Richard Ivey - Hong Kong

So I have hit the mid way point half down and half to go. As I am very much a postive person I like the idea of my glass being half full.

The last few weeks have been a roller coaster ride of my life, I had some ups a few more downs and a ton of stuff in between.  A few things have been helping me through all of this my great classmates form Ivey and my amazing group. They don't know it but the few days I spend in Hong Kong learning really help me get away from it all.  Last week was especially good, a busy Sunday night and being personally chaperoned to the airport gate always is a great plus.

So what was the last class like you might ask Strategic Analysis and Action, more of a reading and pure thinking class than a true pure analysis class.  The cases were interesting especially ones on companies such as Merck, who I knew a bit about from reading Built to Last (Great book).

The discussions were ok not very heated and not to dry. I could see that the professor was trying to get a bit more out of us and trying to get some good discussions going but he was not always successful.  I try and take the opposite point of view most of the time just to get the discussions going, but I am not sure if my classmates roll their eyes when my hand goes up or think ok good Chris is going to say something and wake up the class.  Wish we had learned some more practical cases that I could utilize directly into my business life, overall was a good class and one I wont soon forget.