»July 21, 2009: The hard... is what makes it great
Today a post on Seth Godin’s blog reminded me of a very important lesson I learned many years ago: when things are good anyone can succeed, but when things are hard it takes someone who is great to succeed. In the post it speaks about how the most successful time for your business can be when it is in the biggest crisis. The best time for customer service is when a customer is upset, the ... ... (MORE)
»July 10, 2009: Does anyone like an MBA?
My wife sent me this article about a MIT MBA Candidate who was upset about a recent NPR podcast where they blast MBAs and blame us for the fall of the economy. The article pretty much contained the usual defense we come up with about how can you blame us for this and there are many people involved, but what I found interesting about this article was the comments on the bottom. Pretty much every... ... (MORE)
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»June 10, 2009: BYU MBA Field Study pays off
During my first year of the MBA program I was part of a field study team taking part in a assignment from Sam’s Club to look into the Hispanic Market. Sam’s Club was planning on and looking into creating a Hispanic Sam’s club stores to cater to this growing market here in the US. It was a great project and my team was really happy to take part in it. Over the next 4 months we ... ... (MORE)
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»June 2, 2009: BYU Alumni looking out for the students
It is no surprise with the current state of the economy that many current students in MBA programs are struggling to find jobs, and especially internships. A few months back the BYU MBA Offices sent out an email asking us to see if we could help out the current students who were struggling to find employment and internships in the current economic environment. I dug around and found a few thing... ... (MORE)
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»April 8, 2009: Keeping in contact
On Friday MBAMA (the BYU MBA Marketing Association) got together and had our first conference call since graduating from the program. I remember while still in the program talking to alumni and many of them still held monthly conference calls with many of their fellow students to keep in touch and share ideas. I thought this was a great idea so nearly 11 months after we all graduated I finally ... ... (MORE)
»March 2, 2009: What does an MBA prove?
I was at a conference in Memphis this past week talking to our Director of Sales and we starting talking about what was the value of an MBA, and pretty much a college education overall. I believed that the main advantage you gain from a college education or MBA is the fact that you have proven you can learn and are dedicated. You started something and saw it through and are someone they can tea... ... (MORE)
»January 23, 2009: Visiting the Y, Idaho
This week I had a chance to attend my first Ag Expo in Pocatello, ID. It was a good experience to see what goes on and what I needed to change in our booth to get more attention and attract more customers. At these Expos customers will just walk by unless they see something worth stopping and asking you about. We have some old banners that really need to get updated with figures and numbers and... ... (MORE)
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Current mood: Reminiscent
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»January 8, 2009: Loyal, strong and true
I feel bad I have not written for a while, even though I feel kind of weird writing in a blog that was set to explain the BYU MBA program and I have now graduated from the program. I will tell you this, since taking my new job as Director of Marketing I have had to lean heavily on the knowledge I gained from the MBA program. It has proven to be a great help now that I am running a marketing dep... ... (MORE)
»October 9, 2008: Finding opportunities out there...
Lately on our Yahoo group everyone has been writing in giving updates on what they have been up to and how they are doing. It is great to hear everyone is surviving, including my friends on Wall Street in I-banking. They are talking how they have already had a couple of all-nighters out there. That is pretty nuts, and to think I get upset when I have to work 12hrs, at least I get to go home. La... ... (MORE)
»October 3, 2008: Funny little things in the Bailout Bill
Ok, usually I talk about work or school or whatever, but lately I am sure the economy has been on all of our minds, especially this bailout bill. I had lunch with some of my buddies from the MBA program last week here in Phoenix and we talked about the bill. They are all finance majors and now all work for Merrill Lynch and American Express and Chase and what not, so they had some strong opinio... ... (MORE)
