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Entries from 2023-02-01 to 1 month

Day 114 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, Leadership special seminar "Special Improvisational Leadership Workshop"

What kind of components does "improvisational leadership" contain? Adaptability Creativity Flexibility Emotional intelligence Self-regulation Empathy Relationship building Ability to think and speak "on your feet" Dexterity in navigating t…

Day 113 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, Digital Product Management 4 - "Scrum and Product Manager"

The role of product manager and Scrum www.atlassian.com Product manager is the CEO of product. He or she interprets user requirements into actual roadmap/todo-list of dev team. www.atlassian.com Scrum means the development period typically…

Day 112 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, Choice point 3 "Antigone"

Story This is one of the most famous Greek stories, and many people have already read the prequel, Oedipus. Antigone - Wikipedia Characters In this class, the professor highlighted two leading roles, Antigone and Creon. They both have powe…

Day 111 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, M&A and PE 3 "Evaluate offers and make a decision"

Anadarko case www.cnbc.com www.chron.com We studied how to evaluate different offers from multiple buyers as a shareholder/board member of target companies. Today's case is Anadarko, the middle size oil exploration company. After 2015, the…

Day 110 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, Introduction to System Dynamics 2 - "The process of modeling"

Summary of "linking" between two components In a nutshell, you put "plus" for positive causality between two variables, and put "minus" for "negative" causality. Common mistakes for causal loops When we set up a variable, the common mistak…

Day 109 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, AI for business 2 "Risk of AI"

AI would be a true threat to humans? If you are familiar with sci-fi, AI is a definitely threatening technology that potentially destroys human beings as Skynet in Terminator 2 did. But will it really happen? waitbutwhy.com The point is th…

Day 108 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, Choice point "An enemy of people"

Overview of Play www.gutenberg.org An Enemy of the People (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende), an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, followed his previous play, Ghosts, which criticized the hypocrisy of his society's mo…

Day 107 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, M&A and PE 2 "M&A structure and Pepsi-Quaker cases"

Type of merger Reading: Forms of Takeover: Mergers Statutory merger: In a statutory merger, the acquiring firm absorbs the assets and liabilities of the target company and the target company ceases to exist. Subsidiary merger: In a subsidi…

Day 106 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, AI for business2 "Birth of AI, definition of AI, and emerge of AI"

This course is to learn potential AI roles from various perspectives without any technical deep-dive. The goal of this course is to help you become an architect to draw a blue print. Not a builder. The failure of AI comes from typically ar…

Day 105 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, Digital Product Management 2 - "WEBVAN & Mom Test"

WEBVAN STORY Webvan - Wikipedia Webvan is a company that tried to realize last-mile delivery in the dot-com-bubble era. It developed a lot of warehouses and invested in ITs and operations. Today, we enjoy the service from InstaCart, and ba…

Day 104 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, Leadership special seminar "Leadership presence and storytelling"

We had a leadership session with Rob Salafia. The author of "Leading from your best self" Leading from Your Best Self: Develop Executive Poise, Presence, and Influence to Maximize Your Potential (English Edition) 作者:Salafia, Rob McGraw-H…

Day 103 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, Choice point "Shooting an Elephant"

What is "choice point"? Choice points are the dilemmas and decisions we face in complex situations. Navigating complex situations requires deep insight into human behaviour - your own and others' . Great art is psychologically true to the …

Day 102 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, M&A and PE "Valuation"

When a company buys a target, there are many ways to offer your target. In this blog, I will write down who the stakeholders are and what typical questions they have. Stakeholders and questions about valuation Shareholders of target compan…

Day 101 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior 1 - "Is market efficient?"

Course briefing This course develops a new perspective on the dynamics of financial markets and the roles that human psychology and the business environment play in determining the evolution of investor behavior and institutions. ( From Sy…

Day 100 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, Introduction to System Dynamics 1 - "Model and Structure"

System Dynamics is one of the famous and the most popular courses in MIT Sloan. John Sterman is a farther of System Dynamics, andJay Wright Forrester is a grand father of System Dynamics. System Dynamics | MIT Sloan www.youtube.com www.you…

Day 99 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, Digital Product Management 1 "The definition and role of product manager"

Product Manager You Are…. a janitor, essentially. | by Mat Balez | All Things Product Management | Medium The Product Manager - Background Note - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School Two primary responsibilities A product manager h…

Day 98 in MIT Sloan Fellows Class 2023, M&A and PE "Fundamentals of M&A"

8I am taking a Merger and Acquisition class and the following textbook is the best one to study fundamental of M&A. ISE Principles of Corporate Finance 作者:Brealey, Richard,Myers, Stewart,Allen, Franklin McGraw-Hill Education Ltd Amazon T…