Available for Summer 2025 internships

Turning complexity into clarity.

I'm Alexandra Chen — an MBA candidate at Wharton and former strategy analyst helping organizations make sharper decisions through data, frameworks, and clear thinking.

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Wharton MBA Ex-McKinsey People Analytics
Alexandra Chen — professional headshot

About me

Strategy thinker.
People person.
Data nerd.

I graduated top of my class from UC Berkeley with a degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics, then spent three years at McKinsey & Company advising Fortune 500 clients on organizational redesign, workforce planning, and analytics transformation.

Now pursuing my MBA at Wharton with a concentration in People Analytics and Strategic Management, I'm looking for summer internship opportunities in management consulting, HR tech, or corporate strategy where I can blend quantitative rigor with human-centered thinking.

Outside work, I coach a university debate team, run half-marathons slowly, and am halfway through learning Mandarin.

  • Strategic Frameworks
  • People Analytics
  • Data Visualization
  • Excel / Power BI
  • Python (pandas)
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Organizational Design
  • SQL

Work history

Where I've been

  1. MBA Candidate — Strategy & People Analytics

    The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

    • Wharton Graduate Association VP of Finance; managing $1.2M annual budget
    • People Analytics Club co-lead; organized 3 industry panels reaching 400+ students
    • Case competition finalist (Deloitte HR Transformation Challenge 2024)
    Leadership Analytics Finance

  2. Strategy Analyst → Senior Analyst

    McKinsey & Company, San Francisco

    • Led workforce planning workstream for 12,000-person retail client, reducing attrition by 18%
    • Built a regression-based attrition prediction model adopted across 3 client engagements
    • Facilitated C-suite workshops on org design for two Fortune 100 companies
    • Mentored 4 first-year analysts as part of firm's informal coaching program
    Consulting Python Org Design Facilitation

  3. People Analytics Intern

    Salesforce, San Francisco

    • Analyzed engagement survey data for 15,000 employees using R and Tableau
    • Delivered insight dashboard adopted by HR Business Partners across 4 regions
    R Tableau HR Analytics

  4. B.S. Applied Mathematics & Economics, Honors

    University of California, Berkeley

    • GPA 3.92 · Phi Beta Kappa · Dean's List every semester
    • Senior thesis: "Predicting Employee Churn via NLP-Based Sentiment Analysis"
    Mathematics Economics NLP

Selected work

Projects & case studies

Dashboard screenshot — Attrition Prediction Model Analytics

Employee Attrition Prediction Model

Built a logistic regression and random forest ensemble model using Python and scikit-learn, predicting 12-month voluntary attrition with 84% accuracy. Deployed as an HR dashboard adopted across 3 client engagements at McKinsey.

  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • Power BI
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Engagement survey insight dashboard HR Tech

Engagement Insights Dashboard

Designed and built an interactive Tableau dashboard translating 15,000-employee engagement survey data into actionable regional insights. Reduced HR reporting time by 60% and flagged 3 high-risk teams for early intervention.

  • Tableau
  • R
  • SQL
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Organizational redesign framework slide Strategy

Retail Workforce Restructuring

Led the workforce planning workstream for a 12,000-person national retailer facing margin pressure. Designed a span-of-control optimization framework that reduced management layers by 2 and delivered $8M in annualized savings.

  • Excel
  • Org Modeling
  • Stakeholder Mgmt
View case study
NLP sentiment analysis — thesis visualization Research

NLP-Based Churn Prediction (Thesis)

Senior honors thesis applying BERT-based sentiment analysis to Glassdoor review text to predict employee churn 6 months ahead of official departure. Achieved AUC of 0.79 on held-out test set. Awarded highest honors.

  • Python
  • BERT
  • NLP
  • Research
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Let's talk

Open to the right
conversations.

Whether you're hiring for a summer internship, exploring a collaboration, or just want to nerd out about org design — my inbox is open.

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Email

alex.chen@wharton.upenn.edu

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/alexandrachen

GitHub

github.com/alex-chen