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The Other 2 Internships

Hello from China! I'm entering the final 2 weeks of my time here as an intern in Shenzhen and I can't believe how quickly the time has passed and etc. China feels like home to me now, although every now and then I'll come across a subtle reminder that I'm not in Scotland, sometimes in...

Posted to Undergraduates by Christopher Jones on 14-Apr-2011
Filed under: Filed under: internship, China, Shenzhen, Lab49, New York, University of Glasgow, Aeronautical Engineering, Christopher Jones, 2011

The City That Sometimes Sleeps And Sometimes Drinks Irn Bru

2 months ago I was enjoying my final weekend in the city that never sleeps. Now I’m back in the city that sometimes sleeps, sometimes drinks Irn Bru and, most importantly, always makes you feel welcome. I’ve even managed to re-monopolise my old parking space outside my local train station...

Posted to Undergraduates by Christopher Jones on 31-Oct-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Lab49, New York, Christopher Jones, entrepreneurship

New York, New York, So Good They Named It Twice

Apologies for the delay, been meaning to publish this blog for ages but life has been just as hectic back in Scotland! And so the curtain has finally fallen on eight tremendous weeks in NYC! Our final week was as busy as ever, involving a trip to Flushing Meadows to watch Nadal at the US Tennis Open;...

Posted to Undergraduates by Claire Wilson on 26-Sep-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Lab49, New York, University of Strathclyde, Claire Wilson

The End

As I write this I am sitting in Glasgow eating my last Devil Dog. My body clock says it is next Saturday…… The last week in NYC definitely proved to be the most frantic of all as I juggled the completion of the global marketing plan with saying goodbye to friends and coworkers, last minute...

Posted to Undergraduates by Christopher Jones on 06-Sep-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Marketing, Strategy, Lab49, New York, University of Glasgow, Aeronautical Engineering, Christopher Jones

He came. He saw. He played ultimate frisbee

In the words of one of my favourite sports announcers of all time…business really has picked up both in and out of Lab49 Tower. The finishing touches are being applied to both the global marketing plan and my website content, with our final presentation slated in for Friday morning. I have also...

Posted to Undergraduates by Christopher Jones on 01-Sep-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Marketing, Strategy, Lab49, New York, University of Glasgow, Aeronautical Engineering, Christopher Jones, Wrestling

The 2 months the rest of my life will have to live up to

Capital Markets, Agile Project Management, Marketing, Networking, Caution Cards, Devil Dogs, Strategy Consulting, Financial Services, Hero Sandwiches, Conference Calls and much more. All fixtures of my last 7 weeks and all things I knew little to nothing about 7 weeks and 1 day ago… Every major...

Posted to Undergraduates by Christopher Jones on 28-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Marketing, Strategy, Lab49, New York, University of Glasgow, Aeronautical Engineering, Christopher Jones

Outstanding, Spectacular, Confidential Secret

The global marketing plan is now starting to resemble a real, functional tool to help with the co-ordination and planning of all the various components. We have started to add in all the figures for the budget and have sliced and diced all the information in various ways to get an overall company view...

Posted to Undergraduates by Claire Wilson on 27-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Lab49, New York, University of Strathclyde, Blogging, Career Choices, Claire Wilson

The Illustrated Chris Jones Guide To Survival In New York City.

In an earlier blog I promised to present a list of rules and/or nuggets of advice which would allow future Saltire Foundation interns or those of you lucky enough to land yourself a graduate job here to survive and prosper in New York. Here they are: 1) Never make eye contact with a guy who casts spells...

Posted to Undergraduates by Christopher Jones on 23-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: USA, Lab49, New York, Guide, Survival, Wisdom, Christopher Jones

A man of the peacock

Picture this. I am standing in the queue in the menswear department of Century 21, the world’s greatest shop, clutching a rather spicy pair of pink golf trousers. These things usually retail at 90-100 of your Great British Pounds so words cannot even begin to describe the joy coursing through my...

Posted to Undergraduates by Christopher Jones on 19-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Marketing, Lab49, New York, University of Glasgow, Devil Dog, Christopher Jones

The Half-Million-Dollar Wiener

So another week flew by in a flurry of birthday celebrations, work days out, trapezing, a visit from our Bostonian companions, oh and some work of course! In the office I have been continuing work on the two projects assigned to me. Both are progressing nicely with all the members of staff I speak to...

Posted to Undergraduates by Claire Wilson on 18-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: week 5, Lab49, New York, Basketball, Broadway, Claire Wilson

Only 3 more weekends - insert generic time is running out comment here

Sometimes it’s the little things about a place that make it stand out from others. 5 weeks into my internship at Lab49 I have made (and forgotten and subsequently re-made etc) a number of ‘little’ observations about the way things are done here which really help to give the place a...

Posted to Undergraduates by Christopher Jones on 13-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Marketing, Strategy, Lab49, New York, University of Glasgow, Jones, Cat Burglar, Christopher Jones

The Catch

Whoa what a week it’s been- I don’t really know where to start! In work I have been continuing work on developing the global marketing strategy for Lab49. This is a large scale project that needs to take into consideration the needs and objectives of all the individual Practices and the overall...

Posted to Undergraduates by Claire Wilson on 10-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Marketing, week 4, Strategy, Lab49, New York, University of Strathclyde, Project Management, Flying Trapeze, Basketball, Birthday, Claire Wilson

An impromptu trip to The Bronx and a game of football with Lionel Messi's grandfather

This week at Lab49 Tower I have moved from researching to project managing. The marketing plan Claire and I are now working on presented a perfect opportunity to kill 2 pigs with one stone: As well as carrying out the project, we are actually managing it. Ross spent some time explaining the methods used...

Posted to Undergraduates by Christopher Jones on 09-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Saltire Foundation, Strategy, USA, Lab49, New York, University of Glasgow, Project Management, Messi, Christopher Jones

4 shakes of a horse's hoof

In a month’s time you are going to be the company’s go-to person for…… A) Cups of tea / photocopying requests B) Advice on the best sushi restaurants in the Wall Street area C) Intelligence on the financial asset class I have been assigned to researching Many of the world’s...

Posted to Undergraduates by Christopher Jones on 02-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Lab49, New York, University of Glasgow, Aeronautical Engineering, Christopher Jones

Everyone Around You Knows More Than You

Last week saw me working on various tasks for the strategy group in order to help with progress with the research needed to deliver their presentation to the client this week. The work varied between high level research on the market to the more specific features and functions of the final deliverable...

Posted to Undergraduates by Claire Wilson on 02-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Knowledge Management, Lab49, New York, University of Strathclyde, Claire Wilson