On May 8, 2009, fourteen MBA students from UCLA Anderson attended the University of Chicago Microfinance Conference. The conference, entitled "Navigating the Markets: Microfinance in the New Economy" was held at the Chicago Booth School of Business Harper Center. In addition to the fourteen first-year MBAs who attended the conference, one Applied Management Research (AMR) team from UCLA Anderson, comprised of second-year MBA students Wallace Cheng, Amit Thakkar, Tulika Kundu, and Avantika Bhargava, presented their AMR project for client Grameen America.