Finance

Over the past 2 weeks, I participated in 2 finance-intensive business school competitions. The first was a stock pitch competition in which my group was asked to prepare a buy/sell recommendation on Coca-Cola (we said sell).

The second competition was a finance case challenge where my group (a different one from the first) was asked to put together a recommendation on the potential acquisition of VANS shoes by Vanity Fair (we said VF should buy VANS for $18.36 per share).

I won both of these competitions, which means either (a) I'm pretty good at finance or (b) I'm good at finding really strong teammates. I'm a pretty humble guy, so I'm gonna go with (b), although, to my pleasant surprise, most people are telling me its (a).

Anyway, the following picture was included in a draft of our KO (KO is the NYSE symbol for Coca-Cola) presentation and I thought it was funny.