Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2011 - 2012

From the link: http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings-2011

Canadian Business Schools that made it to the top 100 rankings:

• #  46 - Rotman, University of Toronto
• # 46 (tie) - Ivey, University of Western Ontario
• # 49 - Schulich, York University
• # 57 - Desaultes, McGill
• # 80 - Sauder, University of British Columbia

Worldwide overall top 10:

1.  London Business School, UK
2. (#1 tie) Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, USA
3. Harvard Business School, USA
4. INSEAD, France
5. Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA
6. Hong Kong UST Business School
7. CBS (Columbia Business School), USA
8. IE Business School, Spain
9. Lese Business School, Spain
10. (#9 tie) MIT Sloan, USA

MBA learning is a constant, perpetual, dynamic process.

“The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.”

MBA knowledge is NEVER-ending ! There is so much to learn yet ! There is constant inflow of new information everyday. Enjoying this thoroughly, though.

Some quick thoughts:

• Metrics are playing a huge role now - everything has to be measurable
• Demonstration of work done, measurement of achievements means more than just general talk
• Metrics have entered EVERY field of business. Even Marketing, which seemed to be a field run on emotions and charisma, is now heavily dependent on Metrics!
• Leadership, which was thought to be dependent on charisma is now number dependent. It has been proven that charisma has nothing to do with success of CEOs
• In one word, if you can not understand numbers, you CAN NOT be / become a good leader. 
• It is a pity that so many of our political leaders are numerically illiterate. It is not enough to be educated and hold a degree. 
• It is necessary for leaders of ALL kinds to generate,  research, understand, analyze, represent and communicate numbers !!!

- Gerry Som.

Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail

CIS (Computer Information Systems), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) & more ...

What is Data Mining? Wonderful video ! Well explained.

What is Healthcare Informatics?

Business Intelligence 3.0

Data + People + Insights.

What is Business Intelligence?

Business Intelligence ---> Here & NOW.
Business Analytics ---> Planning for the FUTURE.

Training Tracks by "Start Me Up Ryerson" ---> Free resources about Entrepreneurship online that anyone can use :)

From the link: http://startmeupryerson.com/trainingtracks/

What is DATA MINING? -----> Video about "Introduction to Data Mining" by Thesys-Group. (Very Important for MBA students).

Website: http://www.thesys-group.com
Location: Budapest, Hungary.

Details:

A Hungarian and Singaporean owned group of companies established in its current form in 2006. The group (constituted by five companies) specializes in data collection, data mining and analysis, simulation, GEO information analysis as well as IT developments. The close cooperation between these business areas has created a new business philosophy, which makes the company unique in the analytics market.

The company provides smart solutions to deal with complex data. Over the last five years they have been developing sophisticated methods, software and services addressing the specific needs of the pharmaceutical, banking and telecommunication sectors acquiring a deep understanding of the nature of these businesses.

The goal of the company is to convert expansive data sources to an easily digestible form while giving the clients the opportunity to customize both the methods and the output to their specific needs at the same time.

Specialties: Data Mining, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Stochastic Simulation

Informatics: Turning Information Into Knowledge (Applied Computing)

About CITRIS: Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) . Website: http://www.citris-uc.org

Website:

http://www.citris-uc.org

A web page to help you understand your travel needs

From the link: http://www.iatatravelcentre.com/

Traveling is a part of a Business Management professional's life. Management Consultants have been known to rake up hundreds of thousands of frequent flier miles.

The web page above ---> IATA Travel Centre is a useful resource to plan your travel needs and understand the requirements involved in travel.

Go Miley!

Posting a video of Miley Cyrus just to show support to her. Happened to read a negative comment about her in the Huffington Post and felt bad for her. Some paparazzi (stalking her, perhaps?) clicks a pic of her in a white T shirt and sells it to Huff Po. Prolly some d-bag editor writes some absolutely unwarranted shit about her just to make the post get hits and then, some frustrated rude reader from some town writes an insulting comment about the article on her not dressing properly. (Poor kid). Something like "I have no idea why she is so famous". Yes, freedom of speech is important. Buy not the freedom to hurt people.

Oh, people just soooo love to run others down. It makes them feel better themselves. Happens every where. Happens in the work place. Happens in school. Happens in the street. Everywhere. I wish the writer of that rude comment would try singing like her or would look at himself or herself in the mirror. People who work hard and try to provide value to society ought to be encouraged. It should be made illegal for people to hurt others' feelings.

Go Miley!



(P.S: On the other hand, on second thoughts, when it comes to marketing, I think it is an excellent strategy - to let people vent. Isn't there a saying that goes like - In show businesses, there is NO publicity called bad publicity - it is ALL good!. All the attention that you get is good. In fact, some harmless bad publicity is way better than no publicity, in show biz, eh?)

15 Inspiring Examples of Free Online Education

From the link: http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/01/22/15-inspiring-examples-of-free-online-education/comment-page-1/#comment-106758

Here is the list:

1. Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/
2. MIT Open Courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
3. Berkeley Webcast: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
4. Tufts Open Courseware: http://ocw.tufts.edu/
5. Open Courseware Consortium: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
6. Academic Earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Earth
7. Textbook Revolution: http://www.textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page
8. Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/
9. iTunesU: http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/
10. Open Learn: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
11. Watch Know Learn: http://www.watchknowlearn.org/
12. University of the People: http://www.uopeople.org/
13. TED: http://www.ted.com/
14. Wikiversity: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
15. Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/

About www.onlinecollege.org: It is a career counseling site with useful information.

ACMBA (Association of Canadian MBAs)

From the link: http://www.acmba.ca

ACMBA Purpose:

• To improve the experience, reputation, integrity, and overall standard of the Canadian Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree on both the national and international level.

Main Objectives
The Association of Canadian MBAs was formed:

• To provide Canadian MBA candidates and graduates with networking opportunities and collaboration amongst universities.
• To provide a common stance on ethical, social, economic, and environmental issues.
• To promote the Canadian MBA reputation at a national and international level.

This is an extraordinary step for MBA Schools in Canada.

2nd Annual Haskayne 24 hour case competition for MBA students at University of Calgary ---> March 8th, 9th, 10th & 11th, 2012 .

From the link: http://www.ucalgary.ca/mbasociety/casecomp

Details:

The Haskayne 24 Hour Case Competition is a three-day event that will challenge students from leading MBA programs across Canada to use their creative and analytical skills to assess real problems and deliver real solutions. The second annual Haskayne 24 Hour Case Competition will be held at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary from March 8-11, 2012. Building on last year's success, this competition promises to become a lasting legacy of the Haskayne MBA Program.

The Haskyane 24 Hour Case Competition, presented by The Forzani Group Ltd., is a unique competition that brings together the pressure of business decision-making with the students’ developing skills in teamwork, analysis, communication, critical thinking, and quick "on-your-feet" action. Student teams will work around the clock (literally) to find solutions to real-life problems, and then present their ideas in an effective and clear manner to a panel of judges. Senior business executives from the Calgary Community serve as judges, using their unique backgrounds, experience and perspectives to critically assess the participants' presentations. Teams are judged on creativity, insight, substance and plausibility of implementation.


Competition prizes total $12,000.
The top team from each preliminary pool will advance to an afternoon final. Prize payouts for finalists are:

• 1st Place: $6,000
• 2nd Place: $3,000
• 3rd Place :$2,000
• 4th Place: $1,000