Adding another degree to your resume

By Mike Switzer

Published April 29, 2026 at 6:30 AM EDT

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Ron Magnuson, director of the Executive MBA program at the College of Charleston.

It’s common knowledge that the most likely path to earning a higher income is going to include some level of higher education. Even if you already have an upper-level job. So, our next guest says “Why not go back to college?” Mike Switzer interviews Ron Magnuson, director of the Executive MBA program at the College of Charleston.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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