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Kristin Kaimen, left,
and her group do their final presentation in the first of
three Enterprise Conception Courses. The courses are a result
of a partnership between the College of Business and the
College of Engineering. Kaimen’s
team showed how they would make a regular four-wheeled walker
adjustable so that it was stable when the user placing weight
on it. Photo by Bin Wu
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Taking
Care of Business
By Jenny Jones
While many students learn the rules of business
in the classroom, recent MU graduate Kristin Kaiman, BS BA
’03, took her education a step further when she participated
in recent state and national Phi
Beta Lambda business competitions. Kaiman and classmate Nora
Lewis, BS BA ’03, took a
routine management project and made it an award-winning endeavor.
The team entered the project in the Phi Beta Lambda State Leadership
Conference and won first place in the business plan competition.
“The business plan event is very
time-consuming,” Kaiman said. “But Nora and I decided
the experience we’d gain from the competition was worth
the extra work.”
From there, Kaiman and Lewis were asked to
submit a revised plan to the Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership
Conference. The two were invited to Dallas, Texas, where they
presented their plan to a panel of judges and won seventh place
in the Business Plan division.
“Phi Beta Lambda and the Leadership
Conferences gave me more confidence in my abilities as a professional,”
said Kaiman. “It’s given me a new outlook and helps
me believe that anything is possible.”
Phi Beta Lambda is a national business organization
that serves as an extension of the high school Future Business
Leaders of America. Members of Phi Beta Lambda come from various
disciplines and share an interest in learning about the world
of business.
The award-winning business plan Kaiman and
Lewis started as Kaiman’s work in Management 335: Entrepreneurial
Innovation Management honors program. The course is part of
a joint program with the College
of Engineering and is divided into three sections. Kaiman
was the first business student to finish the three-section course
and to receive a certificate of completion.
The first section of Management 335 focuses
on conceptual ideas in business such as setting a budget, marketing
and targeting an audience. In the next section, students designed
a prototype and the final section focused on manufacturing products.
“The College
of Business gave me a great education, and if I could start
over again, I would definitely choose MU,” Kaiman said.
“All of my professors were amazing; they are really the
backbone of the school.”
Kaiman was hired by Sherwin-Williams in January where she’s
in the management trainee program. After her training she will
start her new career as an assistant manager in the St. Louis
area. Sherwin-Williams is a global producer of paints and coatings
with 2,600 stores in the United States, Mexico and Canada. It’s
a Fortune 500 company and has annual revenues exceeding $5 billion.
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