The Penn State team of Michael Abendroth, Mark Joanow, Chris Kalmar, Chris Otteni, and Peggy Schwarz was proud to earn an honorable mention at the Rutgers Biopharmaceutical Case Competition on November 14th, beating top schools like Duke, MIT, and Columbia.
Participants received the case seven days prior to the competition. Our team juggled the rigors of Finance, Risk, and Economics midterms with the Continue reading
By Shuyuan Ling, MBA Class of 2016
As many people told me, it is going to be snowy in State College. Part of me is looking forward to see the snow, and another part just hates it.
In Ireland where I used to live, people have a love/hate relationship with the snow as well. The hate part is mostly due to the immense disruption it Continue reading
By Tatiana Kuzmenko, MBA Class of 2015
The GOC case competition is part of the Global Operations Conference, organized by the University of Michigan each year. The cases introduce students to the world of operation management, with content ranging from detailed process flow improvement to high level strategic recommendations. This year, the case was a disguised version of a real life project in one of Alcoa’s divisions. The company, facing increased demand for their products, was building a new factory and needed to make sure it had planned effectively. Specifically, we had to examine process flows, calculate if the planned Continue reading
By Nahom Woldemariam, MBA Class of 2015
I never imagined myself in taking part in case competitions. I was fearful in participating for two reasons. Firstly, I had a wrong perception about the judges. I thought they would just grill us in the Q&A section of the case completion. Continue reading
By Varun Tiwari, MBA Class of 2016
As a first year MBA student, the past week has been both very useful and fun-filled. Our first module ended last week giving us the long weekend to enjoy before starting off with the Career Immersion Week. The timing of this week was perfect as it provided us the much needed pause from a whirlwind module of studies to actually reflect back on our internship search.
By Ravindar Bose, MBA Class of 2015
If you are not in the game, there is no way you are going to win that game.
It is essential to get as many interview invites as one possibly can to get many job offers. All MBA candidates understand this, but only very few execute this to perfection. This is one of the differences between a candidate who has multiple job offers and a candidate who is struggling to get one.