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Nov

29

Warsaw Sports Marketing Center Engaging Asia Recap

Cameron Center for Finance & Securities Analysis Blog / Center for Sustainable Business Practices Blog / Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship Blog / Oregon MBA Blog / Warsaw Sports Marketing Center Blog  Posted by / 0 comments

As second year Oregon MBA students, we experience the trip of a lifetime for two weeks in September to Shanghai, Beijing, and Singapore. This trip was filled with trips to visit companies, amazing food and company, and plenty of time to explore. Students from the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center took some time to highlight their […]

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Written by Christine Lutz

Christine was born and raised in North Carolina and is a current second year MBA Student in the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center.

Oct

09

Engaging Asia Part IV: Hong Kong

Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship Blog / Oregon MBA Blog  Posted by / 0 comments

Just to recap, thus far on the trip we have experienced the organized chaos of Mumbai, the sparkly newness of Shanghai and the communistic tradition of Beijing.  Traveling to Hong Kong, in hindsight, is the culmination of all of these places.  The streets are packed and busy with people from all over the world intermingling […]

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Written by Jenny Palm

Jenny a current Oregon MBA and Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship. When she is not busy exploring how she can change the world, you can find her outside doing almost anything...especially finding that secret stash of powder on her skis! She has hopes to either help develop an awesome outdoor-oriented start-up or flex her organizational prowess in ski resort event operations.

Oct

09

Engaging Asia Part III: Beijing

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After drinking the China kool-aid in Shanghai we headed to explore our second Chinese destination: Beijing.  So far on this trip we have traveled by plane and automobile, why not add a train?  The coolest thing about this train is it is part of the high speed rail system and travels at 300km/hr (about 186 […]

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Written by Jenny Palm

Jenny a current Oregon MBA and Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship. When she is not busy exploring how she can change the world, you can find her outside doing almost anything...especially finding that secret stash of powder on her skis! She has hopes to either help develop an awesome outdoor-oriented start-up or flex her organizational prowess in ski resort event operations.

Oct

07

Engaging Asia Part II: Shanghai

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Whoever said that China is a developing country must use Shanghai to argue the opposite.  Coming from Mumbai, where extreme wealth is adjacent to extreme poverty and being the largest democracy in the world is a point of pride, Shanghai seemed to have the upper hand in the amount of development.  Perhaps it was where […]

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Written by Jenny Palm

Jenny a current Oregon MBA and Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship. When she is not busy exploring how she can change the world, you can find her outside doing almost anything...especially finding that secret stash of powder on her skis! She has hopes to either help develop an awesome outdoor-oriented start-up or flex her organizational prowess in ski resort event operations.

Oct

07

Engaging Asia 2014 Part I: India

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Since the beginning of my MBA adventure, there has been talk of this Engaging Asia program that is offered between first and second years in the Oregon MBA.  What was murmurs last fall turned into rumblings in winter term then full on discussions in the spring.  What actually happened during the first half of September […]

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Written by Jenny Palm

Jenny a current Oregon MBA and Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship. When she is not busy exploring how she can change the world, you can find her outside doing almost anything...especially finding that secret stash of powder on her skis! She has hopes to either help develop an awesome outdoor-oriented start-up or flex her organizational prowess in ski resort event operations.

Hong Kong Skyline
Oct

01

Engaging Asia: Grand Union Trading

Center for Sustainable Business Practices Blog / Oregon MBA Blog  Posted by / 0 comments

Hong Kong was a favorite destination for many of the students on our trip to China.  It is a beautiful city nestled between and around the mountains and the sea, and it bustles with life both night and day.  But our company visits in Hong Kong really set it apart from the rest of the […]

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Written by Eric Ringer

Eric is an MBA Candidate in the Center for Sustainable Business Practices. He came to the Oregon MBA program from his old Kentucky home to supplement his technical experience in engineering with valuable business skills. He intends to help businesses build competency in decision making processes and business operations through the lens of the triple bottom line: people, profit, planet.

Nov

13

4 Cultural Trends That Will Affect Business in Asia

Cameron Center for Finance & Securities Analysis Blog / Center for Sustainable Business Practices Blog / Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship Blog / Oregon MBA Blog  Posted by / 0 comments

Having studied international relations and lived abroad for a number of years, I’ve experienced first hand the interconnectivity of our current world. One of the reasons I chose the Oregon MBA is because this program also understands the importance globalization has on business. The Oregon MBA takes it one step further by offering all students […]

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Written by Natalie Colvin

Natalie is a 2016 MBA from the Center for Sustainable Business Practices. The experience of living abroad in Costa Rica, instilled in Natalie a passion for improving the world. After completing her MBA, she hopes to bring this passion to a career in corporate environmental and advocacy campaigns. Natalie received a dual undergraduate degree in development anthropology and Latin American studies from the University of Arizona honors college where she was also on the equestrian team.

Oct

11

Engaged and Enlightened: MBA Experiential Learning in China and Singapore

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The sights, sounds, colors, and smells form a tapestry: The hawker stalls. The culture. The ornately-manicured trees and chaotic-yet-somehow-organized subway traffic. The beauty of the Chinese and Singaporean people. But let’s start from the beginning… It was with eagerness and a measure of trepidation that we boarded our 14-hour flight from San Francisco to Shanghai. […]

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Written by bfordham

Fordham is a writer and journalist who believes in addressing the future with clarity and vision. He has most recently written for the Mad River Union, an award-winning Northern California newspaper, where he helped bring subjects like biogas production and bond procurement to life. Through the Oregon MBA’s Center for Sustainable Business Practices, Fordham plans to build out his overall skill-sets, taking advantage of rigorous coursework and experiential learning opportunities to gain a strong framework of business fundamentals. After graduation he plans to work toward renewable energy solutions for a changing world. Fordham will graduate in Spring '18.

Apr

05

University of Oregon CCFSA Profile – Anika Hedstrom

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Anika Hedstrom is a Lundquist College of Business MBA alumna and current financial planner at Vista Capital Partners. Vista Capital Partners will be visiting the Lundquist College of Business in April and May to engage with students and give insight into starting a career in wealth management. Hedstrom brings extensive knowledge on the financial planning […]

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Written by UO Business

The UO Lundquist College of Business empowers an engaged community of students, faculty, staff, and stakeholders who create, apply, and disseminate knowledge that contributes significantly to their professions, communities, and society. The college delivers a dynamic learning environment where world-class professors engage and get to know students, where students work on real projects for real companies, and where alumni go on to high-powered jobs worldwide.

Feb

25

Valentine’s Day in Thailand with Cricket Flours

Cameron Center for Finance & Securities Analysis Blog / Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship Blog / Oregon MBA Blog  Posted by / 0 comments

It felt as busy as our Engaging Asia trip this past September, but this whirlwind of a journey was completed in only five days. The opportunity to participate in a business plan competition was something I had never experienced before — let alone an international competition. The talent of both the student groups and the […]

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Written by pmb@uoregon.edu

Paul Butler is a concurrent JD/MBA student at the University of Oregon currently in the Finance and Securities Analysis Center. His goal after he graduates in 2016 is to apply his education within a corporate finance department.

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