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Presents:
The Fifth Annual
Undergraduate Business Conference
The Social Aspect of Business and Power of Community
April 24th, 2010
McCormick Tribune Center
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
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Letter From The UBC Team
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the fifth annual Undergraduate Business Conference! Each year, we
focus on a topic that is relevant to todays business-oriented students and create a
forum to facilitate education and discussion. We invite leading businesspeople,
create panels on theme sub-topics, and give our attendees something completely
unique: a forum designed by undergraduates, for undergraduates, at no cost.
This year, our theme, the social aspects of business and power of community, seeksto focus on emerging sector of the economies that we live in. New ways to connect
with people, demographics, and organizations have rapidly emergedover the past
several years. As this has happened, companies have evolved to leverage thesedeveloping platforms. This has created a new group of individuals who are working
to innovate and alter business in order to better serve the communities in which welive. Today is about the positive potential of these businesses to not only be
profitable, but also transform the world as we know it.
We would like to thank our Keynote Speakers, Andrew Mason and Paul Finnegan,
for taking the time to share their experiences with us today. They have
demonstrated an amazing ability to build strong businesses while also focusing onthe social responsibility that comes with these positions. We are also grateful to the
Business Institutions Program (BIP) and the Lehman Grant, given in memory of
Sherman R. Lewis Jr. WCAS '58, whose generosity and support have helped make
todays conference possible.
This conference thrives on the hard work of students in ISBE, and their dedication is
very much appreciated.
Sincerely,
The Undergraduate Business Conference Team
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Conference Schedule
TIME EVENT LOCATION
10:30am 11:00am Registration McCormick Tribune
Center: Lobby
11:00am 12:00pm Keynote: Andrew Mason, McCormick Tribune
CEO Groupon, Inc. Center: Auditorium
12:00pm 1:00pm Lunch McCormick TribuneCenter: Lobby
1:00pm 1:30pm First ISBE Breakout Session McCormick Tribune
Center: Classrooms*
1:30pm 2:00pm Second ISBE Breakout Session McCormick Tribune
Center: Classrooms*
2:00pm 3:00pm Keynote: Paul Finnegan, McCormick Tribune
Co-CEO Madison Dearborn Center: Auditorium
3:00pm 3:30pm Closing Remarks McCormick Tribune
Center: Auditorium
* Note Please see description of breakout sessions for specific locations
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K eynote Speakers
Andrew Mason, CEO, Groupon, Inc (Northwestern grad, 1999)
Andrew Mason is the founder of Groupon as well as The Point, the
collective action platform from which Groupon was born. Andrew'smostly unremarkable existence began in Pittsburgh, PA; he moved
to Chicago in 1999 to attend Northwestern University. Andrew
graduated with a degree in music, the uselessness of which served
as a chief inspiration to not be useless. Out of college, Andrew
became a software developer by no ambition of his own, but via a
series of acquaintances offering to give him money to doincrementally harder stuff on computers. Excited by the power of
technology to change the world, Andrew developed Policy Tree, a
policy debate visualization tool, and won a scholarship to attend
the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy in 2006. In
school for only 3 months, the flighty Andrew dropped out after
receiving an unexpected offer to fund the idea that would become
The Point.
Paul Finnegan, Co-CEO, Madison Dearborn Partners
Chairman, Teach For America Chicago
Mr. Finnegan has more than 27 years of experience in private
equity investing with a particular focus on investments in thecommunications industry. Mr. Finnegan is a member of the Board
of Overseers of Harvard College and Past President of the Harvard
Alumni Association. He is also a member of the Board of Dean's
Advisors at the Harvard Business School and of the Leadership
Council of the Harvard School of Public Health. Mr. Finnegan is a
member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Council on Global
Affairs. He is the Chairman of Teach For America in Chicago, amember of Teach For America's National Board, and the Chairman
of the Community Works Advisory Committee of the Evanston
Community Foundation.
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Breakout Sessions
Financial Services Group
y Introduction to Portfolio Construction and Stock Selection
o Time: 1:00pm 1:30pm
o Location: McCormick Tribune Center Room 2-101
ISBE Analytics
y BCG Competitive Strategy Case Study Using data to analyze the
impact of changes to a competitive business landscape
o Time: 1:00pm 1:30pm
o Location: McCormick Tribune Center Room 2-107
Northwestern Business Review
y Spring Issue Launch Presentation Overview of spring magazine, new
website and the publication process at NBR
o Time: 1:30pm 2:00pm
o Location: McCormick Tribune Center Room 2-101
Minorities in Business
y Presentation and case study on the intersection between corporate
success and social responsibility o Time: 1:30pm 2:00pm
o Location: McCormick Tribune Center Room 2-107
Corporate Relations, Human Capital
y Guest Speaker: Tracie Thomas How to use networking to your
advantage when searching for a job
o Time: 1:30pm 2:00pm
o Location: McCormick Tribune Center Room 2-131
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About ISBE
The Institute for Student Business Education (ISBE) was originally founded in 1996
as The Nugget Group, an investment and business club at Northwestern University.
Its founding members established a five-figure private investment company, taking
advantage of the groups extensive financial research. The Nugget Group was
featured twice on CNN, highlighting the success of the portfolios performance. The
Nugget Group has continued to expand as is now a multi-tiered financial education
platform called the Financial Services Group (FSG).
The Nugget Group was formally reorganized as the Institute for Student BusinessEducation (ISBE) in 2006. ISBE has continued to develop the founders visions to
provide accessible and experiential business education for undergraduate students
nationwide.
In April 2006, the group launched the Northwester Business Review (NBR), a
national undergraduate business magazine. Working to bridge commerce with
college life, NBR initially targeted circulation to 50 top-tier universities. Within one
year, NBR doubled its circulation and began accepting content from campus
partners. At the same time, ISBE developed Minorities in Business (MIB). Since its
founding, MIB has increased minority involvement in ISBE by 400%
as well ascreated a series of events featuring prominent minority business leaders.
ISBE has continued to grow and now is divided into five product groups, NBR, MIB,
FSG, as well as ISBE Analytics and Northwestern Undergraduate Sports BusinessResearch. Additionally, we are supported by our internal functional groups that are
comprised of Human Capital, Corporate Relations and Marketing. Together these
groups work to expand the business opportunities of undergraduate students at
Northwestern.
Using the current student groups as a foundation, ISBE hopes to further expand its
offerings in the upcoming years.
Interested in getting involved? Contact us at [email protected]
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ISBE Sponsors
The Undergraduate Business Conference is made possible by an
endowment gift from Lehman Brothers in memory of Sherman R.Lewis Jr. WCAS '58, and Vice Chairman of Lehman Brothers.
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