2011 Full-Time MBA Blog

Come by the MBA & ECM Programs Office for some Halloween Treats!

Wishing you all a Safe, Healthy and Happy Halloween

Date: Saturday, October 29 – Sunday, November 6, 2011
Location: UBC Vancouver

 Join us for the 4th Annual Celebrate Learning Week! This is a week-long showcase of teaching and learning opportunities available at UBC Vancouver.  We will honour and promote learning and development opportunities through a variety of lectures, displays, information sessions, and more.  We encourage students, faculty, staff and the community to come out, share ideas and learn from each other so we can further enhance the educational experience at UBC.

 Examples of events that may be of interest:

• Oct. 31 – TLEF Showcase + Reception http://alturl.com/4hniz
• Nov. 1 – Dialogue on the History of Indian Residential Schools in Canada http://alturl.com/itf3y
• Nov. 3 – Key Strengths of Learning Communities : http://alturl.com/9yscx
• Nov. 3 – Dr. David Suzuki, Keynote Speaker at Accelerating Sustainability Conference http://alturl.com/h9awh
• Nov. 5 – TEDx Terry Talks http://alturl.com/zho3u

 For more information watch our promotional video produced by the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D893abpKf7w

 For more event information visit www.celebratelearning.ubc.ca and follow us on twitter @celebratelearn #CLW2011

Columbia Business School cordially invites all German-speaking graduate students to the German MBA Conference 2011 in New York City from November 18^th to 20^th.

The German MBA Conference 2011 offers students the rare opportunity to personally interact, and to discuss the conference’s topic “Volatile World” with senior company representatives, including:

• Frank Mattern
  Managing Partner
  McKinsey & Company Germany

• Dr. Lutz R. Raettig
  Chairman of the Supervisory Board
  Morgan Stanley Bank AG, Frankfurt

•  Michael Kruklinski
  Vice President
  Corporate Development & Strategy
  Siemens Corporation
• Professor Bruce C. N. Greenwald
  Director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing
  Columbia Business School

In addition, students can directly network with many representatives of the competition sponsors McKinsey & Company, Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Allianz to further your recruiting efforts.

Last but not least, the conference will provide ample time for students to grow their personal network: Kick the conference off on Friday night at the cocktail reception, enjoy the gala dinner in Club 21 and New York City nightlife on Saturday, and finish off a great weekend with a Sunday brunch.

You can find the preliminary agenda, speaker bios, sponsor information and the registration form online at www.germanmbaconference.org.

The registration page is now open. The registration fee is $120. Application deadline: Monday, October 31^st, 2011.

Your 2011 GMBA conference team

Happy Diwali! To celebrate we have decorated the MBA & ECM Programs Office and have Jalaibi to share with you today. Come and celebrate with us!

If you’re looking for a job in finance and trading, knowing how to use Bloomberg – a widely used financial database in the industry – will help you differentiate yourself from the rest. Join us for our Bloomberg workshops series and do just that. We are currently offering three workshops: (1) Introduction to Bloomberg, (2) Equity Analysis and, (3) Fixed Income Analysis. Click on this link and fill out the form so that we can set a time and date for a graduate student only session of the workshops. We’ll contact you via email with the date and time of the sessions. Which sessions we hold will be dependent on how much interest we receive, so tell your friends. Click here to see pictures of our first workshop and of the trading lab.

Alex Monegro, Canaccord Learning Commons