Dear <<First Name>>,
Welcome to the March 2021 edition of Business eConnections e-zine.
Last Friday, March 12th, was the 30th and final day of our inaugural UCD Business Alumni Challenge - 'Around the Globe in 30 Days' - the first alumni initiative of this nature in Ireland. Thank you to all who participated in the challenge and those who joined us last Saturday, March 13th, for our live celebratory closing event.
This month we feature interviews with Sharon Daly, BComm '87, Head of Matheson’s London office, and Cian O'Neill, MBA '11, Senior Director, Customer Experience at Microsoft. We also include a roundup of our past and future events, and news from your Alumni Network and the College of Business.
Best wishes,
UCD Business Alumni Relations Team
businessalumni@ucd.ie
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Featured Alumni From Our Global Community
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Sharon Daly – BComm ’87
Head of Matheson’s London office since 2019 and involved in some of the biggest commercial litigation cases in Ireland in recent years, Sharon Daly is driven by her love of law, innovation and winning, and helped along by masses of energy. Read the interview here.
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Cian O'Neill – MBA '11
A focus on delivering high performance and taking the road less travelled has helped propel Cian O’Neill to the role of global lead for Microsoft’s new CX – customer experience – division. Read the interview here.
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UCD Business Alumni Challenge
Our inaugural Business Alumni Challenge - 'Around the Globe in 30 days' concluded last week, and what a fantastic and uplifting 4 weeks it was. With almost 1,000 participants across 40 countries and 5 continents, in locations stretching from Auckland, NZ to San Francisco, USA, it truly was a global alumni community effort which, incredibly, saw us reach our initial target of circumnavigating the globe after just two weeks. Over the 30 days participants clocked a fantastic 87,000+ kilometres. It has been wonderful to see the distances clocked, the overall engagement and enthusiasm. Watch a video recording of our celebratory event here and get ready for our 2022 UCD Business Alumni Challenge.
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Alumni Awards 2021 - Nominations Now Open
We invite you to nominate UCD alumni whom have made a positive impact on the world and reflect UCD’s Rising to the Future Strategy or one of UCD’s values: integrity, excellence, collegiality, creativity, diversity or engagement. Learn more and make a nomination here.
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Social Entrepreneurs Ireland (SEI) - Applications Open
Social Entrepreneurs Ireland (SEI) is looking for people across the country with innovative ideas to solve social problems – people with courage, insight and ambition to put forward a solution to a social problem, and act on it. SEI is currently inviting applications to its Ideas Academy and Impact Programme. Find out more here. Applications close at midnight on Wednesday, 7th April.
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UCD In Conversation: Transforming Ireland's Energy Sector
Professor Andrew Keane, Director of both the Energy Institute at UCD and of the ESIPP and Paul Manning, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer for NovoGrid will appear in conversation with PJ Rudden, Founder of Aengus Consulting Ltd, and Chairman of Construction Innovation and Digital Adoption at Dept. of Public Expenditure and Reform, to discuss energy production in Ireland and how UCD spin-out NovoGrid can improve energy efficiency with GridBoost technology. Register here.
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'Money Talks' mini-series hosted by UCD Alumni Relations
To support our large community of UCD alumni and friends, UCD Alumni Relations have put together the 'Money Talks' series with experts across savings, health insurance, mortgages and investments. Tune in on Thursday, March 18th at 12pm for part 3 of 4: 'Mortgages, where to start?' with Eoin O'Connor - register here and on Thursday, March 23rd at 1pm for the 4th & final episode: 'Making your money work for you' with Eoin McGee - register here.
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Please head to our social media channels for more alumni news.
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Insights, Opinion and Original Thinking from UCD College of Business
Excellence in research that delivers meaningful impact is central to the ethos of our faculty. Each month our academics publish in leading journals and are featured in national and international media. Our faculty are experts in their subject areas.
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Choosing function sets with better generalisation performance for symbolic regression models
Dr Miguel Nicolau, Lecturer in Business Analytics and Alexandros Agapitos, Ireland Research Center, Huawei Technologies Ltd. Read this journal article here.
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Ethereum: what is it and why has the price gone parabolic?
Paul J. Ennis, Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems and Donncha Kavanagh, Professor of Information & Organisation. Access here.
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Refer a friend to study part-time at the College of Business and receive a €25 One4All voucher
Applications for the part-time Diploma in Business Studies, Bachelor of Business Studies and Master of Science Management for September 2021 are open. As an alumnus, if you refer a friend to one of these programmes and they convert to a registered student, we will reward you (and the new recruit) with a €25 One4All voucher. More details here.
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Healthcare leaders share impact of Aspire Scholarship
Executive MBA alumni Kerry McLaverty ’15, CEO of LauraLynn Ireland’s Children’s Hospice, and Dr David Tansey, current EMBA student, discuss the impact of the Aspire Scholarship on their career success. Read the full article here. Applications for 2021 are now open and can be made online at smurfitschool.ie/aspire before May 7, 2021. Please forward to those who may be interested in applying.
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New Initiative to Address Gender Equity
A new initiative ‘UCD Smurfit Women, Inspiring More’, was recently launched to promote the continued strong trajectory of women from education to industry. The opening event featured alumna Helen Doody and can be viewed here. The initiative is led by MSc in Aviation Finance students Andrew Tang and Hannah Taylor, and alumna Rebecca Yue. Monthly events have proved very popular and all are invited to the next webinar on April 14. Details will be listed on our events page shortly.
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For more College of Business news click here.
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UCD Smurfit Careers Network
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Smurfit Spring Career and Internship Fair
The Smurfit Careers Network is happy to report that it’s second and final career fair of the year, the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School Spring Career & Internship Fair, took place on the 9th of February with great success. 31 companies hiring across a range of industries and experience levels and 281 of our students 'attended' the virtual fair on the Graduateland platform which facilitated 683 conversations between the groups. We would like to thank everyone who took part in the fair and who assisted in the promotion of the event to employers and students. The Careers Network have commenced planning for future fairs for the 2021/22 academic year, we encourage all alumni and employers interested in attending to reach out to Smurfit Careers.
Help our graduates - are you hiring?
UCD Business Alumni, in these tough times our students need your help more than ever. Do you have the capacity to hire a recent UCD graduate, either for a permanent role, internship or paid project? You can post opportunities for all our students here, or reach out to smurfitcareers@ucd.ie for more information.
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Executive Development Upcoming Courses
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