Tamara Kowalczyk (she/her)

Associate Director, MBA Admissions at MIT Sloan School of Management | Admissions Committee member | Former operations consultant Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 500+ connections

About

I read applications and conduct interviews for the MIT Sloan MBA as a member of the Admissions Committee. Before admissions, I spent six years in operations consulting, so I enjoy hearing how applicants actually did the work: what data they pulled, who pushed back, and what changed afterward. My interviews are conversations built on the application, and I'm most interested in the decisions behind the results. I also work on our outreach to applicants from manufacturing, energy and the public sector.

Experience

MIT Sloan School of Management - Associate Director, MBA Admissions · Jul 2022 - present · Cambridge, MA Read files and interview MBA applicants on the Admissions Committee. Lead outreach to industrial and energy-sector applicants. - Assistant Director, MBA Admissions · Aug 2019 - Jun 2022 Coordinated interview scheduling and trained new readers on the committee's evaluation rubric.

Harborline Operations Group (operations consulting, about 120 consultants) - Senior Consultant · Jun 2015 - Jul 2019 · Boston, MA Led plant-throughput and inventory projects for industrial manufacturers. Managed teams of 3-4 analysts. - Analyst · Jul 2013 - May 2015

Brightwater Academy (independent day school) - Admissions Associate · Sep 2011 - Jun 2013 · Worcester, MA Interviewed families and ran campus visit days.

Education

Boston University Questrom School of Business: MBA · 2017 - 2019 (evening program) Boston College: BA, Economics; minor in Polish Studies · 2007 - 2011

Volunteering

Cambridge Community Food Pantry (fictional): Saturday shift lead · 2018 - present
Women in Operations Boston (fictional): Mentor to early-career analysts · 2020 - present

Interests

Open-water swimming at Walden Pond, learning to make pierogi the way my grandmother did, operations-history podcasts, and the Boston Marathon from the Heartbreak Hill cheering section.