MBA (B-school memories)
Posts related to my experiences at the Tepper School of Business.
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This past weekend was the culmination of several weekends of pickup soccer games at CMU. Tepper fielded a soccer team for the annual Yale MBA Soccer Tournament. We packed our bags and headed out Friday morning to Yale. After 9 hrs on the road, we finally reached New Haven and settled down at the hotel.…
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Clearly I’ve been neglecting my own blog. No posts since May 14??? Well, it’s not like many (if any) people are actually reading this thing, so I don’t feel so guilty. Moving right along, it is good to be back in Pittsburgh for my second year of business school at CMU. Really, it is! I…
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It’s finally Welcome Weekend at Tepper! I remember last year when I visited for Welcome Weekend. I had a great time, meeting many of my soon-to-be classmates and making new friends. Welcome Weekend kicks off with the student-organized International Festival, in which Tepper students showcase our cultural backgrounds through live performances, presentations, and food festival.…
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On Tuesday evening, the Tepper School of Business held a reception for its Swartz Fellows and their mentors. The James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program provides mentoring, an internship and other business leadership programs to a select number of MBA students in the second year of their studies. The new program was made possible with…
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Management Game is a “course is designed to integrate the managerial concepts and techniques studied earlier in the curriculum and to focus on elements of organizational structure and behavior. Student teams assume the role of top management of firms competing in an international economy simulated by the Carnegie Mellon University Management Game. Each team is…
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No business school education would be complete without learning how to play golf right? Today was the first unofficial Tepper Golf Club event; the weather was perfect: sunny, 70 degrees, no clouds in the sky. We drove to nearby Murrayville to play 18 holes. It so relaxing… a great way to escape the everyday craziness…
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I’m back at school. Spring break was too short. I’ve signed up for six classes in this last mini (second half of spring semester). I’m thinking I may be overdoing it. Spring is around the corner, I’m going to want to be outside pretty soon. I also have planned, as a personal goal, to learn…
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I’m still recovering from last week’s VCIC competition. This weekend I participated in the Innovation Works Case Competition in which my team proposed buzz marketing campaign for the online social networking site, Qlique.com. We did not do as well as last week, though we had a strong showing with the judges. They enjoyed our presentation…
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Our team came in second (out of six teams) in Tepper’s internal VCIC competition! We spend the weekend analyzing four different companies and determining which (if any) of the companies to invest in. We had the opportunity to listen to investment pitches and later interview the entrepreneurs and company founders of these real-life startup companies.…
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I am joining the Tepper “Doing Business In China” program and am scheduled to visit China during the first two weeks of the new year! I will be in Shanghai over New Years and will be visiting Beijing during the course of our trip. Let me know where are good places to eat! 😉 More…
David Mantilla 