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Entrepreneurial Ideas: Snow Storm 2010 Shirts

May 11, 2010

One day at the end of April I had a breakthrough, thanks to my MBA Entrepreneurship class. Not that the breakthrough had much bearing directly to the class, but it was definitely induced by the ideas I had been introduced to during the course. One night on my way to GWSB I got a brilliant business idea. I don’t really [...]

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GWSB MBA Spring Term Module 1 Classes Are Over

February 25, 2010

Today was the last day of classes in the first module of the Spring Term for me. Next week we have finals. For me it is Global Perspectives and Managerial Accounting. I have a false sense of confidence about Global Perspectives, mainly because it’s an open notes, books, everything exam. As for Managerial Accounting – [...]

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Synetic Theater’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’-Theater Night Out

February 20, 2010

On Saturday I had a night out with my wife to watch a play ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ by Synetic Theater on Lansburgh Theatre stage  of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. If you are a theater-goer and  have a chance to see only one show while in DC, I would definitely encourage you to go to Synetic’s production. Labeled as [...]

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GMAT Test Anniversary – Second Take

February 14, 2010

With all this snow days and hype I almost forgot about one year anniversary of my second attempt on GMAT in preparation for the part-time MBA program. It actually was on February 7-th. In my post about the first taking of the GMAT I already mentioned that the score of 550 that I got that time would [...]

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Washington, DC Snow Storm News (Not)

February 9, 2010

The snow storms battering the Washington, DC area in February are not really even news anymore. It has become sort of boring routine. I don’t even need to put up pictures of the snowfall, as it is just more of the same old. Nothing newsworthy. Anyways, today started the next round of snowfalls in the [...]

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Blizzard 2010 Washington, DC Area

February 7, 2010

Judging by TV news reports the snowstorm of February 5-6, 2010 was officially christened Blizzard 2010. That was an impressive nature showdown. I actually enjoyed the snow days. Spent Friday afternoon and all day on Saturday at home, with the fireplace cozy chirping, sipping on porto, watching movies with the family, and just taking it easy. As [...]

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Big Snowfall in Washington, DC area – Alternative Take

February 5, 2010

Yesterday after a class  I stopped by at the neighborhood supermarket to pick up a few items. The store was quite empty, so were the shelves in produce, dairy, meat, and bread departments. The sight of the empty shelves was quite shocking. Only then I remembered that we were going to have a big snowfall this weekend. The [...]

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Political Climate for FDI in Russia-Risk Analysis Study

January 31, 2010

Updated 11/30/2010. I published my section of the research paper on Risk Analysis Study of FDI in Russia: Political Climate in Russia and FDI. I feel like a squeezed lemon: exhausted and despondent. The whole weekend I have been working on my part 0f the group research paper on FDI in Russia. I had to cover Political [...]

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George Washington University School of Business-Financial Times Rankings

January 27, 2010

Today in Global Perspectives class professor was seemingly glowing when he broke a news. Turned out that Financial Times published their Global MBA Rankings 2010 just two days ago on January 25. MBA program at GWSB climbed from position 71 to 57 among top 100 MBA programs worldwide. What he was even more proud of was that in [...]

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Spring Term Part-time MBA at GWU – Week 2

January 21, 2010

Finished the second week of classes in my first module of Spring Term. The intensity is picking up just a little bit, but so far very manageable. It’s probably going to change this weekend when I will have work on two major projects: I am planning to work on my section for Risk Analysis Group Paper [...]

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Global Perspectives Risk Analysis Paper

January 19, 2010

On Tuesday we had a group meeting to discuss the general approach and outline for our course group paper in Global Perspectives class. It was suggested to meet at one of the bar lounges on the campus, so our almost 2-hour meeting was over pizza and beer. Very inducive environment for discussing any business issues, including [...]

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Managerial Accounting Course Pack

January 16, 2010

One of the books required in Managerial Accounting is the Course Pack that has been compiled by the professor himself. This is the first time I have the course pack required in my MBA program classes. That’s why I had a little surprise with it. The course packs are apparently compiled/authored by a professor(s) in the university [...]

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Part-time MBA at GWSB – Spring Term First Week Summary

January 15, 2010

The first week of classes in my Spring Term at GWSB is over. Now I have to concentrate on the homework assignments which are quite intense. Good that I have Monday off to spend more time on reading and solving cases for classes. A short summary of the week. I am very pleased with both [...]

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Managerial Accounting Is Not Your Financial Accounting

January 14, 2010

On Thursday was my first class in Managerial Accounting. To say that it was OK would be underestimating it. I actually liked it a lot. There were a few factors that contributed to my favorable impression of the class: Professor was very sharp and knowledgable. He looks probably younger than he really is, but he [...]

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Global Perspectives – First Day of Classes at Part-time MBA Spring Term

January 13, 2010

On Wednesday I had my first class in the Spring Term – Global Perspectives. I enjoyed the class and got very favorable impression of the professor. He has been teaching in the International Business Department for a long time and still has not lost interest in teaching the subject. The subject itself is very interesting [...]

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Part-time MBA Winter Break Summary

January 10, 2010

This was the last weekend before the start of the Spring semester in my part-time MBA studies. So I might as well call it the end of the winter break. Classes start on Monday, though for me personally the first day of classes is Wednesday – Global Perspectives. Just a short recap of what I [...]

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My Registered Classes for Spring Term MBA Program

January 6, 2010

As I mentioned yesterday, last weekend I finalized my MBA classes registration for the Spring term. In reality I  originally registered for all of my classes within 7-10 days after the registration was open sometime in November. My classes were selected based on the learned lessons described in my previous post. One more thing I learned during registration [...]

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Part-time MBA Classes Selection for Spring Term

January 5, 2010

This past weekend I finalized my classes for the Spring term. In this seemingly simple decision there are a few caveats I was not aware of when I was choosing my classes for the Fall term, and was still learning during this registration period. In summer I just picked whatever classes did not have other prerequisites [...]

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My First Term Part-time MBA Stats

December 24, 2009

Now that the fall term is formally over, I can draw the line for my first term in part-time MBA program at George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). It has been rather interesting learning experience. I had some classes that really grabbed my interest, such as Microeconomics, Decision Making. There was a subject that made me shiver [...]

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Part-time MBA Fall Term Graded

December 23, 2009

Today I received my last grades for the second half term in fall semester. This makes it closed both officially and emotionally  I am happy that I made it through. My GPA is actually still over 3, inspite of my little snafu with Financial Accounting-II. Hurray and on into the winter break and celebration time! I mentioned [...]

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Spring Term Part-time MBA: Managerial Accounting

December 22, 2009

My professor in one of the classes I signed up for a spring term has already placed the syllabus and the home assignment for the first class. It actually happened a week ago, I just did not have time to get to it before. That’s almost a month before the first class! I appreciate this [...]

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Big Dig-out Sunday in DC Area

Thumbnail image for Big Dig-out Sunday in DC Area December 20, 2009

As I wrote a few weeks ago, this winter could be a snowy one. This weekend it was officially confirmed. I did not check the news lately if this ended up to be an officially record-breaking snowfall for DC area, but they did forecast this could be the case. At any rate we do have a lot of snow. It started late Friday [...]

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Part-time MBA on Winter Break!

December 17, 2009

On Thursday I had my last class in Fall term. My part-time MBA first term is officially over. In Business Ethics class we turned in our final research papers. Professor said he will get to grading them next day, so he hoped we will have our grades within a week. I also got my grade [...]

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Holiday Party – MBA Is not “All Work, No Fun”

December 12, 2009

I admit, I tend to take my MBA classes quite seriously. It is especially true, because, being a “poet” I have to struggle quite a bit with my quantitative subjects. So I have to spend considerably more time to get those done, while some of my classmates breeze right through it with minimum effort. That said, one [...]

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Finals Are Coming, Parties Too

December 11, 2009

Yesterday was the last official class of scheduled sessions in my first semester of part-time MBA program. However, since our class in Business Ethics fell on Thanksgiving we are going to have a makeup next Thursday. But it is mostly irrelevant. Our final research paper is due at next class. This is probably the only reason I [...]

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Financial Accounting Jeopardy

December 10, 2009

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 [...]

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Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs Research

December 5, 2009

Added on October 4, 2010: I have uploaded my write-up for the case Effect of Pharmaceutical Companies Direct to Consumer Marketing on Doctor/Patient Relationship, which I did for Business Ethics class in my MBA program at GW, in the Business School Cases section of the blog. My MBA program studies take more and more serious toll on [...]

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MBA Application Season Tips

December 4, 2009

There are many things that the applicants to MBA programs have to do during the application phase. Of course, on top of the list for most aplicants is getting GMAT nailed. Whether one needs 750 or just 550 score, it still requires preparation. The reason is that the test itself is rather challenging, there is a [...]

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My GMAT Preparation for Part-time MBA Recap

November 29, 2009

Here is a short followup on my yesterday’s GMAT post. In my preparation for GMAT I did not use any in-class or online prep courses. The reason is quite obvious – I was not applying to top 10-20 full-time MBA programs, which have a very high break-in GMAT score. Part-time MBA programs available in Washington, [...]

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GMAT Anniversary

November 28, 2009

Today is a one year anniversary of my first attempt on GMAT. To be more precise, it was not on the same date, but the same day- Saturday after Thanksgiving a year ago. On Friday before the test I knew it was not one of my brightest decisions to schedule the test for that Saturday. [...]

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Part-time MBA Marketed

November 25, 2009

I was thinking about what different names part-time MBA programs go by. The most obvious generic name describing the essense of these programs is obviously plain and simple, no thrills – part-time MBA. But, of course, the Business Schools would want to differentiate themselves from each other and to emphasize distinctive features of part-time programs [...]

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Part-time And Executive MBA – Which is Right for You?

November 24, 2009

Shortly after  I set my sight on getting an MBA degree, and started doing prelimenary research, I realized that part -time MBA programs come in more than one flavor. They are all similar in that you do not have to interrupt your career (if it is indeed a career, not just a job) or even leave [...]

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Quants and MBA Anxiety

November 16, 2009

This past Wednesday when I left my class in Financial Accounting I had a sheer anxiety attack. It was not a panic attack yet, as there are no half-term finals for at least another 4 weeks. But it was really very scary.  This was not based only on my feelings of inadequacy from the class in [...]

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Brand New Laptop for Freshly-Minted MBA Student

November 2, 2009

This weekend I finally bought my personal laptop. I was originally thinking to hold off a purchase till I get a passing grade for my second class – Financial Accounting. But with the homework requirement in my Judgment, Uncertainty and Decisions (JUD) class to use not just Excel, but also a special proprietary add-in for [...]

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Business Ethics – a Softer Side of MBA Program

October 29, 2009

Today I had my first class in Business Ethics in this half-term. The class is shaping up to be a pretty soft one compared to the other two. One thing which is different about this class from any other I have taken so far is that it has no in-class final exam. Actually I take [...]

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