Monthly Archives: January 2013

P3 Exam Week: Room Designations

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P3 Exam Week is just around the corner. For next week’s exams you will all be designated into rooms for BA 513  and BASC 500. Please review the attached documents before the exam so you know which room you will be writing the exam in. There will be copies posted on doors for your own reference.

Room Designations:
BA 513 001: Business Economics Room List
BA 513 002: Business Economics Room List
BASC 500 001: Process Fundamentals Room List
BASC 500 002: Process Fundamentals Room List

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email askmba@sauder.ubc.ca

Module outlines for BAEN 542 & BAEN 545 for P4 now available online

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Briefing note on BAEN 542 Prototyping and BAEN 545 Qualitative Research Models from Paul Cubbon

Any questions: please contact: paul.cubbon@sauder.ubc.ca

These two course outlines are now available for Period 4 online. These two half-module courses are designed to be taken in parallel to make up 1.5 credits, but if you only want to take one of them you may do so. Given that these are short courses, and recognizing that you will have just returned from global immersion, there is no significant preparation. However, you are expected to attend all classes and be prepared to the extent needed to participate actively.

Both courses are intended to offer you a change of pace from conventional courses, and are “learning by doing” applied classes. There are no text books or reading packs, but there are some online resources, and these will be added to on an optional, self-customized basis to allow you to develop your learning interests.

The Qualitative Research course is intended to help you build on your learning with Dale in Market Research, on your experiences in Project 2 in Fall, and the learning that many of you have been having in the last month in BAEN 506 Technology Entrepreneurship and/or Brand Management. In all of these courses you have been required to design questionnaires and conduct interviews with only limited guidance. And you have found out how hard it is to do this well and to get useful results.

This course will drill down deeper on “how” and also cover some additional techniques that can provide actionable insights, especially in the early stage of a venture or problem investigation. You will have opportunities to customize your work to connect it to other projects that you are already working on, or to apply the concepts and tools to something new. The projects will, naturally, require some time, but the intention is that they do not need to be heavily time-consuming.

The Prototyping course was designed with the BAEN 506-507 Technology Entrepreneurship and BINV track students in mind, but anyone who is interested can take it.

  • Books – the 2 books listed are optional, and certainly not required (Copies of both will be available in class for people to view).
  • Website – preliminary material up by Mon Feb 11th, with major revision posted by Mon Feb 25th.
  • No reading costs, no lab fees. Prep work and limited readings –  students can expect ~3-8 hours to work on the two projects, depending on complexity of their chosen topics for Projects 1 and Projects 2.

B-Clinic Marketplace Reminder

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This is just a reminder that the B-Clinic Marketplace is Wednesday, January 30 from 6:30pm to 9:00 pm.

In total there are eight fantastic business challenges that will be presented by organization leaders. Not only is this a great chance to find out about B-Clinic projects but also an opportunity for some networking with  organizations in Vancouver’s business community. For example, check out this project from Del Mar Pharmaceuticals:

Del Mar Pharmaceuticals is looking for student(s) to develop a case study for a drug marketing program in China. Students would work directly with the CEO to conduct market, financial, and historical research on repositioning a pharmaceutical product in China.

Not only is this a great opportunity to gain some valuable hands-on experience, but B-Clinic projects also count for class credit. For more information, visit bclinic.sauder.ubc.ca. To register for the marketplace event, follow the link below.

http://bclinic.c-labproject.com/students/marketplace-event/

Important ePortfolio Instructions

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Regarding your eportfolio, thank you for your patience as we sorted out back-end technicalities. This post provides important, updated instructions and resources in order for you to fully enable your eportfolio. Please take a few minutes to follow these steps. To begin, please navigate to http://learningcommons.sauder.ubc.ca/learn/portfolio/ . Here are the components in sequence:

  1. Please read Step 1 Portfolios and the MBA Curriculum.
  2. Most of you have already set-up a portfolio. Have you updated your portfolio categories?  (The portfolio template was updated recently to include the full menu of categories [Interests & Passions, Purpose & Direction, Skills, Competencies]).  If you already had a portfolio and have followed the above, step. please skip to point 4 below.
  3. If you don’t have a portfolio, are you registered for UBC blogs? Also, create your portfolio here.
  4. Do you have a blog? Create your blog.
  5. Have you added yourself to the aggregators? (and, is your portfolio/blog included in the blogroll?)
  6. Do you know how to submit artifacts/posts to the aggregator?
  7. Have you looked at additional resources?
    • Introduction to WordPress, Choosing Artifacts, and Putting it all Together (which shows you how to send a post to the aggregator site).
    • There are also FAQs

Additional points:

  • Once the steps above are completed, we will need to individually enable syncing between your portfolio and the aggregator.
  • Any submissions you make to the aggregator will be put in moderating mode to be reviewed by your career manager before being pushed live ubcmbasmakeadifference
  • We will not enable full public access to ubcmbasmakeadifference until we have some content to share.

I will be communicating more tips as well as clarifications and updates going forward. We are looking forward to seeing your portfolios develop and to the aggregator showcasing your ideas and talent.

Inclusion in Resume Books

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As part of our marketing efforts, we will be sending “resume books” (PDF collections of resumes) to selected contacts and partners as part of internship development and overall employment branding for your cohort and the school. This activity helps to market you specifically as well as other students in your Track, as well as the whole cohort, and of course, the whole program.

When you registered on COOL, you agreed to have your default resume viewable by employers who have been given access to the resume database. We assume that the above, additional marketing activities are acceptable to you.

If, for privacy reasons, you do not want your resume to be included in these kinds of activities, or you would like to pair down your contact information, please contact your career manager via email by EOB Tuesday, January 29th.

Resume Completion

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For those of you who have not yet completed your resumes, please do your best to get your revisions done over the next few days. We know that you have a lot on your plates right now. However, we do not want you or your fellow classmates to miss any opportunities for marketing, including for Global Immersion. Your career managers are reaching out individually to you to expedite things.

Perfect is not important at this stage. Get your resume done and we can help you revise it if needed after Global Immersion. With the business development team, we will be sending out resumes starting next week for key partners. Thank you for your cooperation.

Additional Graduate Breakout Rooms for Studying

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Exam week is approaching fast , therefore the Graduate Breakout Rooms will be in greater demand. In order to enable you to find study space during this time we have booked additional rooms. In addition to the Graduate Breakout Rooms, the following rooms have been reserved for MBA’s to use starting from Monday, Feb 28th, 2013 to Thursday, February 6th, 2013. Please use these rooms on a drop-in basis if there is no availability in the Graduate Breakout Rooms.

Note: More classrooms and times will be added.

Monday, January 28th, 2013:
– HA 435 8:00am-12:00pm
– HA 335 6:00-10:00pm

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013:
– HA 354 from 6:00-10:00pm

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013:
-HA 245 from 2:00-6:00pm
-HA 345 from 4:00-8:00pm

Thursday, January 31st, 2013:
-HA 345 from 5:00-9:00pm
-HA 335 from 4:00-8:00pm

Friday, February 1st, 2013:
– HA 347 from 8:00am-12:00pm
– HA 345 from 12:00pm-4:00pm
– HA 254 from 4:00-8:00pm

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013:
– HA 435 from 8:00am-12:00pm
– HA 437 from 4:00-8:00pm
– HA 254 from 5:00-9:00pm

*As a common courtesy, please leave rooms tidy after use. This includes disposal of garbage and paper products.

**We would like to kindly remind you that the breakout rooms are only to be booked for a maximum of 4hrs per group in order to give other students the opportunity to use the space as well.

Many thanks from the MBA/ECM Programs Office.

Internships: Key Deadlines

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We hope everyone is having a productive week, academically & career related.

There are a number of internship postings that have deadlines coming up.  The deadlines and companies are:

  • Thursday, January 24 (HSBC- MBA Summer Associate Programme )
  • Friday, January 25 (Cooler Solutions, Kraft Canada, Walt Disney Company & Deloitte)
  • Sunday, January 27 (ExxonMobile,  Imperial Oil Limited, & Mawer Investments)
  • Thursday, January 31 (L’Oreal, PepsiCo, & Edelman)

If you have any questions in regards to these postings, please contact Carly Boettcher at carly.boettcher@sauder.ubc.ca

B-Clinic Marketplace

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The next B-Clinic Marketplace will be held Wednesday, January 30, 2013 from 6:30pm – 9:00pm.

Register online on here

The B-Clinic Marketplace, presented in the 9th Floor penthouse of the Henry Angus building, is the forum that matches organizations from the business community with Sauder MBA and ECM students. Organizations with unique business opportunities will present a five minute pitch including a description of their business and its specific challenge(s). A short Q&A session will follow. Once presentations are complete, students will have an opportunity to interact further with the speakers, exchanging questions and gaining additional insight as needed.

To view a profile of these organizations, please visit the B-Clinic website at bclinic.sauder.ubc.ca.

Following the Marketplace, interested students can upload their resume to the B-Clinic website and apply for any of the available projects. Listen. Ask. Choose. Apply. It’s that easy!