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 an [...]

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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
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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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Case Study of SG Cowen: New Recruits – Business Case Studies Update

October 12, 2010

Just a short note on the update I made to Business School Cases section of my blog. It seems with the school year moving forward at full speed my blog has been getting more visits from inquiries related to business case studies. Judging by the number of hits from those inquiries I gather that SG [...]

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Appreciative Inquiry in Management Consulting

October 10, 2010

This week in my Consultative Processes class we had a guest speaker from management consulting company which utilizes an approach not so common in management consulting business and organizational improvement in general. This approach is called Appreciative Inquiry. Basically, the difference between the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and traditional approach is that AI focuses on the [...]

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Business Ethics Research Paper – New Addition to Business School Cases

October 7, 2010
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This week I have uploaded a new paper in the Business School Cases section. This is a paper I was working on in my Business Ethics class at GW part-time MBA last year. The topic we selected for our research was Effect of Pharmaceutical Companies Direct to Consumer Marketing on Doctor/Patient Relationship. It has a [...]

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Consultative Processes – Group Project Progress

October 3, 2010

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. In my Consultative Processes class at GW part-time MBA program we are going to complete two group projects: Writing and Presenting Proposal and Writing and [...]

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MBA Business Cases

September 17, 2010

I have started a new section on my blog, Business School Cases, where I am going to post either drafts of my contribution to the group papers (since I don’t have the exclusive rights to those final documents) or final versions of my business case assignments where I was the sole author. These papers are intended [...]

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MBA Joke – FedEx Commercial

September 16, 2010

I know that everyone who watches TV has already seen this FedEx MBA commercial long ago. But I hardly watch any TV, which has been especially true ever since I started my part-time MBA program at GWU a year ago. I found this video (dated ~ 2005-06) on YouTube incidentally just recently and I think it’s a great addition to my favorite [...]

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Group Projects Lamentations – Not Only MBA

September 15, 2010

“I hate group projects. They send you paper at 10.30 PM and expect you to be able to do something with it.”  This is not from me. This is a quote from my daughter, who is at high school, last night around midnight. Apparently she was tasked with tying down, formatting and editing the individual [...]

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Financial Markets – Let the Fun Begin

September 13, 2010

Last week I eventually received my textbook for Financial Markets class. I already mentioned this book before: Financial Management: Theory & Practice So I spend my whole weekend reading assigned passages, including the ones for the last class as I did not have the book in time for it. The book is not overly complicated [...]

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Consulting Panel, Consulting Interview Hints

September 9, 2010
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Wednesday class in Consultative Processes was very interesting. First we had a panel of four consultants currently working for some of the very well known and not so widely known consulting companies: Pricewaterhouse Cooper (PWC), Deloitte, North Highland, Grant Thornton. In spite of the fact that the image of a consultant sometimes is more readily associated [...]

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The McKinsey Mind Quotes

September 7, 2010

I am almost done with the book – The McKinsey Mind. It has been a quite enlightening read and made me think about how my present company measures on the scale. We could use quite a few ideas to improve some of our processes, I will leave it at that. But it’s not a discouragement. [...]

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McKinsey Mind – Lessons from McKinsey & Co

September 3, 2010

I mentioned before that McKinsey Mind is the required text for my Consultative Processes course. I started to read it after the first class and I cannot get my hands off of it. I am half way through now. I plan to read it twice, as was suggested by the authors. One time – straight [...]

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Consultative Processes – Intro to Consulting Business

September 1, 2010

Today I had the first class in my elective course – Consultative Processes. From the syllabus and the first class it became obvious that the class is going to be very writing-intensive and group work oriented. We will have to submit three individually prepared cases from Harvard Business Publications. And there will be two group [...]

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Financial Markets – First Class of the Fall Term

August 31, 2010

Today I had my first class in the Fall term – Financial Markets. It was rather interesting and at times even entertaining. Professor had eventually placed syllabus with required textbook earlier today and I was able to order it from Amazon. The book we are using in class is Financial Management: Theory & Practice 13 [...]

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Second Year Part-time MBA Begins

August 30, 2010

Today is the first day of classes at the University and official start of my second year of studies in GWU part-time MBA program. My classes however haven’t started yet. I have my first class on Tuesday. For the first module of the Fall term I have signed up for two classes: Financial Markets and [...]

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First Year Part-time MBA Closure

July 24, 2010

Have not been posting for almost a month. Now I am kind of have been missing blogging and ready to post some updates. The two main reasons for my extended silence are the preparation for the professional certification exam that I took in two weeks after the end of the summer module, and the family vacation [...]

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First Year Part-time MBA Is Complete

June 29, 2010

I know, I know, I already reported it once, almost two months ago, that my first year of part-time MBA was over. But it was according to the business school’s schedule, not my personal. If I did not take take classes in the first summer term module, then it would indeed be the end. But [...]

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Othello by Synetic Theater

June 25, 2010

Since the term had been winding down to its end, and I was basically done with all my deliverables, last weekend my wife and I had a little treat: another theater night at Synetic. I had a post back in February about this theater and their Antony and Cleopatra play. I know it may sound ridiculous, [...]

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Summer Term MBA Classes are Near to Close

June 18, 2010

Have not been able to post lately due to the overwhelming amount of work in business school. As much as I prefer qualititative over the quantitative classes, in terms of time it is not really easier. In quants it takes me a lot of time to comprehend the concepts and their application. In qualititative classes [...]

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Management, Leadership and My Shepherd Dog Experience

June 3, 2010

This style of management -herding the flock- is actually not as uncommon as it might seem in our “enlightened” era and all the advances in management theory. Quite many managers in business and leaders in public arena are still treating their subordinates and constituents as a flock of sheep which needs to be herded and manipulated into going through the “desired” gates. Even if it is done in more subtle inconspicuous or sophisticated ways, this still is the underlying philosophy of those “shepherd dog managers”.

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The 4-Hour Workweek – Jar of Goodies from Tim Ferriss

May 27, 2010

One of the two books I attempted to read on my break between the Spring and Summer Terms in my part-time MBA studies was The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. It is really a great read, though I have to admit I haven’t finished it yet. Not everything in the book is really applicable, or even [...]

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