It's over!!

I cannot believe that the 1st term is over! After the double exam session last saturday (I still don't know how the MBA programme management office lets this thing happen... 2 exams on the same day is ridiculous) and after handing in my cool Economics final exam on wednesday, our academic obligations were over.

Or nearly over, as this last week was dedicated to Skills Development courses. However these were fairly simple and didn't stop us from having fun during the week. On monday the Portugal club went to a portuguese restaurant and I was delighted to bring with us our honorary member: KV (I hope you enjoyed the food, dude!).

There was time also for attending a fantastic presentation by Frederic Huntsberry, COO, Universal Pictures. I was a bit disappointed with the presentation made by Michael Grade, BBC Chairman, a few weeks ago. But this one was awesome. Lots of topics discussed: new technologies, movies, future sources of revenue, piracy, etc... By the way, Frederic admitted that a couple of weeks before every movie premiere, they send thousands of decoys over the internet (fake files with the same name as the movie) to fool illegal downloaders. Cool! I didn't know that!! :-)

After the two exams last saturday, we had the biggest funniest craziest party ever: Santa Pub Crawl!!! I'm sure most of you know what it is about. 400 hundred Santas partying in London. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here are a few photos from that party.

Ohhh man... christmas break.... feels so good.... can't wait to go to Portugal tomorrow and stay there for 3 whole weeks. Relaxing. Completely oblivious to business school issues.

These were the 3 longest months of my life.

Top of the World! (not yet... but getting there)

Let me just use this small break between my Accounting and MOB studies to post something quick. The Financial Times has just published an European Business Schools' Rankings and guess what? London Business School has ranked n.1 in Europe, for the second year in a row!

As someone I know would say: Score! ;-)

PS: When, oh when, will I ever see a portuguese school in these rankings??? I guess that not during my lifetime... unless I start my own b-school after the MBA. Hmmm....

Am I a good strategist?

3.00am:

Just finished my take-home Strategy exam.
Have to handed it in tomorrow by 9.30am.
At 10am I have an Organisational Behaviour coaching session (sigh).
At 3pm there's an Internal Consulting Forum event to attend (it's mainly about corporate strategy with some good speakers).
I should be nearly dead by 6pm. Have to go home for a nap.
At 8pm we have a boat birthday party, along the Thames.

It's a dog's life.... but I love it.

Time to go to bed.