The final list just came in from Yale SOM. 17 teams have signed up for Firenze which makes up 36% of their first year MBA class. A very flattering number, especially given that there are lots of case competitions that happen on campus these days. None...

The Firenze|China website is up. CKGSB calls it the East-West MBA All Star Biz-Challenge. The website is undergoing a metamorphosis from its current state which is a rehash from last year to a new form that has been promised to look a lot slicker. As...

Sheldon Menezes, Vivek Raval (MS interns Summer 2008) and Curtis Gasser (Redmond native) were part of the winning Firenze team from Tuck last year. Having won the contest, they went on to start the Case Competition club at Tuck. As part of their charter...

CKGSB (Cheung Kong Grad School of Biz) as we know is the host for Firenze|China this year. Jonathan Tang there has been our #1 partner in crime to make this come to life. They call it the East-West MBA All Star Challenge; which has complimentary goals...

The Business and Technology Club at the Tepper School of Business provides a resource-rich forum for members to explore careers in technology or leverage technology experiences in new careers. It therefore makes perfect sense that 4 of their board members...

As promised last year - in 2008/2009 we are expanding Firenze to China. This is absolutely exciting for us! Partnering with the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business which started running an East-West MBA All-Star Case Challenge last year based on...

Jeffrey Osborn (in pic) has been working with us to get his school ready for Firenze | USA this fall. Seen in the tinier inset (on the top right of the pic) is the location of the banner that he has chosen in his school - at the atrium right in the center...

Seen here proudly in their school colors - Neha Bhaskar (MS Summer intern 2008) and Deepika Venkat (first year student) are Yale School of Management Class of 2009 & 2010 respectively. Both are student leaders from their Tech Club who along with Jonathan...

AS much as we have heard stories from the people who were part of Project Firenze last year - it's time to get to touch the next set of people. This week Firenze | USA will be launched in 4 campuses (up from 2 last year). While It has not been an easy...