Company: SonyBMG
Label: RCA Music Group (RCA, J Records, Arista)
Department: Marketing Planning (financial operations)
Internship Level: Graduate, MBA preferred
note: unpaid internship, for program credit only
Description
Daily Responsibilities:
- Reviewing and summarizing daily BDS, SoundScan, Radio Promotion, Sales and Spending Status (budgeting) reports
- Executing marketing research projects as requested, specifically related to historical and projected spending by marketing and promotions departments
- Preparing trending analysis to support facts being presented to senior management
- Work with P&L statements related to album releases
- Defining and preparing an operating statistics book (policy manual) for Marketing Planning; the project will be used to refine procedures and spending guidelines for the RMG label group and train new employees
Skills Needed:
- Highly advanced Excel skills, particularly pivot tables, editing data queries from external databases, and possibly regression analysis to determine spend-to-sales correlations
- Financial and Marketing backgrounds highly valued
- An understanding of music or entertainment industry economics and accounting helpful
- Strong communication skills and ability to adapt to varied communication styles
What the Intern Will Acquire Through the Internship:
- Understanding economics and accounting involved in an album’s release through completing profit & loss projections
- Exposure to marketing plans and typical Marketing & Promotions spending
- Understanding of internal procedures related to expenditure approvals and investment decisions based on monitoring spending
- Knowledge of results of ad-hoc studies and strategic research projects affecting the company and industry as a whole
- Understanding of music industry contracts and royalty / artist advance concepts
Contact:
Mark Gazdik, Columbia Business School MBA 2000
Associate Director, RCA Music Group
745 Fifth Avenue, 7th Floor; New York, NY 10151
Mark.Gazdik@sonybmg.com
April 22nd, 2008
ESPN Mobile (located in NYC)
MBA Intern
ESPN Mobile, located in NYC, is looking for two first year MBA students for a summer internship in the new product development and product management group.
The ideal candidate will have excellent people skills and thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment. Passion for sports and new consumer products/experiences or technologies is a MUST and prior experience in digital media particularly in product/business strategy, marketing or product development is a plus.
The primary mandate for the internship is to develop a long term product strategy that fully harnesses the ubiquity of mobile as a means of positioning ESPN to continue to deliver the ultimate experience for sports fans.
Among others, responsibilities will include industry research, trend analysis, market sizing, value chain analysis, competitive analysis, product mix planning, content strategy etc.
Send resumes to: Leah.Nolden@espn3.com
April 22nd, 2008
Thanks to an incoming student for this lead:
Hi My name is stephanie mcduffie, and I am a new admit to the Wharton school. I was just at admit weekend this week and looking forward to joining the club. as i am searching for ways to finance school I came across this scholarship that maybe current students might be interested in. Please share with the group, and I hope that maybe a Wharton student will be the recipient.
Thanks and looking forward to becoming more involved!
Stephanie
http://www.atlanticmediacompany.com/fellowship.html
April 22nd, 2008
M&E’ers,
We’ve got a bus booked for our end of the year Atlantic City trip and are working out drink deals. The price will likely be ~$20 for club members and slightly higher for non members. We’ll post a link to the store, when its finalized. In the meantime, mark your calendars, dig out your rabbit’s foot and spread the word. Best way to celebrate the last day of classes, no doubt…
April 22nd, 2008
On Behalf of COMCAST:
Hello All-
I was wondering if you could pass the attached job description along. We are looking for an MBA candidate with a concentration in finance for an internship this summer. I have already posted to the school and contacted a career services and now I am reaching out to some different clubs and associations. We are looking to build a relationship with the school and would like to know if you could provide us with some more information about your organization. Initially we are looking for an MBA candidate, but in the future would like to be more involved with the area schools so that we can offer internships to both undergrad and MBA students.
If you could please forward the attached resume to anyone who might be interested that would be great. Also, if you could get back to me with contact information regarding your association along with any upcoming event that are scheduled for the summer /fall, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time and I hope to hear from you soon.
My email address is: Natalie_Blanden@comcast.com, please have resumes forwarded to this account. Thank you.
Natalie Blanden
Executive Assistant to
Earl Marshall, VP of Business Development
Joe Ohlweiler, Sr. Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Comcast Programming Division
One Comcast Center
30th Floor
Philadelphia, Pa 19103
Phone:215-286-8122
Fax: 215-286-7030
April 15th, 2008
What: Jermaine Dupri and Mike Muse
When: Tuesday, April 1, 6:30pm-8pm
Where: Terrace Room, Logan Hall (Locust Walk & 36th Street)
Please join the Wharton Undergraduate M&E Club and the MBA M&E Club in welcoming Jermaine Dupri, President, Island Urban Music and Mike Muse, CEO/Co-Founder, Muse Recordings, in a guest speaker event discussing the music industry. This is the first major music industry guest speaker event at the University of Pennsylvania (and possibly the last)!
Jermaine Dupri is currently working on projects with/producing for Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Usher, and DJ Felli Fel of Power 106 Los Angeles and leads the Urban division of Island Records, signing Jagged Edge and Hot Dolla to the label. Other artists on Island Records include Bon Jovi, Fall Out Boy and The Killers.
Island Urban falls under the umbrella of Island Def Jam Music Group which is a subsidiary major label of the Universal Music Group, other labels of the conglomerate include Geffen, Interscope/A&M, and Motown Records.
Mike Muse co-founded Muse Recordings with the vision of revitalizing the sounds of “motown”. His label specializes in artists embodying a combination of R&B, Soul, Hip Hop, and Gospel.
Our guests look forward to an interactive crowd, please come ready with lots of questions!
Topics to be discussed include:
1) Creating business models in the music industry today
2) A&R, artist development, and creating/identifying hits
3) Marketing, branding, and strategic planning in music
4) Discussing Jermaine Dupri’s upcoming project with Usher and Mariah Carey
Jermaine Dupri will be signing copies of his new book, “Young, Rich, and Dangerous” available at the Penn Bookstore. 5 Copies of his book will be raffled off at the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival!
To RSVP for this extraordinary event, join the Facebook event here!!!
Also, check http://www.umusic.com for career and internship information!
Questions? Feel free to contact Scott Fujii (Wharton Undergraduate Media Club VP Internal, External, MBA/Alumni Relations) at sfujii@sas.upenn.edu.
March 28th, 2008
The Philadelphia Film Society is pleased to bring to the city of Philadelphia the 17th Philadelphia Film Festival, April 3-15. The Philadelphia Film Festival has become one of the leading film festivals in the Eastern United States, and this year is no exception. This year, with over 260 films screening at 6 venues around the city, this year’s festival promise once again to electrify film lovers of all tastes. The 17th Philadelphia Film Festival has films from 49 countries, the largest number of countries in festival history. And as always this year’s festival will be hosting several special events, receptions and programs attended by festival goers, special guests and award winners, over the course of the two week festival.
For more information, check out their website or download the mini-guide or program.
March 24th, 2008
Join us at 4:30pm on March 27 in JMHH G06 for a Wharton Leadership Lecture with Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi.
- Kevin Roberts has been CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, one of the world’s leading creative organizations with a team of 7000 people across 83 countries, since 1997.
- Under his leadership, Saatchi & Saatchi has grown revenue year by year and achieved outstanding success at the Cannes International Advertising Festival.
- Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Roberts worked for Mary Quant, Gillette and P&G. At the age of 32 he became CEO of Pepsi-Cola Middle East and later became Pepsi’s CEO in Canada.
- A former director of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, he is current Chairman of the USA Rugby Board of Directors.
- The Citizens for NYC awarded Mr. Roberts the 2004 New Yorker for New York Award. That same year he was appointed ambassador for the New Zealand United States Council in the US.
- He has written numerous books and is a trustee of the Turn Your Life Around Trust, an Auckland charity that mentors at-risk teenagers.
- Mr. Roberts is the inaugural CEO in Residence at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Waikato Management School in New Zealand.
This Wharton Leadership Lecture is generously sponsored by Saatchi & Saatchi and the MBA Program Office.
March 24th, 2008
What: Andrew Weinreich, Founder and CEO of MeetMoi.com
When: Tuesday, March 25th, 6pm-7pm
Where: JMHH G65, Papa John’s Pizza will be served
Please RSVP to 
as space is limited.
Come hear the social networking pioneer talk about the future of online dating, social networking and the challenges of capital raising in the internet space.
Andrew Weinreich has spent the last 15 years starting, and building businesses in the internet space. Andrew is the Founder and CEO of MeetMoi.com, a “Web 2.0″ location-based mobile online dating service, which closed a $1.5 million Series A round of financing from Acadia Woods partners in early 2007. In 2004, Andrew founded I Stand For, Inc., a full-service technology solutions provider to political campaigns and non-profit organization. In 2001, he founded Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building out a global network of WiFi hotspots. Joltage HotSpots were revenue-generating locations where individuals could access the Internet at broadband speeds using their own laptops, handhelds or PDAs. In 1996, Andrew launched sixdegrees.com, which over a period of five years grew to become one of the largest community sites on the Web, with over 3.5 million users. Sixdegrees pioneered the social networking space, and Andrew sold it to Youthstream Media Networks for $125 million before the dotcom bubble went bust.
Andrew previously practiced law as General Counsel for the Hertz Technology Group and was also a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch Investment Banking. Andrew graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 and earned a Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of Law in 1994.
Sponsored by the Wharton Accounting Society.
March 24th, 2008
The WGA is working with MBA Career Management to get each first and second year student to enter their job search status and offers into CareerPath in the “Job Search Status” and “Edit/Verify Job Offers” sections.
We are asking the clubs to assist with this effort by including a plug for entering/updating the information in your club’s weekly email. The data collected generates reports which help students understand median compensation and typical offer timing as well as identify classmates entering the same industry or working in the same city. All data entered is confidential and only reported in aggregate. Specific resources created from this data include:
- CareerPath Preliminary Offer Stats (salary and industry statistics)
- WG’08 Full-Time/WG’09 Intern Directory (searchable by first or last name, company name, job location, function and industry. Some alumni clubs use this to facilitate summer receptions.)
- Salary, Offer & Timing Reports
- Industry Peer Networks (connect with students with experience in a specific industry)
- Annual Career Report (companies use to determine the industry, function and geographic career interests of Wharton MBAs and gauge students’ salary expectations)
- Responses to media requests – e.g. Business Week, Financial Times, US News & World Report
We recommend that each individual club not duplicate these efforts by creating their own webcafe database with offer information but rather query the WG’08 Full-Time/WG’09 Intern Directory, which is useful for networking and identifying where classmates will be for the summer.
If you have any questions or need additional information on how to promote this to your club, please do not hesitate to contact me or the MBA Career Management offer collection project leads, Elissa Harris (
) or Jennifer Savoie (
).
Thank you for your help with this initiative!
March 23rd, 2008
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