Birgit im Abenteuerland ...

My MBA Program

Melbourne Business School - aka MBS (as seen in September 2006)

I don’t know whether I told you but I got an exemption for D&D (Data and Decisions is a statistics course which I was able to wave due to my “undergraduate degree”)

I’m currently taking five courses

• Marketing (with the part time students on Monday evenings ... Mondays are very long)
• Managerial Economics (visiting Professor from NYU Stern)
  
• Managing People for High Performance (aka MPfHP)
• Accounting for Managers
• Financial Management

This term is really a quantitative one … especially if you go for the usual program which includes D&D instead of Marketing.

I so far enjoy my courses though it’s very, very hard work … currently I work only for the sake of getting things done rather than to “learn” something. I thought it will be a lot of work but this exceeds my expectations by far …

Usually, the courses are graded by a mixture of:

• Class participation
• Individual assignments (case write ups, marketing projects, …)
• Syndicate (or group) assignments
• Mid-term and final exams

For next week I have to work on a syndicate assignment for Accounting (nearly done), an individual assignment for Marketing (a positioning statement for a personal electronics product – due on Monday, not yet started, probably choose ASUS notebooks …), another syndicate assignment for Finance (not yet started), and of course the ongoing class prep (case write prep for Marketing, MPfHP & Accounting - non yet started) plus around 7 chapters in several books (not yet started), …

You see, I can’t complain about not enough work to do … =;)

At least ,my past work experience as a consultant made me quite resistent regarding tough deadlines and working as close as possible to the deadlines ;)

MBS Courtyard

posted by Birgit im Abenteuerland @ 4:25 pm