October 2007 Archives

The Wisconsin School of Business creates leaders for the future. They provide avenues where you can stretch your leadership skills through involvement in social groups, center sponsored activities and project work. In addition, they provide you with exposure to leaders in the business world. One such medium is through the M. Keith Weikel Executive Leadership Speaker Series. About once a month, the dean of the business school brings in an outstanding member of the business community to speak about leadership and personal motivators that lead them to success. Recently, Jon Hammes, founder of the Hammes Company, came to speak to the students regarding his business experiences. Through this speaker series I was also invited to speak with Mr. Hammes in an intimate small group setting to really get to understand his business values and knowledge.

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This past Friday, several ACFIN students participated in a round of golf organized by the Graduate Business Association (GBA) and sponsored by a number of companies that regularly recruit Wisconsin MBAs. The sponsoring companies each sent representatives to team up with students, and so we not only had a beautiful day on the links but a great opportunity to do some networking. I wound up sharing a cart with a recruiter from Best Buy, which is one of my preferred employers for both an internship and a permanent job upon graduation.

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M&A Case Competition: I-Banking Exposure:
What would be better to get the feel for the investment bank life than actually competing in a case competition focusing on pitching an M&A transaction which is sponsored by Credit Suisse and Lehman Bros. The experience so far has exceeded my expectations. Myself, as well as three 2nd year University of Wisconsin MBA's (two ACFIN, one ASAP) flew into Washington DC Wednesday afternoon and arrived at the event to a welcome reception of other teams we would be competing against. This welcome event was utilized to introduce students from other MBA programs, including a team from Singapore. Networking between students occurred, but the main focus was for the teams to get to know each other from a social aspect so they can talk about their MBA life, internships and prior work experience. Knowing we would all be competing against each other within 12 hours, we took it easy and ate dinner and consumed a few beverages.

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I had mentioned this trip earlier but thought it would be interesting to give a more detailed description on this trip.

Here is what one of the organizers had to say about it.

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I said it was coming soon. Well the midterm around here was very hectic and now that things are settling down again I thought I would post about the China trip.

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