Thu
23
May
Laila Nabhan's Blog
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 by
Thank you to Megan Silverstein, MBAA VP of Marketing, for
contributing this post. The MBA Association and Liautaud Career
Services joined together to host a seminar for students
to learn best practices to attain the most value out of
LinkedIn for making connections and job opportunities.
L inkedIn exists to help you make better use of your
professional network and help the people you trust in return. At
the AMP UP Your LinkedIn Profile Event,
LinkedIn Representative Richard Hurh presented how...
read more
Monday, May 6, 2013 by
Thank you to Yongming Liu and Mark Sciacca, of the Graduate
Student Consulting Club, for contributing this post. On April
6th, the UIC Graduate Student Consulting Club (GSCC) hosted a
resume and cover letter workshop with Ms. Pamela Schilling.
Attendees included UIC Liautaud MBA students and other graduate
students across the university aspiring to pursue careers in the
consulting arena. During the four-hour workshop, UIC students
learned how to convey their academic skills on to a resume...
read more
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 by
Thank you to MSAA VP of Finance, Layla Yuan Tian, for contributing
this post. After the March volunteer event at Lincoln Park
Community Shelter, MSAA provided our services to the Crib Youth
Shelter of The Night Ministry on in early April 5. It was our
second visit to the shelter since last semester. Three of our board
members (Vivian, Danni and Layla) did the grocery shopping together
in the early evening. Thanks to Danni (MSAA Treasurer), our
group had a clean, spacious and fully equipped...
read more
Monday, April 29, 2013 by
Thank you to Lee Pang Chun, VP of Marketing and Communications- UIC
Net Impact, for contributing this post. Earlier this month, UIC Net
Impact invited Mike Baskin, the President of Inclusion Solutions
and Patrick Hughes, the CEO and Founder of Inclusion Solutions, to
come to the UIC campus for a company profile of Inclusion
Solutions. We were so glad to have them join us to welcome
back our members from spring break! Inclusion
Solutions expects to become the nation’s foremost access
provider by...
read more
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 by
Thank you to Elizabeth Holly, GMARK Vice President, for
contributing this post. Earlier this semester, the Graduate
Marketing Association (GMARK) hosted a Marketing Insights workshop
in conjunction with the resources staff at the UIC Daley Library.
Representatives from both Mintel Oxygen and Simply Map came to
present the group with tutorials on how to access and utilize the
databases. Mintel is a unique database of analyst reports in
numerous different industries – from pet food to pizza,...
read more
Friday, April 5, 2013 by
Thank you to MSAA Treasurer & Net Impact Co-Treasurer, Danni
Zheng, for contributing this post. Over St. Patrick’s Day weekend,
a volunteer group consisting of UIC Liautaud students from MSAA
& Net Impact organizations, shared their goodwill with the
residents of the Lincoln Park Community Shelter (LPCS) by cooking
and serving a wonderful hot lunch for the residents. Everyone
arrived at the site on time and started to help out as soon as the
groceries arrived. This time we tried Chinese cuisine,...
read more
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 by
Thank you to MSAA Acting President, Andrew Hastie, and MSAA
Treasurer, Danni Zheng, for contributing this post. In February,
the MSAA held its annual Spring Festival event to celebrate the
Chinese Lunar New Year. Attendees, including UIC Liautaud MSA,
MIS and MBA students, packed into the first floor of Douglas Hall
to play ice-breakers and enjoy traditional Chinese cuisine from
China Nigh Café. Professors Ram Ramakrishnan,
Michael Kirschenheiter, Nitish Sinha, and Yehia Salama, as well...
read more
Monday, March 18, 2013 by
Thank you to Catherine Jefcoat, MBA/MPH 2014 Candidate and In-Kind
Organizer, for contributing this post. This past February, two
teams of UIC's Liautaud Graduate School of Business students
presented their findings and recommendations to two area
non-profit organizations. The presentations were a culmination of a
semester’s worth of extra-curricular consulting the students did as
part of the student-led InKIND non-profit consulting pilot
sponsored by the MBA Association and UIC Net Impact...
read more
Thursday, March 14, 2013 by
Thank you to Net Impact Co- Treasurer, Danni Zheng, for
contributing this post. On February 27, Net Impact held another
successful company profile event to start the spring semester. This
time, we had the pleasure of welcoming Sean Moran, President of
NewGrange Development, who joined us to share stories of his Green
Building company and some exciting new sustainable projects.
NewGrange Development is a design-build, general contracting, and
construction company with a focus on sustainable...
read more
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 by
Thank you to Lucy Skultetyova, MBAA Community Service Chair, for
contributing this posting. The spring semester is in full swing and
MBAA got back to “work” last month. On February 9, a group of MBAA
members volunteered at the Lincoln Park Community Shelter (LPCS) to
offer their cooking skills. MBAA has been successfully volunteering
in the shelter for over 2 years shopping for lunch and then cooking
up a hot meal. Demand for being on the volunteering team was
strong, so we were happy to see...
read more
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 by
Thank you to INFORMS Member, Nitin Agrawal, for contributing this
post. On February 15, UIC INFORMS hosted a Deloitte Information
Session with the Human Capital group of Deloitte. We had the
pleasure to have Faisal Farooqui representing Deloitte, an alum of
the UIC Liautaud Masters in Management Information Systems program.
He is currently working as Principal Workday Consultant in
Deloitte’s Chicago office. The event started with Faisal taking
center stage, explaining the basics with a video...
read more
Thursday, February 28, 2013 by
Thank you to Brittany Chibe, GMARK Treasurer for submitting this
post. On Tuesday, February 12, GMARK (Graduate Marketing
Association) hosted the Data Analytics & Marketing
Strategy Panel for UIC Liautaud MBA and MIS students interested in
learning about best practices in regards to how companies analyze
and use data to drive their marketing strategy decisions. The
panel included representatives from Kraft Foods Group, Allstate
Insurance Company, Walgreens, and Orbitz Worldwide.
The...
read more
Friday, January 18, 2013 by
Thank you to Net Impact VP of Events, Flor Fernandez, for
contributing this post. Last month, Net Impact had the pleasure of
welcoming Ross Adams, Sustainability Analyst at W.W. Grainger. Ross
joined us to speak to students about the different initiatives that
the company has undertaken in order to run a more environmentally
responsible business. Grainger is America's leading distributor of
industrial supplies, MRO equipment, tools and materials; with a
customer base of about 2.0 million...
read more
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 by
UIC Liautaud new student orientation is this Friday! Orientation is
a great way for new students to connect with each other - as well
as with current students, faculty and staff - while preparing for
the academic year ahead. Our goals for orientation are that
students will learn about our various programs and will have the
opportunity to refine skills that will help them become successful
students, valued classmates and networking professionals. The
schedule for the day is as follows: Friday,...
read more
Monday, December 17, 2012 by
Thank you to MSAA President, Marco Carriero, for contributing this
post. For the second time this semester, a UIC Liautaud Community
Action Team visited the Crib Youth Shelter to prepare and serve a
hot dinner for its residents. The Crib is located at 835 W.
Addison, underneath the Lakeview Lutheran Church. The Crib is
an overnight space for 20 young troubled people, ages 18-24, to eat
good food, get a good night’s sleep, be part of a community,
shower, do laundry, and share some safe and...
read more
Friday, December 7, 2012 by
Thank you to GMARK Event Chairperson, Nilay Shah, for contributing
this post. The UIC Liautaud Graduate Marketing Association
(GMARK) recently hosted a community service outing at the
Lincoln Park Community Shelter (LPCS) to plan and prepare a hot
meal for residents of the shelter. We had a diverse group of
people who volunteered their time including international and
US students, both current and new, as well as Managerial
Studies Assistant Professor Sophia Marinova. The hustle
around the...
read more
Monday, December 3, 2012 by
Thank you to MBAA President, Chiranjiv Mukerji, for
contributing this post. The Alumni from the UIC Liautaud
Graduate School of Business joined the MBA Association for a
community service event on November 17. The event was held at the
Lincoln Park Community Shelter and attended by alums Adrienne
Nadeau, Zac Bleicher, Sophia Bamiatiz, and Dave Ebel. Kristen
Perhach and Chiranjiv Mukerji represented current MBAA
students at the event. The team prepared a sumptuous
meal highlighted by a...
read more
Friday, November 16, 2012 by
This post was contributed by Catherine Jefcoat, MBA/MPH 2014
Candidate. UIC's Liautaud Graduate School of Business is piloting a
student-led non-profit consulting program, called InKIND, which is
being sponsored by the MBA Association and UIC Net Impact
student organizations. A select group of students will work in
teams with the non-profit on a given issue to better understand and
help solve a strategic issue or growth opportunity at the
nonprofit. On the first Saturday of October, MBA, MSA,...
read more
Monday, November 12, 2012 by
Thank you to Graduate Finance Interest Network Member, Abe
Berkley-Vigil, for contributing this post. If you were
given a million dollars, how would you spend it? If you love
making money, and you have a competitive fire, then Liautaud
Gradute Finance Interest Network's Investment Challenge is the
event for you! Throughout the month of November participants will
have control of their own short term investment portfolio via the
site Investopedia. A ten dollar entry fee will provide you...
read more
Monday, November 12, 2012 by
Thank you to Graduate Finance Interest Network Event Chairperson,
Landon Kelly, for contributing this post. Jordan Snow,
Research Transportation Planner/Analysts for the Urban
Transportation Center at UIC, spent the afternoon of Saturday,
October 13th, discussing the future of transportation projects in
America and the implications for American taxpayers, with an
audience of UIC Liautaud MBA graduate students. Mr. Snow
passionately explained the different funding and policy issues
facing our...
read more
