Presentations: The Life of a Business Major

Wow! It's been a while since I have blogged! That's because I have been busy with class presentations! Five of them to be exact - this is the life of a business major. Let me give you a glimpse of what I have been up to:

Imbali - My group for International Business - see picture above. We just gave our third presentation and are now working on our second group paper. We have learned about South Africa, India, and exporting to or starting businesses in both. We all have busy schedules, so we tend to meet at 8am during the week.

PandaMonium - We are responsible for two projects for the same class! I work with two guys in my Strategic Management class on a weekly basis. We participate in a business simulation online called Glo-Bus where we make decisions for a camera company and are compared to other teams in our class. We were dead last for weeks on end, but are comfortably in second place coming into our final week of decisions! When we are not doing Glo-Bus, we are taking a close look at Panera Bread and preparing presentations for potential strategies they could implement. We are often given time during class to meet, and sometimes meet on Tuesday evenings or Wednesday afternoons as well depending on our schedules.

Team 3 - We did not come up with a creative name for my Human Resources group. The three of us have done four presentations throughout the semester. We either discuss the content in a chapter or present a case study from the chapter. We're pretty good at finding videos to help our class understand how the topic relates to real businesses. We often meet on Tuesday nights.

Health Care - We never came up with a team name for my Senior Seminar group, but health care is the topic of our upcoming presentation. We are informing the class about the new health care reform and various options they will have after graduating. My group of four often works on the project after class and e-mails information to each other throughout the week.

Powerpoints, research, videos, dressing up - these have all been a big part of my school work recently! When working in groups, it's always challenging to find a time to all meet together. This becomes even more difficult when you have multiple group projects going on. Thankfully, my teams have found pretty consistent times to meet. Just a few more weeks and these group projects for class will be a thing of the past!