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Friday, May 12, 2017 by
About 3 months ago, I had the idea of offering a professional
development workshop to a small group of my most hardworking
students. I thought that it would be a great opportunity to explore
how service could teach valuable professional skills while also
promoting empathy and the importance of giving back. I never had
someone coach me on professionalism when I was an undergraduate,
and I wanted to offer that opportunity to my students. Plus, I
wanted to leverage UIC’s diversity and commitment to...
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Friday, May 5, 2017 by
Daniel Natsagdorj paid his way through UIC’s entrepreneurship
program in part by working long weekend hours as a server at a
River North sushi restaurant. When he enrolled at UIC, Daniel had
nearly a decade of food service experience, so the server work was
nothing new. But when he started the job, the sharing economy was
relatively new; Uber had recently arrived in Chicago. It got Daniel
thinking about how restaurants managed their delivery drivers. “In
all my years of working at restaurants,...
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Friday, March 10, 2017 by
Students spending spring break in Chicago have a great opportunity
to explore the city we live in (but are always too busy for). Here
are a few things to check out around town: Hit up Hyde Park Most
people come and go from the Museum of Science and Industry without
ever exploring the neighborhood around it. Over spring break, the
Hyde Park Art Center will have exhibitions of work by Jessie Mott,
Rhonda Wheatley, and collaborative work on the theme of public
education. The Renaissance Society has...
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Friday, August 5, 2016 by
The Illinois Small Business Development Center at the Chicagoland
Chamber of Commerce plays a key role in the resources that the
Chamber of Commerce offers business and entrepreneurs, resources
that include business planning, market research, assistance dealing
with local governments, and much more. This fall, Liautaud students
have the opportunity to explore these resources in MBA 590 -
Foundations in Entrepreneurship, an 8-week course led by Florence
Hardy, Director of the Illinois SBDC at the...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016 by
With July 4th behind us, summer break can feel a little like a
short downhill slide toward the beginning of the fall semester
(just six weeks away). If you haven’t yet, it’s time to get serious
about your summer. Whether this is your first summer in Chicago,
your fourth, or your umpteenth, you’ll find more to do outside than
can be crammed into your remaining free time: festivals, concerts,
beaches, baseball games, day trips—from the city’s front yard on
the lake to its back yard in the woods...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016 by
by Saif Sarvana I’m an intern at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
and a junior at UIC Business, though I’m just now finishing my
second semester here. I transferred from the College of DuPage over
the summer of 2015. Why did I transfer to UIC? The short answer is
the value of the UIC Business program. What does that mean? Well,
here’s the long answer. I was curious about markets and finance
from an early age, and I’ve been investing for a long time. I
bought my first stock when I was twelve. I...
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Monday, April 25, 2016 by
A lot of UIC Business students don’t know about the chapter of
ENACTUS on campus. “Recruiting has been a challenge,” says Patricia
Soto, the chapter’s current President. “People ask me, ‘what do you
guys do?’ I tell them we create projects to empower community
members, and they ask, ‘what does that mean?’ In the end, I just
have to show them our work.” Soto founded the UIC chapter of
ENACTUS about a year ago, during her sophomore year. “Founded, or
reopened; I learned from Professor Anthony...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016 by
by Geraldine Deliva President, Accounting Club In the coming weeks,
I’ll finish my MSA at UIC Liautaud, sit for the CPA exam, and start
working downtown at Grant Thornton. Unlike the Big Four, Grant
Thornton hasn’t recruited at UIC Business for a while. I met them
through the Illinois CPA Society, which I got involved with at UIC
Business, but I digress—today I want to tell you about the
Accounting Club, and maybe along the way I can explain how it
helped me get to where I am now. The Accounting...
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Friday, April 1, 2016 by
by Raven M. Temple This May, I’ll graduate from UIC Business with a
degree in management and finance and begin working full-time for XR
Trading as a human resources analyst. The path leading up to my
business degree has been long; I started pursuing a curiosity about
stocks and bonds as early as elementary school. By high school, I
was sure I’d study business in college. Why did I choose UIC
Business? Consider the value of a UIC Business degree. For a
top-ranked undergraduate business program...
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Thursday, March 17, 2016 by
Spring Break comes to the rescue right when students couldn’t
possibly bear another minute of work. Some of us will be leaving
town next week for warmer weather, and some of us, loathe to lift a
finger during much needed rest, will hardly leave our pajamas. UIC
Business students spending Spring Break in Chicago have a great
opportunity to explore the city we live in (but are always too busy
for). Here are a few things to do around town: “Earth laughs in
flowers.” For those of you craving spring...
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Thursday, February 25, 2016 by
Last
Wednesday, the UIC Business Scholars got together with our faculty
mentors to discuss something other than business for change -
anything but, really - as we bowled together at The Alley in UIC’s
Student Center East. UIC Business students are matched with faculty
mentors when they enter the Business Scholars program. Our faculty
mentors advise our courses of study and help us network in our
chosen industries. Business Scholar Elizabeth Milaicki has
two faculty mentors this...
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Thursday, February 4, 2016 by
Text by Abhinaya Konduru. UIC Business students interested in
Chicago’s startup community can't afford to miss Campus 1871, which
takes place April 8-10 in downtown Chicago. The Campus 1871
application is due Sunday, February 14th. What is 1871? 1871 is a
nonprofit tech incubator on the 12th floor of the Merchandise Mart.
The name comes from the year of the Great Chicago Fire, though not
from the fire itself. “It’s about what happened next,” says 1871’s
website, “a remarkable moment when the...
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Friday, January 29, 2016 by
Sean Kemper, MBA ’17 here, writing from the border of Buena Park
and Wrigleyville on Chicago's north side. It’s early in the Spring
’16 semester, the work has yet to pile up, and while I don’t
actually have a lot of free time, winter break was recent enough
that I still feel like I have some free time, which I’ve used to
snap a few pics and share a picture of my life at Liautaud. My days
start early; Coconut and Mung-Mung, my Yorkshire terriers, want
breakfast and a walk, and I’ve learned that...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015 by
The Latino Association of Business Students (LABS) at UIC Business
recently hosted representatives from Deloitte. After the event,
LABS member Daisy Espinoza and LABS VP Leticia Esparza took a
moment to share their LABS experience with the Business blog. What
were your paths to LABS at UIC Business? DE: I’m from the Chicago
area. At my previous college, I wasn’t focused on business. But
someone there introduced me to the campus accounting club, and it
sparked an interest. From that point on, my...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015 by
The Business Advisory Council (BAC) at UIC Business dates back to
1969. It was one of the original organizations within the Business
College, and remains one of the core connections between UIC
Business and Chicago’s business community. Through BAC, countless
UIC students have made their introductions to Chicago businesses
over the years, and continue to do so. Toward the end of the fall
'15 semester, BAC brought some Deloitte staff on campus to meet
students. Sam Vaghmare, a freshman student in...
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Monday, December 14, 2015 by
Finals week has come to an end, and while there wasn't much of a
chill in the air, nor really a single snowflake to be seen on
campus, winter break is upon us, whether Chicago weather is with us
or not. Here are some great ways to make use of all that free time:
Ice skating in the park The quintessential winter activity. For the
real skating-in-the-city experience, visit the McCormick Tribune
rink on Michigan Ave. Twinkling lights in the trees, buildings
rising up around you, and Anish Kapoor's...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015 by
After several rounds of interviews, UIC Business Scholars Keenan
Jeffrey Artis and Yaritza Velasquez have been awarded
PricewaterhouseCoopers Start internships. The Start internship is a
three year program; Artis’ and Velasquez’ work for PwC will begin
in Summer 2016 and continue through the following two summers.
Artis and Velasquez, both freshman at UIC Business, and both double
majors in Accounting and IDS, came to the Start internship from
very different backgrounds. Velasquez, a graduate of...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015 by
(Professor Chaplin's Consumer Behavior Class) On October 22, my
Consumer Behavior class had a unique opportunity to take part in
team building exercises that would ultimately help us grow stronger
as teams and prepare ourselves to get ready for the toughest part
of the course, our semester long project: a final paper and
presentation. One probably does not expect experiential activities
to happen every day in your average classroom--so this day was even
more special for the...
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Monday, October 19, 2015 by
Do's Do explore different majors, Chicago and who you are. Your
next few years depend on the type of choices you make and who you
become. It is time for you to explore and learn more about
yourself. If you came with a major, is that really what you want to
do? Do you know what type of work you will be doing once you
graduate? Do you know which classes you need to take beyond the
core classes? Below are a few questions you can ask yourself. You
might not know all the answers, but by asking the...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015 by
This Sunday on October 11, 2015, my fellow business scholars
took part in volunteering for the Bank of America Chicago
Marathon. Every year the Chicago Marathon attracts growing
numbers. The event, owned by Bank of America, is one of the six
World Marathon Majors alongside the Boston, New York, London,
Berlin and Tokyo Marathons. Each semester, the Collegiate
Association of Business Scholars (CABS) organizes volunteering
events so that the Business Scholars can give back to their
community....
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