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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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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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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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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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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
consultants

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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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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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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Nature of Markets – Introduction to Marketing

May 20, 2010

Tonight I had my second class that I am taking in this Summer Term at part-time MBA program at GWSB. I have been looking forward to this course and it seems that my high expectations will be met in this class. I have long been interested in marketing and I really expect to learn a [...]

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Business and Public Policy – Part-time MBA Summer Term Begins

May 18, 2010

Updated July 31, 2011. Overtime I posted my wrtie-ups for case analyses in this class in Business School Cases section of the blog. Today I placed a final case analysis from the class on Soda Tax Issues. I had the first class in my summer term tonight: Business and Public Policy. I can tell from the class [...]

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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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Entrepreneur Interview – Lessons for MBA Student

April 25, 2010

One of our assignments in Entrepreneurship class at GWSB MBA program was to conduct an interview with an entrepreneur of our choice. This was an individual project, so we had to find a worthy candidate on our own and to interview him/her. To make it easier, we were even given a set of questions which could be [...]

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Human Capital Management Case Study

March 31, 2010

12/31/2011 I have uploaded brief analyses for all case studies I had in my Human Resource Management course at my MBA program at GWSB:  Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks?  SG Cowen:New Recruits, Citibank: Performance Evaluation Case Analysis, Harrah’s Entertainment: Rewarding Our People Case Study. Have not had enough time to post lately as I have [...]

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Group Projects in MBA Learning Experience

March 27, 2010

If you followed this blog for a bit, you might have noticed that I have been participating in group projects in some of my classes since the beginning of  my part-time MBA program. So far, I have co-authored two group research papers (Business Ethics and Global Perspectives) and have been doing group assignments in Managerial Accounting [...]

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Creative Entrepreneurship in MBA Program

March 23, 2010

There was another blast class in Entrepreneurship this week. From the two first classes it seems that the main purpose of our instructor in this class is to evoke our creativity and show us how indispensable it is for those of us who aspire to venture on our own or join a start-up after getting [...]

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Laptops Banned from Universities Classrooms

March 14, 2010

Don’t panic, they are not outlawed yet. But the trend is there. In my MBA experience at GWU School of Business I have encountered different policies by different professors on the use of laptops in the classroom. There were two classes (Financial Accounting-1, Judgement and Uncertainty) where the use of the laptop was highly desirable, even though not [...]

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Entrepreneur Is a Verb – Unorthodox MBA Notion

March 9, 2010
Two Dice

Tuesday class in Entrepreneurship was a blast. Professor has been teaching it since mid-seventies, so he can afford to be unorthodox. There were quite a few ideas he introduced in the class that would probably not fly if he was a younger member of the faculty. But this is a charm of having a seasoned educator, [...]

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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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Part-time MBA Students Horror Stories at GWSB

February 24, 2010

Today after the Global Perspectives class I saw in the hallway three of my groupmates who I work with on the Political Risk Analysis paper. From a distance I noticed they had quite an involved conversation. Naturally, I assumed they were discussing our paper, so I joined them. Turned out they were not concerned with [...]

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Back to School from Snow “Mini-vacation”

February 18, 2010

It has been great to get back on campus after a week of cancelled classes. The last week with its snow days and a whole week of missed work and MBA classes has affected most of my classmates in the same way: we slacked down. It was obvious when professor in Global Perspectives asked a [...]

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Super Bowl 2010 TV Commercials and Biases

February 8, 2010

On Friday morning I checked out my co-workers on their preparedness for the Super Bowl Sunday. I am not following any sports (not even soccer, chess, ice hockey, or cricket), so my main interest was if they were prepared for a good party time. Turned out both of them for one reason or another were not [...]

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Moral Hazard in Managerial Accounting

February 4, 2010

Today in class when we were working the case, professor introduced the problem of ‘Moral Hazard’ in Managerial Accounting. To better explain the idea of moral hazard professor brought up an example of rental cars. First he mentioned quite common stuff: people often do not care much about rental cars and drive them rather negligently, if [...]

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Open Book Exams at GWSB part-time MBA

February 3, 2010

Today I read an article about technical means of fighting hi-tech and low-tech cheats at exams in universities. One of the conclusions of the author was to allow wider use of open book/open notes exams. This article evoked some of my personal thoughts on the subject. At the time and place where I was doing my undegraduate degree the very [...]

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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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Part-time MBA Workload and Homework Satisfaction

January 26, 2010

This week I am feeling quite satisfied with my preparation for classes. This is actually first time in this Spring module that I was able to study and work through most of the material assigned to homework. The keyword here is most. The important part of the MBA experience is to work under pressure and prioritize. [...]

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Managerial Accounting Study Group Meeting

January 25, 2010

Our study group in Managerial Accounting had a meeting on campus tonight. There were four of us in the meeting in person, and one group member joined us for the part of the meeting over the phone, as he was out of town on business. In this group there were modest aspirations in terms of [...]

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