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My Teammates Rock
Posted on May 4, 2006 by Ching under School.
Not only did we take first in Market Share and second in Cumulative Net Income and Stock Price but we also got 100 in our presentation! Perry’s comments are as follows:
Team 1D,
I have graded your final presentation and want to give you feedback on it. Please see my comments below.
1. Initial Strategy In beginning your presentation with your mission statement and three-point Our Strategy slide you made your initial strategy immediately clear. Moreover the explanation that you offered for why you developed the strategy that you did (based on your collective, personal backgrounds) showed that you had thought deeply about what your strategy should be and developed a strategy to which you all were committed. This level of analysis, to realize why you developed the strategy that you did, was remarkable.
2. Strategy Change Your discussion of how your strategy changed during the simulation was, for me, the best part of an outstanding presentation. You did an excellent job of illustrating your early strategy and talking about how it changed. In the How our Strategy Changed section of your presentation, you did a good job of succinctly explaining how and why your strategy changed overall. But I was most impressed by your self-identification of the strategic drift that you experienced as a team. This self-identification again showed that you had thought deeply about your simulation experience and analyzed yourself. This was simply outstanding.
3. Teamwork It seemed that you worked well together as a team and you did a good job describing the communication norms that you developed.
4. Decision Making Excellent. You did a good job of describing both your decision-making process and structure.
5. Key Strategic Moves The secrets of your success you offered seemed right on-target. It seemed that the eight factors that you listed as the secrets of your success were the factors that indeed contributed most to the success you experienced. When I saw your slide it seemed to me that every other team could have learned from your experience. You made a lot of good strategic moves.
6. Current Position You did a good job of indicating where your firm currently stands overall in the simulation and where each of your vehicles stands.
7. Would Have Done Differently The three points that you suggested where you would have made changes if you had it to do over again (financing stock vs. bonds, miscalculating demand, and COGS) were right on-target. I think these are exactly the three areas of concern in which different decisions made have resulted in better outcomes.
8. Company Future You clearly showed that now, at the end of the simulation, you are in a great position as a firm. Based on your position, I agree with your assessment that I think that you could have been able to takeover the industry leader position in stock price and cumulative net income. Moreover I thought that your proposals for the future were strong. You did not simply state that we will continue doing what we have been doing. You showed that you had thought about your future and you offered specific, innovative ideas for your future. I particularly liked your plan to acquire firm E.
9. Lessons It seems that you really engaged the simulation and learned a lot from it. The lessons you offered followed perfectly from your experience, and again, you demonstrated that you had thought about your experience and extrapolated from it in developing your lessons. You did a good job.
10. Questions You did a good job of answering my questions.
Simply put your presentation was outstanding. You exceeded all expectations that I had for the final presentation. Therefore I gave you a 100 for your Case Presentation score.
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Our MGMT 681 Group
Posted on May 2, 2006 by Ching under Moblog, School.
I’m not this short really. I’m just hunched over. I promise!
This group totally rocked the MGMT 681 simulation. We dominated in the area of market share and we were leading in stock price. We ultimately finished second in stock price and cumulative net income, and then first in market share but I think had the simulation continued we would’ve blasted everyone right out of the water.
Our presentation was beautiful! Jen even did a commercial for our company. It was outstanding! Except for the minor technical difficulties in the beginning I think it went well.
I don’t think I’ll ever get over my presentation anxiety, though. I’ll always get the jitters no matter what.
Cheers to an awesome group!
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Losing My Soul
Posted on February 23, 2006 by Ching under School.
It’s just me checking in from class. You know, C sucks away one’s soul just as bad as Accounting if not worse. I wish dad could take this class for me. I’d be getting an A for sure. But that’s because dad rocks. He’s just good at everything, period.
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Ambitious Undertakings
Posted on February 22, 2006 by Ching under School.
Ambitious undertakings: two words one should always stay away from. Seriously. I’m not kidding. I got my first CS 300 exam back the other day. I got a C. This is actually pretty good considering I am struggling in that class. If this was any other class, I would probably be on the verge of suicide. I’m sure you’re tired of my suicide threats, though. You heard enough about them last sem when I took my final Accounting class. You’d think that after my horrific Fall 2005 sem experience with trying to complete my Accounting minor, I’d know better than to try for yet another minor. Label be stubborn and pig-headed. Okay, perhaps not stubborn and pig-headed but just foolish. How about that? Foolish is probably more appropriate. I wish I wouldn’t have made the Dean’s List last sem. It gave me misplaced confidence. After overcoming that last Accounting class (and yes, Jen, Accounting sucks away your soul), I just thought I could conquer anything. How wrong I was! Now I’m experiencing the same, should-I-stay-or-should-I-go blues in CS 300. I want my CS minor, though. Tough decision. Maybe I should give it another week before making a decision? Procrastination rears its ugly head yet again.
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High School Reunion
Posted on February 3, 2006 by Ching under Life, School.
I just found out today that my ten year high school reunion is going to be on August 12th, the week of our wedding anniversary. I guess I should be glad that it is this year instead of next because next year Brian and I plan on celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary by going on another cruise. I haven’t decided yet if I will attend. I thought that I should, specially since Brian was not invited to his ten year high school reunion. I figured that this would be a great opportunity for him to experience the whole high school reunion thing, albeit vicariously through me. He will still experience it nonetheless. Obviously, fact that it falls on our anniversary week (and you know how Brian and I like to spend a whole week celebrating) is of concern but not as great a concern as the fact that I don’t really talk to anyone I went to high school with. I don’t know any of these people. I don’t think they know me either. I mean, they all attended grade school and middle school together. I only attended Derby for two years (my junior and senior years). I didn’t really have any close friends so if I do not attend, I probably won’t be missed. So I don’t know if it’s even worth going. What do you guys think? Any opinions? Why is the peanut gallery so suprisingly silent all of a sudden?
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