Presentation to the companies

How do you summarize two months of research between 10 people into an hour presentation? It isn’t easy, as you can imagine. Thanks to a lot of teamwork, guidance from our spirited leader and good contact with our clients, we were able to design and deliver 50-minute power point presentations. Each group (SK Energy and [...]

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Blue House

Korea’s Executive wing is located in the Blue House. We were fortunate enough to be granted a tour of the grounds, and didn’t even need to pretend that we were on the guest list for a state dinner! Most of the information came to us through headsets, so we were a bit limited in our [...]

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Policy from the top

At the Korean National Assembly, we met with one of the top lawmakers, Park Jin, who is head of the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification Committee. After our meeting, we were given a tour of the impressive building. Although the Assembly is a unicameral legislature, unlike the bicameral one of the U.S., policy has historically [...]

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Mumbai – Part deux

Day 11 Another early morning wake up call – We had to travel to Nasik  to visit our client’s Automotive plant.  Nasik is a town situated about 120 miles away from Mumbai. The visit was interesting as we got to see the presentation by the client on their product. We were glad to find that [...]

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Bangalore (aka Bengaluru)

Day 7 …..Continued After a early morning visit to the Taj, we started back on our journey to Delhi to catch our flight to Bangalore our next destination. Bangalore was a welcome change as the weather was very pleasant compared to the super hot Delhi weather. By this time, we had gotten used to the [...]

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Taj Mahal

I believe that I would not be able to do justice if I start writing about the beauty of the splendid monument of love  ”The Taj Mahal”. It is considered the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements from Islamic, Indian and Persian architectural styles. So here I present the Taj in [...]

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Capital City

  New Delhi is the capital of India and it houses many historical monuments. We began our weekend (welcome relief!) sightseeing trip with a visit to the India gate. The India Gate is the national monument of India. It is one of the largest war memorials in India. Situated in the heart of New Delhi, [...]

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Over & Out from Mexico City

Ciudad de Mexico It’s now been a week+ since we wrapped up our final projects. I think Priya Tayal & I are the last of our group to still be here in Mexico. According to Facebook however, a good number of our GMBA 2011 colleagues are still MIA in the various corners of the world [...]

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Serbia: The Top Ten List

Somewhere over Europe As I sit on a Jat Airways flight, flying away from Belgrade, I am reflecting on the past two weeks and thinking about my favorite things about this experience. In no particular order I will share my top ten list: The beds at Hotel Moskva (seriously, they are heavenly) Neda, our wonderful [...]

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The Final Countdown

Belgrade, Serbia The last week of our Serbian experience has been a whirlwind. With our client presentations fast approaching we spent the majority of the week working on our marketing plans. Late nights and group meetings dominated our days. On Wednesday, the first group (of which there are five) presented to their client. The response [...]

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