Kevin Wildish

With a bachelor’s degree focused on engineering and construction management and extensive internship experience in the field, Kevin Wildish could have skipped graduate school and gone straight to work. But before he launched his career in construction management, he knew it would be worth it to invest in broadening his knowledge of the business world. Questrom’s Master in Management (MiM) degree program offered just what he needed.

“The MiM faculty and classes are giving me a distinct opportunity—with the team projects and variety of courses covering all topics related to business—to really round-out my knowledge,” Kevin says. “And the way classes are run here, focused on group discussion instead of lectures and straight content, has been very enjoyable for me.” 

Kevin says what he’s learned from his professors has been eye-opening, particularly learning how to leverage his past experiences to tackle large problems analytically and systematically. “The more you put into the program—talking with professors about anything outside of the classroom, for example—the more you will get out of it, the more knowledge and resources you’ll gain and connections you’ll form.” 

In addition to his outstanding professors, Kevin’s favorite part of the MiM program has been the hands-on team projects he’s worked on every eight weeks for real corporate clients. He particularly enjoyed the one at Bank of America, where he and his team studied how the bank could better advertise its small business retirement planning service.

“Running the weekly meetings was an extraordinary experience that taught me how to facilitate and lead a meeting in a highly professional environment,” he says. “Also, Bank of America really listened to us and respected and appreciated our work.”

As an undergraduate at East Carolina University, Kevin interned as a field engineer, project engineer, and plants/equipment coordinator in New Jersey and Washington, DC. The general contracting firm he worked for in DC  specializes in government projects, which gave Kevin the opportunity to work on two military bases on “For Official Use Only” restricted projects. It’s the type of work he plans to pursue when he graduates. With his new foundation in business leadership and problem solving, he knows he’ll have an advantage in the job market.

“I really enjoy construction and will work full time in that field once the MiM program comes to an end, but it was totally worth coming to BU to broaden my thinking in the business world.”