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"I'm a huge fan", says Tyler - of Microsoft after his Firenze|USA Experience

Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:34 PM by Pradeep U.N.
Tyler Peterson (Tepper MBA 2010) spent a dozen years of his life competing against Microsoft working for HP. So his words on the Microsoft experience were of particular interest to all of us here, and here is what he had to share: Looking back at the Read More...
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Steven Novick from Tepper writes in: 'It definitely lived up to the slogan, "Expect Great Things" '

Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 8:21 PM by Pradeep U.N.
Steven Novick is a 3-2 student at Tepper, who has interned twice at Microsoft during his undergrad at Carnegie Mellon. I remember chatting with him over lunch when he was at admitted into Tepper about his (then) potential journey through bschool immediately 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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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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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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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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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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