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UST Students Carve Their Niche in the Business World
11/20/2007
 Five University of St. Thomas students have taken the challenge of running a corporate business. They are evaluated on the aspects of research and development, production, marketing and finances. It is a project that has been met with great success.
Under the guidance of Cameron School of Business adjunct professor Graden Keller, Matthew Overton, Wendy Carabali, Michael Butler, Jennifer Monroy and Tominque Roots (pictured left to right) manage Baldwin (F21109), a high tech sensor manufacturing company, who have placed in the top 100 among universities and colleges across the United States in a program called Management Simulation, Inc (MSI).
“We were really excited that our hard work paid off,” Monroy said. “This basically was a hands-on experience of everything we’ve learned the past four years. All of us were pushed to the limits.”
UST students who take the senior level seminar class are challenged to run a business over the course of eight years. There are eight rounds total, each considered to be a year long.
“This experience allows you to measure your personal strengths and weakness because you have to deal with situations you wouldn’t come across in the classroom,” Carabali said. “We had to step out of our comfort zone to understand our market and customers and had to learn to adapt and grow.”
This capstone experience is designed to integrate concept and knowledge from a broad range of core business skills, and to explore contemporary social and economic issues influencing the business environment.
“This is a major team building exercise and our group meshed very well together. Our criticism was constructive and helped to be more productive by overcoming our challenges,” Overton said.
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