Midterms have arrived. While I only have one serious midterm it is Professor Meadow's Commercializing Innovation class - so our team has plenty of work to do in the next week.
Also, New Venture Challenge business plans are due on Monday, so I have some extra work this week.
Finally, some interest in Professor Steven Levitt's new book, Freakonomics, so I thought I'd mention that the Milton Friedman group here at the GSB hosted a lunch lecture with him today. Great talk and some excellent stories! Very funny guy too. :)
Managing time and tasks are important in order to keep your sanity. This week I am applying a rather strict process of time management to some tasks this week due to a perfect storm of overlapping responsibilities.
1. Budget a specific number of hours to a task/assignment (usually based on number of points or relative importance of the task)
2. Work that amount of time on the assignment (or perhaps a little more if absolutely needed)
3. Stop
4. Print/email
This is another blog, by Chicago GSB professor Steven Levitt, related to the release of his new book Freakonomics.
For those of you into Wikipedia and curious, they have an excellent history and interesting read on Mennonites.
This is not affiliated with either party, but a neat example of the uses of maps. I don't think the data is fully up to date...
I added sections at right of my current courses and previous courses. In the next week or two I hope to add all the direct links to the professor's websites. Feel free to comment or email with any questions.
If anyone has movers to recommend in the Chicago/Hyde Park area please let me know. Just curious about options for moving apartments.
Thanks!
I wanted to point out some new additions to my listing of Chicago GSB blogs including some incoming students. Welcome!
Alator's Adventures 2007
poweryogi 2007
wakechick's MBA Adventures 2007
Natasha's Weblog 2006 (I hope I don't show up on her blog too often! ;)
The Becker-Posner Blog Professors
Google Maps has now included satellite images - from their Keyhole acquisition I assume. Although many of the pictures are not very recent.
This is old news, but Google is making good changes to Gmail. Is this simply a spiral? Very soon storage won't be a differentiator - what's next?
I wanted to link to Steve's blog (also in column at right) because of his interests and the quality of his posts. I especially like this story; updated results are here.
How about that amazing acronym alliteration? ;)
I have posted before about the LEAD program here at Chicago GSB and LOE and Lakelawn Resort. Every year, the next years' LEAD Facilitators have a weekend at Lakelawn for squad bonding, training, and well, a lot of fun and not a lot of sleep.