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The members of the month are the Mr. CBA Team! The team includes Olivia, Katie, Nuvie, Matt, and Lucas. These exceptional team members put on an amazing second annual Mr. CBA show. Each member put a great deal of time and effort into making this event a success! With advisor Nuvie, queen of candidate relations, Olivia, the creative wizard, Katie, the master of all social media, Lucas, and the detail oriented stage manager, Matt, they worked in perfect unison to form an incredible event.

I am proud to announce that October’s Member of the Month is our very own Andrew Kaback! Andrew has been an outstanding member of our organization ever since his induction during the fall semester of his freshman year, 4 short years ago. He started off impressing us by leading a PBL team to victory in the Target Case Study Competition, winning $3,000 for the organization. After years of learning and growing within the organization, his is now distinctly giving back to our members.

“Organized and fantastic.” Those are just some of the words used to describe Alina Crisi as PBL members comment on the outstanding job she did as recruitment chair for this fall semester. After being selected to be recruitment chair in August, Alina worked tirelessly with the PR team to put together a week that drew in over seventy interviewees. With each passing night, potential members commented that her support, kind words and quick responses to questions made them feel welcomed among our membership and eager to come back to each night.

Fall 2012’s recruitment week was a complete success!

After an exciting Recruitment Week (9/3-9/8) led by Recruitment Chair, Alina Crisi, University of Pittsburgh's Phi Beta Lambda brought on sixteen new members for the Fall semester. Through fifty-seven interviews on Saturday, September 8, 2012, PBL is now proud to recognize those sixteen well-deserving New Members.

Below is PBL's list of accepted 2012 Fall Recruits:

Jeffery Altman
David Barr
Amy Check
Andrew Desmond
Nazat Dowla
Greg Horvat
Angelina Huggins
Rob Kneip
Brian McDonough
Ben Schultz
Andrew Shymchyk
Courtney Slack
Averey Smith
Frany Tish
Lucas Walkowski

This year’s National Leadership Conference was a four-day event (6/24-6/27) that took place in San Antonio, Texas. PBL was able to send 18 members to Nationals. Fourteen of those members placed in the TOP 3!

RESULTS:

1st Place:
Decision Making: Paul Mason and James Machin
Strategic Analysis and Decision Making: Shawn Willits and Denise He

2nd Place:
Business Presentation: Denise He and Casey Pacifico
Emerging Business Issues: Alina Crisi, Colleen McDonald and Shawn Willits
Integrated Marketing Campaign: Rose Choi and Grant Tresselt

The 2011 3rd Annual Berg Cup Case Study Competition took place this year on March 25th and 26th. The event consisted of seven teams from up and down the east coast traveling to the University of Pittsburgh to compete in the semi-final and final round of competition. The individual teams, consisting of three to four members, presented their data supporting their perspectives on an ethical case involving the potential for natural gas drilling on a local stretch of farmland in front of a panel of experienced judges and were scored accordingly.

1st Place
Ms. Future Business Teacher: Alina Crisi
Impromptu Speaking: Brandon Davis
Economic Analysis and Decision Making: Siddharth Bhambhwani
Financial Analysis and Decision Making: Frank McClard
Financial Concepts: Lauren McMenamin
International Business: Lauren McKinley
Financial Services: Lauren McMenamin and Lisa DellaSalla
Sales Presentation: Rebecca Schriver
Business Decision Making: Kevin Walsh, Ryan Slack
Brad Mayer
Help Desk: Casey Pacifico
Emerging Business Issues: Brandon Davis and Denise He
Hospitality Management: Jimmy Machin and Mike Wilkinson

One of the most exciting events this month for PBL was the Target Case Study Competition. Two teams from PBL competed amongst eight teams on March 17th, first of which consisted of Rebecca Schriver, Nate Boros, Lindsey Dietz and Sean Kiray, and the second of which was Sarah Weber, Emily Dotson, DJ Bowers and Eric Liberatore. From there Target representatives negotiated and discussed which teams would be able to present in the final round on March 31st.

Hey everyone!
Here are the TWO links for the superlatives.
Just type a name in for each response, and you can use a name more than once.
Have some fun!
We will be giving them out at the last GBM.

1
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QL8BRHG
2
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QLC23MD

If the links are not clickable then just copy and paste them into web browser.
Please do them both :)
Thank you and enjoy!!