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Thursday, May 16, 2013 by
Rebecca Meyer with her MBA teammates, Tom and Nilay, and their
clients from the Collaborative Group. See more photos from this
semester's MBA Social Entrepreneurship (ENTR 594) course by
clicking here. Business school is not just preparation for the
corporate world anymore. It was in Dr. Renko’s Social
Entrepreneurship class where this was made evident. Beginning
January, class teams were partnered with local social ventures to
begin a semester long project. The assignment was simple:
each...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013 by
Recently, UIC Liautaud's graduate marketing student group, GMARK,
hosted Shannon Downey, owner of Pivotal Production, to discuss the
opportunities and challenges of digital marketing. Dubbed "Anatomy
of a Digital Marketing Strategy: Chiquita," Shannon spent an hour
discussing digital marketing strategy using Chiquita's Crushed It
Campaign as a case study. Pivotal was the local firm launching a
new national product for the Chicago market. She walked us through
the experience from beginning to...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 by
The MBA Association of UIC Liautaud Graduate School of Business
hosted the second annual Moving Business to Act Benefit Social on
Friday, March 8th. The event was organized to raise funds and
create awareness for The Night Ministry, a non-profit dedicated to
offering housing, health care and human connection to members of
the Chicago community struggling with poverty and homelessness. The
event also focused at creating a platform for graduate students of
business and other disciplines to network...
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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,...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013 by
Thanks to UIC Liautaud, students were awarded a ticket to hear
American businessman David Cote, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell,
speak in the elegant Grand Ballroom at the Palmer House Hilton in
March. The Executives Club of Chicago hosted this informative
event, which gave students the opportunity to network with senior
level executives and to learn about our changing global economy.
One of the takeaways from this program is that we must make
critical adjustments to our economy in order to keep...
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Monday, April 1, 2013 by
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in
your life.” -Confucius …..and just like that, a typical MBA
class 590 would begin with a quote. Designed to help you introspect
and enumerate your career goals over an 8-week period, the MBA 590
class is a must for every student pursuing MBA. No matter where you
are in terms of developing your career goals, this class helps you
either focus and structure your planning or simply affirms your
belief in your goals (believe me that is...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 by
I’ve been asked a lot lately by my friends in corporate America
what it’s like to be an entrepreneur. Here’s what I say to them:
Entrepreneurship is a beautiful French model whose name you cannot
spell correctly (that’s right, we’ve all had trouble spelling it).
She excites you. You want to go on dates with her, but she’ll make
you work for it. Just when you think you’ve made progress with her,
you find out she’s dating three other men more handsome and
successful than you. She keeps you up at...
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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...
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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...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 by
If you are interested in technology commercialization or early
stage venture funding, a background in science/technology makes you
a primary candidate for a unique opportunity. The UIC Liautaud
Graduate School of Business is partnering with UIC’s Office of
Technology Management and Illinois Ventures to offer graduate
fellowships to fund the MBA studies of qualified students while
they work with technology commercialization, funding early-stage
technology, and venture capital. The two-year...
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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...
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Friday, March 8, 2013 by
James DeMory MBA Candidate 2013 Full-time student
Concentrations: Entrepreneurship / Marketing Industry/ Field
of work: IT Business Development Undergraduate degree
in: Marketing Undergraduate School: University of
Illinois at Chicago Career Goal: Own and operate my own
technology company Organizations involved with: MBAA Linkedin
Profile: James DeMory What prompted you to return to school to
achieve your MBA? I returned to school because I was unhappy with
the career path I was on. I have...
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Friday, March 1, 2013 by
This week, students from the UIC MBA Association (MBAA) visited The
Night Ministry’s overnight youth shelter, The Crib. The shelter
provides space for young people ages 18-24 to get a hot meal,
sleep, do yoga, dance, rest, and be safe. The Crib is an important
addition to Chicago’s efforts to care for youth who are on the
streets, because there are only about 230 other shelter beds for
youth in Chicago, while an estimated 2,000 young people experience
homelessness every night. Six students...
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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...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 by
The UIC Liautaud MBA program offers students exciting opportunities
to gain firsthand experience about foreign business systems and
cultures with two unique study abroad options in Brazil and Europe.
Participants study alongside international business leaders,
develop an understanding of another business and cultural
environment, and sharpen their global business skills in an
international market - all while earning credits toward their MBA
degree!...
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Friday, February 8, 2013 by
Heath M. Bray, portfolio manager for Kemper Corporation, lit up the
UIC campus when he spoke with an audience of Liautaud students
about investing in today’s markets. Those lucky enough to attend
were rewarded when Mr. Bray, a 14-year veteran of the insurance
industry who specializes in fixed income investments, talked about
the difficulties in earning yield while navigating the constraints
levied by the Federal Reserve. One of the takeaways Mr. Bray
passionately stressed was that the signals...
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Friday, February 1, 2013 by
Universities and colleges around the globe use Bloomberg to
bring the real world of finance into the classroom, providing
students with access to the same information platform used by
leading decision makers in business, finance and government. The
BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and BLOOMBERG TERMINAL® seamlessly
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