Residence Session

The summer of 2009 went by so quick - Time travels at a warp speed, especially when you enroll in a program as rigorous and enriching as ours. It is almost unbelievable how far we have come since we started.

It seems like yesterday when we were in lovely Ithaca, (albeit cooped up all day in the class) talking about valuation principles. We could not have asked for a better instructor than Prof Weinbaum. He made this course not only palatable but also extremely interesting and insightful. What is there not to enjoy a valuation principles project when doing it is with your group at 1:00 AM on a balmy summer night? Estimating Free Cash Flows, Multi-year projections, EVA and discounted EVA, Options -- all perfect for a light summer reading. Click on the link below to meet Prof Weinbaum.



We were extremely fortunate to have Prof Rao teach us Marketing Strategy. Click on the video link below to meet the venerable Prof Rao. I must confess that I found the course enlightening unearthing a quantitative dimension to Marketing -- perceived more as a qualitative course.. This course introduced us to various methods of defining opportunities and threats, and to the process of formulating long-term marketing strategy. MarkStrat Simulations revealed "rational" and sometimes "irrational" behavior of the market manifesting in quantitatively obvious but emotionally unobvious outcomes. I also learnt that I was not as risk averse as I thought was!



At the end of the summer residence session, it reinforced my belief in the Cornell MBA and the life-changing experience that creates an indelible value in the forms of tools and techniques that it adds to an executive's arsenal of capabilities.

Welcome Sheetal Gupta

Over the last 16 years I have worked in various leadership positions from technology product management to management consulting. Silicon Valley to Wall Street reinforced my belief that it is the knowledge of the "business of technology" that drives successful innovations. In order to complement my technology experience with business knowledge, I strongly felt the need to acquire the finer nuances of corporate finance, business strategy, and negotiating techniques. After having completed a year at the Johnson School, I found this journey not even close to what I had imagined. It has been tiring and exhausting but way more enriching and rewarding than I ever thought it could be. Through this blog, I hope to share my experiences in the metamorphosis of a "technologist" to a "business technologist" and the role of businss school education in this transformation for other professionals like me.