Yesterday brought to a close my week in residence that is the beginning of the Executive MBA at the University of Maryland. It was a pretty exciting week, but definitely exhausting as well. Spending over 9 hours per day in the classroom most days of the week was an exercise in endurance. The amount of time spent in class contributed to the week feeling that the experience actually lasted much longer than a week. I really enjoyed it, but I’m eager to move on to the phase of the program where we’re meeting for class two days every other week.
Our first classes are in marketing strategy (woo hoo!) and managerial economics. Between now and the start of regular class sessions on 01 December I’ve got quite a bit of reading to do. I also still need to get on-line and spend some time with the MBA Primer modules I’ve purchased.
In other news, I ordered and received one of the new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro laptops a few weeks ago. It is a fine, sexy machine! This was primarily to have a high-end laptop to use in the MBA program. I’ve installed Parallels and will shortly be installing Windows XP. I had considered holding out for Vista, but decided that the wait just wasn’t worth it.
Continuing with the news update, I received word a few weeks ago that my proposal to present a session at the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals 2007 conference was accepted. The topic I’m going to be talking about is the application of Social Network Analysis in competitive intelligence. I think this is a really excellent topic, and with only an hour to talk I have to decide which elements I’m NOT going to cover.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a ton of reading to get done and work to catch up.
