Ghanaian-born Awal Suddeeq never ever sits nonetheless for way too extended. The serial entrepreneur has various startups to his name and is always on the lookout for methods to burn up his entrepreneurial energy.

Right after launching a normal cosmetics production enterprise, Kasi Naturals, and primary youth-empowerment systems in Ghana, he went in search of techniques to hone his startup expertise.

He’s now applying his MBA from Asia College of Organization (ASB) to operate providers across Africa and Asia.

Why MBA: Asia School of Enterprise

Through his time as an early entrepreneur, just one point performed on Awal’s thoughts. 

“I swiftly realized that I didn’t have plenty of small business information, ideas, or frameworks to recognize what I was undertaking,” he claims.

It grew to become distinct to Awal (pictured) that an MBA would be a phase in the right way. 

He was originally drawn to ASB—a Kuala Lumpur-dependent business university fashioned in partnership with the MIT Sloan College of Management—due to its Motion Studying (AL) curriculum. AL is a core section of the ASB MBA system that sees students undertake 5 initiatives across diverse corporations and international locations, a person of which is precise to entrepreneurship.

“To have the opportunity to test lots of points in various industries produced me experience like the method was crafted for me as an entrepreneur,” Awal notes.

The ASB MBA even further appealed to him when he read about the school’s take a look at-optional coverage, which waives the GRE or GMAT exam need for college students from underrepresented socio-economic backgrounds. As an alternative, ASB considers issues like prior operate activities and profession motivations.

“The MBA admissions policy confirmed me that this was going to be an unconventional route simply because [ASB] was not accomplishing what each and every other business enterprise university was performing.”

Delving into entrepreneurship from new angles

On the 20-thirty day period ASB MBA, Awal was eager to get stuck into the AL tasks and utilize the entrepreneurial principle and frameworks from his MBA classes, these types of as Entrepreneurial Technique, in a actual-globe placing. 

He obtained working experience working on a go-to-market method in just the digital telecommunications market, as effectively as functioning for an e-commerce company. But it was in…