Community & Student Life
Learning, Leadership, Lifelong Bonds
At the Carroll School, support and collaboration complement the challenge of rigorous curricula. Members of our community work closely together across programs, helping each other fulfill their potential while building lifelong relationships. Faculty, administrators, staff, and alumni invest genuinely in students’ success, providing individualized guidance and often meeting one-on-one.
A variety of learning and leadership opportunities further enrich the academic experience. Co-curricular programs—including several student-run organizations—and hundreds of events provide venues throughout the year for students to enhance their knowledge of specific business areas. They learn the skills that will benefit them during their careers while working with like-minded peers and meeting professionals in a broad range of fields.
This Week in the Carroll School
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Each Sunday evening, the Office of the Senior Associate Dean sends out a newsletter to each class year in the Carroll School of Management. The newsletter posts upcoming events, advising deadlines, leadership opportunities, and internship listings. View the last edition here:
The Accounting Academy is an academic organization at Boston College run through the Carroll School of Management. Our goal is to provide students with guidance and networking opportunities in the Accounting and Business fields and to accomplish this goal we host numerous informational and networking events throughout the year.
The primary goal of the AHANA Management Academy is to prepare Boston College's AHANA (African, Hispanic, Asian, Native American) students for competitive, rewarding careers in all business fields. We meet to assist students with the art of occupational networking and etiquette, while recognizing the unique challenges that are sometimes faced by AHANA professionals. The organization also provides a channel for students to meet recruiters and prominent AHANA alumni. AMA was not created as an exclusive outlet for AHANA students, but should instead serve as a supplement to resources already available to all BC students.
Learn more about the AHANA Management Academy
BCPC provides a venue for students to learn about the stock market with a competitive edge. Students will compete in a 52 trading day competition following a series of pre-competition events, with $100,000 on the virtual stock exchange, www.StockTrak.com. The three-five teams with the highest portfolio value will prepare a presentation for a panel of judges; teams will be judged on the quality of their presentation and investment strategy.
Learn more about the Boston College Portfolio Challenge
Consult Your Community is a student-run nonprofit that mobilizes and trains undergraduates to provide pro bono consulting services to low-income and minority-owned small businesses in college communities across America.
The Consulting Club of Boston College (CCBC) strives to bring consulting closer to the undergraduates of BC.
Learn more about the Consulting Club
The Boston College Finance Academy is a student-run organization established to inform BC students of all of the opportunities available to them in the financial industries. In an effort to bring the academic and business worlds closer together, we organize a number of events and trips throughout the year. Current financial news, career planning and potential job placement are popular topics at each event. By encouraging students to take advantage of these opportunities, our organization serves as a valuable source of general information, advice and networking.
The IS Academy is a student-run organization at BC whose mission is to foster and grow student interest in the worlds of business and technology. We serve as a resource to Boston College students who are interested in pursuing careers in these industries and target our efforts towards building a stronger hub of innovation on campus. Aside from technology and career-related events, we help students immerse themselves in Boston's innovative community through weekly "TechTreks" to some of the city's best tech companies/startups and venture capital firms.
The Investment Banking Association helps prepare students interested in high-level corporate finance for the rigorous recruiting and interview process. This includes resume edits, mock interviews, lectures on both fit / technical aspects of interviews, and how to network at firm-wide presentations. The club provides a collaborative "class-room" style environment where the officers guide the students and prepare them in full for banking and trading recruiting and interviewing season. The goal is to successful get high-quality candidates to interviews, and ultimately to Wall Street where they will be better equipped to succeed.
The Investment Club manages a portfolio of roughly $480,000 based on pitches and trades suggested by club members. The goal of the club is to further the understanding of the stock market through research and practice. The club also makes presentations to enhance knowledge of the markets and finance.
The Latin American Business Club of Boston College is a student-run organization at Boston College determined to educate and promote interest in Latin American business affairs.
Learn more about the Latin American Business Club
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The Marketing Academy educates and prepares students in all aspects of the marketing field by providing the necessary knowledge, skills, and tools they need to make informed strategic decisions in a rapidly changing, highly uncertain marketplace. Marketing is a highly dynamic discipline that thrives on change – changes in customer attitudes; purchasing behaviors; demographics; industries and competitors; technology; the economy; methods of distribution; and our society and culture. It is the driving force in building and sustaining meaningful and valuable customer relationships, creating and developing new markets, building differentiated brands, and creating successful public and private enterprises.
The Boston College Real Estate Club's mission is to provide students with knowledge, leadership opportunities, and connections with industry professionals in the exciting field of real estate. Through our events and partnerships, we provide undergraduate students an avenue to pursue careers in commercial, residential, and brokerage real estate. It is our hope that by offering valuable experiences for our members we will prepare Boston College students to become leaders in a broad array of real estate roles.
Smart Woman Securities (SWS) is a national non-profit organization focused on educating undergraduate women about personal finance and investing. Through instructive seminars, mentoring initiatives, and meetings with successful investors such as Warren Buffett, SWS provides resources upon which women can build greater knowledge of the financial markets. By giving young women direct investment experience while still in college, SWS aims to empower a new generation of women investors for the future.
Learn more about Smart Woman Securities
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The Sports Business Society is an organization focused on introducing students to the business of sports. It offers students the ability to interact in person with sports professionals, such as sports business executives, sports journalists, and front office staff. The organization looks to assist students who desire to enter the sports business industry.
Learn more about the Sports Business Society
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Start@Shea provides you with the unique opportunity to develop ideas, perfect skills, and meet like-minded students and innovators that work in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Follow them on Twitter: @StartatShea
It is the mission of the Student Business Consortium of Boston College to provide undergraduates of every major and class year the opportunity to work on academic projects for leading companies. The club is divided into five divisions: Accounting, Consulting, Finance, Marketing, and Social Entrepreneurship. Each division will encompass projects that reflect work done by the corporations in that field. At the conclusion of each project, students will travel to present their work to companies in their corporate offices in Boston and New York City. By offering projects that reflect real world work, SBC strives to help its members gain a greater understanding of the opportunities available in the various business disciplines. This also gives an opportunity for students to "learn by doing," as opposed to learning it in the classroom. The club is open to all undergraduate students at Boston College, and hopes to include members from every class year and undergraduate college.
The Boston College Venture Capital / Private Equity Association (BC VCPE) is the premier place to learn more about the alternative investment industry. We educate undergraduate students on the venture capital and private equity industries through educational panels, speaker events, and case competitions. The club also develops relationships with firms such as KKR, CVC, and Ares Management to promote full-time and internship opportunities.
Boston College Women in Business is an organization, network, and community of undergraduate female students dedicated to their empowerment and education. WIB is committed to the growth and expansion of professional and personal opportunities for its members, with a focus on business, leadership, and female celebration and innovation. Additionally, the group is devoted to helping students answer three crucial questions in the development of their vocation: 1) What brings me joy? 2) What am I good at? 3) Who does the world need me to be?
Learn more about Women in Business
The Take Home Prof program provides students with the unique opportunity to get to know their professor outside of the classroom. Students are given $100 to cook dinner for their professor in their residence hall or off-campus apartment. There are over 20 Take Home Prof programs each academic year. Current students interested in this program should check the availability in This Week in the Carroll School of Management newsletter.
The rules are as follows:
- Students must be sophomores, juniors, or seniors in the Carroll School.
- There must be at least three Carroll School students attending the dinner with the professor.
- If you have a kitchen in your apartment on or off campus, students will cook the professor dinner.
- If you don’t have a kitchen, you can get take-out for the professor from a restaurant of your choice.
- Professors can only attend one dinner per semester. So act fast if you want to invite a particular professor!
- There are only 13 Take Home Prof events per semester.
- A picture must be taken and submitted to Erica Graf at grafe@bc.edu.
Invite your professor to lunch or coffee on campus and let us pick up the tab! Launched in fall 2017 with the goal of creating a space for meaningful faculty-student interactions, Lunch with a Professor is available to students in all class years. Current students interested in this program should contact Tiffany Faria for details on how to sign up.
Sponsored by the Accenture Fund at Boston College
Case Competitions
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International Business Ethics Case Competition
In April 2018, a team of four Carroll School students—Jennifer Barker, Katelyn Lochiatto, Wendy Wang and Jian Zabalerio—attended the three day International Business Ethics Case Competition held in Boston, MA. The IBECC brought together students from across the globe to present in front of judges on a business case the team selects. The Carroll School team selected the case “Rethinking Facebook’s Duty” and developed a financial, legal, ethical analysis and recommendation for how Facebook should handle the fake news issue. In their division, the Carroll School team came in second place for the 30 minute presentation and first place for the 90-second presentation.
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Women’s Case Competition
Elizabeth Berkhan (‘22), Tess Castergine (‘21), Ashley Edmunds (‘20) and Nikki Kearney (‘21) won second place in the 2019 University of Texas Austin Women's Case Competition where they had the task of analyzing a real problem at Shell regarding excess water produced from hydraulic fracturing in the west Texas basin. They researched and presented an inventive solution that included recommended 3, 5 and 10 year strategies to a panel of judges from Shell and McKinsey & Company.
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National Diversity Case Competition
Yacquub Abubakar, Kofi Nimo, Michael Oduro, and Eric Thompson (all Carroll School ‘21) competed at the 2019 Kelley School National Diversity Case Competition at Indiana University-Bloomington in January 2019. The competition consisted of 35 teams that analyzed a case for Target called “Small Store Formats: Big Community Impact.”
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Eller Ethics Case Competition
Grace Kilroy and Jenna Steichen (both CSOM ’21) represented Boston College at the 2019 Eller Ethics Case Competition. Twenty-five colleges from the US, Canada, and Mexico competed at the University of Arizona in October. The team was asked to act as consultants advising the Board of Directors of aircraft manufacturer Boeing in a case regarding the repeated crashes of the Boeing 737 Max. The case asked for an ethical, legal, economic and stakeholder analysis of how to address this crisis. Grace and Jenna won the West Region Runner-Up award.
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Walter H. Klein Ethics Case Competition
The Carroll School of Management and the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship host the Walter H. Klein Business Ethics Case Competition every February. This internal competition is open to sophomores and juniors. Students compete as a team of two where at least one member of the team must be in the Carroll School of Management. Each December, teams are provided with a business case which they will have to analyze, create recommendations, and present to a panel of judges. The first place team will receive a cash prize and the opportunity to represent Boston College at a national case competition. Matt Owens and Collin Smith, both Carroll School '22, were awarded first place prize. Students interested in participating in the Klein Ethics Case Competition should contact Erica Graf, Assistant Dean.
