{"id":202,"date":"2011-11-14T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2011\/11\/14\/current-events-through-the-lens-of-an-mba\/"},"modified":"2011-11-14T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T16:45:00","slug":"current-events-through-the-lens-of-an-mba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2011\/11\/14\/current-events-through-the-lens-of-an-mba\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Events Through the Lens of an MBA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Manoj Prakash<\/em><\/span>
MBA Candidate, 2012<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span>\"\"I am a second year student in the dual degree MS.MBA Program. In my free time, I like to read newspapers and blogs, especially related to business and technology. Before I joined this program last year, current events were stories that were fun to read and talk about with friends over coffee. But I am one year into school and current events have had such an interesting impact on my life as an MBA student that my perspective while reading news has been transformed.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one of the first semester course projects, my team and I worked hard to come up with a set of strategic recommendation for eBay’s struggling China operations. Just two days before we were to submit and present our recommendation, I found a news story <\/span>in which EBay announced its changed strategy for China<\/a>. I immediately realized what this news meant for us. My team went back to the drawing board and re-worked our assignment in the last two days!<\/p>\n

During the spring semester, we chose to focus on Nokia for our strategy project. Nokia is a leader in mobile phones but has struggled in the smartphone market. At the same time, they have a good mix of products and great international reach so we thought they would be a good candidate for a strategy project. We started our work right away, researching every analyst report, news article, announcement, and opinion available on Nokia. A few weeks into this project, I found Nokia in the headlines everywhere – they had formed an alliance with Microsoft<\/a><\/span>! This alliance effectively changed the rules of the game for us mid-course and we changed our approach for Nokia, again.<\/p>\n

During my time at BU\u2019s School of Management I have been directly impacted by current events. But experiences such as these have trained me to evaluate news and events from a different lens and I have become a much more active participant in understanding business trends.<\/p>\n

At SMG, we take reading and interpreting news to a new level. You can even take a look at this blog <\/a>that my classmates and I are currently working on to analyze different industry sectors and decipher interesting news about the disruptive impact of technology.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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