Monday, July 9, 2007

The Last Day of my MBA!

Wow! What a great feeling to be done with the MBA! I'll certainly miss the great people including my learning teammates. I've been lucky to have some good ones!

Well this will be a sad day too as I've really enjoyed the intellectual stimulation. It has forced me to be brutal with my time as well. Now I will have a bit more relaxation.

Maybe I'll post more often now.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Final Paper Turned In!!!!!!!

Well I just turned in the final paper and now have to wait a bit til grades come out. I'm hoping to keep this A streak alive!

Now I'm exhausted from the past 21 months of school while working full time and traveling all the time. That PhD is calling........

Perhaps it can wait a bit!

Saturday, July 7, 2007

The last 72 Hours of my MBA

The finish line is so close and I am really sweating out my last paper ( a strategic plan) for this last course. I am going over it with a fine tooth comb to make sure I don't miss anything.

I keep telling myself that just 72 hours from now I will have completed all the requirements for my MBA program.

This has been a great program for me. I've learned a great deal from my learning teams and all my classmates ( spread all over the US and Europe). I've found I am able to apply much of the learning from the program and already received both a raise and a promotion since starting the MBA. I attribute both to the tools and skills I learned ( and was able to put into practice).

Well, I have to finish that paper........

Friday, July 6, 2007

MBA Countdown - Less than 3 days!

Here I am taking a day of vacation to work on my final MBA paper. This is a complete strategic plan exercise and I find myself bleary-eyed and tired but pretty satisfied so far. I figure one more day's worth of work and I'll have it complete.

What a journey - lots of late nights and very early mornings. In spite of writing so much, it seems hard to actually describe.

This has been a goal of mine for years so I feel very satisfied to be on the verge of achieving it.

Monday, July 2, 2007

iPhone a success ( or a pump and dump)?

By all early accounts the iPhone seems to be a success. I was reading that analysts think Apple has sold 500,000 units, well above expected levels. That makes it a very big thing. Now if half of those new customers are switchers from competitive plans, that is good news for AT&T too.

Now we will find out how many iPhone returns there will be in the next 30 days. If there are lots, it could be the most finely crafted pump and dump scheme.....................

MBA - Here I come!

Well it has been a very difficult couple of weeks but now I am within 7 days of finishing my MBA. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Now I'm working on my final project, a full-scale strategic plan. I've been lucky to have a great instructor for this final course and we are having some great discussions. I certainly will miss that.

Well, I have been thinking of that PhD...........