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WesTrek 2008 Info Session

Agenda. What is WesTrek?How do I sign up?Company updateNext stepsContact informationQ

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WesTrek 2008 Info Session

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    1. WesTrek 2008 Info Session November 8, 2007

    2. Agenda What is WesTrek? How do I sign up? Company update Next steps Contact information Q & A

    3. What is WesTrek? WesTrek is a nationally recognized, student-run conference that brings together MBA students from Harvard Business School and dynamic companies in the San Francisco Bay Area Now in its 12th consecutive year, WesTrek expects to draw 50+ companies and 100+ HBS students Dates for WesTrek 2008 Dates: Monday, January 7 through Thursday, January 10 Cost: $150 ($25 discount for TechMedia & West Coast club members) Deposit: $100 (will refund upon completion) Napa WineTrek: Friday, January 11 (cost and itinerary TBD)

    4. What is WesTrek? WesTrek goal – enable participants to achieve two objectives: Network with SF Bay area companies Resume book On-site company presentations Sponsored company dinners and networking events Space for all company events allocated via lottery Have fun and get to see the SF Bay area Social events with fellow participants Social events with HBS alumni and Stanford GSB students. (open to all participants...) Wine Trek to Napa on Friday (separate registration)

    5. What is WesTrek? WesTrek is… A flexible framework that allows each participant to target the companies they are interested in visiting A great opportunity for you to network with companies and make contacts that will help your job search A chance to have fun with lots of other HBS students WesTrek is not… A complete itinerary where the entire group travels together to all the same company events A series of job interviews where you should attempt to close the sale and expect to get hired on the spot Focused exclusively on either career or social events

    6. Participating Companies 11/8 update: Target companies Technology (Alex Kirn, Wan Li Zhu, Marco Ottonello) Confirmed: eBay, Salesforce.com, nVidia, Plug and Play Tech Ctr., Second Life In Progress: Google, Yahoo, Apple, Oracle, VMWare, Youtube, Slide, Abbott Lab, Adobe, Cisco, Symantec, SAP VC & PE (Joe Narens, Rick Armbrust) Confirmed: Silver Lake Partners, Texas Pacific Group, SVB Capital, FFL, Golden Gate Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers In Progress: Vector Capital, Bessemer Partners, Carlyle Group, Draper Fisher Juvetson, Sequoia, Summit, IDG Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Consulting & Financial Services (Marcin Karnowski, Anh Pham-Vu) Confirmed: Bain, BCG, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, The Capital Group In Progress: Booz Allen & Hamilton, Dodge & Cox, Offit Hall Capital Management, JP Morgan, Hellman Friedman, ValueAct Capital, Sageview Capital, Calera Capital (formerly Freemont) Others (Lisa Kostova, Ellen Lee) Confirmed: Clorox, Safeway, Genentech In Progress: DelMonte, Gap, Method Products, Williams-Sonoma, Levi Strauss

    7. Next Steps Important dates Complete trek information poll – by Nov 18 http://poll.hbs.edu/poll/taker/pollTaker.jsp?poll=118454 Submit trek payment via the registration poll – by Nov 18 Book travel arrangements - ASAP Select lottery preferences - early December Receive lottery results - mid December Attend WesTrek - January 7-10 Participant responsibilities Airfare, lodging, and transportation within Bay area Sign up for events that will maximize the trek’s value to you Attend all company sessions confirmed on your schedule (No $100 deposit refund if you miss any event)

    8. WesTrek 2007 Team President – Yao Li (yao@mba2009.hbs.edu) COO – Ellen Lee, Ben Joe CTO – Ali Wasti Industry Track VPs Technology – Alex Kirn, Wan Li Zhu, Marco Ottonello VC/PE – Joe Narens, Rick Armbrust Financial Services/Investment Management – Anh Pham-Vu Consulting – Marcin Karnowski Consumer Products – Lisa Kostova Social VP – Lisa Kostova

    9. Q & A ?

    10. Who do we talk to? (a sample of the 50+ companies in 2007)

    11. WesTrek (sample schedule from 07) Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Morning 1 nVidia, Silver Lake Partners, Del Monte Foods Morning 2 eBay, Salesforce.com, McKesson, Goldman Sachs, Lightspeed Venture Partners Afternoon 1 Adobe Systems, Vector Capital, Booz Allen Hamilton, The Capital Group Companies Afternoon 2 Bain & Company, Trident Capital, Dodge & Cox, Clorox, Intuit founder Scott Cook Dinner Palm, Inc., Bain & Company

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