<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/newsroom/business-today-mba-video-2024-ce.cfm" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>09/04/2025</pubDate><title>MBA helped alumna rise from Substitute to Top Brand Analyst</title><description>Chelsey Eggleston, MBA '21, took evening business classes at The University of Baltimore while balancing work as a substitute math teacher. Now she's a location planning analyst for a large off-price retailer. 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. </description><author>Business Today</author><image><img src="https://www.ubalt.edu/about/newsroom/assets/images/2000x1500-mba_chelsey_eggleston-6769.jpg" alt=" Chelsey Eggleston, alumna"/></image><image-cap>Chelsey Eggleston, MBA '21</image-cap><quote>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.</quote><quote-name>Chelsey Eggleston</quote-name><quote-info>MBA '21</quote-info><tags><tag>Merrick School of Business</tag></tags></item>