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I’ve been asked
by more than one person more than one time to review each course of the MBA
program. I’ve been reluctant to do so
because my strengths and weaknesses are different from the strengths and
weaknesses of others. It is therefore
impossible for me to review these courses 100% objectively as there is ...
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Tonight I did my discussion questions for contemporary
leadership. I can tell already that I’m
going to really dig this class. What’s
odd though is that there are so few students in this course as compared to my
core courses. Seriously, there are only
6 of us or so. In all of my previous
classes ...
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I don’t think I’ve ever really said much about it before but
I figured that since I blogged about 2 guys who were diagnosed as having
learning disabilities and being “notable failures” in history I would go ahead
and make tonight about my own personal learning disability. My learning disability has been ...
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When I first started my MBA program I was terrified of the
mathematics portion. In fact on my very
first quantitative methods exam I made a 30%.
That’s a 30% out of a 100%. I
felt so crappy and so much like a failure I actually discussed dropping out of
the program with my wife in lieu of simply settling for an MSM ...
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My last blog post was all about how I have 19 weeks left in
my MBA program before I’m done. Truth be
told, as of Tuesday next week, I have 18 weeks.
I am looking to go into the job market full time in the search for new
employment as soon as I graduate but as far as academically I’m just not sure
what is coming ...
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I can hardly believe it. Here I am looking at the schedule for my next class and realize that I have only 3 courses left. Including this week which is half way over I have 19 weeks left of school and then I’m home free. I am wondering about the commencement ceremony though. It will be in mid December in Iowa. I ...
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This week wasn’t all that bad. The assignment was only a 3 page essay,
excluding references of course, which was very nice of the instructor as our
final assignment is due next week and most of us have already started on it. As you may have guessed it is slightly more
than a 3 page essay. The class has gone
very ...
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Okay I’m not going to kid you; I struggled on the week 3 assignment. I mean, why wouldn’t I? I had just written about how I was in, what was it? Oh yes, “familiar territory” and about how things were “down hill” and other such boastful phrases. Week 3 reminded me that I was still amidst a full blown MBA ...
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My title got you didn’t it? You’re reading this blog post thinking “can I really get my MBA quick and easy?” Sure you can. It wasn’t too many weeks ago I interviewed a guy who had a degree from a wholly unaccredited and un-wonderful university (which shall go unnamed) and he told me how quick and easy it was to get ...
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Okay, tonight’s blog post is going to sound a little arrogant or conceited at first glance but bear with me, I’m experiencing something of a personal crisis of faith while simultaneously wondering if perhaps I’m wrong. So if anyone has felt the way I feel right now and finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel or realized ...
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Right now everywhere you turn we in America are in short supply of something vital to our country; we are in short supply of true leaders. Oh sure there are lots of people running about claiming to be leaders simply because they have been placed in leadership positions, but simply occupying a place of authority does not make a leader. If that ...
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Tonight I will wrap up Learning Block 2 in Operations Management. It was a 5 page research paper and a couple of discussion board questions. The reading assignments are fairly smooth as Operations Management is really just a form of systems thinking or what I call a big picture approach to handling situations. I’m one of ...
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As the title says, I received my first week’s assignment feedback. At the outset I immediately looked at my grade of 83% and thought ‘ah crap, it’s going to be like that, huh?’ Upon looking at the instructor feedback however I noticed two things. First is that this instructor really took the time to read and understand ...
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I finally received my grade on my final report for
Managerial Finance. I made an 86% on
it. You wouldn’t believe what I got “gigged”
on. I used conversational English as I
frequently do, even here I suppose and I kept using the phrase “Let’s take the
example of…” or some ...
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Okay so I’m starting to sweat a little bit. I still have not received my grade for my final project and it’s been a week now. This thing is no joke. It is 35% of my total score for the class, we’re talking GPA affecting here. And this class wasn’t a piece of cake either. I’m hurting for ...
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I have no idea why, but for some reason I thought that Managerial Finance was the completion of my Core. Actually I do know why, because looking at my schedule it would appear as if I have already done Operations Management but as it turns out I have not. So, I guess I had a little premature celebration earlier when telling everyone I was done ...
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I am now waist deep in my week 5 and final case study for this class. This one is basically about market efficiencies, managed funds vs. non-managed trading, etc. It’s kind of neat in that there are no hard and fast rules and there is a lot of psychology involved. It also puts into perspective the effects and consequences ...
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I read an interesting interview of an executive recruiter over the value of the MBA. I recommend you read it as well, but in a nutshell, the MBA has real value. It has the most value in investment banking, consulting work and finance but can be a cross industry asset as well. The MBA is being more sought after by being ...
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It’s week 5 in Managerial Finance and so far all is
well. I started playing guitar again
this last week and we’ve almost got all of our boxes unpacked. My garage is full of crap but at least now I
have a living room and a couch to sit on.
I will be building a home office/music room soon. That is once I ...
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This week in Managerial Finance we looked at investing. By the nature of investing there is an
element of risk. Risk is the price of
opportunity for profit. I’ve always
considered getting an education to be an investment, albeit one in which the
returns are often not readily quantifiable but an investment ...
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I logged in last night to my Blackboard account and clicked on my “grades” portion of the menu. Honestly I was dreading looking at them because I struggled so much with week 3 that I was almost certain that I had failed miserably. As it turns out I made 100% on everything which is a shock. I don’t even know why ...
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I submitted my assignment and completed my discussion questions ending week 3 of Managerial Finance. I have to tell you folks, this was one of the roughest weeks I’ve experienced since beginning my MBA program. I knew there would be weeks like this and I thought I had prepared myself mentally for it before even starting the ...
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Can you hear that flushing sound? Not to worry, it’s not a ghost using your toilet, oh no, it’s the sound of my aspired to GPA of 4.0 being flushed downed the proverbial crapper. As I write this blog post I am about 50% complete with week 3’s assignment and 100% lost. It’s not that I cannot do the ...
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For the past several months I have been bombarded with questions which have multi calculation problems, complicated formulas and often no clear answer but instead an answer you arrive at using deductive reasoning and critical thinking. Since I aspire to be lazy whenever possible, I have tried to use every tool at my disposal when working ...
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Entering week 3 things are looking positive for me in this class thus far. I have not received my week 2 grades back yet, they should be up on Thursday, but I feel pretty good about my work this week. Week 1 I didn’t really have much confidence and still made 100% so that helps. If week 2 turns out the same way I’ll ...
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