30
May

Medical obstacles to the MBA  

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I may soon join the MMR vaccination hall of fame that sits in the background of this picture. ©

"You don't need that - why do you need that for? You don't have rubella, mumps or measles", began my doctor. I could feel the weight of an already burdensome MBA matriculation process getting heavier. I need to submit my immunization records to Northwestern's medical center by the end of June. My medical practice does not have my vaccinations records for these early immunizations from my youth. Why? Because while all the other kids in the UK *were* getting their vaccinations as kids, I was in Sri Lanka. I'm not even sure I've had these vaccinations. My doctor was shaking his head - he did not think that the Northwestern medical center needed these records. I insisted otherwise; why else would they ask for them?

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25
May

Entrepreneurial Plan B?  

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Jim Southern, a serial search fund entrepreneur and investor, spoke at the UK MIT Enterprise Forum. Picture from the NYTimes article on search funds ©.

An MBA opens doors. This week I stumbled upon a door that few take, yet is typically difficult to break open without an MBA from a top business school. Described as a high-probability way of making good returns on investment and entrepreneurial effort, search funds are funds that are typically only raised by alums of top business schools. Essentially, search funds are a way for entrepreneurs to raise money to acquire a company. Once a company is acquired, the entrepreneur works to improve the profitability of the company over a period of 5 years or so, before selling it on for a profit - taking a 30% share of that profit. Usually that 30% share will be worth several million US dollars.

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21
May

Kellogg Keeps Me Busy  

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Forget the Kellogg t-shirt. I need a t-shirt with this on it.

Kellogg has been keeping me more than a little bit busy over the last week or so. Almost quite suddenly, I've had a flood of correspondence from the school and a lot more to think about. What follows is a run down of this ...

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12
May

Upskilling for the summer  

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Funnily enough, I'm not going to spend the summer tending to sun flowers.©

At the end of June, I finish work. I will then have about 7-or-so weeks before arriving in Evanston and life at Kellogg kicks off with KWEST, the world wide service trips that Kellogg students embark on before pre-term starts. So I've started thinking about what I might be able to do during those 7-or-so weeks that I have off to recover from working life and prepare for student life.

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04
May

The Business School Plan, Version 2  

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You don't want to climb the MBA ladder to find you're going to be cut down to size.©

I'm planning to set up a business while I am at business school. Before I applied to business school, my plans for this ambition started as a distant and vague notion. Following admission to Kellogg, they developed into a plan. This post represents my latest thinking on this plan; my latests thinking on how I might go about achieving my ambition.

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