Disruption: Strategy to Change the Status Quo
HOSTED BY:
NEXECON CONSULTING GROUP
SEPTEMBER
15 -16
ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
TABLE OFOF CONTENTS TABLE CONTENTS
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WELCOME
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CONFERENCE AGENDA
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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SPONSORS
WELCOME Welcome to the Michigan Undergraduate Consulting Conference! We are excited to host you at our second annual event. In 2015, Nexecon Consulting Group saw a need for an experience to introduce students to the consulting industry and inspire them to pursue a career in this rapidly growing field. With MUCC, we hope to go beyond the classroom, beyond corporate information sessions, and beyond the recruiting process to show you what it really means to be a consultant. Today, you will have the chance to take a deep dive into this unique and dynamic field. This year’s theme, Disruption: Strategy to Change the Status Quo, speaks to our values and the values of our esteemed corporate sponsors. Disruption is more than just going against the grain; it is innovating the market. It is experimentation. It is creating space - for new ideas, diverse individuals, and great change. Anyone can be a disruptor, from the student in his college dorm room to the CEO in her top floor office. You are disruptive every time you question what’s in front of you and seek a better way. We challenge you to take today as a growth experience. Pick the brain of the professional in the room, or the student sitting next to you. This is what consulting is all about - an ongoing learning experience. We hope you’ll leave today with new insights, new knowledge, and new understanding of the consulting industry, whether this is your first introduction or your hundredth interaction with the field. Thank you, and enjoy the conference! - Chelsea Racelis, MUCC President
Varun Aravapally
Chelsea Racelis
Keishiro Iwasaki
John Stroud
VP - Logistics varunara@umich.edu
President cracelis@umich.edu
VP - Finance
VP - Brand Strategy jcstroud@umich.edu
keish@umich.edu Abhi Muchhal
VP - Corporate Relations abhimuch@umich.edu 2
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Curt Mueller
Curt Mueller Partner McKinsey & Company Chicago
Curt is a successful experienced management consulting partner with a reputation and track record of building a profitable growing business with industry recognized expertise in supply chain and operations. He is a trusted advisor and "consultant of choice" for leading Fortune 100 consumer focused companies - beverage, food, industrials, retail, media, building products, transportation, and freight. He is also a thought leader and expert in supply chain management and large-scale transformations.
Jim Rozsypal
Jim Rozsypal Partner and Market Segment Leader Ernst & Young Chicago
Jim has more than 28 years of experience providing audit and consulting services to financial services clients and serves as the Global Client Service Partner for several of EY’s largest clients, including State Farm Insurance Company and Northern Trust Company. In this role, Jim is responsible for building teams and solutions to help his clients achieve their strategic initiatives. He also uses his role to meet with clients during the service quality process and speak at numerous client events such as the annual Accounting and Reporting update and Hedge Fund Symposium.
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Day of the Conference: Friday, September 16th, 2016 Registration and Check-In 8:30-9:00 AM Robertson Lobby Conference Welcome
The conference hosts will give a formal welcome to the conference.
Robertson Auditorium
Opening Keynote Address
The keynote speaker will open the conference with insight into the theme of “Disruption: Strategies to Change the Status Quo.�
Career Panel
A panel of individuals will discuss their career paths, reflections, and advice. Q&A will follow.
Robertson Auditorium Robertson Auditorium
Workshop Rotation 1
Attendees will rotate amoung three workshops hosted by industry leaders.
Ross Classrooms
Lunch is included in the conference tickets. Attendees and firm representatives will eat together for informal networking.
Networking Lunch Ross Classrooms
Career Fair
This is a great oppurtinity for students to learn about and connect with sponser firms.
Colloquium
Workshop Rotation 2 Ross Classrooms
Attendee will rotate amoung three workshops hosted by industry leaders.
Workshop Rotation 3 Ross Classrooms
Attendee will rotate amoung three workshops hosted by industry leaders.
Closing Keynote Address
The keynote speaker will give attendees thought, insights, and advice to leave the conference with Winners of the case competition will be announced and the hosts will make closing remarks One final oppurinity for attendees to network with professionals. Light refreshments will be provided.
Robertson Auditorium
Conference Closing
Robertson Auditorium
Netorking Reception Robertson Lobby
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SPONSORS Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 336,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become highperformance businesses and governments. A.T. Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with offices in more than 40 countries. Since 1926, we have been trusted advisors to the world’s foremost organizations. A.T. Kearney is a partner-owned firm, committed to helping clients achieve success. The firm has a distinctive, collegiate culture that transcends organizational and geographic boundaries. Our consultants are down to earth, approachable, and have a passion for doing innovative client work. We always seek to deliver both immediate impact and growing advantage to our clients and our people. Bain & Company is one of the world’s leading management consulting firms. We work with top executives to help them make better decisions, convert those decisions to actions and deliver the sustainable success they desire. For more than 40 years, we’ve been passionate about achieving better results for our clients—results that go beyond financial and are uniquely tailored, pragmatic, holistic and enduring. At EY, we are committed to building a better working world — with increased trust and confidence inbusiness, sustainable growth, development of talent in all its forms, and greater collaboration. EY is a professional services firm with opportunities within Advisory, Assurance, Transactions and Tax. Our Advisory practice focuses on improving processes, identifying risks, assessing and protecting our clients businesses, growing revenue and much more. Learn more at exceptionaley.com. Huron stands out as one of the fastest growing financial and operational consulting firms in the industry, serving clients in the healthcare, education, life sciences, and business advisory sectors. Huron helps clients improve performance and transform their enterprise by reducing costs, utilizing technology, and simulating growth. Our professionals employ their expertise in finance, operations, strategy, and technology to provide our clients with specialized analyses and customized solutions that are tailored to address each client’s particular challenges and opportunities to deliver sustainable and measurable results. We live in a moment of remarkable change and opportunity. The convergence of data and technology in the areas of cloud, cognitive, digital, social and mobile is transforming industries, societies and professions. IBM Global Business Services is part of this transformation and just the place to define your career within business consulting.
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The Keystone Group is a management consulting firm focused on helping business leaders address their most pressing issues. Our small teams work with middle-market clients to develop and execute strategy, improve operations, restructure finances, and integrate acquisitions. Our mission is to make a significant and positive impact on our clients and their stakeholders. For over 25 years, we have been building long-term relationships with our clients by helping them identify and implement sustainable solutions. KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”). KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 155 countries and have more than 174,000 people working in member firms around the world. KPMG Advisory professionals work with clients to solve business problems in today’s rapidly changing marketplace. We leverage the knowledge and skills across our global network of firms to develop practical recommendations designed to help businesses work smarter, grow faster and compete stronger. We are trusted advisors to the world’s organizations in creating and protecting the sustainable value of their business. McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non governmental organizations, and not-for-profits. We help our clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals. Over nearly a century, we’ve built a firm uniquely equipped to this task. Our consultants include medical doctors, engineers, business managers, civil servants, entrepreneurs, and research scientists. They join McKinsey for the opportunity to apply their talents to complex, important challenges. Their diversity of background, discipline, gender, nationality, and outlook ensure our clients receive a singular balance of deep and broad expertise. Our US Advisory practice has experienced significant growth over the past few years—we have taken on new clients and increased revenue, onboarded record setting new hire classes (campus and experienced) and executed a number of strategic acquisitions including welcoming Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) to the PwC network. A significant component of our growth strategy includes growing and developing our people. As a result, we have become one of the world’s top consulting organizations giving our practitioners tremendous development and advancement opportunities. At ZS we like solving problems—taking things apart, seeing how they work and putting them back together, better. We lead the way in combining science and handson experience to solve the toughest sales and marketing challenges. For more than 30 years, we’ve learned from each success and apply our passion to help customers win and grow. We support our global consulting work via 20+ locations around the world with a regional staffing model and our expertise is focused on topline, commercial growth. We work with clients on comprehensive solutions beyond just good strategy we drive the strategy development and then help our clients realize the value of the strategy via implementation.
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