Now I get your attention, no I’m not mad. Mad Men is the name of the tv show which I have been watching. It’s about the life of marketing and advertising managers in the 60s in New York. I like to see the motivations of  each individual (especially manager) in corporate life and how they [...]

2011 proved to be an eventful year with lots of up and down in my MBA journey, but it is still a positive year. 10 highlights of the year, in no particular order or priority: Graduated from HSG – MBA Awesome internship term (at Sulzer) Got my Swiss work permit (though short-term) and got to [...]

Smile, laugh, nervous, anxious. The past two and a half months were an emotional roller coaster for me: from the joy of MBA graduation and seeing my parents, to the excitement of signing contract with Sulzer and to the nervousness and sometime depression of waiting for the outcome of the work permit. During this time, I entertained myself by taking [...]

I love summer and I wish it could be here a bit longer! My internship at Sulzer is going well and the warm weather allows me to have some nice swimming sessions outdoors. I am half-way through my internship at Sulzer. More and more interesting projects are coming and I would be really sad to [...]

Big huge thanks to my blog readers who have left comments and sent emails to lend moral support for my internship search after my post about the failed offer. So I am compelled to share some news. After the last failed offer, I was kind of panicing because there was only one month left before [...]

I am flattered and encouraged to continue writing the MBA blog. A few of the prospective students have emailed me and asked about my personal opinion about the experience of the St Gallen MBA based on my blog. I am glad that they did because the MBA, in my opinion, is the second most important investment that [...]

The biggest event of this month is unarguably the HSG Talents Conference. As my blog-mate Sven Cammerer put it, the event was considered as the important main venue for students at HSG to looking for jobs and network with companies. I myself had a few interviews at the event and got some companies’ contacts to [...]

I admit that I had a bit of hard time to get back to the school routine again after holiday. It was my first 3-week vacation since I graduated University 5 years ago. That was due to the nature of my work which was contracting jobs. Needless to say I enjoyed my vacation very much, [...]

As mentioned by my blog mate Dimitros, the full-time MBA class was given a chance to work on consulting project at Sulzer – one of Swiss leading manufacturing firms. There were three topics and the groups were free to choose the topics of their interests: LEAN management, Coaching and Diversity. My group chose Cultural Diversity. As some [...]

There is one example given in the “Leading change” that really touched me. It’s about Transformational Leadership. Prof. Heike Bruch showed us an experiment at the Metro in Washington DC. This is the video filmed on that day: “On that day, January 12 2007, a man plays violin at the Metro subway station L’Enfant Plaza [...]