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Back in the Burgh!

Wow. It feels like it was just yesterday when I blogged about our first day at Liberty Mutual. Now, in the blink of an eye our time in the U.S. is over and I am back in the Burgh. It was with bittersweet symphony that we packed our things and made for...

Published 28-Mar-2011 12:11 by Sandrine Sienche (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Boston, sales and marketing, saltire fellowship, ciqual, edinburgh

Leave no stone unturned in the quest for new opportunities.

Last week I attended a conference at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Boston. Hosted by the Sloan Business Club, this fascinating talk covered the progress of Africa in the last ten years, highlighting tremendous opportunities for the future...

Published 24-Feb-2011 11:12 by Sandrine Sienche (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Boston, MIT, entrepreneurship, Economic Development, Africa

Gallus Part 1

My global executive MBA internship literally took off the ground, on a flight to St Louis from Boston with Mark Bamforth, President & CEO of Gallus Biopharmaceuticals. Couldn’t have asked for a more exciting start than that! Gallus is a biologics...

Published 31-Jan-2011 17:40 by Madhu Nair (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Biotech, Boston, Business, externship, Key learning from Babson, babson college, Scotland, GlobalScot

Serendipity

I never thought I’d say this… but I think I’m falling for insurance. I remember the day I first came across insurance. It was a cold Monday morning when I arrived the doorsteps of Liberty Mutual. I was slightly jetlagged and I needed...

Published 26-Jan-2011 13:58 by Sandrine Sienche (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Boston, Liberty Mutual, externship, Babson, insurance

New Year, new resolutions and seeking opportunity through jet lag!

2010 has been a year of extraordinary tales; from the unpredictable drama of the U.K elections, the passing the U.S. bill, ashes from Finland, the chaotic Wiki leaks, to the phenomenal rescue of the miners in Chile, the first World Cup in South Africa...

Published 05-Jan-2011 20:01 by Sandrine Sienche (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Fellowship, Boston, Liberty Mutual

Social Entrepreneurship: The not for loss concept

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ‘Do good to do good’ is the slogan of U.S based ‘Two Degrees’, a one-for-one food company that donates a nutrition pack to a hungry child for each product...

Published 10-Dec-2010 2:14 by Sandrine Sienche (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Boston, babson college

‘If you build it, they will come’

I used to believe thinking outside the box was someone else’s job. ‘Abstract thinking’ was just not my forte, not from a business perspective anyway. My role was to listen to other people’s clever ideas, identify the gaps and opportunities...

Published 06-Oct-2010 0:38 by Sandrine Sienche (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Boston, saltire fellowship, babson college

Our Playground!

What an eye opener, what an experience so far. It seems like being a fly stuck on the outside of a fast moving bullet train! ‘Intense’ all of a sudden has lost its meaning and needs to be redefined. This is how the first 3 weeks can be summed...

Published 03-Oct-2010 5:55 by Mirza Fahd Arshed Baig (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Fellowship, Boston, Opportunities, Leadership, innovation, work, ideas, success, teamwork, opportunity, Performance, Babson, Key learning from Babson, meaning of Saltire, Learning, saltire fellowship, monkeys

First 20 days - WANDER & WONDER

The first 20 days have been truly amazing, and we have done so much that it feels like over a month we have been here. As last year's fellows will know the intensity of the programme is quite daunting at times, but the style of teaching and learning...

Published 01-Oct-2010 22:30 by Mark Simmers

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Fellowship, Boston, entrepreneur, improve, Competitive Scotland, Babson, monkeys

A life Changing Decision!

Many of the Fellows and my friends have talked about their experience throughout the past year or so! I think they have all taken the words out of my mouth, or my blog!! Prior to starting the Saltire Fellowship I was successful in the Hotel and Real Estate...

Published 22-Mar-2010 9:19 by Paul Reynolds

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Fellowship, Boston, Paul Reynolds, customer experience, entrepreneurship, Babson

Energy..... The final frontier!

Martyn and I are now in our fourth week of work in Veolia Energy! Time just seems to be passing us by at warp speed! Last Friday we visited a Biomass Power Plant in Portsmouth (see photo) and it certainly surprised me how logistical it is. For example...

Published 02-Jun-2009 18:19 by James Murray

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Fellowship, Boston, externship, James Murray, Veolia

My salubrious greetings to each and every one of you…..

Of course such a greeting is not something I would have ever given anybody, until I had spent 16 weeks of this year at Babson. (A chufty badge for the first person to name the professor who once greeted us this way.) Yes, 16, intense, enjoyable, sometimes...

Published 28-May-2009 14:43 by David.Miller

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Boston, Liberty Mutual, David Miller

The First of Many......

Well, we are now at the start of week # 20 and I really do not know where to begin. I started this journey in January with 'Eyes Wide Open' and I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute! The 16 weeks at Babson College seem so long ago now and it...

Published 26-May-2009 15:50 by Paul Reynolds

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Boston, Paul Reynolds, Liberty Mutual, Business

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