MIT Sloan Student Blogs

"And that was when I ruled the world"

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:43:49 GMT

I am now officially a graduate of MIT Sloan. But it doesn't mean that the hanging out with Sloanies has ended! It's been a great summer and the last few months have also shown me that the Sloan bond lasts...

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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:46:21 GMT

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"Open up my eager eyes..."

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:42:17 GMT

So it's been way too long since I posted but I thought it was only fitting that I post now. Let's see, in a nutshell what has happened... AFRICA For Spring Break I took a trip for about 16 days...

Professor Thurow/Summer Internship

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:34:26 GMT

Rule Ten: The biggest unknown for the individual in a knowledge-based economy is how to have a career in a system where there are no careers. Building Wealth: The new rules for individuals, companies, and nations in a knowledge-based economy,...

Spring is here!

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:47:56 GMT

I?m proud to report a beautiful day of 75 degree weather?the flowers are blooming?.birds are singing. It?s a lovely time of year in Boston. I am into the final weeks of my Sloan career with just three more weeks of...

Perspectives, Part I

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:44:00 GMT

Perhaps it?s only fitting that as I write this new post, I?m once again in the air, headed to the West Coast just as I was months ago during IAP, when I wrote my last blog entry. Perhaps even more...

Live from the Energy Conference

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:12:00 GMT

Surprisingly, it was Lars Josefsson, President and CEO of Vattenfall at the MIT Energy Conference, that made the most compelling case for sustainability. In fact, sustainability was one of the three pillars he envisioned as key to the future for...

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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:46:21 GMT

FutureSIP/LoveSloan

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:00:58 GMT

I've always wondered: what exactly is Justin Timberlake doing on that album cover of his? Perhaps we can discuss this in the comment field below, or I could bring it up at the next town hall meeting. This much is...

The Benefits of being a Sloanie - IAP

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:47:00 GMT

Finally done with the Core! Thinking back on the last semester, I can see that I?ve developed quite a bit. First of all, I?ve gotten used to academia again. I can sift through books and documents quickly, skim read and...

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:44:22 GMT

I am on my way back to Boston after an exciting 3.5 weeks in ?Hella? for my GLAB project. For those of you are like me, I found out that Greece is also called Hella. And Greek is called Hellena....

G-Lab Recap and the Job Front

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:32:09 GMT

G-Lab Recap Once again, so much has happened since my last post. Independent Activities Period (IAP) in January was definitely something that I will never get the chance to do again since it is not likely that I will have...

Macroeconomics: growth vs. sustainable growth dynamics

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:54:00 GMT

One of my favorite classes this semester is Applied Macroeconomics, taught by Professors Robert Rigobon and Tavneet Suri. For that class, I was just reading Paul Kurgman's article "How Fast Can the U.S. Economy Grow? Not as fast as 'new...

new year update

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:52:53 GMT

Since we broke for exams in mid-December a lot has happened. Leaving the snow in Boston, I went home to New Zealand for just over a week, met my new nephew and went to the beach just about everyday. After...

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Bucking the Trend

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:46:59 GMT

In Homer?s ?The Iliad and the Odyssey,? the Sirens would sing seductively to lure sailors to the rocky shores of the island where they would perish. When Odysseus and his men were coming near to the island, he had his...

Finals Finality

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:42:43 GMT

The Core is done. Rejoice. Since my last post, life has taken on a slower pace (not slow, but slower). Sure, there were 3 finals to study for, but they were spread out over a 10 days. All of the...

The Truth about MIT Sloan

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:25:51 GMT

Was it fun? It was, by far, the best three months of my life. Every day, I walk into our beloved yet crammed and congested E-51 building, and I am inspired by the people around me and energized by the...

My Core Team

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:00:00 GMT

So at most B-schools, your class is divided into several cohorts (around 60 students, depending on the institution) and then once again subdivided into "core teams". You are assigned various team projects and assignments that you need to solve together...

"Facebook is not only about realtime, but also about chronicling your life", Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook's COO)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:00:30 GMT

Last week we attended the talk of Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer, as part of Advertisement Week at the Times Center in NYC. Sheryl is a great speaker and previously she worked at Google, McKinsey and chief of staff of the US Secretary of the Treasury.This was the same week that Facebook announced that it is cash flow positive, has reached 300million users (70% outside the US) from 100 million a year ago. And 50% come back every day. And the most important thing for us, users upload to Facebook 2 billion photos a month, making Facebook the biggest repository of photos on the Internet. Sheryl Sandberg, delivered a keynote titled, "Knowing is Better". She defined Facebook as "what you are using to connect wherever you are" and it is "where you go when you want to share or connect". The average user spends 5.7 hours a month on Facebook.?At the end of the talk, she invited to state Michael Lynton (CEO of Sony Pictures) and John Burbank (CEO of the Online Division of Nielsen) and announced an alliance combining Facebook?s global consumer reach with Nielsen?s market research expertise to provide better insight and information to marketers. The first product of the collaboration, Nielsen BrandLift, is designed to provide marketers with effectiveness measurement for Facebook advertising.Regarding marketing and Facebook, she pointed some things:She highlighted the importance of fan pages. Currently there are more than 1.4 million active fan pages. The importance is that it is not one time impression. She also said that "people want to interact with Marketers the same way they interact with friends and family", engaging, asking questions, etc. FB is not only about realtime, but also about chronicling your life. FB is personalized. You choose what you want to see (there are people that want to see only 4 friends, or people that want to see everything). The user can choose. Facebook users tell you what they like. At the end of the keynote we talked to her and showed her our photobooks and she kept one.

In the Thick of It

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:54:09 GMT

Thanksgiving was just last week, but it seems like ages ago. The reason? I have ventured deep into the bellows of "The Core". That's right, the legendary monster of the Sloan MBA has swallowed up my entire class and we...

October Fever!!!

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:35:23 GMT

Okay... somehow I have survived the "suicide weekend" and the "hell week"!!! I swear ... they sound as bad as advertised. I can certainly tell that my classmates are all getting pretty stressed... so I figured that we need to...

My Latest Playlist

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:52:47 GMT

This is what I have been listening to lately. Some stuff is old but lot of it quite new. A lot of Latin Rythms, Electro Tango, Chillout and British and American pop. Many of these groups were discovered throught Last.fm....

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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:46:21 GMT

Summer was fun!

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:22:12 GMT

Typed on Sep 15th, uploaded on October 9th ------------------------------------------------------------- Its been a while since i wrote here last time. Summer had been a hectic time. I left for my 1st summer internship right after my exams to Wellington, NZ. It...