Motivated Innovation

*formerly posted on the BGSU MBA blog in 2009 Good morning everybody!  This week marks the end of classes for the spring semester.  As such, professors have assigned their last papers and presentations and/or have written their final exams.  While finals week can be a stressful time, I definitely enjoy the flexibility of scheduling present.  To me, the looser schedule feels like extra free time.  To take advantage of the time, I usually establish daily schedules.  In terms of studying and completing the work, I make sure to alternate among subjects while also taking breaks for recreational activities.  I also try to study in different locations, both indoors and outdoors.  In doing all of this, I find that exam week is really not that stressful.  In the end, the week is my opportunity to show what I have learned this semester. How about everyone out there?  How do you handle exam week?  If you could give another student any exam week tips, what would you suggest?

*formerly posted on the BGSU MBA blog in 2009 Good morning everyone!  Hope you are having a good week.  Hope you also enjoyed the orientation day if you were able to attend last Friday.  I know that my classmates and I are busy, busy, busy this week and this month.  Just talking to Lenee up in the GEPB Office, I realized that I have individual or team papers due in April in every class.  In light of this, blogging is a good way to take some time to relax and reflect. As I have seen and you will see in your full-time MBA experiences, there will be people from different countries, different cultures, and different economies gathered together.  This means that different people will be familiar with different monetary units.  For example, I recall that students discussed different currencies as was appropriate for their Ethics, Law, and Communication class presentation/paper topics.  Personally, I do not know exchange rates off the top of my head, especially since they change as freque

*formerly posted on the BGSU MBASA website in 2009 The information below may sound familiar. Hopefully, the listed advice is something that you already practice. If not, please take note and adjust accordingly. The interview is over. The interviewer tells you that he/she will call you back in 2-3 weeks to let you know whether or not you are being hired. Now, it is time to wait, right? Maybe place a call or send an email in a week to show that you are still interested? This may have worked for the earliest of career jobs--it worked for me when getting a summer internship in high school. However, at the MBA level, we are expected to be polished job applicants. There is a saying that "silence is golden". Another saying says "no news is good news". There are times when these sayings provide good advice, but not here. Reviewing the situation above, our role in the interview process does not end with the interview. Once brought in for an interview, we should sen