By Dan Nichol, MBA Class of 2021
Four of us had the honor of representing Penn State Smeal in Final Round of the 7th Annual Deloitte Supply Chain Challenge at Ohio State University. Our team consisted of Sanath Adiga, Andrew Marshall, Dan Nichol and Declan Smith, all First-Year Smeal MBAs were given the opportunity to represent the Smeal at Columbus Ohio. After a 7-hour car ride from State College to Columbus filled with good Continue reading
From Left to Right: Alex, Thompson, Uzo, Declan
By Uzo Ukaegbu, MBA Class of 2021
We had the opportunity to compete in the Donald J. Bowersox Graduate Supply Chain Challenge a two-day event involving a three-hour supply chain simulation. The experience allowed us to exercise our supply chain knowledge and Continue reading
By Thomas Fiki, MBA Class of 2019
Lights, camera, action! When you hear those words you think of film, movies, glamour and of coarse Hollywood. When the idea of this conference arose, four members from the Class of 2020, along with myself, decided to jump on this opportunity. The Pulse Entertainment and Sports Conference is held annually by UCLA and gives great exposure to that industry. Being in central Pennsylvania we don’t necessarily get to be front and center of the entertainment. This year it was hosted by Paramount Pictures and simply we had to consider: where do we go from here?
By Amelia Torgerson, MBA Class of 2020
This fall, five of us from the MBA Class 2020 had an amazing opportunity of traveling to New York and exploring careers with Pfizer. Strengthening the strong connection Penn State has with Pfizer, we represented Penn State at Pfizer’s flagship career information event, Continue reading
By Karan Jain, MBA Class of 2020
There are case competitions, and then there are case competitions. The Deloitte Supply Chain Challenge is one such event where you know and understand the scope of the task at hand by the sheer amount of commitment that the organization has towards it. Not only is Deloitte one of the most reputed Continue reading
By James Babb, George Haws, and Karthick Jayakamura Sarma, MBA Class of 2019
We had the distinct pleasure of traveling to East Lansing, Michigan to compete in the Donald J. Bowersox Supply Chain Challenge, which was a two-day event culminating in a three-hour supply chain simulation. Continue reading
By Liz Kennedy, MBA Class of 2019
For people who care a lot about healthy foods and sustainability and want to work for a company that does too, attending the Natural Products Expo East Conference was a dream come true. What made the experience even better was attending as part of the MBArk program. MBArk was started by a Yale School of Management graduate named Joe Dobrow. Continue reading
By Richard Neal and his team, MBA Class of 2019
The IBM Georgetown Digital Case Competition was an international competition where nine teams were picked as finalists to present in front of IBM for the final round. This final round took place at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. on April 20, 2018. Continue reading
By Benedetta Piva, MBA Class of 2019
The 14th Annual Minority MBA Student Case Competition took place in Cleveland, Ohio on February 24, 2018, and was hosted by KeyBank Corporation in collaboration with The Ohio State University. Twenty-eight teams from several of the strongest MBA programs across the country came together to compete in the event, including; Indiana University of Bloomington, University of Michigan, Purdue University, University of Alabama, University of Maryland and more. Farzan Sohail, Karthick Jayakumara Sarma, and myself, all 1st Year Continue reading
The 2018 edition of the Katz Invitational Case Competition took place at the University of Pittsburgh on February 2nd and 3rd. Sixteen teams qualified for the case competition at Pittsburgh after a round of essay screenings, where teams were asked to talk about their understanding of Business Model Transformation. The Penn State team consisted of four MBA students – Tilak Khullar, Neha Kumari, Anshu Telang and Ajit Smiles, and the competition included teams from Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan, Boston College and various other business schools located all over the country. Continue reading