It was a quick two-week... After touching down on the 12th. First priority was to find a apartment. I was going to spend just 2 days looking and decide before I started working on the 16th, but we couldn't find a satisfactory one until the 18th. We finally decided on an apartment near Meguro station. It was right about the upper limit of what I wanted to spend for rent, and it's at a pretty convenient location, so I think we made a pretty good choice.
The apartment took a week to be ready, so we actually just moved in this Sunday. Only half of our shipment from US/Canada arrived, and all the appliance we bought are out of stock. We managed to get a bed from ikea (no blanket), so at least we are not sleeping on the floor....
ps. I am stealing my neighbor's internet connection to write this blog... hehe
2008-07-29
2008-07-19
Marshall MBA 2008 Spring Term
Before I forget, better write down some stuff for my last term as an MBA candidate
GSBA 556: Business Development in the Networked Digital Industry (NDI)
This course talks about the industry and technology trends of NDI, and introduced some methodologies to evaluate and forecast potential business ideas. Although the name has "business development," the methodologies are much more general.
IOM 522: Time Series Forecasting
A rather quantitative class. Basically, it introduces some methods to analyze data with only time as the x-value. It's also an applied course, so we didn't really had to touch any hard core math. Very interesting to be looking at different data. Our professor is actually an expert in the South California Real Estate, so it's even more interesting given the US economy situation.
IOM 599: Special Topics
A multi-disciplined class. The topics basically investigate how technology trends affected different industries and shapes their future. It's a very dense course, but I think it's one of the more interesting classes I have taken in Marshall.
MOR 565: Alliance Strategy
This class focuses on interactions between different organization and how to craft strategies to dealing with power balance, size, etc. Alliance is a very new topic, so there's no established methodologies for analysis. Still, it's a fun class
MKT 555: Marketing Channels
This class focuses on the Channel strategies in marketing. Since I am not exactly a marketing person, this is pretty new topic. The other P's in marketing is also very much related, but there isn't much time to combine other P's in this course.
GSBA 556: Business Development in the Networked Digital Industry (NDI)
This course talks about the industry and technology trends of NDI, and introduced some methodologies to evaluate and forecast potential business ideas. Although the name has "business development," the methodologies are much more general.
IOM 522: Time Series Forecasting
A rather quantitative class. Basically, it introduces some methods to analyze data with only time as the x-value. It's also an applied course, so we didn't really had to touch any hard core math. Very interesting to be looking at different data. Our professor is actually an expert in the South California Real Estate, so it's even more interesting given the US economy situation.
IOM 599: Special Topics
A multi-disciplined class. The topics basically investigate how technology trends affected different industries and shapes their future. It's a very dense course, but I think it's one of the more interesting classes I have taken in Marshall.
MOR 565: Alliance Strategy
This class focuses on interactions between different organization and how to craft strategies to dealing with power balance, size, etc. Alliance is a very new topic, so there's no established methodologies for analysis. Still, it's a fun class
MKT 555: Marketing Channels
This class focuses on the Channel strategies in marketing. Since I am not exactly a marketing person, this is pretty new topic. The other P's in marketing is also very much related, but there isn't much time to combine other P's in this course.
Japan, Again
It's been a while since I wrote here. A lot has happened since then... graduated, married, honeymooned, moved, and started to work. Like the title, I am back to Japan, again.
I am back to where I interned. I don't remember if I wrote anything about my intern experience as a whole, but I was very impressed with my intern experience. Sony is very different than I had imagined, for the better. So when they offered me a full-time position, I was very happy and excited to be back. Of course the pay isn't that bad either :P
So, I am back, this time for 3 years at least. Will report back now and then on my "professional" life in Japan. Should be fun :)
I am back to where I interned. I don't remember if I wrote anything about my intern experience as a whole, but I was very impressed with my intern experience. Sony is very different than I had imagined, for the better. So when they offered me a full-time position, I was very happy and excited to be back. Of course the pay isn't that bad either :P
So, I am back, this time for 3 years at least. Will report back now and then on my "professional" life in Japan. Should be fun :)
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