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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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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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Decision Making Final

December 13, 2009

Today I spent half of the day reviewing material for the take home part of the final on Decision Making. It was excruciating. After 5 PM I decided that there is no point to try to catch all the pieces of the course. So I downloaded the exam and just worked on the problems. It [...]

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Girding Up for MBA Term Finals

December 8, 2009

Now is the final week of classes for this half-term. Yesterday I had my last class before the exam for Decision Making. Professor has announced the format of the final. It will be a combination of in-class and take home assignments that need to be submitted online. This time instead of 24-hours window for submission, [...]

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Welch MBA – Any Takers?

December 7, 2009

Read an article today about new online offering in business education: online MBA degree from Jack Welch Management Institute. The guy has already made a name for himself, even if occasionally in dubious nominations. Nevertheless, he was named the Manager of the Century by Fortune in 1999, and obviously has something to say about business. Now he [...]

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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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Financial Accounting Double Mixer

December 3, 2009

Yesterday I got a news on my final grade in Financial Accounting-I, finally. I got a “B” and was extremely happy about that. I had been really concerned about a possibility of just barely passing it. It is a good news, as it means that I am legitimately continuing with my part-time MBA program.  Obviously, [...]

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Decision Making Mid-term Results

December 1, 2009

On Monday we received our mid-term papers for the exam we took last week. The answers had been actually posted a few day earlier, so I had general idea where I was standinng. Nevertheless I was waiting eagerly as I saw some of my solutions to more complicated problems were conceptually correct, but had some [...]

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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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MBA Recess

November 27, 2009

When instructor in Financial Accounting II told us at the very first session that we would not have a class on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and we would have to learn material for that week on our own, I felt a bit dissappointed. First, because for me personally the face time in the classroom is very [...]

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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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Mid -Term Decision Making Exam-Done!

November 22, 2009

Today I took my first exam in this half-term. As I said earlier in my posts it had to be downloaded from the Blackboard and after completion submitted to the instructor via Blackboard too. Most of my instructors in MBA program use the Blackboard quite extensively. Of course, no one uses even half of the features [...]

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GMAT Score for MBA Applicants

November 20, 2009

GMAT is one of the major hurdles to overcome in pursuing admission to an MBA progrram. No wonder then that a big deal of attention is paid by every applicant to scoring high on this test. I’ll talk a bit about this as now is high season for GMAT taking, because of the second, and [...]

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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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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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Financial Accounting II – MBA immersion

October 28, 2009

Today I had my first class in Financial Accounting II. I have different professor from my previous Fin Accounting course. And she is really very different: very sharp, to the point, very well organized. Her lecture, like the whole course, was very well prepared and laid out. And she was giving clear explanation to the [...]

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Judgment/Uncertainty and Decision Making. Intro to Descriptive Stats

October 26, 2009

Today I had my first class in the second half-term: Judgment/Uncertainty and Decision Making. This course is a predecessor and pre-requisite for more advanced and, I assume, more quantitatively rigorous course Data Analysis and Decision. I actually liked the professor’s approach quite a bit, because it was in stark contrast with my Financial Accounting classroom [...]

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Financial Accounting-I in the Hindsight

October 25, 2009

Over the weekend I had some spare time, namely sitting at the lounge for two hours on Friday and Sunday, while my younger daughter was having public skating sessions. I spent that time reading up the materials on my Financial Accounting I (the exam for which I already took on Wednesday). I knew that some of [...]

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Schedule of Classes and MBA Textbooks on the Cheap (not quite)

October 23, 2009

As the half-term finals are over, there is in fact very little time to relax. My next batch of classes starts on Monday as I mentioned before. Next half-term is definitely going to be more excruciating.  If in the first half-term I had two classes, now I am going to have three. And two of [...]

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Half Term is Over. Long live MBA!

October 22, 2009

I would like to start by saying that I have been enjoying my MBA experience so far. It has been challenging, but this is exactly what I like about it. If you try to keep status quo in your life and career, you inevitably slide back and loose the ground. I want to move forward, [...]

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Prep for Financial Accounting Final

October 21, 2009

Took my final on Microeconomics tonight. It was not really very difficult. Total of 18 questions, ten of which were multiple choice, and eight – short answer questions.  Even though it did not seem to be very difficult, it took me more time than anyone else in the group to finish it. I was the [...]

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Prep for Microeconomics Final

October 20, 2009

Spent the evening going again through the problems we solved in class and in homework. Microeconomics seems to me more intuitive than Financial Accounting. But still it’s a lot of formulas with just relatively few variables in too many different combinations, like P, Q, C, AC, FC, AFC, VC, AVC, changes, % of changes, MPL, [...]

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Cramming for Financial Accounting Final

October 19, 2009

Spent the whole weekend, net of time taking kids to activities and parties, and attending Exam Review Session for Microeconomics on campus, preparing for Financial Accounting Final Exam, which is already on Wednesday. I have to admit it is quite a brutal subject for a ‘right brain’ person like myself. As professor mentioned in class [...]

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Microeconomics and Impending Finals

October 18, 2009

For the last few days I have been playing around with the set up and tweaking of my site. I am still learning how to add new pages, posts, how to put them in proper hierarchy, etc. This is the reason why I have not been posting. I would like to have the site to [...]

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Intro to My Blog

October 15, 2009

I am a part-time MBA student at George Washington University School of Business in Washington, DC. I am on schedule to graduate with my MBA degree in May 2012, so I still have a lot to share about in my remaining time in the business school. In my blog I am writing about my experience [...]

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