MBA = Done !

I have succesfully completed 54 credits required to finish the MBA graduate program from Robert H Smith school of business with a GPA of 3.73. The experience is immense and deep that I am afraid any simple statemement of how I now feel standing as a gradaute might underestimate the effort  and the persistance that it takes to complete the program.

It took a total of four years, the first year for GMAT, TOEFL, and Applications and the following three years for the program itself. The first one and half years are for the core courses, and the rest half of the program is for the electives. I immensely enjoyed the electives and I found that they are much more of value  than the core courses. On the other hand , I am not sure if I would have appreicated the electives as much as I did if not for the core courses.  Staying with a cohort for one and half year helped me form some friendships which made forming project teams easier. Forming teams in the electives portion is bit tricky cause I did not know most of the class and pitching to be part of a team felt awkward sometimes.

Life has not stopped as I pursued education, there is  death in the immediate family and I had a son while I was pursuing the course.The course work was manageble and I constantly put 8 -10 hours of work a day in all these years. I was juggling job, education, family and I am glad that I did not break down .

My top 3 favourite courses were :
Global economic environment, Games of Strategy, Data models and decisions.

Global economic environment: Being into science and  technology since childhood, I never developed liking for economics.But global economic environment is a course which I instantly liked. It just layed out how the international commerce work ? how the currency fluctions happen? As I am dual citizen of USA and India, may be I connected to the course now.

Games of Strategy: I just LOVE this course. It taught me the difference between decision making and strategic moves. How other rational player is completely free and how the opposition move might effect my action. When do we compete, and when do we cooperate ? Can synergies happen at all in a competitve environment ?

Data Models and Decisions:  The power of data, the regression models, how data is gathered and sythesized. Now I know how to read the news that summarizes the studies done by various research organizations.

My least favourite course is:
Social responsibility : This subject taught by a lawyer, just went on and on. Its more of the style than the substance that I hated about. If at all there is one key that I took away from this course that is " I have to be a good buyer" .


The courses that I took were:
TermCourse Name#Credits
Fall 2010BUSI630: DataModels and Decisions 3
Fall 2010BUSI664:Leadership and Human Capital3
Spring 2011BUSI 610 : Introduction to Financial Accounting2
Spring 2011BUSI681: Managerial economics and public policy2
Spring 2011BUSI683: Global Economic Environment2
Spring 2011BUSI650: Makerting Management2
Summer2011BUSI 611 - Managerial Accounting2
Summer2011BUSI 634 - Operations Management2
Fall 2011BUSI 660
- Creativity for Business Users		2
Fall 2011BUSI 640-
Financial Management		3
Fall 2011BUSI 690-
Strategic Management		2
Spring2012BUMO714-Negotations2
Spring2012BUSI 758R - Social Responsibility in Business2
Spring2012BUSI 622 -Managing Digital Business Markets
2
Spring2012BUSI 672: Global Supply Chain Management
(Globalization Selective)		2
Spring2012BUSI 667 - Cross-Cultural Communication & Teamwork2
Summer2012BUFN 750: valuation in corporate finance2
Fall2013BUSI785: Project management in dynamic environment2
Fall2013BUSI 621: Strategic & Transformation IT2
Spring2013BUAC 743 : Financial Statement analysis2
Spring2013BUSI698 : Consulting Project3
Spring2013BUMO 751 : Implementing strategy, organizing to compete2
Summer2013BUFN 755
Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity		2
Summer2013BUMK 722: Customer Equity Management2
Summer2013BUSI758Y : Games of Strategy2
  Total:: 54

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