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If you don’t have MBA Projects yet: choose 2-3 items to add - here are examples
Master of Business Administration, Emphases: Emphasis #1 | Emphasis #2, June 2012
University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management, Working Professional Program
 Relevant courses taken: Product Development, Portfolio Analysis, Corporate Finance,
Merger & Acquisition, Financial Accounting, Business Taxation.
 Bay Area MBA Portfolio Challenge, CFA Society of San Francisco, Lead winning team 2010
 Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society (top 20% of the graduating class).
 Completed 11 quarters of finance courses covering topics including equity valuation,
derivative securities, quantitative analysis, financial accounting, merger & acquisition,
venture capital, and corporate finance.
 VP, Finance – UC Davis Bay Area Marketing Association, 2012 – Present
 VP, UC Davis Bay Area NetImpact – Philanthropic Council, 2012 – Present
Ways to Incorporate MBA Projects - choose 2 or 3 projects targeted toward the job opening.
Below are MANY Project Examples from other GSM resumes
Master of Business Administration, Emphases: Emphasis #1 | Emphasis #2, June 2012
University of California Davis, Graduate School of Management
 Financial Modeling Project – Developed a detailed financial model for the leveraged buyout
of Free Scale semiconductor by Blackstone Capital. Used earnings projections, associated
weighted average cost of capital and DCF computations.
 Business Plan Development Project – Prepared a detailed business plan to launch “Ziddle”,
a service that enables companies to be more socially responsible by offering green and
productive commuting options to their employees.
 M&A Analysis Project: Analyzed financial and strategic highlights of the Adobe,
Macromedia merger. Performed a comparables analysis of other transactions in the
enterprise application sector to research key market valuation metrics.
 Biotech Project: Analyzed Genentech’s manufacturing leadership structure which was
presented to the associate director for Cell Culture Manufacturing
 Value Investing Project: Independently developed a tool automating over 500 hours of
analysis effort required from the class. In addition to extracting financial data, the tool
applied data mining techniques that automatically examined value investing strategies
from entire markets within a matter of hours. After completion, fund managers who
taught the class retained me as a consultant to further automate their analysis efforts.
 New Ventures Project: Developed a complete business plan for a mobile application. Plan
included a detailed business model, marketing strategy, and full financial projections from
initial funding through IPO, leading to a 12x ROI. Professor requested that business plan
be used as a benchmark for future courses.
 Data Mining Project: Utilized association rules in WEKA to analyze shopping patterns from
over 150,000 HP sales orders. HP implemented a number of the report’s findings,
ultimately increasing the effectiveness of their dynamic recommendations system.
 Business Plan Development Project – Worked on an MBA team to develop a complete
business plan for a cell phone dating application. The plan included a detailed business
model, marketing strategy, and financial projections. Submitted the business plan to both
the UC Davis and UC Berkeley business plan competitions.
 Strategy Project: Worked on an MBA team to analyze AMD’s current organization and
business in an effort to develop strategic recommendations which would allow the
company to attain profitable growth. Recommendations included product development
shifts, R&D organization changes, asset management changes, and focus on competitive
sales channels.
 Corporate Strategy Project – Conducted a detailed industry analysis of Electronic Arts’
entry into the mobile video gaming market, including strategy recommendations for
maintaining revenue and profit margins.
 Decision Science Project – Constructed a socially responsible efficient stock portfolio
utilizing mean-variance/non-linear optimization based on the genetic algorithm.
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Business Plan Development – Prepared a detailed business plan to launch “SmartShip”, a
cloud based supply chain optimization service that drastically reduces logistics costs via
efficient planning, scheduling, and consolidated shipping.
Negotiations – Analyzed negotiation tactics utilized by all stakeholders during Porsche’s
pursuit of Volkswagen that ended up in a Volkswagen acquisition of Porsche.
Marketing Strategy – Conducted a detailed comparative study of Cisco and Juniper’s
marketing strategies for network routers.
Valuation – Conducted end-to-end valuation exercises for two publicly listed companies,
including forecasting, ratio analysis, cost of capital and DCF calculation, and finally
determine expected stock price.
Corporate Finance – Developed a detailed financial model to evaluate financing options for
a private firm to support short and long term revenue growth.
Organizational Behavior – Conducted a detailed study of gender bias at Deloitte & Touche
and their WIN initiative for the retention and advancement of women employees.
IT Management – Conducted a detailed evaluation of a customer relationship management
technology implementation for non-profit organization and the potential value CRM tools
provide to non-profit organizations in general.
Marketing Research – Conducted an end-to-end primary market research study to aide the
decision making process for launching Skaboosh.com, a web-based travel activity/vendor
management service. This study entailed a focus group study, a general survey, and
statistical data analysis using SPSS.
Investment Analysis – Constructed a detailed financial model to provide strategic and
tactical asset allocation recommendations to a private foundation.
Business Taxation – Conducted a detailed study of a tax arbitrage – Estee Lauder’s
attempted use of short selling to convert a massive tax liability into a tax refund.