Yesterday we had our final class in Financial Accounting-II before the exam. This was probably the first time I was not depressed after the class, because I was actually able to rather adequately follow the lecture. Professor gave us handouts for exam preparation and announced the materials available on the Blackboard in order to do more practice exercises. Knowing that those materials are available for preparation probably made me more relaxed. Now I need to actually follow through with the preparation.
To prove that MBA can be taught in a fun way, at least on occasion, at the end of the class we had Financial Jeopardy! It was actual computer simulation of the TV game with questions professor prepared herself for the class. To think that the MBA students would really fall for it was very bald of the instructor. On the other hand, she probably has done it before, so she knew it was well received by students in the last class worn out by all the toiling for the semester. Anyways, it was a blast. Needless to say it demonstrated again that I am not the only one struggling with the subject.
Today I read an article by an MBA student at ESADE Business School. It was about getting the exam results from the Financial Accounting. Two students from their class actually had to leave the school as result of that exam. Apparently stuff happens. Hope it will not happen to me.
These days I do not really have time to read news about the Business Schools developments a lot. I still skim the headlines and read semi-regualarly. Now I am more concerned with my immediate MBA environment. But when I was in my preparation stage for part-time MBA I was more hungry for that kind of news and was searching for them, and actually reading a few times a week. I am talking not about the many message boards/forums, some of which are actually extremely helpful, but about main stream media.
There were many articles here and there from various sources, but at the end only one of them stood out as dependable source with regular new and relevant, sometimes amusing articles: The Businessweek section on Business Schools.
Recently, however, I stumbled upon a new media site for Business Schools news – BisinessBecause.com . I read a few articles and even added it to my permanent bookmarks. It is apparently a recent startup. It has noticebly different focus from Businessweek, which mostly covers US Business Schools with rare references to the business education outside the US.
The focus of the new publication I found is international with contributing authors from all around the world, including many from the US. But for me it was interesting to discover English-language online publication where I found articles about the super ambitious Russian International Business School Skolkovo project, or adventures of a Russian student in Italian top Business School, or some recent comment on Dubai crisis voiced by current MBA.
As I said, I don’t have much time to read nowadays, but these are the two sources I still try to skim through the headlines. Check them out to see if there is something interesting there for you. Especially, BusinessBecause.com for its fresh approach.
