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Students network with VSB-Week corporate sponsor representatives while learning about proper etiquette for business dinners.
Wil Reynolds, founder of SEER Interactive, leads a workshop on how to use Google tools.
The Inaugural VSB-Week
“VSB-Week will bring positive attention to the school, focus on academic initiatives, encourage students’ professional growth, and build a sense of community among business students.
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With support from the Clay
of 18 students and the Clay Center
Center at VSB, the Business Society
staff—created and prepared for the
Leadership Council launched the inau-
week, which consisted of 20 events
gural VSB-Week in March. VSB-Week
presented in a wide range of formats,
will be an annual event intended to
including networking breakfasts, round-
celebrate and showcase Villanova
table discussions, keynote speakers,
School of Business initiatives, as well as
and social/community building events.
expose the greater Villanova community to emerging business trends. The main goals of this student-driven event are to
Monday: “B-Global”
bring positive attention to the school of business, to focus on VSB’s academic
VSB students enjoyed an
initiatives, to encourage students’
international networking breakfast and
professional growth and acquisition
a dessert fair with many different sweet
of new skills, and to build a sense of
treats from all over the globe. Ann Marie
community among business students.
Sabath, founder of At Ease Inc. Business
For its debut year, the week focused
Protocol & Etiquette, led an interactive
on VSB’s strategic areas of business
dinner discussion called “How To Dine
excellence, and each day’s programs and
& Act Fine: Business Etiquette Dinner.”
activities were dedicated to highlighting
Sabath guided students through an
one of VSB’s four pillars of excellence:
actual business dinner, along the way
global mindset, technology/analytics,
explaining how to eat each course,
ethics, and innovation.
addressing differences in international
Co-Chairs Derek Ferguson VSB ’11
etiquette, and asking students to share
and Robert Hanlon VSB ’11—with
what they had learned. Students also
support from a steering committee
had the opportunity to mingle, network,
