Monday, November 17 2008
As a Syracuse University alumnus (Newhouse '77), I couldn't resist sharing this insightful article in The Daily Orange on the first "The Apprentice" winner, Bill Rancic, who got his start in the cigar business.
- G.K.
'Apprentice' winner shares business insight
by Sarah Lee (The Daily Orange)
Tiffany Cayado was star-struck as soon as she saw Bill Rancic, first-season winner of "The Apprentice," walk down the aisle to make his speech in Lender Auditorium at Syracuse University.
"Watching 'The Apprentice' in high school was what made me choose business as a study," said Cayado, a sophomore marketing major. "So he's kind of like a role model to me."
Most of the crowd that filled the auditorium's seats for Rancic's lecture on Monday night in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management seemed to recognize the speaker who won the opportunity to be Donald Trump's right- hand man. Hands shot up when Rancic asked who in the audience had seen the show before.
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