Archives for August, 2010

Top Ten MBA programs: 15 months as a MBA student at Columbia Business School

An informal sampler of my business school education, a journey that started with an idle conversation in March 1997 and ended on commencement day in April 2000 at Uris Hall, the Columbia Business School campus on 116th and Broadway. In March 1997 I never thought that an Ivy League MBA from a top ten business school (ranked between number 5 and number…

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MBA Guides: Corporate Finance Training – Advertising strategy for an e-education portal

Corporate Finance Training is an online education startup still in its formative stages. The firm offers free online courses in Finance. Its product launch is scheduled around Feb-March 2010.

1.1    Key advertising issues for the finance e-education portal

We were asked to devise an advertising strategy for Corporate Finance Training. We were given access to the business plan, the initial product prototype and the entrepreneurs behind the…

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Finance Online: Financial services integration – banking and insurance – Fortune or Fiasco?

Financial Services Integration, Fortune or Fiasco? December 9-10, 1999, Georgia State University, Atlanta

A central theme in my professional development plan to qualify as a Fellow Society of Actuaries was  a better understanding of crossover of roles & products between banking and insurance segments. The financial integration symposium, held at Georgia State University provided a comprehensive review of “the state of the world” and the transitions expected in…

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MBA Guides: My MBA Finance course work at Columbia Business School

A friend recently asked advice about the final year course work at his top tier Ivy League Business School MBA program. I thought it would be useful to share the choices I made in my final MBA year at Columbia Business School ten years ago. The finance graduate course work at Columbia Business School fulfilled a number of objectives. My intention was to get a…

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Crude Oil Price outlook: US GDP Second Quarter, revised downwards to 1.6%: Oil to head lower

Wall Street Journal reports that the revised US GDP figure for second quarter came in a 1.6% compared to the original 2.4%. Given the recent downward trend in oil prices, the weekend and the upcoming crude oil ETF rollovers, oil should bring the 70 dollar per barrel barrier on NYMEX before the 7th of September. It may actually head even lower if other triggers also come up with…

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MBA Guides: Business School first year: Professor David Biem on investment banking, business school, ethics and academia

David Biem in 1999 taught the Corporate Finance core course, International Banking and the Emerging Financial Market elective at the Business School. This interview was originally published in Columbia Business School’s MBA student magazine Bottomline. I met him when he graded my Corporate Finance exemption exam before the first term started at the business school and told me that I had just barely made it past the eligibility requirement…

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Online Corporate Finance: The story behind the resource, the free finance courses and solved cases.

An extract from Reboot setting the context for how the first version of the online corporate finance resource came about.

An Ivy League business school is a great place to get your bearing. In a world characterized by 700 plus GMAT scores, outstanding college grades, fast-paced careers, and a…

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MBA Guides: Business school first year, first term: Drama in Real Life

I wrote these six pieces in my first few months at Columbia Business School as a fresh of the boat first year MBA student in New York. While they are all a little dated (it has been 10 years) they provide a nostalgic look back at days when post the sanctioning of your student loan you could sit at peace for a few hours each evening and write…

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MBA Guides: Business School first year, first term: Case Hell

I wrote these six pieces in my first few months at Columbia Business School as a fresh of the boat first year student in New York. While they are all a little dated (it has been 10 years) they provide a nostalgic look back at days when post the sanctioning of your student loan you could sit at peace for a few hours each evening and write a…

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MBA Guides: Business school first year, first term: Dear Mom and Dad or the MBA contract market

I wrote these six pieces in my first few months at Columbia Business School as a fresh of the boat first year student in New York. While they are all a little dated (it has been 10 years) they provide a nostalgic look back at days when post the sanctioning of your student loan you could sit at peace for a few hours each evening and write a…

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