Voices of the Whitman School of Management
MBA Class of 2016 Concentration: Supply Chain Management Hometown: Hyderabad, India LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hariharanpadmanabhan Blog: http://scmpro.blogspot.com/ In just two years at Whitman, Hariharan Padmanabhan has made a lasting impact on the school and community through his work in the field of…
The Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises department at the Martin j. Whitman School of Management in collaboration with Stanford University’s Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES), Columbia University’s Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE), Harvard University’s Harvard College Ventures, Northwestern…
In this “MBA Reflections” blog post series, we will be featuring the profile and thoughts of a select few Whitman MBA students graduating in May 2016. Episode 3: Kyle Coleman Major: Dual Masters of Business Administration and Masters of Public…
For the next month, we’ll have five Whitman students taking over our Instagram account, @WhitmanatSU. They’ll be sharing photos from campus, documenting their life at SU as a Whitman student. Get to know them and be sure to follow along…
Siteworx, a leading digital experience agency based in Washington, D.C., teamed up with Whitman students Margot Dileno ’15, Peggy Kanterman ’16, Alexandria Lee ’15 and Joseph Simek ’15 to study customer engagement among businessto-business (B2B) manufacturers as part of a Consurtio pilot project. Siteworx…
Whitman faculty and staff brought together four high-achieving students—Brian Becker, a second-year J.D./MBA, Sandra Carruitero ’16, Kelley Long ’15 and Isaac Signorelli ’15—for a Consurtio pilot project. The challenge would be to make strategic operational recommendations to improve the struggling University-owned Minnowbrook Conference Center and…
Whitman finance students David Kern ’15, Scott Rebhun ’15, Dylan Weinberger ’16 and Austin Wentworth ’15 were selected for a Consurtio pilot project sponsored by Goldman Sachs. The charge was to make a recommendation on a real-world business scenario involving Madison Square Garden (MSG),…
On Nov. 14 the Syracuse University Entrepreneurship Club took a trip to Boston to take part in Harvard University’s annual one-day Entrepreneurship Conference, SPARK. The conference was an exciting opportunity to connect with and learn from renowned entrepreneurs, investors, experts…
Class of 2016 Majors: Accounting and Finance Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ola-adenekan/8a/126/901 When Ola Adenekan came to the United States three years ago, his plan was to live the proverbial “American Dream” by maximizing his academic opportunities and developing himself…
Following the Marketing Day events at Syracuse University‘s Whitman School of Management on Oct. 23, the local chapter of the American Marketing Association hosted a student panel discussing internship experiences. The panel included five students bringing a range of experiences…
Student and alumni entrepreneurs filed into the Grand Hall of the Whitman School on Friday, Oct. 23 to compete in the first-ever Orange Tank pitch competition, a Shark Tank-style competition where teams comprised of current students and alumni entrepreneurs from…
Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises is a flagship program at the Whitman School of Management, which is consistently ranked as one of the top entrepreneurship programs in the nation. Whitman EEE helps students discover their innate entrepreneurial potential, giving them a set…
Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management full-time MBA program took the #67 spot in Bloomberg Bussinessweek’s annual ranking of top programs across the world. Bloomberg collected data from 177 schools, including Whitman’s MBA program, which is among more than 700 business…
Class of 2017 Majors: Marketing and Management Minor: Music Industry Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loganmargolis Logan Margolis has always had an interest in marketing and a love for music, demonstrated through his marketing and management majors in Whitman and minor in VPA’s…
Consurtio, Whitman School of Management‘s new experiential learning venture, has launched. This will serve as a student-run business for Whitman, engaging students in practical learning experiences doing hands on work with real clients. Consurtio CEO, Terry Brown, states that this “project-based…
MBA Class of 2016 Concentration: Marketing Hometown: Suffern, New York LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauracontero As the vice president of marketing for Whitman Women in Business, Laura Contero is passionate about inspiring women to pursue careers in management. Not only is she responsible…
Zubin Jhambani is an international Whitman student from India in the second year of his MBA. Before attending the Whitman School, Jhambani worked at Accenture as a business analyst for three years. Once he arrived to the United States, he…
At the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management, we believe that everyone deserves to climb the economic ladder to success. We are passionate about our purpose and committed to use entrepreneurship to develop Syracuse. Entrepreneurs…
When I first came to Whitman, I was sure that I wanted to work in the jewelry industry. I applied to many jewelry companies around the New York area and after two rounds of interviews, I was accepted as a…
Danielle Shields a senior Whitman/Newhouse dual, majoring in supply chain management and advertising. Born in Southern California, Shields now resides in Saratoga Springs, where she works at the distribution center at Target for the summer. Shields is a recipient of the…
More than a dozen Whitman supply chain management graduate students are working on projects designed to help Syracuse University improve its sourcing processes, which could generate cost savings and create more effective purchasing processes for campus users. The projects engage…
What were your key takeaways and experiences at your internship this past summer? When I was offered the summer internship at Short Enterprises, I decided to take it up because it was a small firm and promised to provide me with…
Incubator Has 100 Participating Student Businesses The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University’s Couri Hatchery, located within the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship, recently achieved a major milestone – 100 student businesses are now part of the incubator, a student-centered, supportive co-working space…
Leen Nsouli, a ’12 Whitman MBA alumnus, has been working as a marketing analyst for NPD Group, a leading global market research company, since graduation. During her time at Whitman, Leen incorporated different learning experiences to carve a unique career path…
Accounting students at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will offer free income tax assistance to all Syracuse University students, faculty and staff on Friday, April 3, between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. in Flaum Grand…
Mark is an analyst with First New York Capital. Small class sizes and personal attention from the faculty were a driving force behind his reasons in choosing Whitman. But, it’s the practical application leaned through our experiential learning requirement that…
The H.H. Franklin Center for Supply Chain Management at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University is collaborating with Staples, Inc., in the first of its kind relationship to bring innovation and new research to the supply chain field. The collaboration will allow Whitman School…
Timothy O’Connell, a first-year MBA candidate at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management, recently secured a position in the Bloomberg Hall of Fame by being one of the top 5 scorers in the country in the Bloomberg Aptitude Test. As a long distance…
The objective of EEE420/621 “Corporate Entrepreneurship” is for students to understand the entrepreneurial behavior of corporations. Student teams are assigned to local companies and examine growth, organizational structure, culture, employee compensation, knowledge management and human resource issues. The teams are…
This Fall Semester, through the Whitman Consulting Club, I was given the opportunity to work on a consulting project for a client that’s very close to my heart – Syracuse University! The ‘Fast Forward Syracuse’ initiative at SU, kick started…
To begin, I would just like to say how grateful and appreciative I am to be given the opportunity to upload blog posts throughout the summer for the Whitman School of Management. I am truly blessed and hope my readers…
One day you will all know what it feels to be a senior, trying to avoid leaving the place you’ve called home for the past three+ years. Many students will have completed their core classes, leaving some lighter electives for…
-Content by Jack Weigle ’14 MBA- I completed an experiential learning project this past semester for my Corporate Financial Policy & Strategy class with Professor Barkley. We worked with Driver’s Village to determine whether or not the company should enter…
-Content by Sam Whitaker- Before my semester abroad in Europe, I hadn’t spent more than a month away from my family, friends, or hometown of Syracuse. After four months full of speaking Spanish, going to class on a metro, and…
Content provided by Max Jones ’13 MBA – History was made on a recent trip to the University of Vermont over winter break. Under the guidance of Entrepreneurship Professor Alex McKelvie, a team of Whitman School of Management MBA candidates,…
“Buy”, “Sell”, “Hold” These are phrases people commonly associate with investments. Recently, as part of Whitman’s experiential learning program, we served as portfolio managers over millions of dollars in virtual money. We had to pick investments weekly and were judged on our…
Hello everyone! I have a very dear friend in the MBA program who wanted to share her internship experience with all of you, and hopefully you will enjoy her perspective from an international internship! So without further ado, I introduce you to…
Hello again from San Antonio! I’m over halfway through my summer internship at USAA so I wanted to update you on how things are going. The finish line is in sight for my first project, and I’m looking forward to…
Time is flying by. I have already been in NYC for five weeks. It’s a culmination of sorts as I waited forever for this summer to get here and now it’s flying by. Allow me to reintroduce myself. I am…
Hello Everyone! I am Shweta Srinivaz and I am a soon-to–be second year MBA student, majoring in Marketing and Supply Chain. I am really excited and thankful for the opportunity to be part of our Whitman blog team! Before I…
A recent interview/article from the Wall Street Journal discussed how MBA programs are engaging students in increasingly larger projects for companies. Dr. Pepper/Snapple recently turned over its Yoo-hoo chocolate milk drink brand to be managed by two students from UT…
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…
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…
“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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
Jennifer Dodd, ’10 MBA
I just started the first week at my post-MBA full time job at Carestream Health, a medical imaging system manufacturer headquartered in Rochester, NY. My first days as a Marketing Analyst have been going pretty well, and looking back I feel that the Experiential Learning component of the MBA program at Whitman made me well-prepared to enter the working world. In addition to classroom work, I had three distinct internship experiences, all helping me get a step closer to the elusive full time placement.
Originally from Rochester, N.Y., Michael Palermo chose the Whitman School of Management so he could gain the necessary skills to make a transition from personal finance to investment management. With the combination of a well-structured finance curriculum, unparalleled student resources, and cutting-edge technology, Palermo knew Whitman was the right place for him to study investment management.