Conflict Management and Negotiations Course Overview

December 11, 2011

The elective course on Conflict Management and Negotiations in my MBA program at GWU was a very interesting, and great educational experience. I greatly appreciated the case analyses from the textbook that we had in class, such as Capital Mortgage Insurance, or the Pacific Oil Co. cases among others. I had a few posts on [...]

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Rate My Professors – Validated!

December 3, 2011

In my last class on Conflict Management and Negotiations professor mentioned a recent article in the George Washington University newspaper about the research on the validity of ratings at ratemyprofessors.com co-authored by the associate professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. Valid or not, I, and a few of the MBA [...]

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Economists Do It with Models – It’s More Fun That Way

November 26, 2011

In my recent post on Macroeconomics I quoted a joke from my Microeconomics professor that “Economists Do It with Models”. He never implied it was his joke, and mentioned that he had seen it on the t-shirts of Economics students at either MIT or University of Michigan. So I knew it was a widely circulated [...]

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Negotiation Simulation Role Playing – More Play, Less Role

November 20, 2011

This week in my part-time MBA class on Conflict Management and Negotiations we had an in-class presentations for the group negotiation simulation based on Ridgecrest School Dispute case. Essentially, the case is based on the dispute between the Board of Education and the Teachers Association (the teachers union) about the ways of closing the budget [...]

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Macroeconomics – Funny Joke of the Day

November 18, 2011

Just wanted to add another fun video to keep your interest in economics up and demonstrate that macroeconomics is not all that boring as the economists try to make it look to us – lay -men and -women. I first saw this video about a year ago when I was taking my Financial Management class. [...]

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Macroeconomics Fun – Notes From the Classroom

November 12, 2011

Macroeconomics is one of the core classes I am taking right now – a little bit later in my MBA studies. The first part of Economics – Microeconomics – I took in my very first module when I just started my whole part-time MBA program journey back in fall 2009. As everything with economics, regardless [...]

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Consulting Club Networking Social at GWU

November 6, 2011

Just a couple days ago I was complaining about the lack of time and opportunities for part-time MBA students to network within the context of the business school. Apparently, having pumped myself up with discontent about this situation, I subconsciously was looking for opportunities to do something about it . Over a week ago I [...]

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Social Networking for Part-time MBA Students

November 3, 2011

This past weekend I had a negotiation simulation with my classmate in Conflict Management and Negotiations class. As I mentioned in the past, this class requires some of the negotiations to be held out of the class, so we had a scheduled appointment on campus on Sunday. We had allocated an hour for the whole [...]

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All-American Darling Netflix Fallout

October 24, 2011

Today I was looking at my business cases portfolio that I have prepared in the course of my part-time MBA studies at GWU School of Business and I noticed that I have not published any cases from my Marketing classes yet. So I found one of the sections I prepared for a group project on [...]

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Fall Mid-Term Breather at GWSB

October 21, 2011

On Wednesday I got done with the first module of the Fall term at GWSB part-time MBA program . In the last week I was scraping up to finalize two group project papers, two final in-class group presentations and a final exam  administered online. It was very taxing period, to say the least. I spent [...]

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Part-time MBA Blog – Two Year Anniversary

October 15, 2011

Another milestone in my blogging experience. Don’t have too much time to reflect on this now, but if you are interested in some background information on how this blog came to be, you can read the post I had a year ago on One Year Anniversary of this blog. I would still like to share [...]

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GWU School of Business – Ascent in Economist MBA Ranking 2011

October 14, 2011

Last time I had a post on George Washington University School of Business rise in Financial Times MBA ranking there was a lot of fanfare going around the school. I think I received at least 3 or 4 emails within a couple of days from different sections of the business school and university heralding the [...]

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Taking Care of Business – MBA Russian Way

October 11, 2011

Just stumbled upon an interesting article in Economist – School of the dark arts. It is about, if not the best, at least the most touted, Russian business school – Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. The school has been known since its founding in 2006 as a pet project of the Russian government and the [...]

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Risk Is Not a Dirty Word in Project Management

October 6, 2011

This first module of the Fall term at GWU School of business I am taking class on Risk Management for Projects. I am taking this class as a follow up to the one I took last Spring term – Introduction to Project Management. One thing I was surprised to learn in the Risk Management class [...]

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Competing on Analytics vs Intuitive Courage

September 29, 2011

I mentioned in an earlier post that I am taking a “Database and Web Analytics” elective class this first module of the fall term at GWSB MBA program. The required reading for this class is Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning – not exactly a textbook, but rather – a high view of [...]

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Why George Washington University School of Business?

September 27, 2011

The Businessweek online has recently placed a video interview with the dean of the George Washington University School of Business – Doug Guthrie,  who answers this question. The highlights of the GWU Business School approach to business education, as per dean’s interview, are the corporate social responsibility, sustainability, ethics and global perspective. These core elements [...]

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High-Octane Action-Packed Live Thriller – Macbeth at Synetic Theater

September 21, 2011

Fortunately, the fall term of MBA at GWU School of Business did not kick in into the high gear yet, and I can take some time to relax without going into great bouts of stress. Even though it is going to change very soon, as the first module is almost half-way through, and I have [...]

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East Coast Earthquake – Risk Management Application

September 1, 2011

This picture was used by my professor in the first on-campus class this year I had on Wednesday – Risk Management (for Projects). I cannot figure out the name of the cartoonist, but the date is very clear – 1990. This is a great illustration about some of the approaches to managing risk, arguably the [...]

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Happy New MBA Year!

August 29, 2011

Today is the first day of my last year of part-time MBA program at GW School of Business (GWSB). Summer break, vacation are all history, and I did not even manage to put a short report on my Cancun vacation ;-( . Now it’s not likely I will have time for that. But before I [...]

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Cancun Vacation

August 11, 2011

Sorry for not having any updates lately. I am enjoying my summer vacation with my family in Riviera Maya, Mexico.  Just to keep you in the loop I am going to a upload a few pictures. I promise to have more extended report on the resort and other Cancun adventures once I come back. For [...]

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Debt Ceiling Deal – MBAs Affected

August 2, 2011

Just read in the news that as a part of the debt ceiling deal the Congress is getting away with the subsidized portion of Stafford loans for graduate students, which of course includes all MBAs. It means that the interest will be accruing on the total amount of the student loan while you are still [...]

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Soda Tax and Public Policy – MBA Perspective

July 31, 2011

A year ago in summer term 2010 at George Washington University School of Business I took a class on Business and Public Policy. It was an interesting exercise and I learned a lot about the tensions between the public interests and private corporate agendas, lobbying, and public relations. I have published earlier two of the individual cases I [...]

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Pre-MBA Reading List for Poets

July 27, 2011

Back in May I promised to have a post on summer reading list for pre-MBA admitted applicants. There are a number of lists in print and especially on the internet for pre-MBA or mid-school summer reading. I have perused some of them and found them quite helpful. I often ask people to recommend books on [...]

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Smart Phone – Power-Hogging Badass

July 25, 2011

In my last post on the wonders and benefits of the smart phone I currently enjoy – Samsung Infuse 4G, I intentionally omitted the drawbacks of this powerful device – just did not feel like spoiling the bliss . But in the spirit of a full disclosure I need to warn the readers about some [...]

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Smarter Phone for MBA Student

July 22, 2011

Updated on July25, 2011. Though I was able to post a basic post including images using the WordPress for Android application on my smart phone, I still needed to do some fine-tuning of the post from the regular WP interface. Also, I posted a follow up post on the weaknesses of my smart phone. In [...]

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Hooray MBA – Summer Break!

June 26, 2011

It has been a long time since my last post, but it could have been expected that I would hardly have much time to attend to the blog. Two classes, six weeks, group cases and projects = no slack time. But it is all over now. I have been officially on a summer break from [...]

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Drop Class or Drop Dead at GWU Part-time MBA

June 5, 2011

On May 16 I started my classes in Summer Term at GW School of Business. There was some hiccup at the beginning though. I originally signed up for three classes: two from the core MBA curriculum, 1.5 credits each; and one elective from the Department of Information Systems Technology Management- three credits. I was trying to [...]

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Project Management – Sharks Against the Naive

May 14, 2011

Introduction to Project Management was a full-term 3-credit class, therefore we combed through a lot of material and got exposed to a lot of concepts. So I would probably be returning to this course quite a bit to share little reflections on the subject here and there. There were quite a few observations about Project Management [...]

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Ellen Moore in Korea – Business Case Analysis of Cultural Differences

May 9, 2011

In my Consultative Processes class that I took in Fall Term of my second year part-time MBA at GWU we had a case of Ellen Moore(A): Living and Working in Korea. I learned a few interesting things about the country’s culture - something that I wouldn’t ever guessed on my own. I have quite a few acquaintances [...]

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2-nd Year MBA Spring Term is Over

May 5, 2011

On Monday I had my final exam in Business Law and Communications.  My final presentation in Introduction to Project Management class took place two weeks ago. With that I am done with my classes in GW part-time MBA Spring Term. I feel free and relieved … for the next two weeks. Then my two classes for Summer [...]

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Facebook Face Off at Job Interview

May 2, 2011

This Spring term I had another core class in my part-time MBA program – Organizations and Leadership. This course is also commonly known in other MBA programs as Organizational Behavior. The course was rather interesting, and I will hopefully write more about it at a later time. On a side note about the topic of [...]

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Intro to Project Management – Final Presentation

April 28, 2011

Last  Thursday we had final group presentations in class for the Introduction to Project Management course. This presentation was a part of the final assignment: research and analysis of the management of an actual project. The other part of an assignment was to prepare a 20-25 pages analytical research of that same actual project. As [...]

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Introduction to Project Management – MBA elective

April 26, 2011

My posts for the nearest future will be recollections from the end of the Fall term and the Spring term in somewhat random order, as I will try to fill some of the gaps since the end of my regular blogging at the end of last year. I will try to reflect on some more interesting highlights [...]

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Part-time MBA on a Full-time Leave of Absence

April 12, 2011

Leave of absence from the blog, that is. It has been over four months now since my last update on the blog . Even my summer break last year did not take me away from posting on my site for that long. There has been a lot going on, so I kind of slipped back quite [...]

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Fall Term 2010 at GW MBA Near End

December 9, 2010

There are so many things I would like to share in the blog with my reflections on the winding down Fall Term in part-time MBA program at GW. But the term is not over yet. Yesterday I had my final class in Consultative Processes. This is a relief, since I am done with the class. Our [...]

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