Syracuse/Cornell Mixer – Davis Hull MBA’13
Over the last 12 months while attending interviews, career fairs, and company presentations I continued to run into the same people over and over. Through these friendships that I built, we came to the consensus that since we would see…
Syracuse Wins Duke MBA Games
Over the weekend of March 30-April 1 I had the amazing opportunity to compete in the Duke MBA games. The Duke MBA games is an event for MBA programs to network, compete in events (such as crabwalk, brief case toss,…
Dairylea, Emily Bolton MSE ’12
In my Corporate Entrepreneurship course, we are working with companies located in Syracuse and conducting an Entrepreneurial Audit on their business (which is basically assessing how innovative/proactive the company is and how they could improve). My group is working with…
Welcome to Whitman!
Hey everyone, my name is Amrita and I am a senior Whitman/Newhouse dual major at Syracuse. I came all the way from California to attend SU and I love it! I love the people I’ve met, the campus and the…
Meet Sam Whitaker ’14 BS
Hello! My name is Sam Whitaker, and I am a sophomore marketing major, minoring in public communications. I am from the Syracuse area, and love Syracuse University and the Whitman School of Management! Aside from the great classes here, there’s…
Congratulations To Our Admitted Undergraduate Students!
What an exciting time as you think about the best place for you to grow and learn. As the Director of Undergraduate Recruitment at the Whitman School, I want you to know that we’re here at Whitman to help you…
What Makes the Whitman MBA Experiential Learning Program Unique?
Last month I had the opportunity to present on the topic of “Measuring Experiential Learning Outcomes” at the GMAC/MBA Roundtable Leadership Conference. Following my presentation, the subsequent discussions confirmed that our program is unique in at least a couple of…
The Corporate finance class
“Corporate finance is the most helpful course I’ve taken, and it works especially well in my internship”, a second-year MBA told me last semester. Indeed, it covers quite a lot financial principles in the practical world, and also includes several cases; one group project and one simulation that help students to have a better command of the fundamental knowledge of corporate finance.
The online homework seems a little bit tough at the beginning, and I got many poor scores at first. This discouraged me a lot, to be honest. However, I do understand the ideas better through completing these assignments.
The group project topic we chose was “IPO analysis—Energy Industry in China”, which aimed to find the best time for a company to have its initial public offering in this specific industry.
Whitman Experience Day
We (current students, staff, alumni, and administration) had such a great day getting to know a handful of our admitted students this past Saturday at the Whitman Experience Day. We had a full line-up of conversations that included a student…
MSE Social – Emily Bolton MSE ’12
Last week the MS Entrepreneurship faculty threw a social for the MSE students at Chuck’s – a local University bar. It was so much fun to interact with our professors in a casual atmosphere! It’s really nice to have these socials…
KeyBank Case Competition – Davis Hull MBA’13
Can you say pressure to perform on a big stage? This was our feeling leading up to the Key Bank Case Competition in Cleveland, OH on 2/24 – 2/25. This was the first case competition that myself and the other members of our team had participated in. While we had done dozens of case analysis and presented plenty of times in class, this was different.
While we did not place in the competition, we learned so much. We sat in on competitors presentations and saw different ways to convey our message. We talked to the judges afterwards and found out exactly what they liked and did not like about all the different school presentations. This feedback was useful as it helps us get better for the future.
WGSO- Emily Bolton MSE ’12
At Whitman, we have a great resource for students- the WGSO, Whitman Graduate Student Organization! This is essentially the student government that helps bring together MBA, MS Finance, MS Accounting and MS Entrepreneurship students socially, academically and professionally. I’m the…
Internship Season – Davis Hull MBA’13
Class in the morning, group projects in the afternoon and filling out internship applications/calling contacts in the evening, sleep, shower, and repeat. This has been my life since late December when I started applying for internships. While I only started…
To Learn From Experience: Whitman Experiential Learning
One of the unique elements to the Whitman MBA curriculum is the Experiential Learning component, which I would like to take a minute to highlight. For those unfamiliar, it’s an opportunity to marry the teachings of the classroom with applicable…
My Move to Syracuse
The first time I got to know about Syracuse was from a student forum, where a current MS student took a picture of Whitman covered by thick white snow at night which was really beautiful. When I came here in…
Experiential Learning at Gaylord- Emily Bolton MSE ’12
As a Masters of Entrepreneurship student, I am always looking for experiences that are both meaningful and will help me learn real skills that I can use in the future. I was able to take advantage of one of these opportunities last semester at Syracuse in my Managing Product Development class. The main focus of this course was to learn how to develop a new product, navigate it through the product pipeline, and take it to launch. I felt confident that this was going to be a unique marketing class, but I was surprised at how interesting this class really was!
Instead of creating a theoretical project and taking that through the theoretical steps of the product pipeline, our groups got to develop a real product concept and pitch our final designs to the local company Gaylord, which specializes in library products. This opportunity made the project so much more interesting because Gaylord was seriously considering adding our product suggestions to their current inventory. We conducted our final presentations at Gaylord’s offices and with an audience of five Gaylord executives.
Meet Josh LaFave, Director of Graduate Enrollment
My experience for the past seven years has included a wide range of higher education disciplines. I have experience in most facets of graduate enrollment management including recruitment, admissions, yield and retention. I have researched and developed models for more efficient…
Renyi Pan MS in Finance’ 12
Hi, I’m an MSF from Shanghai, a coastal city in China. Before completing my undergraduate degree at Shanghai University last year, I had two internship experiences – one in a commercial bank, and one in a fund company. I decided to apply for the…
Learn by Doing as a Whitman MBA
I am the inaugural Director of Experiential Learning for the Whitman MBA program. The experiential learning requirement was introduced for the Class of 2010. Full-time MBA students build an experiential portfolio through internships, consulting, specialized courses, community engagement, and other practical…
Get to Know Rebecca Schied
My name is Rebecca Schied, I am 22 years old, and from a tiny town called Bradford, NY. I have always been into sports and have played tennis, basketball, softball, and rugby. I am also a huge fan of football…