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Kilts Marketing Fellowship

The Kilts Marketing Fellowship is awarded each year to select incoming Full-Time MBA students who plan to pursue a career in marketing. Past Kilts Marketing Fellows have gone on to leadership roles at companies such as Procter & Gamble, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Amazon, Starbucks, and American Express.

Kilts Marketing Fellows receive significant tuition support, as well as a mentoring relationship with a Kilts Center Steering Committee member. This mentoring component provides fellowship recipients with an unparalleled opportunity to interact with a senior marketing executive, giving them an edge over their peers when they are ready to enter the job market. Kilts Marketing Fellows also have opportunities to engage with Booth faculty members at special events.

Pursue Your Passion

Do what you love. That’s the advice Kilts Steering Committee member Ted Wright, ’00, shares with every Booth marketing student he mentors. If you’re not pursuing your passion at work, Wright says, “it’s hard to get up every day at 5:30 and take the train in.”

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Class of 2019 Kilts Marketing Fellows

Kilts Fellows 2019

From left: Anne Delmar (mentored by Danny Sack); Shota Ido (mentored by JG Chirapurath); Monisha Shivakumar (mentored by David Neenan); Lindie Wang, Henry J. Rak Fellow (mentored by Henry Rak); Patrick David Yates (mentored by Howard Brandeisky); Benjamin Drew Ziomek (mentored by Brian Dominguez).

Onward and Upward

Since 2006, we have awarded fellowships to more than 75 students who have gone on to successful careers at some of the world’s most innovative companies, including these three outstanding alumni:

Alex Ward, ’08, David G. Whalen Fellow

Global Lead, Special Projects - Host Team, Airbnb

Ward works with cross-functional teams to incubate new-growth initiatives for the company’s core business. Many of these incubations currently focus on unlocking more hosts and homes in order to meet the rapid increase in Airbnb’s guest demand over the past decade.

Heather (Rubacky) Ward, ’16

Senior Associate Brand Manager, Mars, Inc.

Mentored by Ted Wright, Ward is a senior associate brand manager for innovation across Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, and Three Musketeers. She’s responsible for comprehensive development and go-to-market planning of strategic new-product and packaging initiatives.

Justen Knight, ’13, Henry Rak Fellow

Strategy and Operations Manager, Google

Knight serves as the “chief operating officer” of the government and advocacy ad sales team at Google, partnering closely with the team’s director on strategic decision-making and leading projects to drive strategy and improve the operations of the team.

Becoming a Kilts Marketing Fellow

Marketing fellowships are awarded in all three rounds of admissions to the Full-Time MBA Program. All admitted students are considered for a marketing fellowship. However, candidates must plan to choose a concentration in marketing, plan to pursue a marketing or general management career after graduation, and have a demonstrated track record of professional and academic excellence.

Kilts Scholars Program

The Kilts Center awards generous tuition support to outstanding second-year MBA marketing students in recognition of their academic achievements.

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Experiential Learning

The marketing curriculum at Booth includes courses that accelerate learning by allowing students to devise and provide business solutions to company sponsors.

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Student Groups

Booth’s vibrant student community boasts more than 100 student-led groups across all MBA programs, including active organizations that are devoted to marketing and technology.

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