MBA students participate in case competition
The semester started early for first-year MBA students who participated in a case study hosted by Koch Industries. KU School of Business lecturers Venkat Bendapudi, Steve Liggett and Wally Meyer prepared the students for the annual first-year MBA KU Case Competition on Wednesday, Jan. 16.
They worked on the case for 24 hours and, on Thursday morning, with the help of KU Media Productions, Duane McGregor, one of the four judges and a senior business consultant at Koch, held a question and answer video conference. Friday morning, the students travelled to the company’s headquarters in Wichita to present their cases to a panel of judges. In addition to McGregor, Chase Koch, senior vice president of Koch Agronomic Services, LLC, Pamela Swedlund, human resource leader of Koch Industries and Jeff Gentry, chief executive officer of INVISTA.
“KU Business Alumnus Jeff Gentry was instrumental in making the competition happen,” said Catherine Shenoy, director of MBA programs, “and Rachael Sanner, a KU alumna, coordinated the event in consultation with Koch College Recruiting.”
Several members of the business school staff and faculty travelled to Wichita with Shenoy, Bendapudi and the students: Dee Steinle, administrative director of masters programs; Jinae Krieshok, MBA recruiter; and David Byrd-Stadler, employee relations coordinator.
The MBA students presented their arguments on whether Koch should convert an existing facility to produce the crop fertilizer YieldMax or whether a brand new facility should be built. The six groups gave 15 minute presentations with an additional 10 minutes for questions. Suzelle Tala Medjou, Boyao Bi, Anas Maazouzi and John Terkovich won first place; Colin Hartigan, Marion Caremel, Jacob Esau and Prasanna Tadimeti won second place; and Paul Epp, Moses Jiang, Andrew Lovgren and Gary Snider won third.
More journal clubs
We hope that this blog can be "home" for links to other people's blog posts discussing articles etc. and also for news on other Journal Clubs.
1. The other club which I have been co-organising (with Marshall Dozier) for a couple of years meets in the virtual world, Second Life (see right, November 2012). The next meeting is this week:
When: Weds 23 January 2013: 12 noon Second Life time, 8pm UK time.
Where: Infolit iSchool, Second Life, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/106/208/30/ (you need a SL avatar and the SL browser)
What: Marshall Dozier (Edinburgh University) will lead a discussion of: Detmering R, and Johnson AM. (2012) "'Research Papers Have Always Seemed Very Daunting': Information Literacy Narratives and the Student Research Experience." Portal: Libraries and the Academy 12(1), 5-22. Available from: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v012/12.1.detmering.html
2. A face to face group started up last year is London Libraries Learning Research Reading Group: they had a meeting in November 2012 and their blog is here: http://lllrrg.wordpress.com/ and Jane Secker outlined what they would discuss here.
If you run a Journal Club (i.e. any group meeting face to face or virtually, to discuss articles or other literature in the library and information field) please let us know, e.g. by commenting below. If you run one and would like to post information about upcoming sessions on the blog regularly, do contact us.
When: Weds 23 January 2013: 12 noon Second Life time, 8pm UK time.
Where: Infolit iSchool, Second Life, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/106/208/30/ (you need a SL avatar and the SL browser)
What: Marshall Dozier (Edinburgh University) will lead a discussion of: Detmering R, and Johnson AM. (2012) "'Research Papers Have Always Seemed Very Daunting': Information Literacy Narratives and the Student Research Experience." Portal: Libraries and the Academy 12(1), 5-22. Available from: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v012/12.1.detmering.html
2. A face to face group started up last year is London Libraries Learning Research Reading Group: they had a meeting in November 2012 and their blog is here: http://lllrrg.wordpress.com/ and Jane Secker outlined what they would discuss here.
If you run a Journal Club (i.e. any group meeting face to face or virtually, to discuss articles or other literature in the library and information field) please let us know, e.g. by commenting below. If you run one and would like to post information about upcoming sessions on the blog regularly, do contact us.
MBA student to play in college football all-star game
Senior football player and MBA student Trevor Marrongelli will play in the 2013 National Football League Players Association Collegiate Bowl on Saturday. The starting center for the Jayhawks accepted the invitation to play in the all-star game which includes a week of events leading up to the game. It will be played at California State University Dominguez Hills in Carson, Calif.
Marrongelli is one of five Jayhawks chosen to play in the postseason game. Dayne Crist, a quarterback from Canoga Park, Calif.; Toben Opurum, a linebacker from Richardson, Texas; Josh Williams, a defensive end from Stafford, Texas; and Duane Zlatnik, an offensive lineman from Rossville, Kan. join Marrongelli in representing the University of Kansas.
“This game means a lot to me because it is giving me the opportunity to meet many great players who played for great teams across the country,” Marrongelli said.
Marrongelli started the last 24 games, giving him a total of 30 career starts for KU. He was named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team four times and the CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team twice. He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance and is currently finishing his Master of Business Administration degree and working as a graduate teaching assistant for School of Business lecturer, Lisa Bergeron.
“He goes above and beyond in every aspect of his life,” said Bergeron.
The NFLPA Collegiate Bowl is proof of that because it recruits the country’s best draft-eligible seniors to play. Marrongelli will play alongside teammates Opurum and Crist on the National team, coached by former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Dick Vermeil. They will play against the American team and teammates Williams and Zlatnik. The American team is coached by another former Chiefs head coach, Herm Edwards.
“I hope to learn a lot from my mentors about the things that come with being an NFL player as well as growing as a player and a man,” Marrongelli said. “Being exposed to a whole new group of guys and bonding with them was something that was very fun this week because you got the feeling of being a team again. As for the game, I look forward to beating the other team.”
Marrongelli said this game gives him great exposure to NFL scouts and former NFL players. He is entering the NFL draft this year and said if he’s lucky enough to have the opportunity he will play at the professional level.
“The former players,” he said, “have helped identify things that we need to do in order to make it in the NFL and last as a player.”
The college all-stars listened to speeches from former NFL stars like Kansas City running back Priest Holmes. But spending the week in Los Angeles comes with other perks as well.
“We got to go to a comedy show at the Laugh Factory, which was very exciting for me and the rest of the players,” Marrongelli said. “I think the game will be the most exciting, though, because it gives me another opportunity to play the sport I love.”
Two practices, one at 12:30 p.m. and one at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, will be televised on ESPNU and the game will be aired Saturday at 5 p.m. on ESPN2. This is the first time the game will be aired by ESPN.
First Journal Club discussion Thurs 17th Jan at 8pm UK time!
The Journal Club discussion will take place in the comments beneath this introductory blog post. You can start adding comments now if you want.
The live discussion hosted by Niamh Tumelty and me (Sheila Webber) will be between 8pm and 9.15pm on 17th January. As facilitators, we will be aiming keep the discussion going and introduce the questions through the session. In the next few months we will probably be trying a few different channels for this online journal club (e.g. possibly a Twitter discussion) so we will be grateful if people are willing to stay for a bit after 9.15 to tell us how/whether the blog comment format worked.
Of course people can also contribute to the discussion by commenting (on the topic or the format for discussion) after the 17th January. Alternatively (or additionally!) you can write your reflections on your own blog now or later. Just make sure to tag it ILread and give us the link) or comment on Twitter using #ILread. These are the questions we thought of, to stimulate discussion. Do add further ideas for topics and questions as comments, below.
- How do you think the SCONUL model compares with other models or information literacy standards (e.g. ACRL)?
- Have you used the SCONUL 7 Pillars in practice? If so, how and what are your thoughts about it? for example:
- - Do you mostly just use the basic headings and diagram, or the longer explanations?
- - Are there pillar(s) that you find more difficult to address (or that learners find more difficult to understand)?
- - How do academics take to the model?
- What do you think of the various lenses that are already available for this model (e.g. the Research lens and digital literacy lens) and are there ones that have not yet been written but you think should be?
