Heather Hado ’06 always thought the stock market was intriguing and even as a child wanted to understand its inner workings. \u201cI was a young female who wanted to stand on my own two feet one day, and I wanted to invest in it,\u201d she says. While working \u201crandom\u201d jobs to pay her bills, Hado enrolled in night classes at the Feliciano School of Business, where she gained more than an understanding of the stock market. \u201cThe school provided me a great opportunity to network because one of my classmates was working full time at Morgan Stanley,\u201d says Hado.<\/p>\n
Hado used that contact to land a receptionist job at Morgan Stanley and immediately began soaking up all the financial information she could. Nineteen years later, she\u2019s a senior vice president and senior risk officer. \u201cJust having that network in my class at Feliciano with a colleague to break into the industry, was key,\u201d says Hado.<\/p>\n
Over the years Hado has gained extensive operational knowledge and acquired the necessary industry licenses to excel in finance, which she attributes to her Feliciano education. While preparing for the Series 7 Exam, she wasn\u2019t the least bit intimidated. \u201cI\u2019m actually really prepared to do this. I have a great education from Montclair. I learned about it. I knew how to study. This school has prepared me for this,\u201d says Hado.<\/p>\n
Feliciano provided a base on which Hado built a career. \u201cWalking into Morgan Stanley, a world-class company, it didn\u2019t feel foreign to me. You\u2019re in class, you hear these concepts, you\u2019re learning about finance, but you never think they\u2019re going to come into play. When I actually walked into a professional workplace, I understood the lingo from the education I got at Feliciano,\u201d says Hado.<\/p>\n
Using the skills she acquired by observing her professors and from her personal mentors, Hado manages six risk officers at Morgan Stanley and mentors individuals in Montclair\u2019s Accelerated MBA program. \u201cThe reason I came back to Montclair to give my time to some of the other students is after you work for a long time you realize what kind of education I got at Montclair. It was a phenomenal education,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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