lifelong Connections: My EMBA Journey with Tiffin University

I have joined this program having a professional experience gained in state-owned companies, multinational corporations and in startup technology companies. My formal education and much of my professional experience is IT&C specialist.

The learning method based on case studies put me in the position to have at least three benefits: understanding business models of companies from very different fields of activity, finding solutions for the various challenges these companies are faced with, and development of the abilities to reach a harmonized point of view with the colleagues with whom we work in such cases. In addition, team work and role play gave me the opportunity to understand- and subsequently to apply in practice- the major role of diversity in teams functioning and decision-making.

With a full-time program, the 2 years in this program represented a real challenge to cope with academic rigors, but at the same time it also represented the opportunity to meet exceptional people, to make new friends among colleagues and to meet real mentors and role models among teachers

Thank you Tiffin University!

Vladimir Spirescu

COO Porr Construct, EMBA graduate, Cohort 9

About business in constructions, in times of crisis, and the help provided by an EMBA program

We woke up on a Thursday morning in another world. With deserted streets, with other rules, with people with fears and anxieties they we could not have imagined a few days before. Nothing was the same anywhere.

In constructions, usually no day is like the other. Nothing is repetitive. This time … I had no idea what was working and what not. Stock markets were falling everywhere, in Italy it was a continuous tragedy, the countries were closing one after the other, the international shipments were being canceled one by one, we could no longer rely on anything.

And then we went back to basics, to pure theory, lessons learned, books, and business cases we worked with during the MBA program. We went back to school, basically. I knew from Laura Mays that: “I should keep the airplane flying before everything” and from John Millar that: “The worst thing you can do is nothing”. We all know that “the elephants can be eat by slices”, but it’s important to know how to “slice” and that’s what I learned at Tiffin University.

I don’t know why in the first part of the crisis the” Death on Everest” business case kept coming to my mind. I resumed the notes and discussions from eight years ago, from class. I realized that we are coming out of the current crisis somehow, at some point, but we are certainly only coming out if we know how to communicate clearly and neat. And that’s what I did. I communicated with my colleagues, customers, suppliers, I put aside the entire formalism and I communicated clearly, directly and open.

Oh, I was forgetting one of the most important things! If, 8 years after graduation, in this kind of crisis, a former MBA colleague calls you and says, “Just as I would always rely on you to help me, know that you can always rely on any help you would need!”, means that what happened there, during classes, on those long weekends, was real and had such an effect that will last for many years.