Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Signing bonus, NUFF SAID!!!
January in SC
Sunday, January 17, 2010
P.S. aren't those the sexiest white legs ever!
Final Case Competition Day
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Well we ended up taking 2nd and winning the round robin, the end result is as you can see below. What's a guy to do when he gets his first huge a$$ checks in his life.
Montreal Case Competition Day 4
Friday, January 8, 2010
Well to recap the day:
The first case that we had was not really a big deal, except for the fact that $5k was on the line. We needed to win and Porto needed to lose for us to get paid. Well as you can see from below they lost.
Below is the overall standings of the round robin. We were the only undefeated team, which means we won the $5k for winning the round robin.
We also had the semi finals tonight. And boy did they pick the wrong team to give a case about Sony to. Our team brought our A game tonight. Our team is comprised of Kelly Truesdale, Emily Crow, and Liz Brittle. We all did excellent tonight so kudos to the entire team for nailing it.
We have officially moved on to the Final round which guarantees us at least $5k more and up to $10k more for the team. GO TEAM!
Montreal Case Competition Day 3
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Well another day in the books at the John Molson Case Competition. Today was a bit stressful. We started off at 9:00am with breakfast and the beginning of our case. Today was a live case. This meant that we got a case first and then had a presentation by a company about our case we were supposed to prepare. The awesome thing part of the case was that it was for the Montreal Canadiens (Montreal's NHL Hockey team). The purpose of the case was to develop a new marketing campaign for the Canadiens.
We thought that we developed a great marketing campaign and did a great case analysis. Our coach Pat and the judges on the other hand didn't think so. But when the Head of Marketing from the Canadiens came up and said that we shouldn't be surprised to see some of our ad campaigns next season. That made us feel great. And although the judges were pretty harsh we still won our case.
On top of winning we have now clinched our division and are guaranteed a spot in the Semi-finals tomorrow. So needless to say tomorrow will be a long day. 2 full cases. Oh wow.
Cases Day 2
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Well here are the case results today. Today we went up agains the Business & IT School from Germany and won, and also Memorial from Newfoundland. The case against Newfoundland was a bit unfair because it was how to invest $1 billion in the auto industry. I have a job in the auto industry and have been reading auto blogs obsessively, and Kelly (in my group) has his Chartered Financial Analyst certificate and works at a small investment firm in SC. Needless to say we did good.
Later that night to unwind we decided to take the subway to get some dinner. As you can see we got a little lost, but it was a fun time. Even though it was -1 with wind chill.
Dinner at Schwartz's. Montreal is known for their smoked meat sandwiches, so we all got one.
Look at that beautiful thing. It was such a good sandwich and after a 30 minutes walk in very cold weather it hit the spot.
And what would a trip to a hebrew deli be without a pickle. We all got one.
Being as it is freezing cold here, I have discovered the how great a scarf can be. I always thought they looked stupid. I now realize they serve a purpose
Anyways, overall impressions of Montreal are great. Awesome attitude and culture throughout the town, and it is just like being back in Europe again. I would definitely consider this a livable city.
Cases: Day 1
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
After our cases today, we had a cocktail hour at the Royal Bank of Canada's Executive offices. One of the larger banks in the world so needless to say it was nice.
