The Carleton Business Scholars program is an opportunity for current Carleton students who are interested in pursuing business or learning more about the business industry to get some close-up and first hand experience of what a business career is composed of. For the 2015 program…
Ameriprise Financial was the second company we visited, and in my opinion, was both the most welcoming and the most interactive visit. Ameriprise is the largest financial planning company in the US, and as fun as it was to see something like that, the best…
Our Business Scholars Program may only have been scheduled for 3 full days, but its impacts and implications are much more widespread. We not only had a chance to walk through grand buildings speckled throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area, but had the even grander…
The 2015 Business Scholars trip was a somewhat unique experience for me, in that I was fully aware that one of the alumni we were going to meet was offering an internship opportunity for which I “fit the bill.” With this in mind as the…
Networking is often viewed as a superficial act that people simply take part in for personal gain. However, from interacting with alumni during the Business Scholars Program we were all reassured that the importance of networking goes beyond anything we had imagined. Right from the…
Coming into the Business Scholars Program I had no experience with networking. I had a vague understanding of what it meant, but didn’t know how to do it. How do you approach a professional on a whim, and create a relationship out of thin air?…
One of my favorite parts of the Scholars Business Program was the networking event at Sociable Cider Works. Jim and Wade are such cool guys to talk to but it is clear that they are also extremely smart in their expertise as business owners. Their…
On March 20th the Carleton Business Scholars attended a liberal arts seminar hosted by Deloitte. We got a glimpse of what consulting was, along with the culture of Deloitte. Consultants travel extensively, Monday through Thursday, helping organizations solve problems. The majority of consultants we interacted…
The Sociable Cider Weirks event was a fantastic event which combined our newfound networking ability with great food and a brewery run by Carleton alumni. We were all first given a tour of the taproom by Carleton roommates, alumni and co-founders Jim Watkins and Wade…
Cargill isn’t a widely known company, which is odd considering some of the food you ate in the past 24 hours probably wouldn’t exist without Cargill’s products. Cargill spans 75 industries, and if they were a publicly held company, they would be the tenth largest…