MBA Preferred

MBA Preferred features profiles of distinguished Oklahoma State University alumni who are graduates of the Master of Business Administration program over the past 50 years. Each story includes adversities, challenges, successes and advice from the honored MBA Alumnus. MBA Preferred will provide the reader with inspiration, education, and an understanding of the importance of an MBA--a highly coveted graduate degree--in providing diverse career options.

MBA Preferred features profiles of distinguished Oklahoma State University alumni who are graduates of the Master of Business Administration program over the past 50 years. Each story includes adversities, challenges, successes and advice from the honored MBA Alumnus. MBA Preferred will provide the reader with inspiration, education, and an understanding of the importance of an MBA--a highly coveted graduate degree--in providing diverse career options.

Jeretta Horn Nord is a professor, an author, and an entrepreneur. Dr. Nord is a professor in the department of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. She is the Founder and CEO of Entrepreneur Enterprises, LLC, and Founder of A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit book series. Jeretta has appeared on FOX Business and FOX Strategy Room. She has hosted two radio talk shows titled Empowering Entrepreneurs on Passionate Internet Voices Talk Radio and The Entrepreneurial Mind on Web Talk Radio and has been a guest on numerous radio shows including CBS Radio. Nord recently served as a Fulbright Specialists Scholar in Europe and has spent time as a visiting scholar at UCLA and the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. Dr. Nord founded the Oklahoma State University chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization and recently co-founded the Oklahoma State University chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Jeretta conducts research in the areas of technology and entrepreneurship. She has served as the associate dean for the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University, and is currently executive editor of The Journal of Computer Information Systems. Dr. Nord was honored in 2008 with a Distinguished Alumnus Award at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. In 2009, she was awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB), the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State (ECA), and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). Jeretta was awarded the Merrick Foundation Teaching Award for bringing free enterprise into the classroom and received the Greiner Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2007 for excellence in instruction.