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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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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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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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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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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, 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...
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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,...
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Friday, November 9, 2012 by
Net Impact recently had its kick off event for the fall of 2012. We
were very pleased and excited to have the founder of Distant
Village come and speak to us about sustainable business practices
here in Chicago. Rich Cohen is the founder of Distant
Village. It is a company that makes sustainable packaging for a
wide variety of products-from baby sheets to chocolates. All
products are made of recyclable materials and are produced with
artisans that are paid fair trade wages. It was interesting...
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Monday, October 22, 2012 by
UIC Liautaud students’ organizations volunteer to cook food for the
homeless at Lincoln Park Community Shelter once a month. UIC Net
Impact hosted the community service event of September. It was the
first time Net Impact completed a community service activity in the
2012-2013 academic year. Lucia, Co-VP of Net Impact and MBA
Association Community Service Chair, organized this event and got
nine enthusiastic volunteers, including Professor Maija Renko,
advisor to Net Impact. We served potato...
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Monday, October 1, 2012 by
This post was contributed by MBAA Event Coordinator Chairperson,
Elizabeth Holly. A team of MBAA members took part in PAWS
Chicago's Annual 8K Run and 4K Walk on Sunday, September
23rd. It was a beautiful day for a run at Montrose Harbor and
we had a great time, especially our four-legged team members
Wendell and Ronnie! Elizabth Holly, Jason
Settle, Alberto Chiquito, Lucia Skultetyova, Stan Orszula,
Wendell and Ronnie PAWS Chicago is the largest no-kill humane
organization in the city,...
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Monday, June 4, 2012 by
Student organizations play an important role in bringing together
UIC business school students, professors and alumni both inside and
outside of the classroom. The Liautaud Graduate Finance Interest
Network (GFIN) enables career-oriented business candidates to
discuss theory, current events and market opportunities
(internships, and part-time/full-time job leads), leveraging the
power of its many assets. GFIN also provides valuable in-roads for
companies and external industry leaders to tell...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 by
Thank you to Jill Kozeluh for contributing this post. On
Saturday, March 3rd, Liautaud MBA students and UIC Net Impact
members toured Plant Chicago, a local non-profit committed to
“promoting sustainable food production, entrepreneurship and
building reuse through education, research and development.”
UIC alum John Edel, owner of the Chicago Sustainable Manufacturing
Center, transformed this 93,500 square foot retired meatpacking
facility into a net-zero energy vertical farm, part...
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Friday, March 2, 2012 by
Thank you to Adrienne Nadeau for contributing this post. On
February 18th, the Community Action Team packed the kitchen of the
Lincoln Park Community Shelter to cook and serve a hot lunch to
those in need. Ten talented LGSB volunteers
prepared baked turkey and cheese panini sandwiches,
salad, tomato soup, and brownies with the efficiency of any Chicago
restaurant . . . Ok, ok, the meal might not have been worthy of a
Michelin star, but everyone loved the delicious spread! Hard
at work making...
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