The 12-hour MBA day, 66%

After 3 hours of marketing (cluster segmentation) with Julian and 10 minutes on French Club financing (he is treasurer and I am president), I had to go for my appointment with Elaine Romanelli to pitch and explain my entrepreneurial idea, just checking that I wasn’t driving my group into a stupid project. I was grilled for one hour and it was pretty intense but I loved it, especially when she labelled my idea “crazy”.

I was then late to my group session to prepare tomorrow’s negotiation in the Negotiation and Bargaining class. Talks had just started anyway. I can’t reveal our strategy and tactics but I’m to be the CFO. Anyone with enough common sense to think that eBay overpaid Skype can say that this is crazy – me a CFO.

Anyway, now is time for the Managing Entertainment and Experience class with a case about Riverdance, the Irish tap dance craze.

I’ll tell you more later.

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