THE TOWERLIGHT - Baltimore Student Media

Andrew Fortier
taff Writer
As another cast of candidates prepare for
the 2008 installment of The Associate, last
spring’s victor has found his perfect fit.
A 2007 graduate of the College of Business
and Economics, Nicholas Malone now works
for Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s management trainee
program, a long way from the position he
earned as the last competitor standing in the
Stephens Hall boardroom early last April.
A management major, Malone was offered
the coveted position with United Business
Solutions following last year’s competition,
which is based on Donald Trump’s business
elated reality show ‘The Apprentice.’ Last
year, Jonathan P. Murray, senior vice president
f investments and a wealth management
pecialist for UBS Financial Services, acted
s Trump.
Malone only stayed with UBS for five months
efore realizing it was not the place for him.
“I was majoring in management, and this
was a hardcore finance job,” Malone said. “It
was a long way from where I lived, and I had
o drive an hour every morning to get there.
t was a great opportunity, just not the right
pportunity.”
The experience he gained and the contacts
e made through the competition aided his job
earch. He said he was offered jobs from other
ompanies after leaving UBS before landing at
nterprise, a job he enjoys waking up to each
orning.
“I love it. It’s what I went to college for,”
alone said.
He said time in the boardroom competing
with seven other successful students in the
CBE and working with teams on case studies
each week prepared him for entering the business
world. The case studies come from various
participating businesses in the Baltimore
region.
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Experience gained in
The Associate propels
alumnus Chris Malone
Res. halls to raise
funds for sick child
Sunshine Foundation, URG partner to
send cancer patient to Disney World
Carrie Wood
Assistant News Editor
As part of a semester-long
project, the University Residence
Government has partnered with
the Sunshine Foundation to
raise money to grant a wish for a
child who has cancer. The child,
Kyle, has a wish to go to Disney
World.
“I had a vision of bringing all
of the residence halls together [in
order to] grant this wish,” Katie
Goldstein, vice president for URG,
said. “I really want to take something
like URG, which is usually a
File Photo/The Towerlight
TU alumnus Nicholas Malone won the 2007 installment of The Associate competition. He now works for Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
government body and a programming
body, and do a community
service project.”
The first phase of this project
involved the 12 individual building
councils. The building councils
sold “candy grams” in their
residence halls to students for
the week prior to Valentine’s Day.
This effort raised approximately
$1,000 to go towards the goal of
$4,000, Goldstein said.
“The building councils have
done a fabulous job. All that they
were told was that this semester
they would be required to do
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Malone said many of the case studies were
geared toward marketing and trying to reach
target audiences in specific demographics.
They worked with local companies like The
Baltimore Sun, and national publications such
as Girls’ Life Magazine.
Going into the boardroom week after week
was also nerve-raking, Malone said.
“You just have these question of, ‘Was all
of that work I put into it worth it? Did I do
enough preparation? Did I work hard enough?
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Cases to focus on health care
St. Joseph Medical president to play part of ‘The Donald
Andrew Fortier
Staff Writer
Tuesday, Feb. 19 marks the beginning
of the fourth annual College
of Business and Economics competition,
The Associate. The contest, modeled
on the NBC reality show “The
Apprentice,” pits eight CBE students
against each other for a variety of
business-oriented challenges, which
are offered by participating Baltimorearea
businesses. Each week, the contestants
are judged based on their
performance in the challenges, and
one is let go by that year’s “Donald
Trump,” typically an executive from a
Baltimore-area company. The contestant
who makes it to the end will be
offered a job.
“Our ‘Donald Trump’ this year is
going to be John Tolmie [president and
CEO] of St. Joseph
Medical Center, and
he’s going to decide
who is going to win
the competition in
late April,” Laleh
Malek, director of
professional experience
in the center for
applied business and
economic research,
said. “Each time a
team loses they have
to come on a Tuesday
night where one will
get ‘fired’ by John
Tolmie, and then the winning team
just keeps going until the very end.
“The The cases case are
coming from
actual
business so s that’s
one way for them to
get to know
our students.
The final two compete for the job.”
Malek, coordinator of The Associate,
said 28 students
applied for the competition.
To par-
Laleh Malek
Coordinator of The Associate
ticipate, students
must be business
majors who are
graduating the year
of the competition.
Students fill out a
written application
and make a video
to earn a spot in
the field.
Past “Donalds”
were primarily
based in the finan-
cial industry, but this year the com-
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