{"id":43376,"date":"2018-09-13T06:04:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/mba-advice-for-the-entrepreneur-insead-grad-mike-davis\/"},"modified":"2018-09-13T06:04:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T13:04:16","slug":"mba-advice-for-the-entrepreneur-insead-grad-mike-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/mba-advice-for-the-entrepreneur-insead-grad-mike-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA Advice for the Entrepreneur: INSEAD Grad Mike Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Davis was running three successful startups from a rented office in Manhattan when he decided to pursue the MBA. Before co-founding the student lender MPOWER Financing, where he\u2019s currently Chief Investment Officer, Davis founded more than a dozen startups, served as Director of Innovation and Strategy at Avon, and earned his MBA from <a href=\"https:\/\/fortunaadmissions.com\/insead\/\">INSEAD<\/a>. He also graduated high school at the age of 14 and Purdue University at 19, and had an early career stint at Sapient. To call him a fast-track overachiever is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>The latest in our Fortuna Admissions series for Forbes, A Day in the MBA Life, spotlights serial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mattsymonds\/2018\/08\/20\/a-day-in-the-mba-life-insead-startups-and-coffee-chats\/#2ae50cd674e6\">entrepreneur and INSEAD alum Mike Davis<\/a>, who is a geyser of candid, unvarnished insight for anyone interested in making business school the next step to a life-changing career.<\/p>\n<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4198\" src=\"https:\/\/fortunaadmissions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CL2_8212-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/>LBS Grad Mike Davis (far right) with his MPOWER colleagues<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this revealing interview, Davis talks about the value of b-school for entrepreneurs, applying to 13 business schools in one round, his passion for INSEAD eight-years:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mattsymonds\/2018\/08\/20\/a-day-in-the-mba-life-insead-startups-and-coffee-chats\/#2ae50cd674e6\">A Day in the MBA Life: INSEAD, Startups and Coffee Chats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/fortunaadmissions.com\/\">Fortuna Admissions<\/a> Co-Founder and Director <a href=\"https:\/\/fortunaadmissions.com\/team-member\/matt-symonds\/\">Matt Symonds<\/a> is a frequent contributor to\u00a0Forbes, BusinessWeek,\u00a0The Economist, BusinessWeek, the BBC, and Am\u00e9ricaEconomia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Davis was running three successful startups from a rented office in Manhattan when he decided to pursue the MBA. Before co-founding the student lender MPOWER Financing, where he\u2019s currently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1831,775,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-fortuna-admissions","category-admission-consultants","category-blog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}