Everyone wants to talk to a West Point Cadet One thing that I have noticed is that everyone wants to talk to a West Point Cadet. When I graduate in May I feel as though I will be getting a demotion. People will go out of their way to meet up with me just because of where I go to school, but next year I will be a butter bar at the bottom of the barrel. I remember talking to a friend who did an AIAD...read more

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Giving Presentations and better efficiencies at Walmart than in the Army Ever since plebe year Chemistry, presentations have been engrained into me. I had a large amount of self confidence before coming to West Point, but being put on the spot and having to answer to my teachers has developed my confidence even more. This has been very beneficial in many different ways, especially here at Walmart....read more

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Big and Small and Military Managers One thing that sets Walmart apart from many other large corporations in the United States is the fact that Walmart’s headquarters is not in a large city. Walmart’s headquarters is set in Bentonville Arkansas, a town with a population of 35,301 citizens. It is interesting that Walmart’s headquarters has only around 17,000 employees. That may seem like a very large work force, which it is, but in comparison to the size of the corporation...read more

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Core Competencies and more on Culture For my Walmart internship I have been reading Sam Walton’s “Made in America, My Story”, which was also handed out to all associates during orientation. The book has been very interesting and is an easy read. In Intro to management we learned about core competencies which a whole chapter of the book covers. The most important core competencies that Sam Walton recognized in Walmart, at least back when this book was written in 1992,...read more

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Walmart’s Culture In our intro to management class one of the learning objectives was: Define elements of a organization’s culture. To do so I would put that an organization's culture is its set of shared values and practices related to what is important and how the world works. The culture provides a framework that organizes and directs people's behavior at work. Elements of the culture may be expressed in corporate mission statements and official goals, assuming...read more

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Week 1 Walmart: It has been one week at my AIAD and it has been fun, exciting, and full of hard work. I know that I am supposed to be putting in course content, but there is something more important to note at the beginning. While I have been able to apply knowledge that I have learned in my marketing and intro to management course, I have more so been able to apply what I have learned throughout my time at West Point, the importance of hard work. When I got here I was...read more

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This is where I will be blogging in the information, details and experiences that I encounter throughout my time at Walmart's home office with the marketing team.

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This is where I will be blogging in the information, details and experiences that I encounter throughout my time at Walmart's home office with the marketing team.

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