Name: Wendy Chen Year: Sophomore Major: Economics & Global Health CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Goldman Sachs In the winter of 2021, I interned at Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst intern in the Private Wealth Management Division. This internship was an amazing experience that allowed me to learn more about private wealth management,…
Month: June 2021
Exploring the Keys to a Successful Career Path
Name: Jackson Vaught Year: Junior Major: Economics CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: ATOMS One thing that really resonated with me from the CFS program is the idea of not knowing what you want to do yet is okay at this age. Specifically, Mark Fastabend’s guest lecture exemplified this point to me. Mark spent a…
Accessing Resources and Building Skills
Name: Taiche Jones Year: Senior Major: Psychology CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Center for Comparative Medicine I have been employed at the Center for Comparative Medicine at Northwestern University (NU) for 12-years, and I am also a student attending the School for Professional Studies. I am a forty-four-year-old pursuing a degree in Psychology. Participating…
Moonshot or Minitest?
Name: Chloe Lee Year: Sophomore Major: Economics Minor: Business Institutions CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Shore Capital Partners I interned at Shore Capital Partners as part of my CFS experience. During the internship, despite it being entirely virtual, I was able to contribute meaningfully to live deals and existing portfolio projects through taking various…
The Importance of Making a Difference
Name: Kimi Chau Year: Sophomore Major: Economics Minor: Political Science & Business Institutions CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Deloitte Consulting This past winter, I had the opportunity to spend three months interning at Deloitte Consulting. I worked on a project that seeks to build a new online financial statements consolidation system for a Fortune…
Pre-Med Student’s Leap into Finance
Name: Zachary Kim Year: Sophomore Major: Economics Minor: Business Institutions and Chemistry CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Three Pillars Capital Over the winter of 2021, I interned at Three Pillars Capital, a search fund looking to acquire, operate, and grow a single business. As a pre-medicine student, this was my first internship within the…
Learning to Ask for Help
Name: Chris Sherk Year: Junior Major: Economics Minor: Business Institutions CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Woodland Coast Partners During my time in the CFS program, I had the opportunity to listen to and learn from many great guest speakers. While common themes and lessons emerged in the lectures, each speaker always shared specific, memorable…
Fulfillment in Working for a Great Cause
Name: Katarina Guerrero Year: Junior Major: Economics, International Studies CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: SafeStamp For my winter 2021 internship, I worked as an analyst for SafeStamp, a startup on track to revolutionize the anticounterfeiting industry with a glowing packaging icon that utilizes advanced nanotechnology. This was my first professional internship experience. I was…
Hesitant, but Now I Get It: Networking
Name: Eva Jacobs Year: Junior Major: Economics and Psychology Minor: Business Institutions CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Accelerated Growth Advisors Early in the quarter, we read an article as a class called How to Build Your Network. The subject of networking has never been a particularly comfortable one to me, as I have never…
Data Analytics with Community Impact
[picture not available] Name: Damien Viramontes Year: Senior Major: Economics and Mathematics CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: High Jump For my 2021 CFS experience, I worked as an Evaluation Intern for High Jump. High Jump is a non-profit that focuses on providing further educational opportunities to high-achieving Chicago students entering 7th grade from low-income…
Exploring Personal Brand through CFS
Name: Dhruv Khandelwal Year: Sophomore Major: Economics CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Corecentra Solutions During Winter 2021, I have had the opportunity to intern at Corecentra Solutions, an impact measurement, and management company that works with various entities such as government agencies and private non-profits to help them measure their social impact and responsibility….
Building Skills in Investment Banking
Name: Max Emery Year: Sophomore Major: Economics and Statistics CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Comprador For my CFS Experience, I worked as an Investment Banking Intern with Comprador Ltd, the successor firm to Blackstone Advisory Partners Asia. Prior to this, I had one experience in investment banking from the previous summer, but I wanted…