CF sit-in over

0900-1000, the entire weekend’s worth of work was put to the test in 1 hour.
I think it went ok, it could certainly have been worse.

Now it is on to the exam paper in Supply Chain Management, it is due this Monday and has to be 8-12 pages. A bit much for 2.5 days worth of lectures? I feel that I have to spend most of the time reading up upon the topic actually.
Oh well at least I'll learn something new.
The case is pretty interesting though, it is based on the Crocs company, yes the ones with the "very colorful" plastic shoes.

The case is set in 2007, when things went well for the company, so recommendations have to be based on that. However, lately things have not looked so good for Crocs.

CF study session complete

Went to CBS today to study Corporate Finance with some of my classmates.
09:30 to 16:30 not bad!
I feel much more comfortable with the topic now.
We basically went through all the chapters we have covered so far and made sure that all concepts were understood by everyone.
Tomorrow I'll go through the online exercises that come with the text book.
Hopefully that should be enough to pass the exam Monday.

I pretty much understand the concepts, but I can't remember all the formulas yet, well 1 day to learn them all, so no beer until Monday (just kidding), beer and sushi on the menu now.

Going to Carlsberg

Guess who is going to visit Carlsberg?
(In respect to future job possibilities)
:O) I was lucky enough to be in the group that is going to visit Carlsberg,
not bad, I'm quite a fan.
I Just found out yesterday and the visit is already March 11th.

Next week is going to be busy indeed.
Monday Corporate Finance sit-in exam and Operations Management group work.
Wednesday, visit Carlsberg
All week write exam paper for Operations Management.
Oh and of course the readings for Strategic Management, best class so far! I love it.
It is just as good as Change Management and the 2 topics go very well together.

Term 3 over.

Which means that term 3 has been completed successfully :O) ,
with a 12 in CM and a 10 in CB, so I am not complaining.

Now it is fast forward term 4.
We have already finished all classes in Operations Management, the term paper is up in roughly a week.
Corporate Finance is a blur, last Monday we handed in the first of 3 exams, this Monday we have the 2nd, the sit-in multiple choice. CF is by far the hardest topic I have ever had. But I'm sure I'll make it.

FA passed.

Term 3 the best so far.

Yes as it says, for me term 3 has been the best term so far.
I think all 3 topics:
Financial Accounting (FA)
Change Management (CM)
Corporate Branding (CB)
were relevant, however I enjoyed FA and CB the most.
As I have mentioned in my previous posts I was quite surprised to find that I liked FA so much. :)
Kudos to our teacher Jeff Gramlich who did a wonderful job. He really did an excellent job of teaching a very difficult subject in a short amount of time.

In respect to CM I had been looking forward to this subject since I started the MBA and it did not disappoint.
Our teacher in CM was John Hayes who both teaches and practices change management in the "real world"; and again a teacher who managed to cram more knowledge into a short amount of time.
It has probably been the most relevant course so far. The theories behind change and how to handle it effectively are arguably more relevant now than ever given the current economic situation.

One notion that I found to be of particular interest for companies in high velocity industries, arguably game developers fit this bill, was that in these high paced firms a change process should not be instigated by first unfreezing the company from it's static assumptions. No one should in fact freeze high velocity firms because they tend to move towards multiple end points at relatively high speed.

Almost done with term 3

I just need to hand in my final paper in Change Management at 12:00 and then technically the 3rd term is over, which means that I am 1/2 MBA.

The last two exams were two 8 page papers, one for each subject.
As mentioned above one was for Change Management, the other paper was in Corporate Branding.
I enjoy writing papers, it really gives you time to understand a topic.

In 40 min. I'll jump on my bike, head to school, turn in the paper and get myself a new calculator for Corporate Finance (4th term).
We start Monday, so I know what I'm going to do Sunday :O).

But today and tomorrow I'm not going to anything but relax and enjoy the weather.
We've had snow and the sun is out, so the park looks really nice.