Matt Lane

MBA or No MBA?

Making this decision wasn’t a hard choice for Matt Lane (MBA 95). After earning an undergraduate degree in industrial engineering in 1991 and a MS degree in engineering in 1993, both at the University of Iowa, he wanted to expand the depth of his business knowledge – and to do it he sought a Tippie MBA.

“My Tippie MBA experience greatly impacted my business network. My ability to have a broad range of business dialogues both with Tippie alumni and other business leaders has been substantially valuable. Having a strong network is incredibly important in building your reputation and your career.”

Matt built his career at Hewlett-Packard Company where he has worked for 13 years. He has held positions in R&D, manufacturing, marketing, operations and sales.  Currently he is the U.S. Sales Director for HP's Media and Entertainment vertical and is the Managing Director of HP's "Game-On" business.  In this role, Matt is responsible for the computing infrastructure provided to customers in the media, film, music, broadcast, online gaming, and cable/satellite industries.  Prior to this position, Matt was the Vice President of Marketing for HP's telecommunications vertical.

 “Bringing big change to an established industry takes vision, innovation, planning and implementation. Those are precisely the skills you develop at Tippie – inside the classroom and out.”

 Although Matt has had an impressive career, he credits his Tippie MBA with creating opportunities he wouldn’t have had without it.

“A person’s professional career is an interesting result of brains, motivation, personal definition of success, luck, social skills, and opportunities you create for yourself. An MBA degree strongly influences one important factor in this list: opportunities. An MBA degree can introduce you to new skills, new perspectives and new social networks you didn’t have before. The result is broader and more significant professional opportunities.

“My experience at Tippie was easily the best investment I’ve ever made.”

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