2008-04-03
And with a click of a 'send' button my MBA is complete
I just submitted my final assignment "An analysis of WalMart's leaked brand positioning" and i'm done.
Looking back over the last couple of years, I think doing the course was valuable, as it opened my eyes up to different things that I didn't know I didn't know. I wish I didn't "waste" some of the electives. What made them a waste? shitty lecturers ...
2007-02-01
How not to conduct a recruitment interview
It's careers week at MBS, and a handful of companies have come to present themselves to students. I mainly chose to attend the financial related ones, and will give you a summary of the types of jobs on offer and how they got pitched. High Value-Add consulting -- Looking for the top 1% of graduates, work 80-90 hours a week and travel to exotic places you would have ...
2006-08-09
It's called Lock in.
"Over at Techdirt":http://techdirt.com/articles/20060808/1444217.shtml, Mike wrote a interesting article about how doctors (and car park operators) are getting screwed over by their use of proprietary software. I have no pity for them. It's one of the first things (maybe the second.. how to do powerpoint is the first) they teach you in business school.. create a product with high switching costs ...
2005-09-24
Urchin / Licensing models / Open source
over at TextDrive they are upset that they can't renew the urchin data center licence since the do-no-evil Google bought them, and seemed to have started a Petition/Survey to convince Google that they should continue their current licensing model. Why should google be forced to continue a product pricing model they don't agree with. Google is all about running stuff on their infrastructure. Why do ...
2005-09-22
Eating other people's lunches
source: The Friction Free Economy There are four basic strategies to fight a dominant market leader.
Brute force
Attack the market leader through an aggressive attack on several fronts- beat price-learning curve
- branding
- tailoring (to the market of one)
- volume manufacturing
- execute Davidow's law (beat them to the market on the next round, and gain the lead when you obselete their product)