Excerpt from Penn State Center for the Business of Sustainability LinkedIn post: Our 2021 Penn State Smeal College of Business MBA Sustainability Case Competition focused on Electronic Waste, or E-Waste — a business #sustainability case related to consumption and how to dispose of it. Congratulations to our 3rd place winners from Washington University in St. Louis – Olin Business School: Stephanie […]
Category: 2021
Being Real
Excerpt from Clear Admit: What is your initial impression of the Washington Olin students/culture/community? I came in with a blank slate, not sure of what to expect. I knew the caliber of students and the nature of WashU’s community would be top-tier. The student body and the community at Olin is extremely diverse. I haven’t […]
Making the most of a career pivot
Excerpt from Olin Blog: The winning team of the seventh annual PepsiCo MBA Invitational Business Case Competition included Tyler Whiteman, MBA ’23. Whiteman is a first-year student who had spent most of the past decade in musical theater as an actor, singer, and dancer out of New York City. Then COVID hit. “In a matter of days, […]
Using AI in Fashion
Excerpt from Olin Blog: It’s a problem he only began to appreciate as he considered expanding Tylmen’s product line from ties and pocket squares into suits. Body scans and virtual reality, he reasoned, would modernize the experience, letting customers virtually try on the clothes. “As we were workshopping this, we were learning there was a bigger […]
Your business idea could earn $50K in Olin/P&Q-sponsored pitch competition
Excerpt from Olin Blog: WashU Olin Business School was Poets & Quants’ choice for 2022’s #1 MBA program for entrepreneurship. So, it’s only natural that the business school trade publication would team with us for an innovative showcase of startup ideas. And the winner pockets $50,000 to launch their idea. That’s one of the announcements that emerged […]
Ivelisse Diaz and Puerto Rican Bomba y Plena
Episode summary found on Ritmos Negros: Meet Ivelisse Diaz – Puerto Rican Bomba y Plena You are now listening to Ritmos Negros! We are transitioning to our next destination, Puerto Rico, as we leave the magical island of Jamaica. Today, we explore two musical genres with deep African roots and strong percussion rhythms: Bomba y […]
#gamenightjustgotpersonal
Our goal is to make social media actually “social,” so we want to give you more game modes that fit your interests and allow more players to get in on the action. Currently we have two versions of the game Just Matthews Excerpt from Olin Blog: Justin Matthews, Olin MBA ’23 candidate, has loved game […]
Bringing Diverse Talent to WashU
Excerpt from Washington Magazine: The late-Sterling H. Schoen, a Washington University business professor, was the undisputed powerhouse behind the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, the business diversity organization he founded and served for 14 years. After waking to the possibility that a “consortium” of business schools could address racial inequity in corporate leadership, Schoen […]
How did your Olin education prepare you for your internship?
Excerpt from Olin Blog: “I use Olin’s value-based and data-driven approaches every day of my internship. At Amazon, I’m encouraged to dig deep into data sets to gather insights and invent new creative solutions to solve customers’ problems. Olin’s education prepared me for my internship at Amazon by teaching me qualitative and quantitative analysis frameworks […]
Olin students make the most of their summer with internships
Excerpt from Olin Blog Tova Feinberg, MBA ’22, MBA marketing summer intern at PepsiCo “The power of asking yourself ‘why?’ three times to get to the root of a problem. No matter what question I try to answer, this way of thinking ultimately leads me in the right direction to find the solution.” Shaurya Ahuja, […]
Meet Washington Olin’s MBA Class Of 2022
Becoming an economic-type diplomat
Excerpt from the Consortium Blog: As a burn survivor, Antonio Rivera-Martinez learned the hard way the importance of slowing down, of taking life day by day as opposed to rushing. Now a first-year MBA student and Consortium fellow at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, Rivera-Martinez is finding success applying this same mindset […]
How is the first semester going?
Excerpt from the Consortium Blog: After completing the first semester of my MBA this past week, I can finally say that this school year has indeed been one for the books thus far. I’ve continued to grow much more than expected in this current climate, and it wouldn’t be possible without The Consortium and the […]