A business model can give you a flexible road map. But how you execute that
plan can be transformational. We focus on a range of approaches of integrating the
foundational systems and processes in organizations, such as planning and design,
production and operations, and supply chains. And we emphasize strategic goal-setting
at every step.
For Chelsey Eggleston, mastering these operational systems became the bridge between a decade in retail stores and a strategic role in corporate planning.
Eggleston is a location planning analyst at Burlington, a large off-price retailer. After earning her bachelor’s degree in fashion merchandising and working in the retail industry for 10 years, she decided an MBA would be her best chance to pivot into corporate retail. She taught middle school math during the day and took MBA classes at night until she graduated in 2021. The knowledge she gained from her data analytics, operations management and leadership courses serve her daily in her company’s planning department where she must analyze data of sales items per region to build plans to support future season’s product demands.
Being in the retail industry, I deal with a lot of uncertainty, particularly with supply chain changes and weather disasters. So, I have to be adaptable and that’s a character trait that I developed in the MBA program. I was a full-time teacher and full-time graduate student. I knew when I first enrolled in the program at UBalt that I wanted to finish in exactly two years, and I did just that. I proved to myself that I’m able to work under pressure and can adapt no matter what is going on, whether in my life or around the world. I’m very proud of myself for that.
