When you need a strategy? S-curve growth Everyone assumes strategy is always important. However, strategy is not always an important priority. When your company constantly shows growth and forecasts further profit, you don't need to think …

Background He comes from the insurance industry and not sure it's a typical personality in this industry, but he is a really responsible man. Our team could not have gotten to the delivery of the report without him. Power of empathy His ab…

This blog is not about lectures. I am writing about some of our diverse and talented cohorts and will introduce their background and what inspired me. Background She is an experienced consultant from India. We both work for clients and exp…

Data, Model and Decisions is one of the typical MIT courses. We learn a lot of statistical analysis and optimization through this course. We had the first team assignment and this assignment is awesome. We work for the restaurant chains an…

What makes the market imperfect In reality, the market is not perfect at all, but we learn perfect market first in economics. The perfect market contains fundamental of market dynamics such as supply and demand balance. So, what makes the …

Barco Case study The case study of Barco, the projector manufacturer in Europe, is the perfect case study of how to survive in the innovative industry and the niche market. Barco Projection Systems Case | Case Study Template Strategic reso…

This blog is not about lectures. I am writing about some of our diverse and talented cohorts and will introduce their background and what inspired me. Background He is a serial entrepreneur from South America and his fifth startup(commerce…

Capture value We learned how to create value( profit) in the market. Then the next topic is how to capture value. In other words, how to generate value by differentiating ourselves from horizontal competitors. Market power and sustainable …

This is a micro economics course in the first core semester. We learn the fudamental concepts in micro economics such as demand/supply curve, elasticities, opportunity cost, and sunk cost etc. I have already learned these concepts in my gr…

The definition of Strategy As I explained in the previous blog, we learned the definitions of strategy, market, segment and value chain. Strategy: Enter or Exit The definition of Value What makes value? In the class, there are only two way…

This is a top-rated program in SFMBA. Professor Duncan Simester, from a legal background, originally introduced the value of case studies. For people unfamiliar with case studies, case studies are articles with 15-20 pages in each episode …

The first reflection and conversation. "What makes teams fail? Let's think about spy movies such as 007. Why do enemies fail every time? What makes them fail?" There was a variety of answers. Competition rather than collaboration Leadershi…

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Day2 for Leadership and Teams Lab. Today's learning topics are "emotion", "difference" and "origins of differences". Emotional reactions are inevitable physical and psychological responses. Controlling and being aware of these responses ar…

We finally started the official core class today. The first course is about leadership. According to the professor, leadership is one of the most difficult words to be defined. Leadership is dynamic and always needs to be updated. Also, it…

Today is the last day of orientation. We had 3 hours session of DEI, and this session was a true eye-opener. We tried a lot of exercises to demonstrate how diverse and unique we are. Everyone has a different value, experience and ambition.…

For Day2, we visited a huge playground and enjoyed some fieldwork. We practised many reflections like, "who really influenced us in my life?" "What is our core value?" "Why does it matter to you" "When it was tested?" etc... We clarified m…

I just finished Day 1 Sloan Fellows Class 2023. Today is also Day 1 of June orientation. A lot of networking events and conversations happened there. Starting from welcome messages from Dean and Assistant Dean, I am really proud of being a…

明日からのMIT Sloan Fellowsの１年間のプログラムに向けて、色んな学びの軸を立てて、計画書とかも書いてみちゃったりしたが、結局複雑に考えれば考えるほど、どんどん自分が本当にそこに自信を持ってやりたいかどうかなどの覚悟の部分に疑問が出てくること…