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The Business Exchange Association are hosting their first ever International Case Competition that wll be held on November 2-3 at the University of Alberta. For more information, please visit our website at www.uofabea.ca
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ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO
THE INTERNATIONALBUSINESSCASE COMPETITION
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO
THE INTERNATIONALBUSINESSCASE COMPETITION
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO
THE INTERNATIONALBUSINESSCASE COMPETITION
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO
THE INTERNATIONALBUSINESSCASE COMPETITION
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO
THE INTERNATIONALBUSINESSCASE COMPETITION
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO
THE INTERNATIONALBUSINESSCASE COMPETITION
2010 November year
The BEA is your best resource to get out of the doldrums and on to a plane!
Check us out at www.uofabea.ca
The Exchange Experience
Exchangeassociationbusiness
You can see the clock in the corner of your eyes. You watch as the second hand slowly edges towards that threshold of freedom and you hear every deafening tick. 10…9…8…7... This metaphor applies to near-ly everything we do: school, exams, work, and life itself. To make it worse, we fixate on the time we have left and how we cannot wait until it’s all over. But to what end do we stop anticipating the end and start enjoying the time we have left? This is my dilemma on Exchange: I count how little time I have left and how I need to savor every moment of it. We have all been there, and time truly goes by slower the more we focus on it as a countdown. In fact, once midterms begin in Octo-ber/February, time cannot seem to go fast enough until your last final when you are finally free to pursue what your heart desires; or you will just start back at work. Regardless, I assume you have plenty of time to spare in between “studying”, so let us continue. Why should YOU leave the safety and comfort of your home? What are you really getting yourself into? For the first few days, being in a foreign country can be downright scary. People seem weirder than how you are used to, the food is different, and you will experience being completely lost in a city you probably have never visited before—not to mention the obvious language barriers. You will soon find out that you do not have your usual friends to carry you through your normal day, and you have to go out of your way to meet (initially) different people; remember, you are living the role of “foreigner” here. Besides
this, you will likely go to a foreign university, under a foreign curriculum, and your teach-ers probably will not be perfect substitutes to the teachers you have come to love/loathe at the U of A. It seems ridiculous to point out some of the darker sides of going on exchange, but I feel I should give you the bad news before I completely take it all back with the good news: after you make friends, get comfort-able in your new home, and learn how to order a beer and a local dish in the mother
language of your country, you are almost right back into the same swing of things as back at home…except you are not at home. Because of this simple fact of being somewhere outside of
your norm, you begin to appreciate the finer things in life, and you experience an expo-nential personal growth. You begin to make lasting friendships with people you never would have met and you see places that people say, “I’ll go there one day.” It is funny that people say that phrase, referencing this metaphorical ‘day’ that is always just over the horizon of tomorrow. You will start to find your boundaries of comfort and you continually expand them. Your interpersonal skills receive a shot of adrenaline and the number of new people you meet will even astound the most ex-troverted of people—trust me on this one. You will soon realize you can thrive in these foreign universities, and you learn to appre-ciate the different, multicultural perspectives of about foreign countries and even your own country. e, you come to realize (continued)
Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour
in the day count.AnOnYmOUs ”
“
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
mARk TWAIn
”
“
2010 November year
The BEA is your best resource to get out of the doldrums and on to a plane!
Check us out at www.uofabea.ca
The Exchange Experience
Exchangeassociationbusiness
You can see the clock in the corner of your eyes. You watch as the second hand slowly edges towards that threshold of freedom and you hear every deafening tick. 10…9…8…7... This metaphor applies to near-ly everything we do: school, exams, work, and life itself. To make it worse, we fixate on the time we have left and how we cannot wait until it’s all over. But to what end do we stop anticipating the end and start enjoying the time we have left? This is my dilemma on Exchange: I count how little time I have left and how I need to savor every moment of it. We have all been there, and time truly goes by slower the more we focus on it as a countdown. In fact, once midterms begin in Octo-ber/February, time cannot seem to go fast enough until your last final when you are finally free to pursue what your heart desires; or you will just start back at work. Regardless, I assume you have plenty of time to spare in between “studying”, so let us continue. Why should YOU leave the safety and comfort of your home? What are you really getting yourself into? For the first few days, being in a foreign country can be downright scary. People seem weirder than how you are used to, the food is different, and you will experience being completely lost in a city you probably have never visited before—not to mention the obvious language barriers. You will soon find out that you do not have your usual friends to carry you through your normal day, and you have to go out of your way to meet (initially) different people; remember, you are living the role of “foreigner” here. Besides
this, you will likely go to a foreign university, under a foreign curriculum, and your teach-ers probably will not be perfect substitutes to the teachers you have come to love/loathe at the U of A. It seems ridiculous to point out some of the darker sides of going on exchange, but I feel I should give you the bad news before I completely take it all back with the good news: after you make friends, get comfort-able in your new home, and learn how to order a beer and a local dish in the mother
language of your country, you are almost right back into the same swing of things as back at home…except you are not at home. Because of this simple fact of being somewhere outside of
your norm, you begin to appreciate the finer things in life, and you experience an expo-nential personal growth. You begin to make lasting friendships with people you never would have met and you see places that people say, “I’ll go there one day.” It is funny that people say that phrase, referencing this metaphorical ‘day’ that is always just over the horizon of tomorrow. You will start to find your boundaries of comfort and you continually expand them. Your interpersonal skills receive a shot of adrenaline and the number of new people you meet will even astound the most ex-troverted of people—trust me on this one. You will soon realize you can thrive in these foreign universities, and you learn to appre-ciate the different, multicultural perspectives of about foreign countries and even your own country. e, you come to realize (continued)
Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour
in the day count.AnOnYmOUs ”
“
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
mARk TWAIn
”
“
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO
THE INTERNATIONALBUSINESSCASE COMPETITION
The Business Exchange Association (BEA) exists to promote international experience at the University of Alberta. We help facilitate the exchange process for all domestic and incoming international exchange students at our school.
We are driven to increase the international outlook of the School of Business and provide our students, domestic and international, international business focused events. We hope to provide them with valuable international business experience in hopes of their pursuit of working abroad after graduation.
About Us
About UsThis will be a one tier competition. Students (both Canadian and International) willregister in teams of 2, teams of 4 will then be created by combining a pair of Canadian and International students. We would like to stress how important it is to have the abil-ity to work with individuals of various backgrounds in order to succeed in International Business.
We will provide an informal lunch at 3 or 4 PM (tentative) to keep the students at the school and get them more acquainted with their teams. The competition will begin on Saturday morning at 9:00AM.
The Case will be provided by Export Development Canada titled VIH Aviation Group. This specific case won the Best Case Award for the Case Track division at the ASAC 2011 conference. It has a particular focus on International growth, entry options and risk factors in International expansion.
It is our goal is to have a total of 9 teams. A team will be charged a registration fee of $40 ($10 per person). This will be the only form of income provided by this Case Competi-tion. The date of the case competition is from November 2nd -3rd. We are expecting 36 participants for the event.
Description
8:00
8:30
Room N1-‐143 Room N2-‐127 Room N2-‐0909:00 TEAM A TEAM D TEAM G
9:20 TEAM B TEAM E TEAM H
9:40 TEAM C TEAM F TEAM I
10:00
10:15 Room 1 Winner10:40 Room 2 Winner11:05 Room 3 Winner
11:4512:151:302:00
2:30
3:00
3:30
4:00
Speaker 1 -‐ Incite Marketing (Doug McLean)
LUNCH
Speaker 2 -‐ Sendioso Gift Solutions Ltd (Lisa Hryniw)
Announcement of winners
Conclusion
Clean Up
Exec meet upRegistration
Premilinaries
End of Premilinaries/Coffee Break
FINALS (Room N2-‐003)
11:30 Walk to the Luncheon Room
Business Exchange Association
Speaker’s GuidelinesWe ask our speakers to mainly focus on how exchange is important and how it can help the students shape their goals for the future in International Business. We en-courage you to tell stories of your international experiences and how it helped your career and personal developmetment.
Here are some suggestions that you can consider for your presentaion:• Share one story of an international experience that have shaped your career or
enhanced it.• How did having an international experience bring value to your career? • What steps did you take that brought you to where you are today?)• How you began your international career? • What challenges did you face (in terms of cultural/language/business) while
working or studying abroad and how did you deal with it?• Advice you would give to students who are thinking of expanding their career
into International Business.
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO
THE INTERNATIONALBUSINESSCASE COMPETITION
University of Alberta School of BusinessOffice 2-04DEdmonton, AlbertaCanada T6G 2R6
David Gales | VP Academic+1 780 566 2968
Lorelaine Parcon | Academic Director+1 780 716 2143
Yanyee Kong | Academic Director+ 1 780 729 2166
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