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Student Activities
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...
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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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Friday, May 3, 2013 by
There are many components to a UIC Liautaud student's educational
experience. Whether they get involved in student
organizations, do volunteer work in the UIC and Chicago community,
and/or serve as a student ambassador to help share their student
experience with others who are considering coming to our programs,
we hope that all of our students find a way to make their time at
UIC Liautaud meaningful beyond the classroom. That said, what our
students learn in the classroom is arguably one of...
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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...
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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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Thursday, April 25, 2013 by
The Liautaud Program Office is excited to announce the second
annual UIC Liautaud Recognizing Excellence event on Friday, May
10th! Please save the date for this event (an invitation with
RSVP link will be sent out to students next week). This event will
recognize student excellence in achievement, honors and
participation within Liautaud and the wider community. At the
event, the winners of the Liautaud Awards will be announced, and we
will also recognize our students who have contributed to...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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Thursday, February 21, 2013 by
Show your college spirit and cheer on Dean Michael Mikhail as he
competes against other UIC College Deans in the 12th Annual
Challenge of the Deans free throw shoot out at next Tuesday's UIC
Flames game. The event will take place on Tuesday, February 26, at
the UIC Pavilion during half-time festivities of the UIC Flames vs.
Wright State game. All College of Business Administration faculty,
students, and staff are encouraged to wear their UICBUSINESS
t-shirts to the game. Staff and faculty will...
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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
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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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