Are we there yet?
I am believer in the journey rather than the destination. Nevertheless, the happiness of accomplishement has its own charm. The MBA journey has been rock and roll so far, from Shanghai to London and from Dubai to New Delhi, and the next stop is going to be beautiful St. Petersburg, Russia. Past month has been full of interesting events -- Finishing term end deliverables, including the Strategy Report (Research In Motion), giving final exams on Strategy & Finance, ramping up internship work with Toniic--an Angel impact investing network--on Regional and Sector Analysis of Africa for Impact Investments and finally selecting the electives for term 6.
As I sit down this weekend to look at my todo-list today, I am afraid to say that it has failed to get any shorter. We already have a quiz due for CCL class, a warchest of readings from two core courses for the next term--Managerial Accounting and Operations, final edits of the Toniic report, a writeup for another business case competition that I have decided to participate in and finally, extra readings for the Entrepreneurship Workshop organized by P4E.
Unlike previous batch, our batch has shown much more interest in concentrations (the law of nature--each new generation gets more and more ambitious). As I mentioned above, we are required to pick our courses for the term (list attached). The list is impressive, and if I had enough time, I would have taken most of them, if not all. Given the limit of 4, it is a challenge to drop courses from my top picks. I always wanted to do Strategy Concentration, but the way the courses are laid out, I am afraid I would have to drop the concentration Idea.
So far my book bag includes Negotiations (A very highly rated class at Duke from Rosette Ashleigh), Entrepreneurial Strategy by Ashish Arora, Product Management by Andres Musalem and Corporate Restructuring by Vish Vishwanathan. My selection in a way is a good mix since it includes a course each from General Management, Strategy, Marketing and Finance. Given that I am a masochist, I also plan to audit two more courses, most likely Venture Capital/Private Equity and Entreprenuership and New Venture Management.
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