The charge: Gildan's $88MM acquisition of American Apparel"Being able to experience an unfamiliar city and culture, flanked by my teammates and case ambassador, was a singular experience. On this trip, Jack, Carolyn, Mike, Izzy and I got the chance to bring all of our backgrounds and biases to a new place, and challenge our assumptions together. We gained experiential knowledge in ways we hadn’t ever anticipated.
Most of our competitors felt like family by the end of the week, and I’m happy to have walked away from this case with memories of great times with these teams from various top business schools, and also a new horde of ambitious peers in my network. It seems our paths may cross again in the future, and I’m glad they’ve taken so well to our UW group; we aimed to represent Foster well!" Above is my contribution to the Foster Blog about my MMICC experience. See more here. |
MMICC is known for being the “friendliest” case competition in the world, and it wasn’t until I got there that I truly understood what that meant. From the moment our ambassador Flo (short for Florence) gave us the biggest hug when she picked us up from the airport with her mom, I knew this case competition was going to be different from any other experience I ever had. In the next week, I interacted with people all across the globe. I sang “Wannabe” with the girls from Switzerland and Australia, had tubing races with the Canadian and Thailand teams, and danced to “Thrift Shop” with the Hong Kong and University of Pennsylvania participants. I got the chance to interact with a group of passionate individuals, representing their schools in the case competition. From all the activities, I was able to gain a more global view on what it means to be a business student. During dinner, we got to hear about the other international case competitions participants got to attend and the internships they have held during their time as college students. For the first time, I got the opportunity to network with individuals around the world.
By the time the case was released, our team was prepared to get a chance to showcase what we had been practicing over the last couple months. Since most of our preparation was at a University of Washington local level, we were still unprepared for the international competition playing field. Watching the other competitors compete was an eye opening experience into how other schools approach problems, organize a presentation, and presented dense information. Our advisor, Izzy Weber, was even kind enough to take notes on all the teams for us to learn from and improve. I am more motivated now to implement the new ideas we learned and grow as business professionals. Overall, the experience was an opportunity to gain case competition experience while also getting to know individuals from around the world. I got the chance to gain a global understanding to business issues, learning more about how others approach the same business problems. In a week, I gained friends from around the world. I feel truly blessed to have had the chance to represent Foster School of Business in Montreal.
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