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Category Archives: Stephanie Dozier ’13
Thanksgiving: Owen Style
Ah Thanksgiving… the start of an entire season of fun with friends and family (and a break from class!). Before we all took off to parts near and far in celebration of Turkey Day, the Owen Culinary Society hosted its own Thanksgiving Dinner, inviting the members of Owen Bridges (Owen’s group that pairs international students with domestic students to help introduce them to US culture) so they could experience their own traditional Thanksgiving meal, Southern-style. OCS members each brought a dish or two to represent their favorite T-Day foods. Being a very heavily Southern group, you can be sure that many of us were facing food comas afterwards.
Patrick (who, along with his wife, was kind enough to let us crash his house for the event) pulled out the deep fryers so we could all try fried turkey. That was a first for me, and something I’m glad I got to experience – I’ll definitely be “casually” suggesting that to friends for future Thanksgivings.
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A Day in the Life of a Second Year MBA Marketing Student
Thursday
7:00am: Wake Up (significantly later than on M/W, when I have an 8am class)
7:45am: Do the dishes, eat breakfast and drink my coffee while checking my email and my to-do list for the day. Read the news. Look at LinkedIn, and notice a change to LinkedIn profiles – email Anne Marie (our resident LinkedIn expert) to ask her opinion on the change.
8:30am: Head to school. Do research for my Pricing team presentation. We’re presenting on the topic of Luxury Apparel and the pricing strategies that are employed in that industry.
9:40am: Pricing Strategies Class. There’s a student team presentation on Dynamic Restaurant pricing, followed by discussion. Afterwards, there is a guest speaker on conjoint analysis related to pricing, and a discussion on how Apple determined its price for the new iPad Mini (definitely not through conjoint).
11:10am: Grab a snack downstairs from the Mapco 810 Café
11:20am: Strategic Alignment of Human Capital Class. Discussion on different frameworks for Strategic HR and how they relate to a case we had just read.
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Exploring Nashville: Haunted Halloween
There are a number of fun activities to take part in in Nashville, and Halloween is always a great time to get out and enjoy what the city has to offer. Recently a group of 2nd years headed out to Honeysuckle Hill Farm’s Haunted Woods and Corn Maze to scare ourselves silly in celebration of Halloween. We caravanned out to the location and immediately started getting into the fall spirit, jumping around on the “Corn Popper,” a giant trampoline populated entirely by children until we showed up. The kids jumping around us definitely outlasted us on that, although Taylor did succeed in “cracking the egg” with Skylar.
Next, we made our way to the Corn Maze, studied the map, and then headed in, but somehow the maze didn’t seem to correspond to the map we’d seen. After wandering around for 30 minutes or so we finally made our way back out to the maze entrance, where we were told we’d been lost in the “kiddie” maze the entire time and hadn’t even made it into the actual adult maze pictured on the map, oops.
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Outside the Comfort Zone: Corporate Valuation
I took Corporate Valuation Mod 1 this year. This offering is dubbed “Corp Val for Poets” because anyone with an interest in Finance would have taken it first year, leaving those of us studying marketing, HOP, and Operations to take it this year. Taking Corp Val was a choice that caused many of my fellow marketing concentrators to ask “Why did you do that??” There’s definitely no denying that it’s outside of my comfort zone. However, I think that’s part of what we’re all here for – to challenge ourselves and to do things that may not be easy or even particularly enjoyable.
I told my two teammates that I was going to write this blog, and one turned to the first-year next to us and stated “Don’t listen to her.” The other advised me, “Wait ‘til we get our final exam grades.” The class was not easy. It’s my second year, I have an offer, and I could have been coasting along. But instead I spent 10 hours every weekend pouring over financials and trying desperately to figure out how to do valuation by multiples or risk neutral pricing or something else that I’d never heard of.
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Owen Podcast Series: B-School as an International Student
Hoang Lan Huyen Ton Nu (Lan Huyen for short) was born and raised in Vietnam. She studied and then worked in Singapore as an analytical manager in a marketing data consulting firm. She is concentrating in Finance and Operations. This summer, she will be in Austin, Texas to work as an Internship Senior Advisor in the finance department at Dell.