Student Life
Friday, September 15, 2017 by
by Lianne Ramahi This past summer, I had the opportunity to
work at General Mills, Inc. as a business management associate
intern. This role was heavily focused on data analysis for the
domestic western region sales team in Scottsdale, Ariz. Throughout
this experience, I was given projects similar to those that would
be performed as a first-year associate. I took ownership of
impactful projects that added tangible value to the company.
General Mills truly values nurturing its employees...
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 by
Ryan Patterson, Samantha Payne, Allan Rodriguez, Kathrynn
Sharp, and Robert Grilli [Not pictured: Jaime Manriquez] In
Consumer Behavior (Marketing 461), Professor Lan
Nguyen Chaplin has high expectations of her students. To
communicate these expectations and the level of professionalism
required to succeed, Professor Chaplin invited alumni of the course
to speak in the opening session of her Fall 2017 classes. “It
is a tough class that places a high demand on professionalism in
addition to...
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 by
by Jasur Rasulov This summer, I completed an internship as a
treasury sales and services officer at the BMO Harris Bank’s
Treasury and Payment Solutions group in Chicago. My group was
responsible for delivering cash management services to commercial
clients. In my role, I primarily supported sales teams across three
markets-- mid-corporate, institutional, and engineering and
construction--in the fulfillment of everyday banking products. On a
daily basis, I prepared and executed lending...
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017 by
The Business Career Fair takes place on September 18 from 11:00
a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Student Center East Illinois Rooms. When
preparing to make the most of your time with employers, ask
yourself these three key questions. 1.) How will I prioritize the
employers that I want to talk to? Look at the list of employers
that will be at the fair the week before. There will not be time to
speak to everyone, so rather than wandering around the room looking
for a short line or a company name that you...
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Thursday, August 31, 2017 by
by Cynthia Mancilla Beginning in June and continuing
through the end of the year, I’ve been fortunate to be working for
a mouse, Mickey Mouse, as a Consumer Insights Market Research
intern at the Walt Disney Company offices in Orlando, Florida.
So far, I’ve had the great pleasure of researching consumers
in the U.S. as well as international consumers in Mexico, Brazil,
and Canada. Part of my role is assisting in qualitative and
quantitative research projects across Disney parks and...
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Friday, August 11, 2017 by
We would like to introduce you to the newest member of the College
of Business Administration's Advising Staff, Josiel Marrufo. Josiel
joined the Student Services Advising Team this May, and will serve
as an Academic Advisor for undergraduate CBA students. Please read
below to learn more about Josiel! Favorite Chicago Activities/
Places: When it comes to exploring Chicago, I enjoy the variety of
events that the change of seasons are able to provide like parades,
fests, and winter traditions....
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Thursday, July 6, 2017 by
Calling all UIC Liautaud students! Are you looking to strengthen
your resume and give back to the community at the same time? Are
you interested in helping a local Chicago organizations streamline
its finances, create a new marketing strategy, or even improve its
network security? What is inKind? InKind Consulting is a
student-led, pro-bono consulting program created by the MBA
Association and Net Impact student organizations from the UIC
Liautaud Graduate Business School. The InKind program...
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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 31, 2017 by
One highlight of the academic year is the annual Chancellor’s
Student Service and Leadership Awards (CSSLA) ceremony. Since 1973,
the CSSLA ceremony has recognized outstanding student leaders and
student volunteers who, while maintaining high academic
achievement, demonstrate a commitment to the UIC community through
participation in student organizations and campus activities and
throughout the greater Chicagoland area through active service and
community engagement. One of this year’s award...
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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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Wednesday, January 25, 2017 by
Samu Thomas, BS ’16, has one piece of advice for UIC Business
students: find your area of interest and focus. Thomas works as an
IT consultant for Maven Wave Partners, where consultants like
himself help clients like Nike, US Foods, Bosch, and other familiar
names stay up to speed in the digital marketplace. Thomas found
this work–and the IDS degree that led to it–after a little
soul-searching of his own. “Early on in college, I was doing
electronic and communications engineering,” Thomas says....
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Monday, November 21, 2016 by
Maybe this sounds familiar: finals are just around the corner, so
you're on a tight schedule, and you need a good place to study, but
in every cafe and reading room on campus you see bodies in chairs
without a free seat in sight. You scour campus for a decent space,
and by the time you find one, you're down a significant fraction of
your study time. My search for the perfect study spot was a
semester project all its own. And I don't consider myself picky; I
don't need to be totally alone, and I...
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Monday, October 10, 2016 by
Market researchers seldom work alone. Thus, students in Professor
Chaplin’s consumer behavior courses develop and present their
research in teams. How does Chaplin build her research teams?
Scavenger hunts and relay races. Students see her approach as
win-win. “You get closer to your colleagues, and it’s fun,” said
Joseph Ravara of Team Orange 1, winners of the first round of
relays. “I admire how Professor Chaplin incorporates something like
this into her teaching methods.” Chaplin is known...
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Monday, September 19, 2016 by
When she was working for Leo Burnett in Chicago, Catherine Yi
regularly met with UIC Business students on campus. “I met with
students through Alumni 4U, and every meeting was different,
depending on what each student wanted to learn,” says Yi. “But
there was one piece of advice I had for everyone: start interning
as soon as possible.” Yi’s path to her current role at Amazon
included a series of internships during her time at UIC Business.
Though some internships were more relevant than others...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016 by
Karthik Sundar is a full-time MIS candidate graduating from UIC
Liautaud this year. Sundar earned his B.Tech in Communications
Engineering from SASTRA University in India, and has been working
in the security industry with the goal of moving into marketing and
CRM analytics. He recently interned for ADT, a leading provider of
security and automation solutions for homes and businesses in the
United States and Canada. Sundar sat down with our student writers
at the beginning of the Fall 2016...
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Friday, September 2, 2016 by
Professor Lan Chaplin has a knack for fostering strong
connections with her consumer behavior students. Not only does she
keep in touch with former students, she brings some of them back to
her classroom, recruiting them to offer new students pointers for
how to succeed in the class. On Tuesday, August 23rd, two teams of
former students joined Professor Chaplin’s consumer behavior
sections to offer students roadmaps to success. “My consumer
behavior course isn’t for everyone,” Chaplin says....
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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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Friday, June 3, 2016 by
On any given weekday, a handful of analysts are working in an
office above North Wacker Drive, collecting current data on over
200,000 railcars scattered across North America, the fleet of the
TTX Company. Freight is constantly in motion, and this means data
is constantly pouring in. Miranda Powell, a senior at UIC Business,
is one of the analysts who makes sense of it all. “A railcar goes
over alerts on the tracks, and we get data from each axle or
'truck' on each car,” says Powell. “Alerts...
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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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