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Anxious? Here’s MBA Interview Relief
Ah, relief. You’ve already sent in your applications, with essays carefully crafted and edited to perfection, stellar recommendations, and solid academic credentials. Nothing left for you to do but sit back and relax, albeit anxiously, right? Well, not quite. Whether applicants ascribe too much or too little importance to their interviews, the fact is that…
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Marketing Management – an MBA course at Said Business School
A core course taken in the second term 8 lectures Examined by 21 case studies (100%) Post course thoughts This class was 100% case study. The assessment,the teaching, pretty much everything was case study. And not your average nicely written Harvard case study either. Most of them were only a side of A4. A side…
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Strategic Management – an MBA course at Said Business School
A core course taken in the first term 8 lectures Examined by case study (20%) and examination (80%) Pre-course thoughts Welcome to the big picture. I read Jack Welch’s autobiography recently, and I suspect this is an introduction to the stuff he seemed to spend his time thinking about. Which companies to buy, which industries…
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People and Organisations – an MBA course at Said Business School
A core course taken in the first term 8 lectures, 8 lectures, plus case studies Examined by 4 case studies (40%) Final exam (60%) Pre-course thoughts This is one of the ones I’m really looking forward to. From people and what makes them tick to companies and how to make them tick this course covers…
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Industrial Organisation – an MBA course at Said Business School
A core course taken in the first term 8 lectures, 8 1 hour classes, + 3 hours work per week Examined by 3 case studies (30%) Final exam (70%) Pre-course thoughts Microeconomics and how to use it, seems to be the subject of this course. I haven’t got a lot to go on here, but…