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May 2004

Bachelor Exec Gives Dating, Career Advice

MBA students at Lunar New Year banquet
First-year students Dave Lu, Jennie Tung, Jeff Kuo, and Ivy Cheung at the Lunar New
Year banquet.

PHOTOGRAPH BY
DAVE LU

"What does it take to 'unsingle' yourself?" the student newspaper, The Reporter, asked Andrea Wong, MBA '93, when the network executive responsible for ABC's The Bachelor came to campus shortly before Valentine's Day. Wong was the keynote speaker at the student-organized Lunar New Year banquet, where the theme this year was Asian Americans in the entertainment business.

As senior vice president of ABC's alternative series and specials division, Wong said she knows more about how to break into the industry that she does about love, but "I have been told to treat dating like your second job. So when I was in New York, I went to many blind dates and parties. … You just have to put yourself out there and meet as many people as you can."

MBAs who want to break into entertainment, she added, need to start at the bottom with low salaries but realize they can "move up faster than others because you understand what truly drives the business."


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