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| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: TGC Uruguay: El punto intermedio (The halfway point) |
![]() Selemon Asfaw is a 2nd year student at Tuck. He’s an organizer of the 2013 Diversity Conference as well as Co-chair of the Tuck African Ancestry Business Association. Prior to Tuck, Selemon was and education entrepreneur doing work in the Midwest with public and private enterprises. Next year he will be joining Goldman, Sachs & Co. in their Healthcare Investment Banking Group. He’s a native of Detroit and also a recovering MBA blogger known as ‘The Senator’. Read Selemon's first post on his Tuck Global Consultancy project in Uruguay here. Myself and the TGC Uruguay team have been in South America for almost two weeks. How time flies! Our first week on the job we started to get to know our Uruguayan teammates much better, clarify the client’s needs and start getting our hands dirty in primary research and data analysis. First of all, the Uruguyan people are amazing. They’re warm, open, very honest and of course football (soccer) fanatics. I also think they have a natural comedic gene—one of our teammates constantly keeps the team laughing throughout the day; we may have to fly him to Hanover in the spring for his own stand-up comedy show. In addition to the Uruguayans being great hosts, we’re also learning a lot from each other. In our first week, the Tuck team was itching to fly before we could walk but smartly, our Uruguayan counterparts kept us grounded so that we could learn the lay of the land and acquire some South American business etiquette before we pushed the envelope too much. In addition to completing our informal ‘customs-in-business’ crash course, having native speakers with local contacts on the team has allowed us to gain much better insights into the client’s problem than a purely outside perspective. It gives the project a feel of co-creation rather than just being driven by an external Tuck point-of-view. ![]() ![]() While we’ve learned a lot from our Uruguayan teammates they’ve also appreciated that we’ve been able to share our respective technical skillsets and general management frameworks we came equipped with as a result of our Tuck education. We’ve also been adept at helping our teammates recognize the project management and soft skills required to manage multiple stakeholders as part of one project—it’s been a great exchange and up to this point it’s really enabled the client to become more comfortable and trusting of the entire team while still being able to utilize the entire Tuck MBA toolkit that we came ready to use. In addition to starting the project off on the right foot, we were able to spend last weekend in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For most of us it was our first time in the European-inspired jewel of a city, it was remarkable and also inexpensive, which is awesome when you’re on a student budget. At the end of the weekend, we had a hard time agreeing on what was most extraordinary about the experience; Argentinian steakhouse dinners, the bridge inspired by Tango dancers or the fact that Argentinians don’t go out on the town until 3:30am (and don’t come home until sunrise). Needless to say it was a nice interlude to a busy first week. ![]() Tango Bridge in Buenos Aires, Argentina As we’re wrapping up week two, our project is really starting to come together nicely. We’ve already begun advising the client on short and medium-term goals we think they should be focusing on and the response and encouragement we’re receiving from the business community here in Uruguay is inspiring. It seems like everyone is enthralled by and wants to be a part of the transformation of the business school here in Montevideo. As a team we couldn’t be more motivated to put the ball in the back of the net for Team Uruguay.
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| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: Happy New Year! 2014 Resolutions (updated #Tucketlist) |
![]() Last New Year's I shared my resolve for resolutions (which is not much); instead I made a bucket list of things I wanted to accomplish during our two years at Tuck. I thought I'd post an update about how much we've accomplished in the last year, and what we've still got to squeeze time in for before graduation this June! My Tuck Bucket List: Visit the Simon Pearce factory store and see the glass blowers work we first went for ourselves, and have since been several times to show both our families and friends who've visited Eat in the Simon Pearce restaurant completed, several times, love this restaurant! Visit/windowshop in historic Woodstock, VT Dine at the Woodstock Inn Visit to the Tunbridge World's Fair missed it our first fall, but made it in fall 2013! It was a sight to be seen! 4H animal showings, antique New England farm equipment demonstrations, old fashioned apple crisp served warm with ice cream on top... worth the trip! Watch hot air balloons fly at the Quechee (VT) Balloon Festival in June Will was already in Denver for his internship, so I went with some partners in Hanover RIDE in a hot air balloon <-- evidently this is quite expensive and scary! Not sure if I'll accomplish... Visit the Quechee Gorge and walk down it completed 09/13 Camp in a cabin on the Dartmouth Land Grant I've stayed in two so far! One we could drive to, the other we had to canoe to! ![]() Hike Mount Gile (Norwich, VT) and climb the fire tower we (and our dog) have hiked several times. Really a pretty walk, with a great view of fall foliage at the end! ![]() Hike Mount Cardigan (a "bald" mountain) and climb the fire tower Hike Mount Ascutney Run the Covered Bridges Half Marathon in June Completed!! In 80-degree weather! My first half ![]() Run the CHaD (Children's Hospital at Dartmouth) Half Marathon in October <-- Unfortunately morning sickness early this fall got in the way of my training. Maybe this fall it'll be my excuse to come back! Learn to play ice hockey So done. I liked it so much I became a captain... Tripod Champions winter 2013! ![]() See the Orozco Murals housed in Dartmouth's library (nominated for a National Historic Landmark designation) Climb Baker Tower and look out over the Dartmouth Green Experience the bonfire on the Green for Dartmouth's homecoming weekend See a Dartmouth football game yes, multiple times See a Dartmouth hockey game yes, multiple times (have cheered the men's and women's teams!) Go snowmobiling Go snowshoeing completed winter 2013; loved it! Hope to go much more this winter Cross-country ski Go dogsledding completed 01/13, incredible ![]() ![]() ![]() Chop down our own Christmas tree <-- Uh oh, we didn't do this year!! We were only in Hanover about 10 days this December with the extended 2nd year break. Go apple picking Go berry picking <-- Planning for summer 2014, since we'll be staying in New Hampshire a bit past graudation Hike a portion of the Appalachian Trail Walk Holt's Ledge in Lyme, NH Skate on Dartmouth's Occom Pond Play hockey on Occom Pond completed 02/13, at Winter Carnival Swim in the Connecticut River completed summer 2013 Eat at the Norwich Inn Many times Stroll the streets of Montreal completed 01/13 on the annual Tuck trip, can't wait to go back in a few weeks!) Visit Burlington, VT completed 07/13 and went back in 09/13, love Burlington! Take a factory tour of Ben and Jerry's ice cream plant in VT Sample the products at Cabot's store in Vermont Visit/stay in Dartmouth's Moosilauke Lodge <-- Not for lack of opportunities to go through Tuck-organized trips. If I miss this one, it's my own fault! Go sledding/tubing completed, on the hills of Hanover's golf course, no less See a production at Northern Stage Theatre (White River Junction, VT) completed 12/13; Will and I saw and loved their production of White Christmas Audit at least one class at Tuck/Dartmouth completed winter 2013 (Intro to Entrepreneurship), considering Foundations of Leadership for winter 2014 Enjoy the best breakfast in the Northeast at Four Aces Diner many a weekend morning spent at Four Aces, yummm See a performance at the Hop Get a farm share in the summer and enjoy fresh, local produce completed summer 2013, loved my CSA, healthiest summer of my life! Visit the local farmers' markets as much as humanly possible though, it turns out, when you have a farm share delivered to your office, you don't actually need to go to the farmer's market so much! **Last but not least--something I have no control over so I can't really put it on the bucket list--but I really want to see a bear and/or a moose while I'm up here... I'm pretty sure I would drop dead on the spot. <-- No luck in 2013, but I'm dedicated to making this happen in 2014!! 2014 Tucket List Additions Visit Franconia Notch State Park and the Flume Gorge completed 09/13; was a wonderful daytrip together with Will, site of the previously-existing "Old Man of the Mountain" Welcome our first baby, our very own Tiny Tuckie! (expected 05/14) #### When I look back at all we've experienced in just 16 months living here in the Upper Valley, I'm overwhelmed with so many happy memories in such a vibrant, beautiful place.. We've really come to love this corner of the earth and all it has to offer!! |
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