Today's class was a guest speaker series from Pete Koomen, visiting group partner of Y combinator and founder of Optimizely. Obama 2008 campaign Obama's $60 million dollar experiment - Optimizely There were a bunch of testing plans in Obam…

Roche and Genentech case www.hbs.edu Franz Humer, CEO of the Roche Group, must decide whether to mount a hostile tender offer for the publicly-owned shares of Roche's biotechnology subsidiary, Genentech. The case provides opportunities to …

In today's lecture, Prof Andrew Lo explained that our neuron system is hardwired to some feelings and would make our decision better and worse depending on the situation. Neuroscience of decision making Various factors actually affect our …

What is the lean analytics?Lean Analytics are used to measure progress, helping us to get clear answers quickly. In product management, it is one of the essential activities to improve your products Too Many frameworks If you look for book…

Spin off basics Nowadays, a lot of companies simplify their business and improve the clarity of business. This kind of simplification through spin-off and split-off opposed to diversification has frequently been examined in the healthcare …

Stock price has seasonality Winter Blues: A SAD Stock Market Cycle - American Economic Association There are several academic articles explaining why stock prices go down in winter and rainy days. This is a typical critique of human behavi…

Are you technical enough for "PM", "Developer" or CEO? medium.com It is a frequently discussed question that the sufficient level of technical skillset for a good project manager. Should they dive into coding detail? Or is it OK to draw so…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

Some people argue that what you learn in an MBA can be covered in a few books. I strongly oppose this opinion, which is the most stupid about MBA. stephmui.notion.site This article introduced exciting insights about the meaning of getting …

Summary of ChatGPT Everyone becomes mad about ChatGPT. There are plenty of articles explaining how innovative it is and why it is disruptive. I just summarized my thoughts about ChatGPT technology in NLP context and picked up some insightf…

I have already finished the Fall term, so I completed the half of Sloan Fellows program including the summer term. The remaining contents are IAP and the Spring term. Time flies!! My strategy I have three study pillars before coming here. …

Dixons Key concepts Valuation Models Earning multiples P/E Vf/EBIT Vf/EBITDA Asset multiples BV NetWorth Liquidation Value MV/BV DCF FCFf@WACC FCFe@Re APV - equity firm + value of debt tax shields EVA - Economic Value added Comparables Oth…

Robert C. Pozen | MIT Sloan provided us a really insightful summary of leadership. Nurture your external leadership Engage with your customers Prioritize the time with your customers Build not transaction but relationship Listen to them an…

ChatGPT creates a huge phenomenon and shows potential impact of NLP model. However, many people struggle with what differentiates it from other past model and what would happen next. This article is a good summary of chat GPT if you are no…

We finally finished the final presentation of New Enterprises, the most famous entrepreneurship lecture at MIT Sloan. The final assignment was the presentation for five minutes and QA for five minutes. We studied a lot about how to deliver…