During my first cooperative education placement, I worked at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. (GMO), a global investment management firm that has its global corporate headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. GMO provides a broad range of investment products, including equity and fixed income strategies across global developed and emerging markets, as well as absolute return strategies with a value orientation. Their clients are primarily large institutional investors, and as of December 31, 2014, they had $116 billion in assets under management. During my time there, I was employed in the Fund Reconciliation Team within the Investment Controls Group. My team’s responsibilities mainly consisted of reconciling investment funds on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis with custodian bank values. Though the attire was business casual, the office environment was considered quite conservative, and professionalism is certainly a required trait in the office. Over the course of my internship, I encountered many issues and challenges in the organization that left me discouraged, unmotivated, and unsatisfied. Through an analysis of the lack of emotional intelligence, motivation, as well as weakness in job design, it is evident that there are aspects of the workplace that need to be addressed. My role as an Investment Control Analyst Intern primarily comprised of responsibility for the reconciliation of 13 quantitative equity separately managed funds. Each of the two co-op students was
In order for the corporate lending unit to meet the goal of cutting 15 percent of the operating cost, a redesign team comprised of volunteers from the different departments of the unit. The purpose of this redesign team was to develop a design for the account management team that will streamline the departments function when it comes to serving its customers. This design will allow more resources to be readily available to customers through the Internet. Also, this team will be addressing reorganizing and designing new roles for the AMs to work more efficiently when it comes to addressing the needs of the customers. The development of this team is considered more of transformational leadership, where the GM pushed the senior management team to encourage their employees to volunteer and have a say in the mission to meet the goals of the unit.
Did you know that Alliance Charter Academy has an online merchandise store website with over 850 school spirit items? From hoodies to key chains, to dog bandanas. This store is not hard to find. Go to Alliance Charter Academy’s website, click on the “Student Resources” button, and scroll all the way down the “Spirit Store”.
Chuck Whitman is a degree holder in finance from DePaul University. Before the establishment of ICM, he worked as a portfolio executive for quite a few wealth management companies with the main objective of gaining as much awareness and experience about the industry and its operational techniques as possible. This enthusiasm to learn is what has led him to successfully establish two of the most well-known establishments in the country. Under to his excellent supervision, ICM group scored the 4th rank in the Wealth management business sector in
When considering GSA’s strategic direction, we should first build an understanding of its relative position within the private equity market. GSA’s current value proposition to its clients is: 1) Greater accessibility to private equity firms through GSA’s customized services, allowing less sophisticated clients to progress from a passive fund-of-funds investor into a direct private equity investor, removing the intermediation between the GP and the client; 2) A strategy of “vintage-year diversification”, whereby GSA contributes to funds over a number of different years in order to gain access to many different types of funds; and 3) A compensation structure that is weighted towards carried interest at the expense of fees, ensuring an alignment of interests between GSA and its clients. These strategies have helped the fund retain large and important
The people that work there are very nice and they are people that I would want to spend time with on the weekends. They are all very fun and witty, but not very professional. On one occasion the Chief of staff told a fellow intern to shut up and never talk again for mentioning a football team loss. On another occasion the intern supervisor unplugged the other intern’s computer, in the middle of a project, and giggled as she walked out. This kind of behavior is not profession for students to be in, nor is it an uplifting environment to excel in. In part, the office struggles because it’s staff are so young. There is an energy that comes with youth, but in this case there is also an immaturity.
In the course of my years as an undergraduate student in Rutgers University – Newark, I maintained a full-time work schedule as well as a full-time school schedule. Not only did this provide me with a strong work ethic, but I was also able to develop a strong academic foundation as well. In the years that I spent working as a customer service representative for TD Bank, I was able to steadily involve myself with a large group of diverse people. During my career with TD Bank, I witnessed disagreements and arguments amongst employees which presented to become a problem all throughout our branch. All through this difficult time, I actively attempted to alleviate any and all complications. I maintained and promoted a positive and healthy work environment by persuading coworkers to try to understand the miscommunication that had developed amongst them. I also worked closely with my human resources department to understand the root cause of the problems, and assisted in finding a solution by maintaining the trust and confidence of my coworkers.
In the summer of 2015, I interned with Bank of America. At Bank of America I was given the title Student Leader and was positioned to work in conjunction with a local non-profit partner, the YWCA of the Central Carolinas. Within the YWCA I helped to maintain the organization's day-to-day operations in order to ensure a successful implementation of their not for profit services within the Charlotte community. Throughout my time at the YWCA, my duties included, operating philanthropy initiatives, managing off-site youth learning centers, and organizing meetings for the board of directors.
In other words, the management of Wells Fargo has already passed from good to great. Kovacevich strives to create an atmosphere of employee satisfaction and trust. It is true that he finds it profitable to maintain happy workers who execute their jobs better but we saw much more than the pure profit added to these open management ? employee relations: we saw a caring leader, humble enough to risk his authority to be undermined by critiques. Several years after Collins? book was published, the management at Wells Fargo is still approachable, humble, humane, and very charismatic.
Smith College is known as the school that gives opportunities to any women in the world regardless their background. As a future government student focusing on international relations, I believe that the multicultural environment that Smith College has will teach me to embrace the cultural and ideological diversity of the world, a key characteristic that I need to adopt for my major. Attending to Smith will keep empowering me as a woman and leader. The holistic approach of the government program, open curriculum and the fact that it is part of the Five College Consortium will allow me to select the classes that are required and the ones that I am interested in. Smith will present me the opportunity of developing my own research investigation
Last semester, I competed for the PricewaterhouseCoopers Competition challenge, in which I was able to work with three women and come with a solution for a problem a company was facing while considering their financial goals and objectives. Moreover, I also interned as Financial Planning Intern for The M Group and Associates. Through this position, I was able to learn more about financial services including investment planning, asset management, employee and executives benefits accounts, retirement planning, and many others. I was able to contact customers and explain different financial services available as well as their benefits and limitations. My Security Analysis Portfolio Management (FIN 421) allowed me to use MS Excel to do portfolio rebalancing, compute accumulated real retirement savings for different return realizations, implement rick parity strategy for backtesting, and be a portfolio manager for a large pension fund and use mean variance analysis to allocate funds across major asset
In 2-3 years I would finish my education either at “George Brown College” or “Gorgian College” and hope to get a job position as a Dental Hygenist. By going on this path I know there would be a lot of challenges I would have to overcome and stress levels would rise from the work loads of work. I need to work very hard to accomplish this goal by doing the courses the colleges offer and to set high marks on them. I have to review my notes everyday and be prepared for next lessons. In order to be in the college I need to get the courses that is related to dental hygiene in high school and other mandatory admission requirements such as additional activities and many others.
I would like to schedule a meeting with the Program and Staff Development Unit. This will be a working meeting so please select a time that accommodates a longer meeting schedule. Below you will find areas that KSU Cooperative Extension Program will focus on, please review this list before our meeting to have a better understanding. During this meeting we will divide responsibilities based on interest, technical, conceptual, and human skills. Everyone will have a lead focus area, secondary focus area, and supporting focus area. More information will be covered in our meeting see image below. Lastly, you will find a tentative agenda for this meeting below. If you have any suggestions or items you would like to discuss
Through my internship with both the Mesa County Valley School District 51, as well as Family Health West’s Pediatric Rehabilitation, I have learned a vast amount about occupational therapy. I have learned about its importance and its necessity, as well as the array of ways it can help individuals in need. I have also gained countless experiences that I am very thankful for. Additionally, I have accomplished all of the goals I sought to when starting this internship with leaps and bounds. I helped with many tasks and projects, I accomplished challenging, but realistic, responsibilities, I developed professional competencies needed for a future job as an occupational therapist, I utilized the knowledge of the professionals I worked with, I applied the knowledge that I learned in the classroom and I gained an understanding of the qualifications, knowledge, skills, and duties involved in occupational therapy.
This Report is bases in the movie The Intern – Myers, Nancy (Producer & Director). (2015). The Intern [Motion picture]. United States: Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is based on retired 70-year-old widower, Ben Whittaker, who is bored with his retired life. He applies to be a senior intern at an online clothing site and ends up getting the position. The founder of the company is Jules Ostin, a tireless, driven, demanding, dynamic workaholic. Ben is made her intern. She doesn't intend to give him work due to her lack of confidence in his capabilities. However, Ben proves to be quite useful and, more than that, a source of support and wisdom. The following report discusses varying factors that contribute to organizational behaviour; which is a consciously coordinated social unit made up of a group of people work together on common goals who function on a relatively continuous basis.
During my instructor led field experience, I was placed in a first grade classroom. The teacher in this classroom really had a great grasp on management in her classroom. She used the Classdojo app. The teacher had the option to award student points or take them away throughout the day. This was also an app that kept parents informed on their devices of how their child was doing throughout the day. I really enjoyed seeing this in real life. Hearing about this app in management or technology didn't do it justice. The students really were aware of the points and managed their behavior.