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The Pitching for Startup Course – A guide to presenting winning pitches for your business plans

10th October 2011 by under B School, Business School, Online MBA Resources, Recommended Reading, Small Business, Startup     

The buy now page for Pitching for Startups Training Course is now live

Pitching for Startups: The Background

Arui Levi was the first board member I had who understood the process of fund raising. “A great idea and a great story are not enough, you need more than that for someone like me to take out my check book and sign away a part of my net worth to your…

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Crude Oil Mispricing Model – Commodity Prices and a study in Trailing Correlations

30th August 2011 by Admin under Commodities, Computational Finance, Crude Oil, Middle Office and VaR, Online MBA Resources, Recommended Reading     

The Crude Oil Mispricing model, presented in MS Excel worksheet format, assesses what the price of crude oil should have been if the historical relationship between crude oil and a given commodity were to have continued into the future. Vice versa, what would the price of a given commodity be if the average correlation between crude oil and a given commodity was maintained over the analysis period?

A comparative study…

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US Credit Rating Downgrade: Impact on financial and commodities markets

7th August 2011 by Admin under B School, Business School, Credit Process & Analysis, Middle Office and VaR, Recommended Reading     
US Credit Rating downgrade: Impact assessment The Rating Downgrade

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgrade of the US sovereign credit long-term rating by a single notch on Friday evening, 5th August 2011, after US markets closed has been the topic for the last 24 hours. The rating agency downgraded the US from its coveted triple A (AAA) rating to a double A plus (AA+) rating with a negative outlook, the first…

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Online MBA: Building a valuation model for an online education business

5th September 2010 by uzma under Recommended Reading     

This note was written as a supporting note for a complete project submission for the Entrepreneurial finance course at Columbia Business School. While the exhibits and excel files are dated, the process followed to build the online education model is still very relevant. If you would like to see an example with detailed step by step numerical calculations please see the following free cases on the

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Online Education – The battle for online MBA – Strategy and Tactics

4th September 2010 by uzma under Recommended Reading     

We wrote this piece together as a group as our final submission for our Strategy course led by Ralph Biggadike at Columbia Business School.

At the turn of the century in March 2000 the battle for the online MBA was just heating up. At the forefront was University of Phoenix (APOL) run by a maverick CEO beating numbers, analyst expectations but getting into just as much trouble with regional academic…

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Business School Admissions: Answers for the road to your top ten MBA application

4th September 2010 by uzma under Recommended Reading     
Business School Admissions: Twenty two answers for the road to your MBA application

I wrote these answers 10 years ago. I had just started at business school and the pain of the business school admissions process to a top ten MBA program was fresh in my mind. Other business school applicants were now asking the same questions, I had asked myself a few months earlier.

A decade and change…

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

30th August 2010 by uzma under Recommended Reading     
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

30th August 2010 by uzma under Recommended Reading     

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?

30th August 2010 by uzma under Recommended Reading     
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

30th August 2010 by Jawwad under Recommended Reading     

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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