“I wanted to thank you for teaching managerial communication to me a few quarters ago. Last night, my team won a business pitch competition and walked home with the $4,000 grand prize. When we finally got to talk to the judges, the first thing that we heard was “Well, I have to congratulate you because your presentation was absolutely textbook perfect.” While I politely said “thank you,” I just laughed to myself and hoped that Duarte would be proud of the story we told. Even the small things that you pointed out during our 3 minute presentations like “don’t have too much text, keep it simple and clean. Don’t show all your points at once, have them appear as you present them” were so helpful in creating our presentation."