2021 careerpivot cases

Making the most of a career pivot

Excerpt from Olin Blog: The winning team of the seventh annual PepsiCo MBA Invitational Business Case Competition included Tyler Whiteman, MBA ’23.

Whiteman is a first-year student who had spent most of the past decade in musical theater as an actor, singer, and dancer out of New York City. Then COVID hit.

“In a matter of days, I watched as the virus devastated my industry,” the St. Louis native said. “After repeated calls from my agent delivering unfortunate news of all my jobs being canceled, I decided to hit the drawing board: I knew if there was ever a time to make a massive switch in my life, this was it.” Read more here.

See Tyler in action with his acting portfolio.

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