Having a Competitive Edge through CFS

Name: Drew DiSerio Year: Junior Major(s): Economics, History Minor(s): Business Institutions Program CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: NextGen Growth Partners For my CFS blog I wanted to discuss how unique an opportunity CFS business studies provides while offering course credit. Going into summer internship recruiting, a CFS background is an unparalleled advantage and resume…

Morgan Stanley: A Transfer Student’s Experience

Name: Alec Aragon Year: Sophomore Major(s): Economics Minor(s): Business Institutions Program CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Morgan Stanley A little over a year ago, I was a freshman at Indiana University, studying at The Kelley School of Business. Envisioning my college experience, I expected to be challenged by my school; to be confronted with…

Navigating Shifting Economic Landscapes

Name: James Woodworth Year: Sophomore Major(s): Industrial Engineering CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: CORE Industrial Partners I can’t imagine a better time to have taken CFS than this quarter. I’ve found that life on Northwestern campus can often be isolated from the real world. In many ways, we live in a bubble. While outside…

Building Technical Skills at a Digital Marketing Consultancy

Name: Austen Wahl Year: Junior Major(s): Economics, Statistics CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Arcalea Chicago Field Studies has been a great program that has given me very meaningful work experience. Every day I have learned a lot about client interaction, time management, attentiveness to detail, and many other more technical skills. At Arcalea, a…

A Quarter in M&A…with more to come!

Name: Siddharth Panandiker Year: Junior Major: Economics Minor: Mathematics CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Blaige & Co. LLC This summer I completed an internship with Blaige & Company, a boutique investment bank that specializes in sell-side M&A in the plastics, packaging and chemicals industries. During this internship, I gained truly valuable exposure to the…

A Summer of Legal Consulting

Name: Soren Rossi Year: Junior Major:Economics Minor: Political Science and Business Institutions JCFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: HBR Consulting This quarter, I am interning at HBR Consulting, HBR is a consulting firm focused on sourcing and managerial consulting for law firms. The company also provides software solutions and information governance implementation as secondary services…

Living his Best Life at Live Nation

Name: Andrew Scherl Year: Junior Major: Radio/Television/Film Minor: Legal Studies CFS Class: Field Studies in the Modern Workplace Employer: Live Nation Live Nation has been a great experience and an amazing insight into the music industry specifically in concerts and events. I never knew how much work is put into a concert and the promotion…

Diversifying Skillset at Nousat

Name: Vanessa Tang Year: Senior Major: Neuroscience Minor: Science in Human Culture CFS Class: Field Studies in Public Health Employer: Nousot For CFS, I am a machine learning engineering intern at Nousot, a company that automates modeling and builds predictive and descriptive models. Much of my work deals with building and analyzing predictive models to…

An Internship that MATTERs

Name: Morgan Harlan Year: Senior Major: Economics Minor: Business Institutions CFS Class: Field Studies in Public Health Employer: MATTER This quarter, I am an intern at MATTER which is a healthcare startup incubator. MATTER offers memberships to Chicago-area startups that are seeking funding, aiming to scale their business, and further develop their ideas. As a…

Physics Majors in the Finance Sector?

Name: Jason Chandra Year: Sophomore Major(s): Physics and Economics Minor: Energy (ISEN) Certificate CFS Class: Field Studies in Environment, Science, and Sustainability Employer: Milliman FRM (Financial Risk Management) Interning at Milliman, Financial Risk Management is unarguably, the most valuable learning experience of my life. As an sophomore double majoring in Physics and Economics, I did not…

Christian Interns at Catholic Film Production Company

Name: Christian Year: Sophomore Major(s): Journalism Minor(s): Business Institutions CFS Program: Field Studies in the Humanities Employer: Spirit Juice Studios I write this post from my car (parked, of course) after completing my fourth exciting and enriching week interning for Spirit Juice Studios, a top Catholic film production company and an absolute dream internship for me. In complete honesty, the realization…

Siddhant at Blue Canyon Partners

Name: Siddhant Year: Junior Major(s): Economics Minor(s): Mathematics, Business Institutions Program CFS Program: Business Field Studies The Delicate Balance Between Work and Life I have been working at Blue Canyon Partners, Inc. – a B2B management consulting firm – for 5 weeks now and I feel that I have learnt more in these past few weeks compared to the…