UIC Liautaud Loop

Upcoming Events

November 2009
Nov. 10: UIC Energy Symposium
Nov. 11: Chicago Merchantile Exchange Info Session
Nov. 14: WIN Wine and Cheese Event
Nov. 14: MBA Information Session
Nov. 17: Using SCM, Logistics, and Freight Transportation in a Changing Economy
Nov. 18: Gallup Consulting Information Session
Nov. 18: Doctorate in Business Recruiting Forum
Nov. 20: Quantitative Finance on Fridays Seminar

December 2009
Dec. 15: Concept2Venture Business Plan Competition

January 2010
Jan. 27: MBA ENGAGE Event 

Gallup Consulting Information Session

Gallup Consulting, an international consulting firm will be on-campus recruiting and networking with MBA students for opportunities to join their Business Development Consulting Team.  Please join us for an information session and overview of Gallup's Consulting Division.  Gallup is different from most consulting firms.  While other firms provide services in traditional disciplines like cost reduction, building or re-engineering processes and systems, Gallup helps companies drive true organic growth - revenue and profit increase from continuing operations. 

 

Gallup is looking to recruit talented MBA candidates to become trusted advisors to their client base.  They are looking to develop rising stars who will maximize opportunities to further business objectives across the globe.  Each Business Development Consultant will work with Gallup Partners to serve Fortune 1,000 clients around the world.  As they master Gallup's practices and processes, the Business Development Consultant will gain absolute responsibility for creating, managing, and growing these vital client relationships. 

 

All applicants will be considered for future positions that will begin in Summer 2010.  Preferred experience is 3 to 5 years in consulting related sales or business development.  They also are recruiting for international students to serve as Business Development Consultants.  Applicants for international opportunities must be citizens or permanent residents of the country to which they apply.  Gallup is an equal opportunity employer.  To learn more, please visit Gallup Careers.

 

Wednesday, November 18

4:30pm-6:00pm (you will have time to make it to a 6:00 class)

Student Center East (SCE) White Oak Room

Please RSVP if you will attend

Save the date!

The next MBA ENGAGE Event will take place at 6 p.m. on January 27, 2010 at the Innovation Center. The topic is healthcare with guest speaker Dr. Paul Rockey of the American Medical Association (AMA). 

Dr. Rockey directs the Division of Graduate Medical Education at the AMA.  He provides staff leadership and liaison in setting accreditation standards and supervises the collection, analysis and dissemination of information about the more than 8,000 residency programs in the US.  He is board certified in internal medicine and serves nationally on the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine.

The Puzzle of Index Option Returns

George M. Constantinides, Leo Melamed Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, will present “The Puzzle of Index Option Returns” as part of Quantitative Finance on Fridays, a seminar series bridging the academic and professional finance communities cosponsored by the International Center for Futures and Derivatives and the University of Chicago. The series will offer discussions of important topics concerning “Where Theory Meets Practice”. 

The seminar will take place in the Executive Conference Center of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which is located at 20 South Wacker Drive on Friday, November 20, 2009. It will begin at 4 p.m. with check-in at 3:30 p.m.
Please register here.

Concept2Venture Business Plan Competition

Students compete for awards exceeding $70,000 for their business ideas!!
 
The 5th Annual Concept2Venture Business Plan Competition will take place on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 in the Illinois Room of Student Center East.

The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate student teams from any of UIC's 15 colleges, including teams made up of students from multiple colleges. Support fellow classmates as they battle it out for the grand prize. The public and community are encouraged to attend free of charge. Teams will be evaluated based on written business plans and a 15-minute oral presentation. A distinguished panel of experts including entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, and service providers will judge the entries and provide valuable feedback. This competition is hosted by UIC's College of Business Administration and the Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies.

For more information, visit the C2V Business Plan Competition website.

British Non-profit Awards Grant

Hsiu-Lang Chen, associate professor of finance, was recently awarded a grant of £10,000 from INQUIRE-UK, a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering research and understanding in the field of quantitative investment methodologies for his single-author research proposal “Gradual Diffusion of Upstream and Downstream Earnings News­ Implications for Stock Prices.”

The Great Depression and the current recession

John Binder, associate professor of finance, was quoted in a Chicago Sun-Times article about the Great Depression and the current recession.

Thomas P. Hustad Best Paper Award Goes To.....

Al Page, professor and head of managerial studies, along with his former PhD student, Gary Schirr, who is now an assistant professor at Radford University, won the Thomas P. Hustad Best Paper Award for the Outstanding Professional Contribution in the Journal of Product Innovation Management in 2008. The award for their article titled “Growth and Development of a Body of Knowledge: 16 Years of New Product Development Research 1989-2004.”, was announced Saturday night at the Product Development & Management Association’s Annual Research Conference at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, CA.

Liautaud Professor Elected

Tom Murtha, professor of management, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Industry Studies Association. The ISA is a multidisciplinary academic association established with an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation development grant to provide a research forum and promote faculty career development in industry-based theoretical and empirical studies.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group Information Session

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Student Center East, Room 613

Building on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe.  They provide the widest range of benchmark futures and options products available on any exchange, covering all major asset classes, including interest rates, equities, FX, commodities, and alternative investments such as weather and real estate.  CME Group's vision is one of ongoing global growth, innovative product development, continually enhanced technology and the highest level of service available on any exchange.

UIC Liautaud is very fortunate to have Rachel LaVelle, Senior Manager, Partner Services Management, Global Operations to be a guest speaker.  She will discuss the operations and structure of the CME Group including the experience they would look for when hiring for internships and full time positions. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about the CME Group and their vision for future operations.

Rachel earned her BA degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Art History and an MBA in Leadership and Change Management from DePaul.   Currently, she works as an operations manager for partner exchanges. Do not miss this opportunity to hear from a senior manager at the CME Group. Please RSVP if you plan to attend this event.

Please only submit a “will attend” RSVP for this event if you are certain that you are able to attend.  We often need to let our presenters know how many students will be attending a particular event, and we rely on accurate RSVP numbers to make sure we have appropriate seating and resources available at the event.  If you submit an RSVP that you later need to change, it is important that you contact the UIC Liautaud office as soon as possible to notify us of the change. Please know that students who repeatedly RSVP to attend events and fail to show up or fail to notify our office may be restricted from attending UIC Liautaud events in the future.

For more information contact John Karras at jkarras@uic.edu or at (312) 996-2614.