Tag Archive | "b821"
Categories: MBA Studies
Hi there again. It was a bit quiet on my blog recently. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but most of all the revision for my B821 course (Financial Strategy) exam kept me busy. It was hard work, but brought together a lot of the course concepts, and I “suffered” a few severe aha moments. [...]
Categories: Books & Papers, MBA Studies, Project Mgt.
As part of B821, I recently read a paper called ‘Why bad projects are so hard to kill’, (Isabelle Royer, [1]). It contains a summary of research into projects that had significant warning signs that something was wrong and were still continued for a long time, causing huge monetary losses. It resonated with some of [...]
Categories: MBA Studies, Thoughts
Hi there, in case you wondered… I’m still alive! The last weeks were just really busy, as I had the first ugly workload peak in my personal little ‘Being a working mum and studying as well’ experiment ;) Besides getting up to speed with my customer’s team (which is working out great now), I had [...]
Categories: Blog, MBA Studies, Thoughts
On May 1, my next course at the Open University Business School (OUBS) started officially. It is called ‘B821 – Financial Strategy’ and is one of the ‘electives’ of stage 2 of the studies towards the MBA degree. I am about half way through my MBA program now, with two 6-months electives (one of which [...]
