Through a Partnership with the Dartmouth Tuck School of BusinessTrinity College offered a new January quarter program this year Tuck Business Bridge. The program focuses on the creation of essential commercial skills necessary to help launch enriching careers.
At Trinity’s Innovation Hub in downtown Hartford, 37 undergraduate students participated in an intensive class experience which included a Capstone team project, recruitment services and head-to-head advice. Complete or partial scholarships from the Raether Family Charitable Trust have enabled all interested students to participate in the program.
With sessions applied in commercial communications, financial accounts, business financing, management economy, marketing and modeling of calculation sheets led by the Faculty of MBA of Tuck, students have deepened their leadership, their Presentation and their collaboration skills to become better decision -makers and communicators.
A Trinity student who signed up for the three -week intensive program was Lizzie Nelson ’26, a major in Cinematographic Studies in Rockville, Maryland, who also pursues a minor in writing, rhetoric and media studies. Nelson occupies jobs on the campus with the president’s office, the communications and marketing office, and Trinity College Athletics, is a member of the Softball team Trinity, sings in the Quirks a Cappella group and organizes a weekly radio program On WRTC.
“The program was intense, but important,” said Nelson. “Professor Tuck Leslie Robinson said what you put in the program is what you will get it. I got it because I put a lot of work. »»
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Why did you want to register for the Tuck Business Bridge program?
I have some family members who went to Dartmouth and who made this program, and he obtained elegant criticism. I want to work in sport – maybe the front office of a team – and many places want you to have professional training or a sports management diploma, so I thought that having commercial experience would be Useful for me.
Who have you learned during this program?
Our certificate indicates that we took 52 courses during this program, so we had many different teachers. Leslie Robinson, our accounting teacher, was great. She also personally helped my study group with our final project. Our professor of economics was Charles Wheelan (Clinical Professor of Business Administration in Dartmouth and director of the faculty of the Center for Business, Government and Society), the author of the book Naked economythat I had read before. Trinity staff in the innovation center were so helpful and provided excellent meals from Hartford restaurants. Although the major part of the program is virtual, the day before final presentations, we had two people from Tuck (Courtney Pierson, Professor of Clinical Management, and Lisa Tedeschi, Executive Director of First Cycle Programs and Selected Initiatives) for a presentation simulated, and we have made many improvements according to these comments. For the final presentations, we also had two panelists (invited investors Fernando Maddock, a former student of Tuck, and the former Trinity Kate Rausch ’08, who also finished the Tuck Business Bridge program) in person at Hub Innovation.
How was it different from your other Trinity courses?
It was nearly 70 hours of instruction in class over three weeks, not to mention the time we spent with our study groups working on our CAP stone projects outside the class. We also consulted an MBA in Dartmouth on our cornerstone. It was a ton of work in a condensed period. During a normal semester, you have four classes, plus the parascolia, but it was a dedicated environment where everything you needed to focus on was this program. I woke up, I was going to class all day, I was doing the homework and I slept. It was a version, but it was the only thing in your mind.
What were some of the most memorable lessons?
I was very nervous when going – as a major in cinematographic studies – that it would be a program only taken by the majors in economics. But Professor Wheelan really explained the equipment at an understandable level for people who had no training there by giving examples of supply and demand, such as Uber Surge prices. There was a team consolidation exercise which was a simulation of a summit of Mont Everest, where everyone had to collaborate. And a marketing lesson has spoken of things that Major League Baseball recently did to attract the public and make the game faster, like enlarge the size of the bases and introduce a pitch clock. I am really linked to that one.
What was your final project?
Capstone presentations were the powerpoints created by study groups. Each of the seven groups has chosen a listed company to carry out an assessment, and my group chose Domino’s Pizza. We have examined how the market values it and concluded that the market currently underwears that of Domino. They work a lot with AI and have a partnership with Microsoft for their pizza tracking and for the optimization of delivery routes. I focused on the aspects of customer comments and the things that the company has done to improve satisfaction.
What do you think you can withdraw which, in your opinion, could benefit your career?
I definitely go with new friendships; I didn’t know anyone in the program. A common goal by prioritizing different things. It was great to collaborate with group comrades on the subjects in which I was not so strong. I reinstated all my curriculum vitae during this program, and I met several people to talk about it and revise it. I think networking is also important; I reach out to another former Tuck Bridge who works in the Major Baseball League. Many people know Tuck Bridge and it is a precious experience to live. I think that knowledge of certain business worlds will be very useful.
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