Recently, I got to talk to Ravi Both after interviewing his wife, Amy Spitzfaden, a month ago. They both work for Amy’s mother’s company, PSCS, Inc., located in Peterborough, New Hampshire. PSCS helps periodical and book publishers increase their sales both online and in retail. The company has all TM-Sidha and meditator employees, and among other projects, is focusing on how to grow their TM community.
In May 2015, program director Andy Bargerstock presented the award for the most outstanding Accounting Professionals MBA graduate to Abdul Ghani Sheikh. This is not the first time Sheik has received an award while at MIU. In August 2011, he participated on the Baldwin Team, the first team at MIU to place first in the Capsim Foundation Simulation—an online business simulation.
Devanna De La Puente (B.A. in business, 2003) recently won the 2015 Marsh Award for Innovation in Peacemaking and Peacekeeping in recognition of her work in preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence in the context of disasters and conflict in the Asia-Pacific region.
Erin Liu had worked at two of the top international accounting firms, first Deloitte and then PricewaterhouseCoopers. After six years, she decided to take a break and apply to MIU to pursue a graduate degree.
An MBA group from Maharishi International University finished in the upper ten percent in the Foundation Simulation offered by CAPSIM, the nation’s largest provider of business games and simulations. The top placing MIU team, the Baldwin Group, consisted of four international students: Joshua Jacob Peniel (India), Akshay Ashok Nikam (India), Ala’a Nabeel Mahmoud Kiwan (Jordan), and Humphrey Ngoh Muwah (Cameroon).
An article summarizing a step-by-step project to improve lean processes at MIU was recently published by the peer-reviewed journal Quality Assurance for Higher Education.
MIU’s College of Business Administration was named one of the top 50 “Best Value” bachelor’s degree programs in America. The ranking was determined by Best Value Schools, a company that “helps students find schools and degree programs that can provide the most available financial aid and assistance, the greatest support and service, the highest return on investment, and the best overall value.”
Mahliyo Sattarova originally hails from Uzbekistan a “country [that] not many people know exists,”as she likes to joke. She came to Maharishi International University (MIU) to complete her Masters in Business Administration. Hearing that she settled into a position as a Loan Adjustor at Wells Fargo, I reached out to Mahliyo to see how her post-graduation life was going.
After completing her studies at MIU, Mahliyo moved to Los Angeles to seek out an administrative job. When asked about her transition from a small town to a large city, Mahliyo said...
The first class that all new MBA students at Maharishi International University take is the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI). SCI consists of 33 lessons from Maharishi and lays a intellectual and experiential foundation for all other classes at MIU. The main objective of the course is to help students both understand and experience consciousness the “source of the thinking process,” and therefore as a profound basis for all understanding all academic disciplines. In addition to discussions and videotapes on these principles, the new students are also taught how to practice the...
Any mention of Jason Aviles on the Maharishi International University campus will have even the quietest students gushing about how enthusiastic, vibrant, positive, and relatable he is.