Name: Michael Schwartz Year: Junior Major: MMSS and Psychology CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: AVIA In my CFS experience I worked with AVIA, a growing healthcare consultancy and member network firm. Going in with an interest in consulting but no experience in healthcare, I was unsure what to expect, but fast forward to today and…
Tag: Consulting
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…
Pursuing a Career in Consulting
Name: Ashley Wei Year: Sophomore Majors: Economics, Statistics CFS Program: Business Field Studies Employer: HBR Consulting This summer I interned at HBR Consulting, a mid-size consulting company whose major clients come from the legal industry. I chose this internship because I want to learn more about consulting and work in a relatively larger office setting to…
Learning Under Fire
Name: Dan Finnegan Year: Junior Majors: Mathematics, Economics CFS Program: Business Field Studies Employer: Nousot Something I was warned about early on in my interview was the need to be able to learn under fire. I was told stories of new employees being put on daunting challenges in coding to try to learn quickly simply…
Blending Consulting with Social Justice
Name: Brian Haining Year: Senior Major: Organization Behavior Minor: Economics CFS Program: Field Studies in Social Justice Employer: HBR Consulting This summer I interned with HBR consulting, a legal operations consulting firm. This firm structures their internship in a way that grants exposure to a variety of their business units; I began in their Strategic Sourcing…
Learning in the Workplace
Name: Nathan Weston Year: Sophomore Majors: Neuroscience Minor: Economics CFS Program: Business Field Studies Employer: Healthbox I am currently interning at the healthcare consulting firm Healthbox, doing both projects for their consulting team and research for their micro-fund team. I really enjoy being in the workplace; there’s a lot you simply have to experience and cannot…
Conserving the Environment at Foresight
Name: Sarah Walwema Year: Senior Major: Environmental Science Minor: German CFS Program: Field Studies in Environment, Science, and Sustainability Employer: Foresight Design Initiative Before I had this opportunity with Foresight, I had never before worked in an office environment long-term. I have always been passionate about the environment and had only worked on the conservation and ecological side of environmentalism before…
Reflecting on the Uniqueness of CFS
Name: Storm McLaughlin Year: Junior Major: Industrial Engineering Minor: Economics CFS Program: Field Studies in the Humanities Employer: HBR Consulting My CFS experience has been a rewarding one for a multitude of reasons, most notably my internship experience, my in-class experience, and my guidance from CFS employees/professors. Over the course of my college career, I have had multiple internships, in…
Finding a Work-Life Balance at Mission Measurement
Name: Christelle Fayemi Year: Junior Major: Economics Minor: Business Institutions, Environmental Policy and Culture CFS Program: Business Field Studies Employer: Mission Measurement As recently as the beginning of junior year, I thought all work weeks were 40 hours long, with the occasional overtime. My mother is a consultant, and growing up I have seen her stay up late or wake up…
Gaining Experience in Healthcare Consulting
Name: Monica Garcia Year: Junior Majors: Economics, Global Health CFS Program: Field Studies in Public Health Employer: Healthbox This spring, I have had the opportunity to intern at Healthbox, an innovation consulting and fund management firm in Chicago. As an economics and global health major, I wanted to intern with Healthbox to gain real world exposure on what it…
Getting Involved at HBR Consulting
Name: Audrey Wu Year: Sophomore Majors: Civil Engineering, Economics CFS Program: Field Studies in the Modern Workplace Employer: HBR Consulting In my fourth week at HBR Consulting, I feel like I have already learnt so much. Although the pace of work in the first week was slow and consisted of mostly administrative work and onboarding with the team, things…
Working at Mission Measurement
Name: Gene Chen Year: Junior Major: Industrial Engineering CFS Program: Field Studies in the Humanities Employer: Mission Measurement Participating in the Field Studies in Humanities class and interning at Mission Measurement has been a challenging but immensely fulfilling experience thus far. The skills I’ve been able to acquire and the people I’ve been able to meet have allowed me…