MEMtalks@Duke

Engage in a captivating conversation as our guest speaker Nishant imparts his wisdom and insights about the landscape of Product Management roles, and how pursuing a MEM degree can propel you toward those opportunities.

Along the way, he'll also share intriguing lessons from his personal journey.

Nishant Pandey, a Global Product Leader at JLL Technologies and a Kellogg MBA graduate. With over 20 years of experience in product leadership and digital transformation, he is known for his expertise in launching and scaling award-winning B2B SaaS products. As a mentor and speaker, his passion for student engagement drives him to collaborate with Product Management clubs globally.

#ProductManagement #CareerSuccess #Podcast

Linkedin:

Nishant Pandey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishant-pandey-56266b7/

Prakhar Gangwar:⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakhar-gangwar/⁠

Duke MEM Product Management Club:⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/duke-product/

Join us in an engaging conversation with our special guest Debdeep Basu, a resilient Duke MEM alum. Discover Deb's riveting journey as he shares the highs and lows, from Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning to overcoming layoffs and excelling as a senior product manager at Weave. Gain valuable insights on collaboration, long-term career strategies, and life philosophies. Enjoy this compelling podcast by Duke MEM Product Management Club for a glimpse into the life of a product manager!

#ProductManagement #CareerSuccess #Podcast

Linkedin:

Debdeep Basu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/basudebdeep92/

Prakhar Gangwar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakhar-gangwar/

Duke MEM Product Management Club: https://www.linkedin.com/company/duke-product/

In this episode, you can dive the world of career exploration with Jenny Sloop, the esteemed career coach at Pratt School of Engineering. In this enlightening podcast series, Jenny engages in thought-provoking conversations about careers, choices, and the journey to professional success. Whether you're a student, recent graduate, or a seasoned professional, join us as Jenny shares valuable insights, practical tips, and inspiring stories that will guide you on your path to a fulfilling and rewarding career. Get ready to unravel the mysteries of career choices and find clarity with Jenny Sloop as your trusted mentor.

Linkedin:

Jenny Sloop: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennysjohnson/

Venkesh Agarwal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/venkesh-agarwal-472150184/

Bhuvana Hanshika Immandi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhuvanahanshika/

Hey there,

Thank you for dropping by to listen to MEM Talks. We welcome you to our page, and hope you enjoy this podcast, which is brought to you on behalf of the Product Management Club of Duke's Master of Engineering Management program.

In the premier episode of the Fall'23 semester, our MEM students, Palash Kothari and Kunal Gupta, were in conversation with one of our distinguished Duke alumni from the batch of 2015, Mr. Tarun Thapar, a former MEM student who has risen through the organization, to the rank of a Product Lead at Amazon.

In our recent podcast titled, "From Blue Devils to Product Titans: Navigating Career Growth and Innovation," Palash and Kunal had the opportunity of delving into Tarun's journey, extracting strategies for career growth, and his career path toward making him a successful technology-business leader in the contemporary space.

Get to know more about Tarun and our students by connecting with them over LinkedIn:

1. Tarun Thapar - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarunthapar/

2. Palash Kothari: https://www.linkedin.com/in/palash-kothari/

3. Kunal Gupta - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunal-gupta8/

If you found this podcast to be insightful, share it and spread the word, so that more people can gain the knowledge!

Stay tuned for more, and don't forget to follow us on our social media handles:

https://www.linkedin.com/school/dukemem/

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/duke-product/

In this episode, Janki Chandiwala talks to Stephanie Knight about why students choose to pivot to the business side of things and what it takes to be a successful manager. Stephanie Knight is professor, entrepreneur and and executive coach. She teaches several courses at both, Pratt School of Engineering and Fuqua School of Business, with a demonstrated history of success in the management consulting industry. She is a Mechanical Engineer from Northwestern University who then went on to pursue her MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business who worked with McKinsey and Company for over 4 years in the past.

Listen to this podcast to know her views on young engineers moving forward to become managers and the advice she has to offer to become a good manager and a leader with a tinge of spring gushing.

Know more through:

Stephanie Knight's LinkedIn profile- https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-knight-9b0b3314/

Janki Chandiwala's LinkedIn profile- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jankichandiwala/

On today’s episode Noopur Vaishnav talks to Professor Robb Olsen who we are very lucky to have on our campus at Duke. He is an Engineer, Entrepreneur and Innovator  with experience working with Companies like P & G for over 30 years in largely influential positions  in which he directed and guided companies through their innovation processes and has over 40 patents. He has also played a large part in course design of innovation courses at top schools like Northwestern, Penn state and Duke. He is currently an adjunct professor at duke and is also working with the US  Military to help with their innovation processes. 

Linkedin of Professor Robb Olsen : https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbolsen

In today's episode we talk to a superior leader who serves with joy, gratitude, power and love - Prof. Allegra Jordan. Our guest for today has worked in 17 countries on five different continents in the fields of innovation, media, medicine, law, and post-war reconciliation, to name a few. She graduated with second-year honors from the Harvard Business School and has been named a "Top Executive under 40" in Austin, Texas, and Birmingham, Alabama. She is also a credentialed leadership coach, with a generation's experience in leading teams, coaching leaders and has authored several books on rebuilding the self with courage and hope. She is a superior leader, in the truest sense, whose purpose is helping other leaders flourish. She currently teaches Management and Leadership at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering.

To know more about Prof. Allegra, check out her website: https://allegrajordan.com/

Prof. Allegra's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allegrajordan/

Navya Adhikarla's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/asnbhhanu5

In this podcast we have our MEM student Narayanan Murugappan hosting Yash Choudhary and Heet Shah, talking about their journey from India to US and then landing their first PM role coming from experienced and inexperienced backgrounds respectively.

Both Yash and Heet work @ eBay as Product Managers but come from varied experiences. While Yash, a 2017 undergrad, comes from a tech background with more than 3 years of experience working as a Full-Stack developer, Heet, a 2020 undergrad, pursued his enterprenuerial interests during his undergrad and brought them to Duke, and Egosa is one such venture. Both of them started off at Duke with a unique background and landed at eBay for their first PM roles. In today’s podcast, we’ll speak about both of their individual experiences at Duke, and how it set them up for success in their new roles as Product Managers.

You can connect with them here :

https://www.linkedin.com/in/heet3598/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash-choudhary/

In this podcast we have our MEM student Kritika Sharma hosting Gauri Punekar and talking about her journey in transitioning to product management. 

Gauri is currently working as a Senior Product Manager Technical @ T-Mobile. She is a proud blue devil and an MEM graduate from 2017. In today’s podcast, we’ll talk about Gauri’s experiences at T-Mobile and at Duke, her journey from an intern to a full-time employee at T-Mobile, and how she made this successful transition as a Product Manager.

Gauri : https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauripunekar/

Kritika : https://www.linkedin.com/in/kritikasharma93/

In this episode, we have our MEM student Afreen Ahmed talk to Duke MEM alum Esha Shukla about her journey in product management and advice for aspiring product managers. 

Esha Shukla is currently a Product Manager at WhatsApp. She is a 2014 MEM alum from Pratt School of Engineering. In this session, we talked about her experiences as a Product Manager across the companies she worked at (CitiBank, Meetup & Meta), her time as a student at Duke, and about the strategies that students can use to break into product management.

Linkedin : 

Esha : 

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshashukla/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/esha_shukla

Medium - https://medium.com/@eshashukla

Afreen : 

Linkedin -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/afreen-ahmed-932736180/