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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. // [...]

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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 [...]

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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. // [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Part-time MBA – Turbocharged!

December 3, 2010

This week I ran into one of my classmates in the study area before the class. I have not seen her around since the summer term, so we chatted a bit to catch up on what’s going on in our MBA studies. I remembered that we started the program at GW at the same time [...]

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Russia, BRIC and Foreign Investments – the End of Euphoria?

November 30, 2010

Recently I read an article in Businessweek on Russia and its BRIC membership. For those who are mostly focused on the affairs of the developed word, BRIC is the acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China. The term has come into use in 2001 as a symbol of the shift of the global economic power away [...]

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Beat the GMAT Practice Questions Premium Access Winners

November 29, 2010

Four weeks ago I published a post about my Deja Vu experience with GMAT. There I wrote a short review of the new GMAT practice questions from Beat the GMAT (BTG). I am not going to re-count my experience with those questions again here. If interested you can read the complete review here. // In that post I announced [...]

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Dahab Plastics Co – Gearing Up for Consulting Presentation

November 22, 2010

On Sunday we had a conference call with my group for our final presentation in Consultative Processes class. This is the second of the group projects in the class. The first group project was on preparing and presenting Consulting Proposal for Kacey Fine Furniture. I re-read the case before the group discussion, Dahab Plastics Co, and it seems [...]

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Citibank: Performance Evaluation – Business Cases Analysis Update

November 21, 2010

Due to my business travel I have not been able to focus on regular updates. So now I have more catch up work to do both for classes and for the blog. Fortunately, this year we do not have any classes scheduled during the whole week of Thanksgiving. So I will hopefully have time to do [...]

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Spring Term Classes – Online Onslaught at GW MBA

November 20, 2010

Just about two weeks ago I was writing about the survey conducted by the MBA administration at GWU about offering of the online classes. At that time I thought that this was just testing the waters with the students and actual introduction of the online classes was a long way from being implemented. Boy, was [...]

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Swamped with MBA Assignments

November 9, 2010

Update 5/7/2011. I have published a business case analysis for Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Korea. This week is going to be really brutal. I will have to pay for a little relaxation I had over the past weekend. I had some family and friends time and did not have enough time to [...]

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Online Electives in Part-time MBA at GWU

November 4, 2010

Update on introduction of online classes for Spring 2011 term at GWU part-time MBA. A couple weeks ago I received invitation from part-time MBA office at GW University to fill out a short survey. The questions were around the topic of offering some electives online. Basically, they were trying to gauge what portion of the electives the students would be willing [...]

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GMAT Deja Vu – with Compliments from Beat the GMAT

November 2, 2010

Update 11/19/2010. All the codes for Premium access to BTG Practice questions have been claimed already. Last week I received invitation from the Beat The GMAT (BTG) founder, Eric, to review the new Beat the GMAT Practice Questions. Admittedly, GMAT is far from being on my priorities list with all the classes I am taking [...]

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Blink, the Power of Priming and Financial Markets Final Grade

October 31, 2010

As the second module started this week, I had my class in Financial Management, which is the continuation of the Financial Markets class I had in the first fall Module at GW MBA. The same professor is teaching this class as the previous one, so we were given our final exam papers back to review. [...]

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Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks – Business Cases Analysis Update

October 28, 2010

As I was planning, I keep uploading write-ups of business cases analysis for the MBA coursework I have completed in my part-time MBA program at GW. This Nordstrom case is actually quite popular in the MBA programs. Not only this blog has been getting quite a bit of traffic from the search queries related to [...]

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Marketing Decisions – Second Module Kickoff at GW MBA

October 24, 2010

As I mentioned in my previous post, I had an early start for my Fall Module II at GW part-time MBA program this week. Professor wanted to review the major points of the previous course – Nature of Markets, as it is the foundation for the upcoming class. The second major point of an early start was give [...]

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First Module GW Part-time MBA – Finals Week

October 20, 2010

This week was the end of the first Fall module in GW MBA program. I had my final in Financial Markets class on Tuesday. Of the ten questions, there was one (on spot rates, forward rate) which I had to retreat to Chinese approach, i.e “write everything that crosses your mind, and let professor choose [...]

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Consulting Proposal Presentation: Kacey Fine Furniture

October 18, 2010
Kacey Fine Furniture

Updated September 24, 2011. I placed an introduction and background & understanding sections of the Consulting Proposal Letter to Kacey Fine Furniture in the Business School Cases of this blog. Last Wednesday we had consulting proposal presentation in our Consultative Processes class. All groups, total of five, were presenting a proposal for consulting engagement on [...]

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Part-time MBA Blog – One Year Anniversary

October 15, 2010

Yes, you read it right. It was one year ago exactly when I embarked on this journey of keeping the record of my progress in part-time MBA program at George Washington University in Washington, DC. The year was eventful both in my business school studies and on the blog itself. Now I can look back and [...]

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