The highlight of the first Friday in the Woodcock Global Honors Fellowship Program was our visit to Google’s location in Pittsburgh. Mike Capsambelis, a Product Manager for Google, led our group through the facility. The facility seemed more like a modern-day living room as opposed to a company location. The culture was extremely laid back,…

Today, the Woodcock Global Honors Fellowship had the privilege of visiting Ernst & Young, one of the “Big Four” accounting firms. I had some familiarity with the firm from a past accounting course, but I was excited to learn about the company firsthand. I was genuinely fascinated by the type of culture that Ernst &…

Today, we conducted our first class in the Woodcock Global Honors Fellowship Program. We immediately examined a case study from 2007 about the Starbucks company. By interpreting the data supplied by the research and the value proposition of Starbucks, we discussed whether Starbucks was considered a successful company in 2007 both as a single-goal firm…

Hello everyone, my name is Ryan Weinberger and I’m from Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania. I’m considering majoring in Finance with a minor in Economics, as I find myself to be pretty natural with numbers and thoroughly enjoyed my high school economics course. Personally, I love to run track and casually play basketball. I’m a part of my…