Umass Amherst – School of Management 697PP: Perspectives on Leadership
Those of who read the post about my undergraduate summer class, Management 365: Business and Its Environment, are probably wondering two things right now, This post will tell us whether you Umass-Amherst allowed you to enroll in the graduate class you were referring to, right? Why was that post titled “…Management…” yet this one is […]
Bits & Pieces on Management and Our Environment
Below is the first discussion and my first response for the Management 365 – Business and Its Environment class I’m currently taking: The Allegory of the Cave by Plato After you have read the excerpt from Plato think about the following: What point is Plato trying to make? What do the shadows and the objects […]
Umass Amherst – Management 365: Business and Its Environment
I’m attempting to take two classes during the first summer session the University of Massachusetts at Amherst offers, however, I need to seek approval from the MBA program at Umass as the second class is a graduate level class, which has a restriction in place of requiring a bachelor’s degree to take, even though I […]
Spring 2007 Grades – University of Massachusetts at Amherst
I just went and checked the grades section on my SPIRE account on the University of Massachusetts at Amherst web-site and my official grades for the Spring 2007 semester are posted. A 4.0 GPA for the Spring ’07 semester! I got an A in both courses, Fundamentals of Marketing and Quantitative Tools for Management (aka […]
WaMu: The Right People for the Right Job
Washington Mutual doesn’t look at a person’s skill set or previous accomplishments when they’re looking for a new hire, instead WaMu looks for certain attitudes. They believe they can teach any necessary skills to people, but they cannot train people to have a good and positive attitude. A big part of making sure employees have […]
The Strategy of No Strategy
Professor Stookey [Principles of Management – Umass Amherst] made a very good comment in the description for this post that Robbins and Coulter rely on "rationality, logic, and order" to describe strategy and how to implement it. In my mind the word strategy implies a logical and ordered plan of action. I feel that growing […]
Welcome to the human resource.
It was sweltering hot in Boston today, but I enjoyed it. Living in Southern California and North Carolina, I’ve gotten used to hot temperatures and actually quite like the very hot days now. Anyway, small rant aside, I’m posting another discussion post from my Principles of Management class at Umass-Amherst, as it is still too […]
Centralization vs. Decentralization
The title says a lot for tonight’s post, which is pulled from the Principles of Management class I took at Umass-Amherst during the winter 2007 semester. The advantages and disadvantages of centralized versus decentralized organizational structures lies greatly in the inherent qualities and effects of the structures themselves. Robbins and Coulter describe this very well, […]
It Just Works: How Apple’s Planning & Strategy Create Intuitive Interactions for Consumers
Pending any errors or glitches, I’m done with my group project for my Statistics course (10% of the final grade), so now all I have to do is take the Statistics Final and I’m done with the Spring semester! To mix things up a bit, tonight I’m posting the last essay for my Fundamentals of […]
Planning at the Lend Lease Corporation
The majority of my finals will be over tomorrow night, so you’ll start seeing some fresh content soon. For tonight, I’ll be publishing one more discussion post from the Principles of Management class I took at Umass-Amherst in the Winter 20007 semester. To anyone who has the textbook, Management by Stephen Robbins and Mary Coulter, […]