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Entries from April 2009

Should you apply law school if you are rejected by business school?

April 28th, 2009 · Comments

I’ve received quite a few emails from folks who are considering applying law school. It’s interesting what they share in common:

they’re all young, smart, and ambitious.
they attended well-known undergraduate programs. In fact, several of them graduated from Ivy schools. They have all done exceptionally well throughout their academic careers.
they have limited work [...]

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Tags: Go Back to School · MBA · MBA or Not -->

Why are some companies so secretive about their layoffs?

April 24th, 2009 · Comments

Lately I start to hear from fellow readers about unannounced layoffs. Here are a couple of examples:

Juniper Networks quietly started laying people off in January.  Most of the layoffs the reader knew about were in Engineering and IT, and a large number of them were in management roles.
Amazon.com had also laid off employees in [...]

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The master strikes again — Quick thoughts on Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun Microsystems

April 20th, 2009 · Comments

Oracle announced this morning that it is buying Sun Microsystems in a deal valued approximately $7.4 billion.
I’d like to offer a few quick thoughts:

This is a brilliant strategic move by Larry Ellison, a master of acquiring enterprise technology companies.
Oracle’s bread-and-butter is database. Its single biggest threat is the open source MySql database. With [...]

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Tags: Company Analysis · News · Product Management -->

The World is flat, but

April 20th, 2009 · Comments

I enjoyed reading New York Times best-seller The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. But, I feel that Thomas Friedman painted an overly rosy and simplistic picture of globalization.
Let me tell you a true story.
I have a friend who works for one of the largest IT outsourcing companies in [...]

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Will someone with a perfect GMAT score make a great GMAT coach?

April 19th, 2009 · Comments

A few years ago, right before I graduated from business school, I saw a job ad from a GMAT preparation company — it’s looking for GMAT instructors. One of the job requirements was that they only hire people who had scored in the 99th percentile on an actual GMAT test.
It’s one of their key [...]

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Tags: MBA · Management -->

 

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