Posted by BEN BEAUMONT – Clinton School student Sarah Clark was recognized Monday night for her performance in the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business MBA Presentation Competition last week. After making it to the finals, Clark was voted 3rd place overall by a panel of judges representing local corporations.
Clark is the first student to be pursuing a joint MPS/MBA from the Clinton School and Walton College of Business. Unlike her MBA classmates who worked in corporate internships this summer, Clark presented on her Clinton School International Public Service Project in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
“I didn’t think the judges would be as impressed with my summer experience as they were with the traditional corporate internships of my classmates,” Clark said, “but they were, and it was encouraging. I think this really speaks to the relevance of public service to the private sector. It wasn’t my PowerPoint or presentation skills that really won it; it was the story.”
This summer Clark worked with the Bolivian-based NGO Ayni Ruway whose mission is to serve the Cochabamba inmate population. For her project, she worked on microenterprise development in the prisons by conducting workshops on microenterprise management and planning and implementing a marketing plan to promote the inmate’s products.
Congratulations to Sarah for her win.
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