{"id":1705,"date":"2024-12-16T15:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2024-12-16T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T15:22:27","slug":"86-students-50-alumni-participate-in-fall-break-business-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2024\/12\/16\/86-students-50-alumni-participate-in-fall-break-business-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"86 Students &amp; 50+ Alumni Participate in Fall Break Business Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1706\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/12\/FBC_FullGroup_Oct2024_15x10Lg_optimized_1000.jpg\" alt=\"Finance Boot Camp students group photo\" width=\"2262\" height=\"1508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/12\/FBC_FullGroup_Oct2024_15x10Lg_optimized_1000.jpg 2262w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/12\/FBC_FullGroup_Oct2024_15x10Lg_optimized_1000-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/12\/FBC_FullGroup_Oct2024_15x10Lg_optimized_1000-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/12\/FBC_FullGroup_Oct2024_15x10Lg_optimized_1000-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/12\/FBC_FullGroup_Oct2024_15x10Lg_optimized_1000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/12\/FBC_FullGroup_Oct2024_15x10Lg_optimized_1000-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every fall break, the Ciocca Center holds concurrent workshops for students involved in the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycross.edu\/business\/certificates\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Business Certificate Programs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to connect with alumni, make real-world connections, learn industry insights and practice presentation skills.\u00a0 86 students and over 50 alumni participated in last weeks iteration, details below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The annual Global Supply Chain Management Workshop helped 45 students understand that everything we wear, eat, drive, and consume comes through an organized supply chain from different parts of the world. The alumni presenters included Pete Mondani \u201979, Roger Lobo \u201904, John Burke \u201910 and Conor Moynihan \u201913 \u2013 all practitioners in the field.\u00a0 They shared the inner workings of a global supply chain and how it manages the distribution of various goods and services.\u00a0 Teams of 4-5 students met with Holy Cross vendors, spanning from coffee to sweatshirts, to understand the inherent political, cultural, and ethical issues.\u00a0 They even got off campus to experience a working supply chain during a company site visit to Polar Beverages with a tour by Chris Crowley, executive vice president of the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Concurrently, the annual Finance Boot Camp brought 41 students to NYC to meet alumni on Wall Street as part of the Finance &amp; Banking Certificate program. Starting with an alumni-led current event discussion and professional communication overview, students were prepped on campus for the overnight trip to the city.\u00a0 Alumni at JP Morgan, Piper Sandler, CIBC, KeyBanc and Morgan Stanley hosted the cohort to share industry insights, interview tips and discuss the various fields within the industry including sales and trading, investment banking, and wealth management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maeley Nakamura \u201926, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Megan McFarlane \u201926,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and Lindsay Julia King \u201927 shared their student experience on the College\u2019s Instagram account, which can also be seen on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/holycrossbusiness\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@holycrossbusiness<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to all of the student participants and a big thank you to all of our alumni who are giving back to Holy Cross, like so many have done before them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every fall break, the Ciocca Center holds concurrent workshops for students involved in the Business Certificate Programs to connect with alumni, make real-world connections, learn industry insights and practice presentation skills.\u00a0 86 students and over 50 alumni participated in last weeks iteration, details below. The annual Global Supply Chain Management Workshop helped 45 students understand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2024\/12\/16\/86-students-50-alumni-participate-in-fall-break-business-workshops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;86 Students &amp; 50+ Alumni Participate in Fall Break Business Workshops&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,25,56,78,86,98,154,181,227,252,272,291,368,371,385,446,449,452,514],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alumni","tag-annual","tag-business","tag-certificate","tag-ciocca-center","tag-college-of-the-holy-cross","tag-entrepreneruship","tag-finance","tag-holy-cross","tag-interview-skills","tag-jobs","tag-liberal-arts","tag-prebusiness","tag-presentation","tag-program","tag-student","tag-students","tag-success","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}