Student Profiles
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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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, 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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Saturday, April 15, 2017 by
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 recipients was
Michael J. Mlekowski, an MBA candidate at UIC Liautaud. Below,
Michael tells us about his work for the...
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Thursday, April 6, 2017 by
Yih-Ting Chen, MBA ’17, came to UIC Liautaud from Taipei, Taiwan,
where he’d worked as a hospital pharmacist, a job that gave him
privileged insight into hospital management, single-payer
healthcare, and Taiwan’s pharmaceutical market. As a pharmacist,
Chen was putting his bachelor’s degree to work precisely in his
area of expertise. But the more he learned about healthcare, the
more interested he became in business and management. “I knew that
Taiwanese healthcare faced challenges,” Chen says,...
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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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Thursday, March 23, 2017 by
Ann-Sophie Hahn, BS ’17, has spent the last few years studying
business at UIC while training and competing as a UIC athlete. A
double major in finance and marketing, Hahn studied finance abroad
at the London School of Economics, and interned as an assistant
auditor in Stuttgart. When her faculty mentor, Professor Jelena
Spanjol, introduced her to the Interdisciplinary Product
Development program, Hahn saw it as a way to develop practical
marketing experience to balance out her experience in...
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Friday, February 10, 2017 by
UIC Business Scholar Alex Alderman, a finance major in his junior
year, hasn’t wasted any time diversifying his resume. In the summer
of 2015, Alderman began interning at Shiftgig. This summer, he
moves on to an internship at BMO Harris. It all started by
connecting with other Business Scholars. “Had I not been networking
among the Business Scholars, I wouldn’t have gotten the Shiftgig
job,” he says. “I was lucky to meet another Scholar who already had
their foot in that door.” Shiftgig, a...
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Friday, November 11, 2016 by
A few months ago, Business Scholar Liz Milaicki capped off her
sophomore year with a summer semester abroad, studying in both
Dublin and London and setting off at every opportunity to explore
the European continent. Her overseas coursework earned her credit
toward her minor in entrepreneurship, and her travels broadened her
worldview and bolstered her personal independence. Her
studies abroad began in Dublin, where she ended up rooming with
other Americans. "It worked out well," says...
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Friday, September 23, 2016 by
We regularly invite our MBA Ambassadors to share their views
on student life at UIC Liautaud. Amish Brahmbhatt is a full-time
Liautaud MBA student and President of the MBA Association. Below,
Amish shares his reflections on the first year of his Liautaud
experience. As an analyst in the Consumer Electronics
department of Sears Holdings, I was responsible for compiling data
to support testing and solve business problems. Over time, I
started thinking more and more about not just how we...
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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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Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by
We recently caught up with Christian Guerrero, a full-time MBA
student at UIC Liautaud and a student ambassador within UIC
Business. Christian told us a little about why he came to Liautaud
and what advice he has for prospective MBA students. What prompted
you to return to school for an MBA? I studied management in
undergrad, and throughout all of college I worked for a circuit
board manufacturer. When I graduated, it just so happened that the
opportunities with my employer beat out everything...
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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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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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Wednesday, November 25, 2015 by
1. Tell me a little about yourself. Hello! My name is Michael
Martinez, and I'm a UIC Business Scholar. I'm pursuing a
dual-degree at UIC: a BS in finance from UIC Business and a BS in
biological sciences. As a dual degree student, I'm very passionate
about my studies, and I'm always trying to expand the scope of my
education. I'm a member of three UIC programs: the President's
Award Program, the UIC Business Scholars, and the Guaranteed
Professional Program Admissions for medicine (GPPA for...
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Thursday, November 5, 2015 by
1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. My name is William
(Bill) Perkins and I'm from Park Forest, Illinois. I graduated from
Marian Catholic High School this last Spring. In high school, I
played trombone, baritone and electric bass in the bands. I also
launched a concert series my sophomore year that raised money for
charities and important causes. In my free time, I ran my own
booking agency, putting together concerts at local DIY venues. I
was also very active in Boy Scouts, where I...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by
As classes get underway for the 2015-16 school year, UIC Business
students get to work both on their studies and on a variety of
involvements at UIC and in the Chicago business community. Last
Thursday, we caught up with Shirley Paredes, an undergraduate
student in the accounting department. Shirley was recently awarded
the ICPAS Accounting Scholarship, which is funded by donations made
to the CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois, the society’s charitable
partner. The CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois...
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