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Cass on the MBAT 2008-06-08 07:23:46 Thats us - the Cass MBA team that went to the MBAT at HEC in May (thanks Dee for the photo).For those of you interested in what the Cass team did at the MBAT, here are two posts - one by Dee and the other by Toby.
Heading to Cass 2008-06-08 07:02:29 Many of you have emailed me to ask what academic life at Cass Business School is all about and I thought that rather than email all of you individually I shall write a blog post about it to answer some common questions.For me, the Cass MBA has been much more demanding than a job. The current class started out in September 2007 when we had two weeks of orientation (and where we raised the most mone Read more:Heading
Fuel cells, a neglected clean source of energy 2008-06-08 06:54:39 "Fuel cells
are a genuine 'clean' technology," says one of the study's investigators, Professor Chris Hendry of the Cass Business School, London. "But re-investment in nuclear technology is likely to squeeze out the investment necessary to make fuel cells competitive with existing energy sources and with other non-nuclear alternative energy optionsread more | digg story
Cass MBA class raises most money for Oxfam 2008-06-08 06:40:25 Instead of selling hot air ballooning and bungee jumping, Oxfam decided to challenge business schools and blue chip companies to show their entrepreneurial skills......Apart from Cass, Oxfam Experiences has worked, or is working with, London Business School, Warwick, Tanaka, and Cranfield and, on the corporate front, with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Vodafone, IBM, T-Mobile, Shell and Bodyshop. Accordi Read more:class
Cass Business School boss Henrietta Royle 2008-06-08 05:30:33 It is the subject of campus novels from writers such as C.P. Snow and Malcolm Bradbury: the tension between the dreaming academics and the technicians who have to run the place and pay the bills.If any institution can get the balance right, it should surely be Cass BusinessSchool
, whose purpose has been to turn out bright students...read more | digg story
A look at Tata Nano: The World's Cheapest Car 2008-06-06 14:49:34 In the BBC today: "India is fast becoming the centre of a revolution in motoring. A new generation of ultra-cheap cars is about to hit the streets, allowing millions of would-be drivers to dream of personal mobility for themselves and their families. The Tata Nano was unveiled with fanfare in January. Its basic price - about $2,500 - is about half of its rivals." (Read more here)The video in this Read more:World
Using Second Life in the MBA 2008-06-06 09:43:06 Read news today that the School of Informatics at City University (incidentally also the place where my girlfriend studies), hosted a seminar in Second
Life.Of course I had blogged earlier about having created a group in SL for Cass Business School and now we have 6 members (yay) but my arguments for using Second Life as a platform for delivering MBA education have had their merits counter argued
The Interstate so far 2008-06-04 05:28:45 So I'm here in Brussels for the Interstate Programme. Its been quite a good 4 days and we have only the afternoon session left after which I travel back to London.One of the special things about the Interstate is that it introduces a political perspective to MBAs. This time in Brussels, besides me from Cass, we have participants from Wharton, IE, Tuck, UCLA, Leeds, ESSEC and HEC.A point was made t
Free Rice - The problem with viral campaigns 2008-05-26 13:39:34 A new day, a new site. "Free Rice" this time. vocabulary games and the site will donate 20 grains of rice to the world's hungry via the World Food Program for every question you answer correctly.The trouble with this site (and many others) is thata) it is not for profit (how boring!!!)b) its founders probably think 'oh what a good idea, one day we'll have 10 milion people clicking away and everyon
Cass group on Second Life 2008-05-26 13:38:14 I have created a group on Second
Life for Cass Business School students, staff and alumni. If you log on to SL please search for the keyword Cass and it should come up. A couple of people have already signed up.I have meanwhile, been researching the kind of presence other business schools have in SL, including IESE and INSEAD. If you are interested in talking about topics such as these please mess Read more:Second Life
Heart of the city 2008-05-26 13:37:56 I don't think I knew the significance of this before I joined Cass. That we are at the doorstep of the City of London, the financial center, says it all I think.This is an image from Google Earth. The red marker is Cass. I've highlighted youtube links and got 3d buildings up.
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More on the City 2008-05-26 13:37:13 A promotional video from the City of London council.
People Management: Feedback Mechanisms 2008-05-26 13:36:52 I've always wondered why line managers prefer to appreciate or rebuke their reportees in private. In organizations and countries where I have worked, I found it peculiar that some line managers preferred to say nice things in public, but harsher ones in private, perhaps in a meeting room. I dislike this practice of discriminating between positive and negative feedback and since most people in mode Read more:Feedback
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Corporate Social Networking, HRM and Performance Measurement 2008-05-26 13:36:36 In India specifically, the demand for people, especially in the IT industry, is so great that most HR departments end up focusing almost entirely on recruitment. In such a scenario, their success is often, at the end of the year or quarter, measured by the number of people they were able to bring in. My ex-company, for instance, went from hiring about 20 people a month, to 200 a month over the c Read more:Measurement
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A great B-school website 2008-05-26 13:36:19 A study was conducted on what makes a good B-school website
and is reported in brief here.Naturally, Cass was in the top 2 for UK Business School websites :-)The EIU makes a mention of it on their Which MBA blog.
Its official. We hate powerpoint. 2008-05-26 13:36:01 Its common perception that MBA programs train you to make better and snazzier presentations so you can talk smooth and use business jargon that impresses your average corporate.However, most of us know that this kind of presentation just serves to confuse the average listener.So I was quite happy when in Block 1, back in September, just after we did our first group presentations, the feedback we g
China - Reasons for fear? 2008-05-26 13:35:43 A few of my classmates (including F) have just started a Thought Leadership Club that aims to discuss leadership challenges facing the world today. So today, we had the first session and the topic was - "China
represents a rapidly increasing economic, political and military power in the world but does China give the rest of the world reasons for fear, in political, economic or social terms?"The d Read more:Reasons
Ahmadinejad, the UN and Wal-Mart 2008-05-26 13:35:21 Just found some interesting links posted on www.nomadlife.orgThree interesting websites.One.Ahmadinejad
has a blog.-Mart has started a, what they say is a largely unsupervised (although doesn't seem like), blog written by its merchants about the products on its shelves. Even the New York times caught this one., and of most relevance to us MBA types, the UN has launched a website with all the world
In the Times 2008-05-26 13:34:46 F got quoted here in an article in The Times
."Does learning a second language translate into business success?" wonder where they got this fact from though - "About 60 per cent of Cass MBA graduates will either work in China or for Chinese companies". Something like "About 60 per cent of Cass MBA graduates will either work in London or for British companies" would've sounded more plausible. We are
A WhatQuake? 2008-03-01 19:55:57 Bah!!! 5.4? In Lincolnshire of all places, a well timed act of God perhaps? God dislikes northerners also it seems.But seriously, 5.4 is pretty damn weak, I have experienced a 6.7 and that was pretty insane, I was in a shop at the time when it happened and at first it felt like a big truck going past outside but the rumble grew exponentially and then the ground began to shake, the shop windows mov
Back in the groove once again 2008-02-13 13:48:48 I didn’t realise, until recently, that I liked The Office and in particular the US version. Maybe it’s because I started with that but I think I’ll give Ricky Gervais another chance later. Anyway, I watched an episode the other night where the boss went to a business school to talk about “how business is being done”. Of course he showed once again the not-to’s but what was more interes
American TV is better: Or why British TV sucks... 2008-02-11 15:28:01 There's nothing like Christmas television to remind us that all is not well in this country when it comes to our programming. Perhaps it's just one "Only Fools and Horses" Christmas special too many or another Dickens novel massacred by B-list British
actors, either way the target audience for this crap is diminishing year by year. The image of a family stuffed with turkey huddled around the box w Read more:American
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First Week Back (will it be Two Thousand and Great?!) 2008-02-11 15:20:45 I guess I was looking forward to a couple of weeks off. Lots of food (turkey sandwiches for at least three days post Christmas Day) and general mental stagnation. I haven’t had the chance to switch off mentally for as long as I remember, so when the exams finished and the Christmas holidays stretched before me I was giddy with excitement. However, one thing I’ve realised is that for as long as Read more:First
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So I volunteered... 2008-02-11 15:20:17 So when Pranay approached me to contribute to this blog I was somewhat hesitant, I had blogged before and usually I ended up stopping as things around me got too hectic. And hectic is most certainly one way to describe the Cass MBA. It's a one year course and it is very intense and understandably some things get left by the wayside when the work and the day to day crap piles up. Saying that, I wil
The Heat is On... 2008-02-11 15:19:49 I can’t believe we are already about to start the third week of block 3. Time has passed so quickly and deadlines that once seemed out of reach are now well within view. Assignments are at a critical stage right about now and next week will decide whether or not we triumph as a group or crash in a ball of flames.I could go on about how success in these instances is best achieved through effectiv
Are call centers in India slave ships? 2008-06-09 16:34:42 There was a report published in late 2005 that compared work in the India
n Business Process Outsourcing industry to Roman slave ships
. An article on that report can be found here.Now I had written a comment on a post the Indian Economy blog that I happened to bump into again today. I was exasperated then that people in India considered call centers to be a good thing and took it as a matter of 'na
On your marks, get set...it's the MBA tournament 2008-06-12 10:06:51 Training sessions in Regent's Park, London, are not on the MBA curriculum at Cass Business School but there is no doubt how seriously they are taken by the students. The goal is the MBA Tournament, or MBAT for short, and the strategy is total fitness."Early on in the year we were visited by members of last year's class, who gave us a presentation about the MBAT," says Nicolas Michaelides, 32, who
The Entrepreneurship elective 2008-06-22 12:09:29 We're getting a lot of press after the £10 million we got for the new entrepreneurship center at Cass. This one is related to an elective I took in May - Innovation Business Project - where we worked for ChangeBase and came up with strategy we thought they should follow.I'm probably doing an entrepreneurship project this summer and trying to come up with a business proposal - will post some more Read more:Entrepreneurship
The Food Chain - In Fertile India, Population Has Outstripped Agriculture 2008-06-22 11:42:46 The Food Chain
- In Fertile India
, Population
Has Outstripped Agriculture
- Series - NYTimes.comWith the right technology and policies, India could help feed the world. Instead, it can barely feed itself. India’s supply of arable land is second only to that of the United States, its economy is one of the fastest growing in the world, and its industrial innovation is legendary. But when it comes
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