Until about two weeks ago, I had always thought “consulting” just meant “sitting in the expensive seats at sporting events.” At my internship, I help more people get stock in their company. At it’s most basic level, the stock of a corporation is just a piece of paper that represents money invested into a business. [...]
I haven’t posted in awhile, and that’s in large part due to the fact that I haven’t spent much time around my computer in awhile. After my Lab to Market final presentation, I took off for Highway One. “Charla” and I took the coastal route all the way to the Northwestern corner of the continental [...]
I’m taking Strategy this quarter. I think it could potentially become my favorite class so far, and I don’t think it’s just because I can read the textbook on my Kindle. In particular, I love learning things that are both counterintuitive and widely applicable. Today’s pirate game was both of those things. Really, it’s applicable [...]
Yesterday evening, I got a chance to hear Corey Rosen give a talk at Rady. Rosen is the director of the National Center for Employee Ownership, which is an organization that goes around promoting “Employee Stock Ownership Plans,” or ESOPs. Basically, an ESOP company is one where the employees are the major (or sometimes the [...]
The Rady ad-hoc ethics committee, myself included, met with the Dean on Friday to talk about our research to date, current events in business ethics, and plans going forward. In particular, we discussed the Davos oath rolled out at the World Economic Forum, one that I think is an encouraging forward step from the Harvard [...]
I’ve been away from the blog for awhile becasue a crew of Rady students, myself included, went to visit companies in the Bay Area last Wednesday through Friday. We signed our permission slips and headed up to home base at the Marriott in Foster City. Known as the “Bay Area Trek,” this has become a [...]
People keep asking me if I like business school. It’s a big question. The San Diego weather provided a harsh backdrop to last week. I made my way over to the library at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography during a particularly heavy day of rain, the day before our economics final. It was my one [...]
Rady has a cool event series called “Students Teaching Students.” It’s basically a structured way to share knowledge with your classmates over lunch. Anyone can volunteer, so I decided to try my hand at teaching people the basics of WordPress (the software I use to run this website). I gave the presentation last Thursday. I [...]
How do you make people behave ethically? In the wake of the recent spate of financial scandals, the American populace en masse has begun to call into question the ethical makeup of businesses and businesspeople. One logical extension of this line of thought is that businesspeople must lack the proper training to be able to [...]
Last week, I was elected by the first-year students to be one of two student board representatives for the Rady full-time class of 2011, which sounds much better than freshman council rep. Today, I had my first meeting with the board. The meeting also included some members of the administration. I was impressed by the [...]
My friend Kelly makes cards and started her own craft supply business! Support entrepreneurship in action.