The what:
The how:
Finding your business voice
January 24th, 2009Wow that was fast!
September 25th, 2008I’m very impressed by the alumni group’s handeling of my (somewhat childish) fit I had yesterday. Screwups are bound to happen but they jumped on that problem and took care of it VERY quickly. Well done.
A note to alumni fundraisers
September 24th, 2008It is really really really bad to contact someone asking for money without bothering to ensure that you have the right name.
It makes your recipient feel unimportant… So I won’t be giving you money… For a long time.
It doesn’t take an MBA to see that chain of events.
(Sorry, they also caught me on a day when I’m in a bad mood, most other days I’d just laugh it off but not today)
It took 2 Years
September 5th, 2008Anyone remember this post where I mentioned a talk about how it’s going to be more expensive to produce in china than domestically? Well, it came true (although not for any of the same reasons so maybe my assertion that I don’t agree with the model was still correct):
Thanks to rising fuel prices and wage inflation in China, it’s actually more expensive to manufacture and ship electronics across the Pacific for the American market than it would be to produce them domestically, according to a report from The McKinsey Quarterly.
I don’t think that the BCG talk mentioned anything about rising fuel prices and wage inflation but was all about networks (social and technilogical) as well as channel saturation.
Free 12-Month HBR
June 2nd, 2008Just an FYI: When you graduate from Rotman you get a free 12-month digital subscription to HBR. Get you hooked then jack up the price. 
The Future of the MBA
May 14th, 2008Mihnea Moldoveanu is a big name in Integrative thinking @ Rotman. He just published an article in Business Week that might be of interest to many of you. Excerpts:
The MBA is a much-needed selection machine which comes on top of the selection machines called high school, college, and a two- or three-year work assignment. Like all selection machines, the MBA works best because it is based on a clearly defined selection criterion, which is twofold. It selects for general intelligence and conscientiousness, not for lateral or divergent thinking, moral development, or epistemological sophistication, as we do yet know how to measure these.
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So the critics are right, the MBA is in crisis—because it selects for and cultivates traits and skills that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous. The markets are right in that the dominance-hierarchies and markets of today need one more selection engine. Out of this tension arises the opportunity for designing the thinker of the future. Let the design work begin.
It’s All Done
April 18th, 2008…130 posts later and I’m done the MBA. Well, not quite. I still have to hand in a take home exam for business law and a paper for game theory but we had “Disorientation” last night which was very disorienting… good party.
Thanks for reading a long. I hope you got something out of this blog and if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment. I’ll try my best to continue to maintain this blog.
If you’d like to keep up with me you can check out my personal blog. You’ll quickly learn that I’m a big scatter brain.
Thanks!
Great Talk
April 13th, 2008I’ve posted a great talk that might be of interest to many of you. The majority of the talk outlines some of the building blocks of the Integrative Thinking program at Rotman.
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April 9th, 2008Results Not Typical
March 26th, 2008I just wanted to make sure I posted a disclaimer (like all the ads on TV): Results not Typical. That is, I seem to be one of the few who find that there isn’t much work at school. Many others are running around like chickens with their heads cut off.
With respect to my free time, I want to point out that I am doing a lot of other stuff… I’m not just sitting in my boxers all day playing video games… although it sounds like a lot of fun.
I might be in London (England) for the bulk of May. Just an FYI.