It's hard to believe this will be the last week of my Nike internship!The past few weeks have been great, but action packed- which is why I haven't posted a blog entry for a while.
Two weeks ago, a Corporate Audit teammate and I presented our project's preliminary findings at our department's monthly employee meeting. Thanks to the fact that I had taken a Management Communications class at Georgetown, I was pretty comfortable with the idea of giving a presentation to our department of 30 people. I still felt some butterflies, but, in the end, the presentation was a success- and hopefully provided the other members of the Nike Corporate Audit team with some key takeaways that they can use in their upcoming audits.
On Tuesday of this week I wrapped up my portion of the team's process audit. So, I was able to focus more-so on my extracurricular intern project- the Corporate Responsibility Case Competition in which my team came up with an innovative idea of how Nike can improve upon its Compliance standards. Given the size of our team and the minimal amount of time to present, I didn't actually present at the competition, but I did help out with organizing our presentation and giving feedback to the presenters during practice. In the end, our team didn't win the case competition, but I was very proud of the work we pulled together. We also got some good feedback from Hannah Jones, the VP of Corporate Responsibility at Nike, and from the case competition's "Special Guest", Phil Knight.
All in all, this summer has been fantastic. I have to admit, though, that I'm getting really excited to get back to DC and see my friends and family.
I greatly enjoyed reading your blog Alexis. I was an MBA Intern with Intel this past summer, and actually had the opportunity to visit the Nike HQ for a meeting having do w/ asset management within Nike while I was visiting Intel's OR campus. Seemed like a great environment and your employee store was awesome. :) Hope you're enjoying your last year of b-school.
Posted by: Kevin | October 09, 2008 at 03:46 PM
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