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An example of a conventional wisdom is the belief that movies are only successful if it stars a famous actor/actress. Although this may be true as the audience will be more inclined to watch a movie in which their favorite actors/actresses are in, but there has been many movies with no real star and it has become a big hit. This can be tested by comparing movies with famous actors/actresses with those without them and see which has been a success.

A common conventional wisdom that people believe is that if you want to lose weight you should do a lot of cardio. However, it is true that high intensity intervals are better for weight loss. This theory could be tested by getting a simple random sample of people and splitting them into two groups and have them all on the same diet with one group doing cardio and the other doing high intensity workouts for a month and tracking their weight loss to see which method of working out is more effective with weight loss based on the percent of weight loss each group of people had.

One example of conventional wisdom is that salt is harmful to a person’s diet and health. We think of that today as common sense but in reality it has little evidence that can back that statement up. Scientists have recently found that too little of salt in someone’s diet can be more harmful. We can try and test this by gathering two people with relatively the same health and lifestyle then change their previous diets. You can assign one with a high salt intake diet and the other with a low, close to nothing, salt intake diet. After a couple weeks we test the areas that doctors originally stated were affected negatively by salt and the areas of a persons health that are said to be affected with low salt intake. We can test their blood pressure, likeliness of a stoke, sugar levels for type 2 diabetes, etc. After an extended period of time and couple tests we can see if salt is actually the factor in a person’s bad health.

One piece of conventional wisdom that I have heard is that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” Many people believe that in order to achieve a successful and productive day, one must eat an adequate breakfast. This idea can be tested by gathering two groups of people. One group would be provided with a nutritious breakfast while another would not be provided with a breakfast. These two groups would partake in various tasks and be measured on their performance. Based on performance, one would be able to identify the effectiveness of having breakfast.

Conventional wisdom often conveys the idea that young parents are usually the worst, and have the least to give to their children. This could easily be fought against and disproven by various data tests, perhaps by interviewing various teenagers and to have them rate their childhoods. Obviously this would include other variables, so there would need to be a way to narrow the data collection. As a child who has a mother only 18 years older than them, I can say myself that such wisdom is untrue, and could most definitely be fought by performing some sort of study that attempts to find a correlation between age of parents and happiness.

A piece of conventional wisdom that I am familiar with is “Reading books regularly makes one more knowledgeable and intelligent”. One way to test whether this statement is true or not is to conduct a survey. Firstly, randomly selected participants will provide the average number of books they read per year. All surveyed participants will then take cognitive tests and a general knowledge test. Meaningful patterns between the average numbers of books read annually and these test scores, which are relative measurements of intelligence and knowledge, can confirm or disprove the statement above.

As a big sports fan, an example of conventional wisdom that I hear often is that “practice makes perfect”. Michael Jordan is the epitome of this bit of conventional wisdom. He worked harder than anybody else in the entire NBA and practiced for hours each and every day, even after games that wiped out all of his energy. He practiced his basketball skills more than anybody else, and he has five MVP awards and six championship trophies to back it up. While this is just one example, there are plenty of players in the NBA that are the first ones on the court and the last ones to leave that have developed tremendously due to their commitment to practicing,

An example of a conventional wisdom that I often hear is, “The early bird gets the worm”. Many people believe that a morning person is more likely to be productive and successful, as an early bird tends to be energetic and proactive during the day while a night owl always feels sleepy. However, night owls can also get their worms. Science has collected data and done many experiments to show that night owls are actually more artistic and more risk-seeking, which can even lead to higher chances of financial success. Also, while early birds’ energy dies out very quick throughout the day, night owls’ energy persists until very late at night. Be that as it may, early birds have an advantage that most activities take place from 9AM-5PM, the time when night owls are not “fully awake”.

One example of conventional wisdom that I have heard throughout my life is the saying, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” To test the legitimacy of this saying, I would simply conduct two month-long experiments. For the first month, the test subject would consume an apple once every day, and information such as his/her blood sugar level, body temperature, etc. would be recorded daily. For the second month, I would simply record the subject’s health information such as before, but the subject has to be apple-free for the whole month. By comparing these two months of information, one might be able to learn whether one would be more or less immune to catching certain sicknesses (the flu, stomach virus, etc.).

An example of conventional wisdom that I have heard throughout my entire life is that “hamburger makes people fat easily”. We can conduct a survey to test whether this statement is true or not. First of all, we can randomly select some healthy people around 22 years. Secondly, divide these people into two groups, on group of people eat hamburger only every day. Another group have common meals as usual. The important thing is that these two group people do not exercise. Every week, we can collect the data about fat content from two groups and figure out average. After a month, the final fat content we get from two group people is the result. The difference between two data (fat content) can confirm or disprove the statement.

One example of conventional wisdom is that people earn more money as they get higher degrees. This can be tested by surveying random individuals with different degree levels (high school, bachelor, master, etc.) and collecting data on their income and benefits. The result of the survey would show the relationship between one’s salary and the level of degree they’re having.

Some people said that students get better grades if they spend more time on study than others. I think there should have some relations between with the hours of working and the grades, but this won’t be correct every times. I can collect the average studied hours for each day and the final grade of some students in a specific semester. And draw a picture with this two variables, to test is there an actual relation between the hours we spend on study and our grades.

An example of conventional wisdom is that Americans think Chinese students are smart and good at Math. In fact,one reason is that Math is taught differently and more difficult in China. Besides,this statement does not apply to all the Chinese students. To test it, I would give out IQ tests to every chinese student in one university and also ask the admission of the university for the math grades in high schools or the math scores in the SAT of these chinese students.

A piece of conventional wisdom I have often heard is “You have to earn more.” In today’s society, there is a lot of pressure on picking majors that lead towards more lucrative, high paying careers. With higher cost of living, the potential costs of starting a family, and other various expenses, money has become a major concern for any individual entering adulthood. With that said, money should not be the main motivator for anyone when it comes to picking a career or any type of work for that matter. If money is the sole motivator for any type of career, the individual will likely end up in a job that they do not like very much, and isolate themselves into a lifestyle that does not make them happy. While money should be an important consideration in any future career, any individual should greatly consider if they will enjoy the line of work they would like to go into, since that most of the time becomes so much more important than the compensation that correlates with it.

An example of conventional wisdom that I have heard is that medicine has the same effect on men and women. However, it’s not true. For examples, aspirin can help men to prevent myocardial infarction, but it won’t work on women. To prove it, you can gather the information from the department which tests drugs effect on people, compare the information between men and women to see the same drug used on men and women had different function.

An example of conventional wisdom is that many believe that a college degree makes someone smarter than someone who didn’t go to college. This is extremely difficult to test because what defines someone as “smart”. Someone who is good at math, english, history? Often the people that are considered “book smart” lack common sense. Coming from a smaller town I know plenty of people who never went to college and are just as smart if not smarter than myself.

In particular, one specific piece of conventional wisdom that has impacted my life was Malcolm X’s quote “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today”. The ideal behind this is that those who maintain a well-organized, regimented lifestyle will overall be able to function better in society, and have the ability to maintain a higher status and position in their particular fields. To test this one, could issue a survey across all fields that questions the participants lifestyles in terms of cleanliness, hygiene and organization. Using this in-depth data, one would be able to construct a scatter plot to determine the accuracy of this claim. If cleanliness correlates to success and renown, one would be able to dictate that this hypothesis is likely to be true.

An example of conventional wisdom is hiring people with disability will be costly for the business. This is in fact not true and there are studies that have been done, which states that over half of the accommodations cost less than $500. You can test this out by gathering data from various companies to see how much is spent in providing reasonable accommodation for the disabled.

A piece of conventional wisdom that I have heard is that the tallest man running for president always wins the election best only upon the him being the tallest man running. It is believe that he who is tallest captures the most attention of the voters both on stage and when grouped around his opponents. One famous example often refereed in this case is the election of Abraham Lincoln (which is where I believe this myth started), and to my knowledge it has not ever been broken (with the possible exception of FDR who did stand during debates and was tall but spent most of his time in a wheel chair). In order to test this, I would simply need to gather data from presidential medical records, and where that is not available I can use pictures from debates to contrast and compare. Should this myth be proven true, it could have catastrophic impacts on the future of humanity, seeing how Trump is the tallest man running for president.

An example of conventional wisdom that I always hear, especially living with an Asian family is that “you have to be doctors or engineers to be successful”. Although these professions might give a higher income, these are not the only jobs that can lead to a successful life (stable income, happy life, etc). A way to test this is to gather a few people from the stated profession (doctors, engineers) and also a few people from other sectors such as accountants from the business field, baristas from the food and beverages market and even people who are starting or have started their own business/company. Then, we gather relevant data such as income, working hours, happiness/stress level and amount of free-time to do non-work things. After that, we can compare does really working as doctors and engineers the only way to be successful in life.

There is one example of conventional wisdom that I heard and I also believe it is true. It is if you read more books in you childhood you will become smarter. When people were young, their knowledge of world wasn’t clearly and maturity and their mind easily being affected by outside factors. So people can understand the world and get knowledge through reading books. Meanwhile, the more important benefit people can get from reading books is the way of thinking will be developed potentially. For example, people will solve the problems not only sanely but also emotionally. We can easily to prove this wisdom. We can tell how to present a person is smarter or not is he or she knows a lot of things that someone else doesn’t know. Someone will say if we experience lots of things we can also know a lot of things that others don’t know. This is true, however when we were young we don’t have much time or chances to experiencing. Reading books is the easiest way to make people become smarter.

A piece of conventional wisdom that I have heard is that when men start lifting when they are younger they are more likely to have stunted growth; they’ll be short. This could be disproved or supported by reported heights of men who lifted as pre-teens or young teens, as they approach twenty three (the age where men stop growing). However, another thing to consider is genetics, which would have to be identified before the reported heights occur; if someone is supposed to be short.

Hello Guys!

My name is Simerjot Sidhu, a senior at the Fox School of Business. This past summer and December break, I interned at AmeriHealth Caritas. I worked at the Information Systems department. Most of my duties were on the Quality Assurance side. I created and designed test plans/cases to be used during manual and automated testing. I also automated numerous tests that were apart of larger national projects. One tool which I recommend everyone to be familiar one is SQL. Even knowing the basis of SQL is beneficial. If you have any more questions about my role, please let me know!

Have a good day!
Sim Sidhu

My name is Rachel Baker, and I am working at AmerisourceBergen in Chesterbrook, PA. AmerisourceBergen, or ABC, is a pharmaceutical wholesaling company focused on improving patient outcomes. ABC distributes drugs to Walgreens, other pharmacies, and some hospitals. I am on a team called Knowledge Management. One aspect of my team’s responsibilities is to assess data, such as statistics from the call center, and turn it into information by putting it into an understandable context for our customer CARE agents to reference.

Hi everyone! My name is David Yastremsky. I will be interning with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Philadelphia. The internship is a general business internship. I went through orientation today and am still learning my responsibilities. I suspect that I will be doing a lot with Excel as well as research.

My name is Danielle Sumislaski, and I am currently working as a Regional Marketing, Promotions, and Sponsorships Intern at Subaru of America, Inc. in Cherry Hill, NJ. It’s a year-long internship, so I started in June 2015 and will finish May 2016. My responsibilities vary by day. Some of my common responsibilities include working with data from our databases to create easy-to-read reports for upper management, performing social media audits for dealerships in the Eastern U.S., analyzing expenditures for different digital marketing platforms by dealership, and using Radian6 to find unhappy customers on social media.

Hello Everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday season. My name is Theodore Wilks, and I am a senior MIS major here at the Fox School of Business. This past summer, I interned at AmeriHealth Caritas in their Program Integrity department as a Business Analyst. My main responsibilities included providing project level support in the elicitation of business requirements, conducting interviews with project stakeholders and SME’s and assessing departmental wide impacts to the business process. If you’ve taken MIS 3504 (Digital Design and Innovation, otherwise known as the BA class) you know exactly what I’m talking about, and if you haven’t as yet, don’t worry. I can honestly say that class thoroughly prepared me for my role. Almost all of what I learned during class, I was able to apply while working. During my internship, I even brought in my books (Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis and Memory Jogger), met with the Senior Business Analyst who had been guiding me, and we discussed and documented new ways for managing different projects. If you have any questions about my role, please don’t hesitate to ask.

My name is Yebin Seo. This past summer and winter semester I was an IT intern at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. For my first assignment, I worked under a Business Analyst in the North American Commercial IT department writing business requirements and helping integrate various technologies into the company. Then, I was re-assigned to a Solutions Architect in the Global Commercial Operations team where I had the opportunity to take on a more technical role. I used SnapLogic to connect cloud-based data, and I also wrote API documentation using Swagger and Apigee.

My name is Lauren Sellers and I am a Digital Marketing Intern at AmerisourceBergen, a global healthcare solutions company. I started this internship in June 2015 and my main responsibilities were to support the marketing initiatives for the organization’s largest conference, ThoughtSpot, which is geared toward independent pharmacists. I managed the social media marketing, as well as assisted with the email marketing and updated our sales portal with materials for the sales teams to utilize when meeting with customers.

After the summer, I began to work more on the email marketing efforts in SalesForce Marketing Cloud/ExactTarget by creating HTML and template based emails, deploying the emails to targeted subscribers, and tracking the analytics (open rate, click rate, etc.). Additionally, I use project management software to ensure the completion of ongoing marketing projects while collaborating with teams across the US and Canada. Within the next several months, I will be working more with SalesForce to create and manage customer lists and working on the launch of a new business unit’s website.

My name is Kevin Quigley, and I currently work at AmerisourceBergen in Conshohocken, PA. AmerisourceBergen, or ABC, is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, and serves a wide range of customers from large corporations like Walgreens, to smaller pharmacies. I have served as the Operations & Digital Marketing intern in the marketing department since June, and have continued my internship into the current school year. Some of my duties include serving as a point of contact between members of the marketing team and external vendors, creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for internal use, and assisting in budget management for the department. In the upcoming months, I will be helping in the ongoing development of a digital project, where ABC is attempting to improve 30+ websites that are related to various functions of the business that are either inactive or out of date.

Hello fellow members of MIS 3581! My name is Kyle Domsohn and I am a senior in the Fox Business School. I am interning for the Accolade Management Services in King of Prussia, PA. One of the services provided by Accolade is the management of associations. I first started with Accolade in August when they first acquired the association, ISOP (the Insurance Society of Philadelphia). As a business analyst, my first project was to analyze, document, and implement a solution for ISOP’s in-state operational procedure. After the success of my first project, I am now working on my second project, the analysis of ISOP’s out-of-state procedures. Since each state has a unique set of requirements, my main focus thus far has been researching and documenting the requirements for each out-of-state. During this analysis, I extensively work with Accolade’s Microsoft Access database and rely on Microsoft Excel to document and organize the requirements of each out-of-state.

Hello everyone, my name is Nick Hockley and I am a graduating MIS major. I have been working part-time at SEI Investments since October and am currently working within the operations department providing data quality assistance on the business intelligence team. Since my start I have worked on developing multiple procedures and processes, participated in the development of various ad-hoc reports, and reorganized old and uploaded new files to our department’s sharepoint. More specifically, I created a privacy breach procedure that is now integrated on their sharepoint and used across the operations department. Along with the procedure I developed an awareness campaign that will be integrated into the future new hire process for our department. This is an example of one of the things I have done so far at SEI, if you have any questions on my approach to developing these procedures feel free to reach out!

Hi classmates,

I am a former Business Services Sales Operations Intern for Comcast Corporation, and a junior Finance and MIS double major. As an intern at Comcast, I worked at the company’s headquarters on a variety of back-office tasks, and I supported many different teams within the Business Services department of the company. I participated in many projects, such as salesforce audits and pricing strategy analyses. I also helped schedule events and meetings with Factor8, an inside sales consulting firm. I served as an asset to many different project managers in the company. And furthermore, I deployed various internal communication documentation as a Salesforce.com administrator. I wore many hats for the company, and thoroughly enjoyed my experiences supporting Philadelphia’s largest company.

Hello everyone,
My name is Alex Charles and I am currently working for QVC in the Corporate Procurement department. I started at QVC last May as a procurement intern and my main job was doing a lot of back-end support on our custom built P2P system. Since then I have transitioned into a technology buyer role where I do data analytics and negotiations with vendors to come up with the best prices for on premise software systems, SaaS agreements, and technology infrastructure. I also help with requisitions for all of the devices that our application development team uses for testing so I always have my hands on the latest tech toys. I will be continuing this internship until June when I will then become full-time.

Hello everyone, my name is Courtney Kasztelan and I am currently working for ReminderMedia, the producer of American Lifestyle magazine, in King of Prussia. I started in August as a Business Development intern where I learned how to use ReminderMedia’s custom CRM system and eventually helped input data. Other roles included internet research for the company and working with the sales team to identify potential leads. Also, each week of the internship, we focused on a different area of the company to fully understand how the data is used and why it is important and had meetings every day with the intern coordinator and fellow interns. After completing the internship in December, I was asked to come back this semester as a Business Intelligence intern. This role will be less about imputing data into the CRM and more about solving complex business intelligence problems for the company using programs such as SAS Enterprise Miner and SQL. Right before I left in December, I worked with the current Business Intelligence team on an SAS project using large sets of data to try to figure out ideal customers for ReminderMedia. I start up again tomorrow, so I am anxious to see what the new projects are and how the SAS project has progressed.

Hi everyone,

My name is Leigh McKenzie and I’m a senior here at Fox majoring in MIS and minoring in Digital Marketing. For the last 6 months, I have been working for an SEO consulting firm – I’m From The Future (IFTF). Our company specializes in SEO but we also provide web design and content marketing services. A few things I have worked in for clients include: technical SEO audits, analytics tracking & reporting, hosting management, web design and development, and more. Since I started working here, our team has more than doubled from 4 employees to now 10. As such, my role is moving more towards client project management and I’m excited to see what I can accomplish with this new responsibility.

Hi Everyone – My name is Trevor Johnson, and i am a senior in the Fox School with a Major in MIS and a minor in Marketing. I have recently accepted an internship with Comcast Cable where i will be working in their state and local tax department as a Tax, Business Intelligence intern. In this group i will support the state and local tax team by maintaining SQL databases with large volumes of data for tax and compliance and audits. In addition to this, i will be responsible for thoroughly documenting and testing the procedures in the database, while writing reports and providing data analysis with trending and fluctuation metrics as it relates to tax. I am scheduled to start on the 31st of January, and have training scheduled for the 20th, 25th, and 27th of this month. I am very excited to begin this position as it is supposed to transition into a full time roll. Please let me know if you have any additional questions and good luck with all of your internships!

Hello classmates, my name is Bridgette Weirich. I am a senior MIS major and I will be graduating in May. This semester, I will be continuing my internship at Tokio Marine North American Services (TMNAS) in Bala Cynwyd. I was lucky enough to be asked back after my internship with them in Summer and Fall 2015. At TMNAS, I am working as a Project Management Office and Service Management Intern. My first day for my Spring internship was on Thursday, January 20. At TMNAS, I have and will be working with the PMO to help manage contractors and projects. In my spare time, I will also be working with Service Management on various other projects. I am excited to learn more from TMNAS this semester, specifically from the Project Management Office because I am interested in becoming a project manager in the future.

Hello everyone my name is Ibtihal Al-Froukh but I go by Ibby. This past summer I worked at ACE Group and had the opportunity to work there part time during the Fall 2015 semester. ACE Group is an insurance company which just completed its acquisition of Chubb and changing its name to Chibb Classics. The internship was a general business internship. I worked with the SVP of Global HR Operations and the IT department on an audit project where we had to determine where sensitive employee data was held. In addition, I have been working with Professor O’Donnell for a few semesters as and ITA for MIS2101 course.

Hi David! During my time at AZ, I worked in two different IT departments. My first job assignment was under the US Commercial IT department, and then my next assignment was under the Global IT department. I really enjoyed my time working in the pharmaceutical industry. I had the opportunity to learn about a company that uses technology as an enabler to have its medicines available to its patients. Overall, working in the pharmaceutical industry was rewarding because the work I was putting in was ultimately helping sick patients deal with their illnesses.

Hi everyone,
My name is Elspeth Vandegrift and I am a senior MIS minor and Human Resource Management major. This past summer through January I interned at Genesis Healthcare, a company providing skilled nursing and rehabilitative services in 48 of the 50 states. My internship was within the human resources department on the strategic side. So throughout the course of my internship I was able to a lot with finding, using, and analyzing data we had been collecting over the years but not really using. My primary projects included creating a staffing dashboard of metrics, working on projects for an upcoming merger, project management, and running a variety of reports weekly reports related to hires/terminations/staffing protocols, etc for our most at risk centers in terms of employee retention. The people I worked with were fantastic and I was able to meet with department heads across the company in addition to exploring the data to get both a quantitative and qualitative understanding of the company.

Hello Guys!
My name is Tyler Petrides, a senior at the Fox School of Business. This past fall I Interned for a Marketing company called ReminderMedia. I did so well with the opportunity that I have been given the chance to return in the spring as a Senior Sales Support/Operations Interns. My current experience requires me to analyze possible sales leads and correct data to give the sales callers the most fruitful leads possible. My internship is a lot of fun and I am continuing to gain great knowledge about the business world through my time here. One thing i really enjoyed about my first semester experience was the exposure to higher level executives within the company. Interns were able to meet and talk to the CEO and CIO which was a great experience. If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask.