EMBA Term 2 – Session 1 Notes By vijay on September 29, 2016 — 1 min read After a great study trip, and some relaxing summer holidays, second term of EMBA started on 9th Sep, 2016. Friday The first weekend we had Personal Leadership Development sessions. Friday started with a session on “Co-Active Leadership” by Judy van Zon – based on the ideas in the eponymous book.Judy explained the fives styles of... More
Notes from Executive MBA’s Cape Town Study Trip By vijay on August 8, 2016 — 7 mins read As part of the Executive MBA program at RSM, our class had to attend a Study Trip. Half of the class went to Cape Town and the other half went to Johannesburg for a week long trip. I joined the group which went to Cape Town, South Africa for from 4th August to 9th August.... More
EMBA Grades By vijay on May 23, 2016 — 1 min read A quick update on grades we got so far in Term 1. Course Type Score Class Min. Class Max. Class Avg. Business Analytics Individual 80% 21% 99% 82% Business Analytics Team 98% 80% 100% 91.65% Organisational Behaviour Team 89% 80% 100% 88.24% Managerial Economics Team 69% 65% 84% 74% Managerial Accounting – 1 Team 80%... More
Notes from EMBA Series 6 Classes By vijay on April 18, 2016 — 1 min read Managerial Accounting – Sessions 7 & 8 The final two sessions of Managerial Accounting shifted the focus from accounting to managerial control, centralisation vs. decentralisation, and performance metrics. During the sessions we discussed four different cases: Iceland’s Landsbanki: exploring the actions a new CEO can take over after a complete collapse of banking system in... More
Notes from EMBA Series 5 Classes By vijay on April 9, 2016 — 1 min read Business Analytics Session 4 & 5 The final two sessions of Business Analytics focused on how to analyse and present the data and which types of analytics available for different types of problems. We discussed the case of optimising the offer coupons given out to the customers of Carrefour super market based on customer’s purchases. Activities of... More
