Week 3 Michaelmas

Another busy week. Its a repeating theme...I am wondering whether I am a glutton for punishment; I am actually enjoying it.

This week in addition to handing in 2 (yes 2) assignments I also managed to do/attend the following:

Trip to Deutsche bank in London
An opportunity to meet a load of OBA (Oxford Business Alumni). It was a great to actually meet people who had gone through this MBA & come out the other side. They gave some great insights into what they did then, what they do now and what they should have done at SBS. The coach ride down was also good fun.

Left to right: Subrata, Puneet, Tass, Me, Janis, Saheel, Kevin and Kara

Presentation from Dominic Casserely, UK MD of McKinsey.
This was a fascinating presention on his vision for companies in 2020. It was also followed by an select informal dinner where he continued on with his question/answer session.

Other presentations
From IBM, Diamond and Mark Precious, formerly of UBS equity research.

Hertford Guest Night
Another black tie dinner at Hertford college. Actually this was the first formal dinner that Namiko had managed to attend. It was a great night.

Namiko with Pawan and Shoko
Pre-Halloween party
This was held at St Hughs college and turned out to be a mainly MBA event. It was great to have the time to speak with MBAers who I hadn't really seen since the induction week.

Erm, some people dressed up!

Faryal with Janis and Tass

In addition to the lectures, group work, assignments, and parties, I need to decide which elective modules to take next term. Actually SBS has a great systems where the lectures actually come and market their subjects. We all sit in a very large lecture theatre while they try and convince us why we should take their's.

The list is as follows (from which I need to choose 2)

1. Organisational Analysis II: Developing effective organisations
2. Finance II: Technology and Innovation Strategy
3. Macro Economics
4. Strategy II
5. Marketing, culture and society

I need to decide by Friday 3rd Nov and have only managed to narrow it down to Finance II, Macro Economics and Strategy II. Well, I suppose that I still have a few days to think about it.

Thats it, another week bites the dust. Next week will be the half way point of Michaelmas term. Its going so fast...