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Important Dates to Note

Monday 9:30am-7:30pm Tuesday 9:30am-7:30pm Wednesday 9:30am-6:00pm Thursday 9:30am-7:30pm Friday 9:30am-5:00pm

March 14 Information Session March 15: EOQ Send Off March 19-22: Winter final examinations March 21: Tuition and fee payment due for spring quarter March 30: Good Friday; academic and administrative holiday March on-going: Petition to Graduate open for all students planning to graduate at the END of summer quarter (August) April 27: GSA Spring Social “Taco ‘bout a Party”

Thursday, May 10th, 2018.

Leavey School of Business's Executive Development Center is thrilled to bring keynote speaker, Patrick Lencioni to the Mayer Theater. Recognized as a pioneer in leadership and business, Patrick is a New York Times best-selling author and according to the Wall Street Journal “one of the most in-demand speakers in America.”

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Office Hours

Food and Agribusiness Network Matthew Shahbazian, President mshahbazian@scu.edu

Entrepreneurs Connection Network Dharani Sankar Vijayakumar, President dvijayakumar@scu.edu

Women In Business Erin Horiuchi, Co-President ehoriuchi@scu.edu Nayana Movva, Co-President nmovva@scu.edu

Supply Chain Management Association Neta Berger, President nberger@scu.edu

JD/MBA Network Andrew Sucato, asucato@scu.edu

LSB Graduate Student Association Tuhina Goel, Chair tgoel@scu.edu Karina Chamorro, Vice Chair of Marketing kchamorro@scu.edu

Interested in getting involved? Join one of our student organizations!

Student Network Information

Contact the clubs directly for details on their upcoming events!

Upcoming On-Campus Career Events

Career Pivots - Transferable Skills for Career ChangersThursday, March 1, 2018 - Lucas Hall 125

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 - Lucas Hall 125

Session 1: 3:45 - 4:30pm Session 2: 4:45 - 5:30pm

Session 1: 11:45 - 12:30pm Session 2: 12:45 - 1:30pm

HERE

Career Fair Prep

Organizational Health Summit

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AI in Fintech

Wednesday March 7, 2018 from 6:30 - 9:00pm Lucas Hall Forbes Conference Room

This event, sponsored by Prof. Michael Scherman in partnership with Imran Hajimusa and organized by BayPay Forum, a network of commerce and payments executives and entrepreneurs, will bring a panel of industry thought leaders to discuss how AI and deep machine learning are revolutionizing FinTech. From fraud detection to predictive purchasing analytics, and store checkouts becoming relics of the past, AI touches many aspects of Fintech industry.

FIREEYE Company Information Session

Global Perspectives Program: Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep. 1-8, 2018. Contact Prof. Phyllis Brock at pbrock@scu.edu.

6th Annual Silicon Valley Fintech Expo: The Rise of ICO’s & Digital Money March 24th, 9am-6pm

Register by the end of February for the admission price of $55. Use code: “scu.edu”. Code is valid until February 28.

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Save the Date!

Fintech Next Generation: Register Now

March 8, 2018 from 4:00 - 6:00pm, Lucas 125

FireEye has invented a purpose-built, virtual machine-based security platform that provides real-time threat protection to enterprises and governments worldwide against the next generation of cyber attacks.

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Panelists Som Shahapurkar, Director of Machine Learning/AI Products - FICO Matthieu Soule, Deputy CEO at L’Atlier BNB Paribas - US Christopher Williams, Ph.D., Sr Associate, Statistical and Data Science - Exponent, Inc. John Canfield, VP, Risk Management - WePay Kim Wagner, Senior Director - Visa Register on

Marketing Bootcamp: Building the Career You

Dream About!

Date: Saturday, March 3rd, 8:00am - 2:00pm

Attend a "mini conference" with SCU graduate alumni women who are currently working in different areas of marketing. This event will feature 5 panels where alumni will discuss and share marketing best practices in Silicon Valley and how to build a career across these functions: product management, product marketing, digital marketing, demand generation, sales enablement, and program management, and quantitative analysis. The conference will have a built-in networking components.

This event is organized by Women in Business and Graduate Business Career Management with the support of Professor Kumar Sarangee. A general registration link will be available via Handshake on February 12th at noon.

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Start-Up Grind a Success Save the Date

Professional Development Seminar: Acing Your Technical Interviews 101 and 201

author of Decode and Conquer and The Product Manager Interview. He’s helped MBA graduates from Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, and SCU Leavey secure the most coveted tech jobs including roles at Facebook and Google.

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With Lewis Lin, Coach & Author

Dozens of SCU graduate business students attended Start-up Grind 2018 Global Conference in Redwood City on February 13th & 14th, 2018. Thanks to everyone who attended this exciting event and made it a great success! With more than 300 startup exhibits and presentations, and a network of 7,000 founders and entrepreneurs from all over the world, this was THE place to be learn about worldwide start-ups, raise one’s visibility and expand one’s professional network.

Congratulations to the two raffle winners Steven Nguyen and Neville Fernandes! You'll receive a confirmation email about your prize.

GSA Spring Social presents: Taco ‘bout a Party April 27, 2018 6:30-8:30pm

More details to come!

Saturday, March 17th 2018 from 9am-4pm Lucas Hall Room 126

Want to ace your tech interviews and improve your product management, product marketing, analytics, and strategy skills before your internship or career in tech?

Lewis C. Lin will be hosting a workshop to prep you for that upcoming interview, internship or job in tech! Lewis is the world’s leading expert on the topic of tech interview preparation and best-selling

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Congrats to our

Winter Graduates!

CFA Research Challenge Competition

Mishita Agarwal Courtney Ballagh Brandon Bassett Jacqueline Bright Mindy Chen Shao-Tang Chien Bao Dong Athena Floro Eva Ho Melissa Howe Garima Jain Sudheera Kagita Therese Karlsson Arpita Khandelwal Sheree Kumar Jeremy Lacsa Andrew Leung Meiyuan Li Alyssa Masangcay Aya Masuo Deepak Muralidharan Mithun Mitra Nomula Martins Okoh Pulkit Pahwa Anqi Pan Darren Pinder Wa Man Poon Trisha Rupani Sijith Salim Trevor Schwalenberg Skylar Sellers Amaan Shaikh Sundararajan Shanmugam Ka Hou Sio Frederick Su Ryo Takamori Chelsea Verhasselt Deepak Wadhwani Meng Wang Yuhao Wang Stephanie Warne Vivien Yadegar

MS Supply Chain Club Visit to Sonic Manufacturing

Technologies

Last week, five MSF students represented Santa Clara University in the CFA Research Challenge Competition. Hosted by the San Francisco CFA Society and supported by Salesforce, the SCU team competed against 17 regional universities in Salesforce equity valuation analysis and presentation. Students who participate in this challenge had the opportunity to gain real world experience as they assumed the roles of an equity analyst.

By Hanlin Liu (Current MSF student)

On February 2nd, our MS Supply Chain Management Club had the opportunity to explore Sonic Manufacturing Technologies. Our students were treated to a tour of the company's facilities and had the chance to learn about Surface-mount technology (SMT) lines. Here are some photos from the visit.

SCU participating students from left to right: Yong Hyun Kim, Vysyaraju Lakshmi Chaitanya, Hanlin Liu, Chung-Ting Yang, Jordan David Saffold