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- Group Dynamics: Learning to Work With Control Freaks
- A few months ago, I wrote a post about one of the major components of our MBA program -- "group learning." Many of our classes include a group project or group homework. At the time, I was highly optimistic about my team's group dynamics. We all have...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Technology: How Much Do Managers Need to Know?
- Tonight marked the midway point in our Technology Management class. Not surprisingly -- at least to me -- so far, the class has focused a lot on security, but we're not stopping there. I think we've finally hit on a course that's really applicable for would-be managers -- and I'm...
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Don't make this rookie MBA student mistake
- Tonight, we had our first quiz in Financial Accounting. Sounds easy enough, doesn't it? I'm pretty sure I bombed it -- embarrassingly so. I could blame it on the fact that I've never had accounting (never mind the fact that many people who know...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Poll: What's Your B-School Background?
- I spent the last week and a half fighting the flu that just wouldn't give up, which left me with plenty of time to lie around and think. To distract myself from missing the first day of a new session and already being behind from day one, I started thinking...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Why MBAs Need More Than Business
- While perusing BNET, I came across a blog post by Jessica Stillman that caught my eye: "Should Managers Study the Liberal Arts?" (Sure, it's a couple of months old, but it posted right before the holidays, so I bet I'm not the only one who may have missed it.) ...
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- What's Your Leadership Style?
- Monday night, we said goodbye to our Leadership class in the form of a three-hour take-home final. It wasn't my favorite way to wrap up a three-day weekend, that's for sure. But even more frustrating was the fact that I didn't really take away too much from...
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- How Much is Getting in the Right Class Worth to You?
- BNET's Michael Mattis recently passed on an article to me about colleges that take getting into the right class to a whole new level ("Class Warfare: When Getting In Is the Hardest Part"). It seems some schools have enacted programs such as lotteries to help students get into highly popular...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Sharpen Your Business Skills for Free @ MIT
- While putting off one of my last econ assignments tonight, I ran across "23 surprising things you can get for free" on CNN.com. (I'm a total sucker for both lists and free things, so I couldn't pass this one up.) I was surprised to see the first...
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Searching For the Right Career Fit
- Remember that children's book Are You My Mother? It's about a baby bird who hatches when his mother is away, and he falls out of the nest. Throughout the book, he searches for his mother, approaching a dog, a plane, a cow, and even a steam shovel and asking them...
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Learning to Appreciate the Finer Things in Life
- It started with a professor telling our MBA class that we'd better learn how to play golf. Golf, he proclaimed, was a necessity once you've penetrated the higher ranks of an organization. A week or so later, we found out that one of our Saturday classes would...
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Should I Have Gone to Law School?
- In our Leadership class this session, we've had local CEOs come to speak to us about what it takes to be a leader. (If you're thinking it sounds like Career Day at your local junior high, you wouldn't be that far off course.) So far, we've had three guest speakers...
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Learning How to Lead
- One of the two classes we're taking this session is Leadership. I have to admit, I've been skeptical from the start. Can you really learn how to be a leader in the classroom? It's not that I thought the class would be worthless, but the topic is...
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Is Writing Well the Best Reward?
- Our classes for the third session began last week. Over the next six weeks, I have a 15-page paper, essay exam, weekly econ chapter assessments, a couple essays, and a memo to look forward to. Last session, we had two papers, two essay exams, and those weekly econ assignments. Oh,...
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- And… We're Back
- That's right. We're back to work, back to school, back to the grind. There's nothing like that first full week of the year, is there? The calendar says Tuesday, but I'd swear it was Thursday -- sure proof that school has started up again. I've read about...
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Three Things I Wish I'd Known Before Starting Grad School
- It's that time of year when you can't escape wrap-ups. Magazines, Web sites, and blogs are filled with "best of" lists, deconstructing the year in all its minutiae. Me, I'm a total sucker for a list, any list. There's just nothing like having information distilled down to...
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- School's Out -- But Not Really
- It's official: We have survived our first semester of grad school. We've been out of class for almost a week now, but I wanted to make sure I passed econ before I started talking about survival. (I did.) It's amazing how quickly you can get back into...
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Finding the Value in Wasted Time
- Tonight, I sat in class and listened to my fellow classmates summarize points from a textbook. Let me repeat that. Tonight, I, a 31-year-old graduate student, sat in class and listened to other grad students basically read from a college textbook. (Oh, I also...
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Learning Overtime
- I am not a fan of meetings. This is not a secret; people who work with me are all too familiar with my distaste. It's not that I think all meetings are pointless. But enough of my time -- and my coworkers' time -- has been wasted over the years...
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Jumping into the Gender Gap
- Last week during a break, I found out that our inaugural class of the university's new MBA program had lost a comrade. She wasn't the first, so it wasn't a huge surprise. Our class started the program with 56 members. Three months in, we're already down to 53. ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- My Juggling Act
- Anyone who knows me will tell you that I'm an organized person -- even obsessively so. I love to plan and put things in order just right, and I'm hugely detail-oriented. Luckily, this kind of behavior comes in handy when you go back to school: Finding a balance between work,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
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