Imagine, late July, two weeks in Oxford.  We have learned a few things, at the end of these modules we are officially six weeks in. As I am here back in Boston, I am starting to think about context in people management, new methods in accounting and thinking about strategy methods in marketing. Thinking back to our summer modules, the class time and the lessons are really starting to take shape back in the office. This is the strength of studying a program in this fashion, the immediate returns to your personal management method.  I see our cases, class discussions and theories in reality during meetings and these reflections strengthen my perspective.

A highlight of these two weeks was learning about Game Theory (During Managerial Econ).  We learned that they didn’t quite get it right in the movie “A beautiful mind” and learned the proper application of the theory in the context of hair colour (MBA student’s apparently prefer blonde).  My favorite case study this week also came from Managerial Economics — BA vs Ryan Air. In case you have this case next year (no pun intended), remember the fate of BA is in your hands and don’t be too tentative.

Signing off for this week, I leave with some advice to future students — reading, do ALL the reading in advance. It is tough, but it is so critical to class discussion. The hardest thing about studying in this program is that we have to balance two lives, but to make the most of both, the readings are what bridge the gap between our work and the classroom.