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Monday, November 2, 2020

From Challenge to Championship

鈥hat a wild ride!

The RISE competition is Schulich's multi-disciplinary case competition, in which delegates compete in a case simulation in a discipline of their choice and present it to industry professionals. The 5 disciplines that teams competed in were: Accounting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Strategy. My team participated in the corporate social responsibility discipline.

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When applying to jobs and taking part in interviews, I often get the question 鈥淲hy Accounting?鈥 My answer usually goes along the lines of 鈥淚 believe it鈥檚 the language of business鈥 as it provides us with the fundamental knowledge to understand any business.

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Happy to win; happier to learn

The most important lesson I learned, however, was not that teamwork leads to winning, but that teamwork leads to progress. I am very happy to have won the competition but am even more ecstatic to have done so alongside my hard-working team members.