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The Bridge to RLE (Redmond Leadership Experience) passed through Snowflake lane

Posted Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:38 PM by Pradeep U.N.
RLE - the Redmond Leadership Experience is what the winners win for their efforts in Firenze|USA. While the details of what happens at the RLE will have to be shrouded in enigma at this point, I thought shots of where the action happens might be blogworthy Read More...
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Prof Jefferey Williams shares his views on Firenze ...

Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:33 AM by Pradeep U.N.
Professor of Business Strategy at Tepper, Prof Jeff Williams was one of the professors who held special classes for the 1st year students who were participating in Firenze. When asked on the value that Firenze was having on the participating students Read More...
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2008 Cornell|JOhnson champions for Firenze|USA

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 5:44 PM by Pradeep U.N.
The Cornell team within hrs of being crowned as champions turnaround this beautiful photo taken at the entrance of their school at dusk (or lighting that is similar to that time, since you never know this time of the year in the east coast) Read More...
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Dynamics BG announces Cornell winners

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 2:19 PM by Pradeep U.N.
The Judges from the Dynamics BG came back from Denmark (most of them), while some took the call from Hong Kong and ultimately after a lot of fun and deliberation have announced the winners. The winning team from Cornell is: Team 12: Christian Duncan Uma Read More...
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Firenze|China media coverage to date...

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 2:58 AM by Pradeep U.N.
While Firenze|USA has been ebbing towards a frenzy - Firenze|China has been the quiet project that will ebb while the US version shall recede... Nevertheless it is encouraging to see some media coverage already happening in both English and Mandarin press: Read More...
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2008 Yale Champs for Firenze USA

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 2:49 AM by Pradeep U.N.
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2008 Tuck Champions of Firenze USA

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 2:41 AM by Pradeep U.N.
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Firenze USA 2008 - Tepper Champions

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 2:38 AM by Pradeep U.N.
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Firenze Finals in Tepper as a slideshow...

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 2:12 AM by Pradeep U.N.
Kiran Surapaneni - the president of the Biz & Tech club at Tepper who has been along with Manish Grover and Deepthi Kapila instrumental in their 100% yield rate, the strong faculty participation and incredibly execution of logistics sent in a flickr Read More...
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And the Firenze champions of Yale, Tuck and Tepper are .....

Posted Sunday, November 23, 2008 1:45 PM by Pradeep U.N.
The champions of Firenze were finally recognized late this week. The decisions were very close but in the end quite unanimous which is exactly how we would like it. Tepper's Champions were from Team Tartans: Jerome Leonard Rawls Robert Irwin Voigtmann Read More...
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Tepper finalists announced by the ITAP team.

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:00 PM by Pradeep U.N.
The ITAP Team loved the presentations they got from Tepper. Here are some comments from the judges: · “Tepper has again aced the grade!” · “Overall a phenomenal response. It has taken so long to respond because we wanted to ensure that we adequately reviewed Read More...
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Yale Finalists announced ...

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:46 PM by Pradeep U.N.
And so we have the finalists from Yale as well. The following teams have made it to the finals in alphabetical order in the Sharepoint product group case: Effectivators Fellowship Phoenix SOMSolvers Read More...
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Cornell|Johnson Results out - as the Dynamics BG announces their final choices

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:42 PM by Pradeep U.N.
Johnson teams - Team 1, Team 12, Team 7 and Team 8 have made it to the finals. Team 9 had a honorary mention and impressed the judges a lot as well. Congrats finalists. The finals is later this wk. The judges were very happy with the quality of the submissions Read More...
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Tuck's Finalists named....

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:20 PM by Pradeep U.N.
The judges from the Microsoft Services - Dynamics Team came back and announced the 4 finalists that they believed should go on to the next round.. Congratulations - Team 4,6,8, and 14 !!! The consolidated feedback for all teams are being created as I Read More...
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ITAP judges "bowled over" by Tepper entries

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 2:37 PM by Pradeep U.N.
"Am About a third of the way through...so far impressed with some of the original ideas that have surfaced." said one of the judges for the ITAP case given to the Tepper students. When probed around he elaborated - " there is ...some real clever thinking Read More...
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Firenze|China press release to go out today....

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 5:36 AM by Pradeep U.N.
Over the last wk we have been collaborating on a joint press-release between Microsoft and CKGSB for Firenze|China. The press release will be out of SIngapore and focusing in China (obviously). The last few edits happened over this wkend (Seattle time) Read More...
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Dynamics Case Judges impressed with quality of submission...

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 5:35 AM by Pradeep U.N.
The judges are getting around to reading the submissions of the Firenze participants. Early this morning I got an email commending the quality of submission of the Johnson-Cornell students. " Is there any way we can have more than 4 teams make it to the Read More...
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19 teams currently confirms participation at Firenze China. 14 univs from 5 countries participating.

Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 1:57 AM by Pradeep U.N.
Really cool stuff. This. Initially what we had planned to be a US univs tussle with Chinese univs has now begun to look like a global melting pot of sorts in Beijing. At current stand here is the list of univs participating. The cases were sent to the Read More...
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Student update: "Next stop" by Team Vision Futura from Tepper

Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 1:37 AM by Pradeep U.N.
Whiteboarding is something we do at MSFT all the time. Right from asking interviewees to show us what they really mean to whiteboarding session led meetings - its a pivotal communication tool. This foto among all the fotos we received at Firenze deserved Read More...
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Student Update: Team Soluzione from Tepper shares some of their firenze photos

Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 1:26 AM by Pradeep U.N.
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Dusko gets Firenze on Skydrive

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 6:10 PM by Pradeep U.N.
To increase collaboration effectiveness while at the same time flaunting some of the super-cool technologies we have at Microsoft Dusko decided to use Skydrive to get all the universities to post their decks into and eventually collaborating that internally Read More...
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Deepthi 'Rovingreporter' Kapila interviews Prof Denise M Rousseau at Tepper ... Evidence based Management is in.

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 5:54 PM by Pradeep U.N.
Professor Rousseau shares her thoughts on Firenze and the applicability of evidence based management. Here is an excerpt from the interview. The Microsoft case is known for its emphasis on research so much so that 25% of the grading is based on the quality Read More...
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Student Update: Professors and Librarians being overtaxed because of Firenze.

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 5:38 PM by Pradeep U.N.
Deepthi Kapila writes in from Tepper - " These students worked so hard, availed themselves of the opportunity to meet up with the profs and even the business librarian who visits Tepper once a week mentioned how there was a spike in people asking for Read More...
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Student Update: Team Zen Tech Partners make the wall of strategy.....

Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:35 PM by Pradeep U.N.
Team Zen Tech Partners Kill some trees to make a wall of strategy.... and then realize that they might as well have used Office 2007 instead. Yes, they are a PC :) Mark Prince from Team Zen Tech Partners writes.... "Now that we've sent in our slides, Read More...
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Tepper does 100% yield for 3rd year in a row.

Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:15 PM by Pradeep U.N.
Each year over the last 3 years, Firenze has had a few casualities measured in the yield which is the difference between # of teams signed up to participate and # of teams eventually submitting their strategy presentation. Tepper for the 3rd year in a Read More...
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Student Update: Team Vision Futura shares their views on Strategy...

Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:12 PM by Pradeep U.N.
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Student Update: Tuck's "Team 9" wants their part of the Firenze blog!

Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:05 PM by Pradeep U.N.
Adam K Carson writes that this pic of his team is a little preview to their strategy. I suck at guessing games, but here are my guesses: "Head in clouds" strategy "Blue Sky" Methodology "Up in the air" implementation "All smoke no fire" marketing I told Read More...
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Student Update: "Big Red Cosmonauts" cited at Cornell working on Firenze ...

Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:02 AM by Pradeep U.N.
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Student Update: Team Sinergia from Tepper

Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:41 PM by Pradeep U.N.
Nick Desimone from Team Sinergia at Tepper believes that “ The wealth of information and lack of constraints in the case, really underscore the value of diverse backgrounds and cross-functional teams, in solving complex business problems .” Seen in picture Read More...
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Student Update: Team Fresco from Tepper wanted to share their Firenze story on perseverance.... in pics.

Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:54 PM by Pradeep U.N.
Team Fresco wanted to share their solution-innovation process which was built on perseverance. It is clear that they are serious about the whole project, but they are also having fun - which is really more important. Here is what they have to say in their Read More...
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Student Update: Team Renaissance fromTepper shares their Firenze fotos.

Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 3:58 PM by Pradeep U.N.
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Yale Firenze participants showing their strength on campus

Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 11:44 PM by Pradeep U.N.
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Tuck firenze participants excited at their campus

Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 11:42 PM by Pradeep U.N.
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Cornell students jazzed up in their Firenze tshirts on campus

Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 11:38 PM by Pradeep U.N.
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Tepper students flaunting their Firenze Tshirts at their campus.

Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 11:35 PM by Pradeep U.N.
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Student Update: Drink n Drive? Maybenot. Drink n Strategize? Why not - as "We are a PC" team fromTuck send us their photos

Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 11:12 PM by Pradeep U.N.
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Student Update: "Taking on the Firenze Challenge – Yale SOM !"

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:35 PM by Pradeep U.N.
As part of the experience/exposure we had given all the student participants the option to share their experiences/reactions/comments/fotos to share with the world. Here is one of the responses we got to that ask, as Deepika Venkat from Yale gives her Read More...
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Topic Allocations for Firenze|USA

Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 12:38 PM by Pradeep U.N.
For over a month the student leaders have been cajoling us for details on what topics they will be having their students to work on. While the cases themselves will be out later this week to the students to start working on, here is an update that they Read More...
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All 14 Tepper Teams go on branding overdrive!

Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 11:28 AM by Pradeep U.N.
The 14 Tepper teams did go on a branding overdrive and take some time in naming themselves. FUN! Altered State: Interesting name - probably their expectation to go into a different zone to perform? Or expectation that Firenze will pull them outside their Read More...
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Only 35% Tuck teams take opportunity to brand themselves.

Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 10:47 PM by Pradeep U.N.
In sharp contrast to the Yale teams where 100% of the teams showed they had quite a bit of fun thinking creatively while branding themselves and made us spend time to think about why they named themselves like they did - only 35% of the Tuck teams even Read More...
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13 teams confirmed for Firenze China, so far. 20 expected to be potential participation.

Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 10:15 PM by Pradeep U.N.
As the registration for Firenze|China goes on, where we had a soft deadline of Nov 1st. 13 teams have confirmed their participation. Last year this was 8 teams, 13 already shows the growth of this program, considering we drew a cap of 2 teams MAX per Read More...
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224 students are Firenze Ready To take on the challenge next wk!

Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:17 AM by Pradeep U.N.
The Signup week finished across the campuses this week and the final numbers are out. 224 students have signed up from the 4 East Coast bschools. It was 150 students last year and a 50% increase in participation. Yale SOM took the spotlight as 37% of Read More...
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