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Birinder Singh Bhatia (MIMS ’19) spent the summer of 2018 as a Product Management Intern at Adobe.

“I feel the I School curriculum is the best option to develop interdisciplinary skills which are essential for a product management role,” Bhatia shared. “Skills I picked in classes like Web Architecture, Lean-Agile Product Management, Haas@Work, Information Law and Policy, Data Mining and Analytics provided me the ability to understand nuances of different aspects of product, and the perspective of external and internal stakeholders.”

Professor Josh Blumenstock was recently published in Nature, the leading multidisciplinary science journal. Blumenstock describes the potential for big data to make tangible improvements in the lives and economics of people in developing economies, as well as the pitfalls. 

“Today, 95 percent of the global population has mobile-phone coverage,” he writes, “and the number of people owning a phone is rising fast. With phones generating troves of personal data on billions of people who live on a few dollars a day, aid organizations, researchers and private companies are envisioning ways in which the ‘data revolution’ could transform international development.”