The MBET Experience

Due to my site being quite popular with comment spammers, I’ve got a new policy on comments. Everything has to be reviewed before its posted. Its a bit of a headache, but in the interest of keeping the site clean, I’m going to go that route for a while. Also, if anyone knows any good […]

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Time for another Capstone update. After losing our lead in market share and profits last week, we needed to come back strong in Year 4. The results are in, and we had an awesome year. Our sales were up from $168 million in 2010 to over $230 million in 2011, while profits jumped from $4.1 […]

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This evening, James and I were torn away from our accounting assignment by a phone call from James’ wife. Our damsel in distress had the misfortunate of getting a flat tire on her way home from horseback riding lessons (note to all you city folks – a perk of living in KW is that you […]

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This is exciting. Try this link: Google Search – Dan Donovan Last summer, Google didn’t even know I existed, other than a few race times way down in the search results. Less than seven months after starting my blogs, a Google search now puts me at the top of the list. Fascinating. I find this […]

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A few weeks ago, I introduced the Capstone business simulation game. This has been a very interesting experience. So far, in our pool, we are the only student-managed team (two teams are controlled by the computer) to not have needed an “emergency loan” to keep from running out of cash. As I mentioned, we had […]

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I just heard a great one from my friend Benjamin Bach. “In 5 years, you’ll be exactly the same as you are now except for the books you read and people you met.” — Charlie Jones The moral of the story: read more books and meet more people! This year, I’ve started keeping a list […]

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Today, we have another Entre-Nous session. Our speaker is Joseph Fung, founder of Lewis Media. One of the interesting things about Joseph’s story is that his company started off without a business plan or a product. They started off as two programmers, who did consulting work to pay the rent. The core philosophy, which they […]

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I’m trying to remember if I have ever blogged about an Entre-Nous session. An Entre-Nous is a guest speaker session, where local entrepreneurs and business leaders visit our class and spend a couple hours sharing their stories and discussing their experiences. On Thursday last week, we had Rick Baker of Baker Investment Group in to […]

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One of the cool things we’re doing this term is the Capstone Business Simulation game (www.capsim.com). Our teams each is tasked with managing a fictional company in the sensor industry. There are six teams in the class, and we are split into two industries. We are competing against two other teams, and two computer simulated […]

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Yesterday we had a leadership training day with Angela Mondou, the founder of ICE Leadership. Angela has an interesting career, beginning with 9 years as a Logistics Officer with the Canadian Air Force, followed by a number of years in the high-tech sector at Nortel and most recently, Research in Motion. In addition to her […]

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