It has been a crazy month since GMSC presentation day, and the defined end of my first semester as an MBA student. That time, that stress has all washed away and given rise to a whole new (yet familiar) set of activities, known as the summer internship! Let’s backtrack a bit, and fill you all in on the end of GMSC; after all, I was taking you through my journey, and so that is only fair. As classes ended, and the last finals were taken, the group of students in GMSC had the wonderful opportunity to spend a week keenly focused on achieving success on presentation day. Thanks to our awesome classmates, this task was fruitful, as we practiced our way to May 7th. Not really knowing what to expect on presentation day, my team focused on ensuring our props were delivered to our room on time, and that we could get one practice run in before the big show. And a big show it was…we arrived to a room full of 50 judges, and other members of the GMSC family….enough to make you realize you would be speaking to a full, full house. As the presentation began, ...

The last one year has been the most exciting, and challenging for all of us. A class of 200+ students with different backgrounds, skill sets, aspirations and motivations came together to earn a well-deserved MBA from one of the top schools in US, and it feels like so different now that I realize that I've graduated. I'm sure all the other graduating students feel the same. For me the time spent in school was all about learning from others, faculties, guests and staff, but most of all, from my fellow classmates. They have been a continual source of knowledge and wisdom, and I hope to keep learning no matter where I am. Now that we are newly minted MBAs, I feel that I am part of a new program, Master of Learning and Application; and it's all about applying what you have learned, to gain more from that experience and learn more. What makes this MBA special is not what we discuss in classrooms or breakout rooms or seminars. The learning was 24/7. It started at 1300 Clifton Rd, but it continued at WinShape, in China, Brazil, and Dubai, during GALA, at The Skydive Farm, in Omaha, and so many other places. ...

On behalf of all of us at GBS, congrats on finishing a wonderful milestone in your life!  We wish you all well, and will miss our beloved GLOBE writers!

Earlier this year, students from Goizueta Business School had the opportunity to travel to Omaha for a Q&A with The Oracle of Omaha, Mr. Warren Buffett. I had heard a lot about the last year's trip, and I was very excited to be part of this year's meeting with Mr. Buffett. Following is an excerpt from the Q&A. Warren Buffett Meeting 2/6/09 Kansas: Berkshire has invested in several insurance companies, would you go into the health insurance business? Mr. Buffett: No.  Health insurance is so ingrained into national policy that it is a tough business.  It’s pretty adversarial.  I’m not really that excited about it from a business perspective.  I don’t want to write policies with high loan loss ratios.  That being said, I would buy the stock of an undervalued healthcare insurer. Insurance is an interesting business.  You know, we underwrote a two year life insurance policy on Mike Tyson.  I wanted an exclusion against women shooting him, but they wouldn’t let me. South Dakota: You’ve recently invested in Goldman Sachs and GE.  Is the financial sector a good buy right now? Mr. Buffett: No sector is a good buy unless you understand the business.  However, I do believe that there is good value and great opportunity now in the ...

I’m sure many – if not all – of you are curious about the current job market for MBA graduates. If you’re on the fence about committing to a program, the grim economic picture painted by the media each day probably isn’t helping your decision. It used to be that a top-tier MBA magically unlocked the gate to the mythical realm of six-figure employment with companies that do stuff you can’t explain without obscure acronyms like TQM and KPI. Recruiting season culminated in a grueling decision among multiple offers in major cities across the globe, and then you went out for Halloween and pissed away every cent of that $10,000 sign-on bonus. That’s about as close as a civilian can get to feeling like a top pick with the Yankees. Unfortunately, the days of 2006 are over – for now, at least. The situation has changed dramatically for this year’s graduates, and not just MBAs, but almost everyone who is diving back into the job market in May. I read this week that 3,000 lawyers were laid off in the first quarter, hapless victims of what was once regarded as a bullet-proof profession. Even some of my classmates with job offers ...

"Voice of GBS" is 6 months old! Now it's time for us to regroup, find out what's working, what's not and what you would like to see from us. Below is a link to a survey which will be open for approximately two weeks from the date of this post. Please complete the survey, we've made it as quick and painless as possible. We'll begin implementing your suggestions as soon as we collect and analyze the responses. Thanks everyone! Click Here to take survey

It’s been over a week since Welcome Weekend, and Jean and I are still reeling from all of the adrenaline, hard work and excitement. Welcome Weekend is held annually for accepted students and is an awesome way for prospective students to get to know potential classmates, current students, faculty and staff.  I can’t believe that after months of planning, it’s finally over!  We had an incredible time getting to meet so many cool people.  It was a pretty full weekend, with lots of eating, mingling and general fun.  The theme of the weekend was “Kicking it New School.”  Details of the weekend are below:   [caption id="attachment_177" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="Ambassadors lining walls in auditorium"][/caption] Friday: ·         Optional Sessions:  Optional information sessions kicked off the weekend and filled prospective students in on housing, health insurance and financial aid. ·         Welcome:  Julie Barefoot, Director of Admissions, and J.B. Kurish, Dean of the Full-Time MBA Program, welcomed everyone to Welcome Weekend 2009. ·         Reception:  Goizueta’s Cool Blue Nights, the evening reception, followed with delicious Southern fare like cheese grits and corn bread.  YUM! ·         Late Night:  Prospective students and current students enjoyed Late Night at Front Page News, a great bar in Midtown.   Saturday: Welcome:  Larry Benveniste, Dean of the Goizueta Business ...

Hello out there, this is your host Parul, here to deliver another installment of “What the heck is GMSC?”… When I last wrote about GMSC, our team was in the discovery phase of our GMSC project. The timeline for the class is designed for us to systematically go through this process, by doing an industry and competitor analysis, and conducting secondary research to begin the process. When we have defined the problem, then we begin the process of developing our survey for quantitative analysis. The survey is designed to collect data about your specific topic from users or relevant parties; ours is along the lines of usage patterns for data analytics. This survey can be internal to the client company or external, which has given many GMSC, groups the extra experience of working with email list brokers. The survey is reviewed and re-reviewed, by GMSC academics as well as industry experts, and can be a really intensive learning process…if you thought the simple days of check boxes were still around, you have another thing coming! Needless to say, when our team finally crafted our survey and sent it out, I was thinking… “Houston, we have landed”! Our ...

Thanks to everyone who helped out with and attended Welcome Weekend 2009!  The weekend was extremely well organized, and a big success overall!

As part of our MBA program here at Goizueta, we have the opportunity of attending mid-semester international lead week module in spring. This year we had Dubai and Cairo, Brazil or China as options. And because my love for Asian food, Jackie Chan and long flights, I chose the latter. Around 30-ish of my classmates and I left Atlanta on the morning of 26th February to embark on this 16 day trip, and landed at the Pudong Airport in Shanghai next day. The flight was long and boring; however, I carefully chose an exit row seat and hence was spared by any inconvenience generally caused by fitting a 6'3" body into an airline coach class seat. We had a lot of fun on the flight, but after hours and hours of chatting, watching movies (btw, I happened to see two Hindi movies on a Delta flight from Atlanta to Shanghai. Is Bollywood so popular now days, or was it the Slumdog effect) and playing poker (my friends and I are prepping up from Macau), we were happy to finally get back on the ground. From the first minute in Shanghai, we started to see why everyone was so excited about the country. ...