Students on the Blog: Wunderman Agency Challenge at Baruch
By Rahul Gupte, MBA ‘18 Julius Caesar once said that “Experience is the teacher of all things.” Throughout my formal education and career, I tried very hard to ‘learn’ and ‘study’ marketing and advertising. However, after taking part in what was one of the most wonderful, insightful, thought provoking and self-realizing experiences that I have ever had during the Wunderman Agency Challenge at Baruch College this fall, I realized that just learning and studying marketing and advertising is not enough. Through the Challenge, Baruch students had an opportunity to build a team to compete in a unique case competition by working on a creative brief presented by the agency. The Wunderman brief was simple: re-imagine the digital experience of one of the agency’s clients in an effort to increase direct consumer acquisitions through the organization. Our approach was a systematic one: identify target consumer personas through data collection and analysis, map out current customer j