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February 2005 Undergrads Brake for Biz School
Her notes were covered with question marks, but not because she didn’t understand the material. GSB Summer Institute student Ashleigh Patterson was marking questions to take back to her colleagues at FTI International in Toronto, the alternative fuel company where she works in business development. “Now that I’m back, I ask them, ‘Do we do this at FTI?’ If not, I suggest we think about it.” FTI welcomed her suggestions. The company had sent Patterson to Stanford, where she was one of 56 students in the School’s inaugural program for college undergraduates and recent grads last summer. Students lived on campus for four weeks, immersed in fundamentals of finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and other disciplines traditionally fleshed out in the MBA Program. Like Patterson, who was a premed graduate of Queens University in Ontario, participants were liberal arts and sciences majors; business majors were not invited. Her classmate Penn DiJulio had never taken a course in business, not even in economics. A philosophy graduate of the University of Washington, he interned for Graniterock in Watsonville, Calif., for two summers, then joined its human resources area full time in 2002. Graniterock President and CEO Bruce Woolpert, MBA ’76, suggested the Stanford program. “The Summer Institute was extremely valuable for someone in my position,” DiJulio said. “Although I’d been working at Graniterock for some time, it helped me to better understand the processes behind our practices.” Said Woolpert: “I would recommend businesses support the Summer Institute by sponsoring employees and that undergraduates consider it if they want to answer questions about a career in business.” The School’s second Summer Institute, directed by professors Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw, will meet from June 19 to July 15. Final date for applications is March 20. The program is limited to non-business majors with at least three years of undergraduate studies. For more information, call 650.723.8124 or go to www.gsb.stanford.edu/si. |
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