Egan O'Reilly, an experienced active duty Army officer, currently serves as a Sub-Saharan Africa Foreign Affairs Officer and is completing his MBA while stationed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania...
Egan, a West Point graduate and ODU legacy, says when he considered his options for pursuing graduate education he looked for "a flexible program that would best accommodate my needs from afar." He found that in the ODU MBA program, saying "Despite routine travel, expected difficulties in developing countries, and raising two sons, ODU's MBA program has exceeded all of my expectations." The ODU MBA program is designed to be relevant to the purposes of its students. In Egan's words, "The military, especially for its officer corps, stresses thinking critically and analytically. What the MBA program provides is a versatile set of tools that further enables that endeavor." The MBA faculty and staff always enjoy seeing their students, especially those who rarely have the opportunity to come to the Norfolk campus based on their location. Likewise, Egan enjoys stopping by Strome when he has the opportunity to travel to the United States each year, and appreciates the "hospitality that has been shown" to him on those occasions, noting that "such interaction goes a long way to personalize the MBA experience."