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Today marks the end of my postings on the Norwich University blog at eLearners. In the next few days, I will begin my new blog that will focus on my next “adventure in education” as I earn my Doctor of Business Administration at Walden University. I have already enrolled and begin classes on June 29. As I write ...
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I was fortunate enough to find out what my final GPA was for the Norwich MBA program! It was not stellar, but certainly not bad, either. I earned a 3.36 GPA throughout the entire program. That is a borderline B+ / A- and from what I hear, is about average for most students. That equates to around an 84% - 85%. I was ...
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I am home at last. After a very exciting week at Norwich, we received our diplomas Friday morning. It was a defining moment for everyone I talked to and probably for everyone there. In order to have some free time, I took an extra day and did not fly back to Texas until Saturday afternoon. I am glad I took the extra ...
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It is the end of another long day. I did not write yesterday because by the time I got back to the dorms, I had just enough energy to shower and crawl into bed. They are indeed keeping us busy here. We are also eating like pigs. The cafeteria-style dining facility is great. I need to get one of those for the ...
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Day three at Norwich was very interesting. We started the day out with breakfast and followed that up with a whole day of debates. The teams were mostly made up of four grads, one team pitted against the other. Our topic was about taxation and our position was “against”. We put up a good fight. And we are ...
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It has been another busy day at Norwich University. The started with breakfast around 6:30am. That was followed by a presentation about how to conduct an academic debate. The remainder of the day was spent with our debate teams devising a structure to present tomorrow. Dinner happened at 5pm and I am down for the ...
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Sunday, June 7, 2009
I have arrived at Norwich University!
Vermont is a very beautiful, majestic place like never I have ever seen. I have been to a lot of places, but Vermont is very unique. The mountains and pastoral farms have my undivided attention. I am sure lots of photos will follow. But not right now. I am ...
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The first leg of my journey to graduation is over. As I write this, I am sitting in a very nice Holiday Inn Express near the Dallas airport. Tomorrow, I am off to Atlanta, then to Burlington, Vermont. Saturday night will be spent in a Comfort Inn and Suites in Montpelier, Vermont. I don’t expect to get there until ...
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UPS delivered my cap and gown this week. It is very cool! When I go to Norwich next weekend for graduation, it will mark the first time I have ever worn a cap and gown. I skipped my high school graduation because I was not into that kind of thing when I was 18 years old. I was just happy to get out of high school.
I did ...
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I am bored.
That could be a good thing or a bad thing. In the last week or so, I managed to complete my final assignment for my MBA program at Norwich University. Now I am sitting here with no job to go to and no homework to do. I do not know what to do with myself. I am going insane!
For the last assignment for the ...
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I am still working on the final assignment for my MBA program. This is a unique week where (1) I do not have a job to go to and (2) my family is at Disney World for the week. So what does this mean for schoolwork? It means that since this is a lengthy assignment, I get to do a little bit over the course of several days instead of ...
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A tremendous milestone was accomplished this weekend. Graduation is one step closer.
In order to graduate from the Norwich MBA program, all students have to take a comprehensive exam. It was kind of a surprise when it was announced we had to take one. We were not sure what to study. Since I was able to evaluate my ...
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It is seven weeks down and four to go! This week, we are talking about “Sustainable Value Creation”.
Sustainable business concerns practices that either do not deplete natural resources, or replace those used with comparable resources thus preserving natural resources for future generations. The growing awareness of changes in ...
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This week (week 7 of Strategic Management) we have yet another in a long list of topics that are directly applicable to my job. My NEW job, even! This week’s discussion is “Strategy vs. Structure”. I need to make a list of topics that we have covered at Norwich that can be considered real-time applicable to ...
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I am sitting in a hotel room in Dallas looking over schoolwork for week seven. It is five weeks and counting until I am done. The level of analysis shifts from the business to the corporate level. The key issue shifts from the creation of sustainable competitive advantages to the maximization of shareholder wealth through the ...
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Week six is almost over in Strategic Management. The goals this week were to explain in terms of economic theory the logic of diversification and what it takes to justify the existence of a multi-business corporation and to extend business and corporate strategy principles to their implications for global strategies. I am not sure what ...
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I was recently interviewed by Benjamin Newell, Web Editor at Norwich University. I believe this was for a featured story on SGS Today which is located at:
http://www.graduate.norwich.edu/about/sgs_today.php
Here is the interview:
1) You mentioned in a recent blog post that you have done three degrees in the past six years. I cannot ...
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Every day I go to work at my new job, I realize one thing: My days of distance education are probably ending.
The biggest regret I have about leaving my old company is that it ran smoothly and I had a lot of “spare” time to get some participation in schoolwork, discussion forums, and other requirements. Now I guess I ...
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Week four of the last class in my MBA program starts this week. I took last week off. During some classes, the students are offered the luxury of taking one week off. That could not have come at a better time for me. The new job is making my head swim and to have school that week would have killed me.
As I get more ...
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Today (Sunday) is an “off” day. I found this out the hard way.
The goal this week was to adopt the perspective of, and comprehend the responsibilities of strategic managers and articulate an understanding of the past, present, and future of strategic management. This did not happen for me. I have been down with a sinus ...
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I was pleased to find that our final grade on our comprehensive team assignment for International Business was a 96%. We all worked hard on this assignment. The paper turned out to be over 50 pages and took about a week to write. I think we were all burned out after it was done. Working as a team over long distances was a ...
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It’s my week off between classes! I really needed the break. I honestly feel 100lbs lighter. I don’t have the weight of academic obligations on my shoulders. It is indeed a good feeling. During my week off I am doing some chores around the house, getting a little more involved at work, trying to focus more ...
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This week is the last week of International Business. This seminar has given me a deeper appreciation for the complexity of managing a business engaged in international operations. I firmly believe that the United States of America through its political climate, its culture, its economy, and its legal underpinnings, is uniquely qualified to create ...
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It’s the start of week ten. One more week to go after this. I’ve spoken to a couple of classmates and we all agree that we’re completely burned out. These last two weeks will be spend working on a single group project on Internationalization. When we’re done, we get a week off (I hope) and then ...
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In a letter to Samuel Kercheval in 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” It seems that at the end of the day, we will have no choice about this stimulus package making the rounds in Congress. Most Americans don’t want it. But that doesn’t seem to ...
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