2014 Integrated Foundation Announcements

The second assignment in Communications for the 2012 MBA program is now up on Connect and ready for your viewing.  Look for the Assignments folder and then for Assignment 2 Analytical Report.

Please note the due date at the bottom of the first page: Thursday October 4, 2012  at 8 am.

I look forward to seeing what you do with this task.  There is a lot of opportunity for good thinking and good writing.

If you need clarification about anything in the assignment, please send me an email.

Do the best you can.

Brian

Hi all:

Am missing seeing you — have been away at Business Innovation Factory Story Summit in Rhode Island http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com/bif-8  and visiting Weatherhead Management School in Cleveland who also have a design/business program in their MBA.

Wanted to invite you to the inaugural meeting of the Sauder Strategic Design Club — next Wednesday October 3 from 5:30-7:00pm in the d.studio — Henry Angus 338.  The idea is to have  a monthly (more or less) studio session where we tackle problems/opportunities initiated from the participants using design processes and techniques to tackle them.

Speaking of techniques — we are just working on putting the final touches on the Techniques Tool Kit — will send a blog when that link is up and running.

Hope to see some of you next Wednesday — realize that you are busy-busy!  Feel free to let me know if you are coming at moura.quayle@sauder.ubc.ca.  Would be good to get a bit of a handle on numbers — am also inviting some Early Career Masters students and the studio class:  Comm 388: Design Strategies for Business Innovation.

Best, Moura

Please note that the Accounting Assignment 2 grades are now released on Turnitin.

Solutions for this assignment are also posted on Connect.
Integrated Foundation > Accounting > Accounting Solutions

The Operations homework is now posted on Connect>IF Section > Operations Folder.  Recall that the due date for the homework was moved to 15 October at 8:00am, and that your solution must be posted to turnitin.com.  Also, note that it is unlikely that we are going to have time to cover the “Deep Change” article in the Operations 3 class, as there are a number of other topics we need to cover to ensure that you’ll be able to do the homework.  Direct any questions to Tom at tom.mccormick@sauder.ubc.ca.

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-Tom McCormick, WJ Van Dusen Professor of Management

  Operations and Logistics Division, Sauder School of Business, UBC

  Office: (604) 822-8426; Fax: (604) 822-9574

  WWW: http://people.commerce.ubc.ca/faculty/mccormick

Class 3 Slides have been poted in Connect > Strategy Folder. 

As you know, Project 1 Presentation will take place next Wednesday, October 3rd. As such, we have booked a handful of breakout spaces for you to rehearse your presentation on Monday, October 1st and Tuesday, October 2nd.

To sign-up for a room on Monday, October 1st, please go to:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AicK696mqfovdE9nVGZCSU9RV0JmRlN4bm1yNWF5M0E#gid=0

To sign-up for a room on Tuesday, October 2nd, please go to:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AicK696mqfovdEM4MlhiWU1oVzFNU2Q4MzRHbVZyc1E#gid=1

Important Note: As you see, each time slot is set to be one hour long for each of the listed rooms. To sign-up for a room, you must enter the first and last name of each team member, team #, industry name and team company. To maintain fairness, we kindly ask each team to sign-up for a maximum of only 2 time slots by 8am on Sunday, September 30th. After 8am, each team can revisit both sign-up sheets and sign-up as many time slots as your team needs.

Please note that these presentation rehearsal times are not mandatory and have been made available only to benefit the 2014 FT MBA students.

Grades and comments are now available on Turnitin.com.

MBA Corporate Gov 2012.pdf has been posted in the Integrated Foundation > Responsible Business Folder > Class Notes

We invite you to participate in the Full-time MBA Integrated Foundation Feedback survey which seeks to gather information on your experiences in the Integrated Foundation. It would be greatly appreciated if you could provide insight into what we can improve upon, as well as what we can continue to do well in order to ensure that we provide a valuable experience for current and future students in the Integrated Foundation.

This information will be TOTALLY CONFIDENTIAL – AT NO POINT WILL YOU BE REQUIRED TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF.

I encourage you to participate and provide your input through this survey, which should take you no more than 15 minutes to complete. The deadline to submit this survey is midnight on Monday, October 1st and the summary of the results will be discussed in class on Thursday, October 4th. We hope to address areas of improvement that matter to you the most.

To access the survey, just click on the following link; no user ID or password is required.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VKLY2WC

Thank you in advance for your cooperation. We appreciate your support in our efforts of ongoing improvements to the UBC Full-time MBA Program.

This is a reminder that the Leadership/Creativity Integrated Theme Workshop: Creativity & Collaboration will be held from 2:00pm to 4:00pm this Thursday, September 27th at the Asian Centre (auditorium). Working with a composer and professional string trio, we will explore creativity as a collaborative process, attending to the roles of leadership, teamwork & communication. Attendance is mandatory.

Please note that lunch will be provided starting at 1:00pm.

Asian Centre (1871 West Mall) is approximately 10 minutes away from the Henry Angus Building. Please visit http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=046 for its exact location on campus.