November 17, 2004
MBA Prep.
I'm meeting Megumi and a friend for lunch near my office in a bit, and have a few moments to kill, so I thought I'd write a little about my MBA preparations.
Firstly, I have all the paperwork and form-filling to do for Warwick. So far, it hasn't been too taxing. The most important point seems to be if you can show you have the cash to pay them their fees! I have finished most of the forms now, and got confirmation that my registration is all in order, so 'materials' will be sent shortly. Should be interesting to see what arrives, and if I will have room to store it all (all course text books and notes are included in the cost of the course).
Cartton from Cartoon Stock.
Other than that, I am trying to read as much as I can. I'm not sure exactly what will be useful for the course, so I'm picking from a bit of a smorgasbord of various management and business texts. At the moment, my train reading is Brand Management by Aakers, my bedtime reading is Managing in Turbulent Times by some bloke called Drucker, and my weekend reading is an 800-page beast called An Introduction to Financial Accounting (or something equally thrilling).
I have also been watching some online lectures. Special thanks to a wonderful institution called MIT, who kindly make lecture notes available and video many of their guest speakers' lectures. Note this seems to apply to different courses at different levels (undergrad, graduate, doctoral), and to many open lectures. It's a nice, alternative way to learn a little and think about some of the issues I will be studying for the next 4 years (did I really say 4 years....?).
Here are the links to MIT World, and the MIT OpenCourseWare site.
MIT World(LINK)
MIT OpenCourseWare(LINK)
Finally, I'm thinking of setting up another blog to track my progress through the slog of the MBA. I may not have time to do it properly, but it would be nice to have a record of the good and the bad of the whole thing as I go through it. If I do set it up, there will be a link from GBB (the one and only, the original!)
Posted by Gary at November 17, 2004 11:40 AM