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Week 6/7 - Going for Gold!

I write this blog on the Sunday evening preceding my final week here in Boston, knowing that this time next week I will be back in the UK (and most probably tucked up in bed as it will be the middle of the night and I'll be feeling very jet lagged). I have a question though - can anybody tell me...

Posted to Undergraduates by Joanne Greener on 30-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Heriot Watt, Liberty Mutual, 2012, Olympics

Learning to handle the heat!

I’ve titled this post “Learning to handle the heat” because it seemed to fit as a description for my great experiences in the last couple of weeks living in Boston as a Liberty Mutual intern. If any of you have read the blogs of the other Boston interns this week, you might well be...

Posted to Undergraduates by Tala Byrne on 26-Jun-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual, Irn-Bru, Networking, Scotland, 2012 Scholar, Weather, goals, Irn Bru, personal markets, objectives, aims

From Tanned Tenants to Tinned Tennents

It’s been a week of enterprise, work, history, academia…and Irn Bru? Yes, that’s right, in only my second week here in Boston, I’ve managed to track down perhaps the only supplier of the orangey sugary delight that synonymizes all that is good, pure and wholesome about life in...

Posted to Undergraduates by Jamie Cook on 21-Jun-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Project, Liberty Mutual, HOT, Web Design, Weather, HR, Tennents, Connect, Irn Bru

Week 1 - time flies....

So, week 1 in Boston is over and already I have experienced so many things and come across so many people (it would be difficult not being an intern at a company as big as Liberty Mutual - 4000 employees in Boston alone!!). My journey began last Friday at Newcastle airport following a somewhat teary...

Posted to Undergraduates by Joanne Greener on 16-Jun-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Heriot Watt, Liberty Mutual, Fenway, product management

A series of fortunate events...

It’s often difficult to know where to start with these things, especially at the end of a whirlwind week one as a Saltire Scholar in Boston. Overall this first week has been filled with a lot of great experiences of every kind (hence the title of this post,) but to go through them all in enough...

Posted to Undergraduates by Tala Byrne on 15-Jun-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Liberty Mutual, Boston. Liberty Mutual. Collaboration. Commerical Marketing., 2012 Scholar

Connections with the Boston Mafia

The toil of choosing the name of your first blog post can be a daunting challenge. This first week of this Saltire escapade for many has no doubt mirrored my turbulent first week here in Boston. In just under a week I’ve flown across the world, started an exciting and invigorating new job, and...

Posted to Undergraduates by Jamie Cook on 15-Jun-2012
Filed under: Filed under: saltire, Boston, Liberty Mutual, Liberty Mutual. Boston, intern, 2012, Relationships, Connections, New England, Web Design

Starting my rap career at the Liberty Mutual Senior Forum

I’ll start off by making yet another bold statement: this has been by far my best week in Boston and one of my best weeks in the last year. I can’t believe how much I have done and achieved in the last week and the great memories that will come of it. If I had to go home now, I would be completely...

Posted to Undergraduates by Mack Nicholls on 16-Aug-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual, Mack Nicholls

Starting the "Chain of Events"

Back to the blogs, this week has been yet another busy one in Boston. Alliteration aside, I can’t quite believe it’s been 3 weeks past already and so much has happened. This blog will go in the style of a 3 course meal, inspired by the many great meals we have had so far. Right now is the...

Posted to Undergraduates by Mack Nicholls on 01-Aug-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual, Mack Nicholls

Get out of the freezer, it's my turn!

So its 2 weeks into my internship and myself and the rest of the guys seemed to have perfected a new talent...inhaling our food!! Seriously, what they say about portion sizes over here in America is so far from the truth...they are bigger! I’m going to have to get a little zimmer to ride about...

Posted to Undergraduates by Rudi Moffat on 26-Jul-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Heriot Watt, Liberty Mutual, Liberty Mutual. Boston, Codzilla, Rhea Bayliss, Stuart O'Malley, Mack Nicholls, Rudi Moffat, Alex Macaulay, Sean McManus

Good things come to those who wait...

Hello Saltire Universe. For some reason, my first blog post did not upload, but that means you have a double scoop of information from me. No seriously, i wont bore you with what i did in my first week outside of work, read the other Saltire interns in Bostons blogs to find that out, i was with them...

Posted to Undergraduates by Mack Nicholls on 25-Jul-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual, Mack Nicholls

Pahhk the cahhr in Havahhhd yahhhd

It’s two weeks to the day since touching down in Boston (as if you hadn't guessed by the title) with huge expectations for what lay ahead – needless to say I have not been let down thus far! There’s a lot to fit in to my first blog. The induction at Liberty Mutual was a welcome...

Posted to Undergraduates by Stuart O'Malley on 22-Jul-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual, University of St Andrews, Stuart O'Malley

Cracking week 1...

If this blog goes badly I blame it on the amount of gorgeous food I’ve been heavily munching, which has made my arms get too chunky meaning I can’t type very well. I’m in Boston with 5 other interns staying in university halls about a ten minute walk from Liberty Mutual where 4 of us...

Posted to Undergraduates by Rhea Bayliss on 15-Jul-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, week 1, Liberty Mutual, Liberty Mutual. Boston, Rhea Bayliss, University of Aberdeen, Distribution Management

Genius is Perseverance in Disguise

That's not a quote I agree with entirely, but I certainly hope it applies to my university degree! My exam on Wednesday signalled the end of a fantastic four years of student life, and it's only just starting to sink in that I won't be tackling the infamous hill on Montrose St on the way...

Posted to Undergraduates by Colin Millar on 27-May-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, University of Strathclyde, Liberty Mutual, Strathclyde University, Colin Millar

Back in the Game

The last weeks have been very transitional for us Fellows, which explains the slight dip in the number of blogs of late. When our externships in the U.S came to an end in March we packed our bags, said goodbye to the U.S and returned home to our loved ones ... for a few days anyway. We then spent the...

Posted to Fellow by Sandrine Sienche (2010) on 08-May-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Saltire Experience, Liberty Mutual, saltire fellowship, Social Media, ciqual

Entrepreneurial thinking is a state of mind.

Many believe entrepreneurial thinking primarily thrives within an environment built to nurture its very nature. In fact, in the second week of my externship, when introduced to senior management within my unit, one of the managers’ responded with, ‘Why would an entrepreneur want to work for...

Posted to Fellow by Sandrine Sienche (2010) on 02-Mar-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Boston, Liberty Mutual, entrepreneur, externship, babson college