The case memo question for the 2nd Integrated Case – Savage Beast is now posted on Connect > > myIPD > BA 504 (3.0) Integration & Professional Development: Foundation > Integrated Cases > Savage Beast.

Your case memo for Savage Beast is due at 8am on Monday, Sept 16.

A couple points when you are submitting your case memo:

• You may make multiple submissions but only your last submission before the deadline will be graded
• Your case memo and appendix needs to be merged into one single document to help the grading process

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

Now that you’ve had the chance to get to know each other a bit better, we ask that you help us nominate one person from your cohort (Blue or Green) to be one of the two class Ombudspersons’.

 What does an Ombud do? The main role of an Ombud is to act as a liaison between cohorts and the MBA Office & Faculty. He/she may be asked to assist in the gathering of student feedback and will be responsible for communicating any information or advise about policies and procedures to the class.  As an Ombud you would meet regularly with the MBA Programs office and share feedback from the class and co-collaborate with our office to come up with solutions that will enhance the overall program experience.

 If elected, how long will  I represent the class as an Ombudsperson? The MBA Society is elected in the first week of October,  at which time the roles of the President, VP Academic & VP Student Development will resume all duties previously held by the Ombudspersons.

How do I submit my nomination? We would ask that you submit all your nomination via http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2add no later than Midnight Thursday Sept 5 (tomorrow).  Once you have submitted your nominations, we will contact the nominees and confirm their acceptance of the nomination. We hope to set up an on line election of your Ombuds by the end of this week.  Any nominations submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.

To ensure a high level of accuracy, please be sure to copy and paste the correct name (“First Name, Last Name”) from the Class Roster into the appropriate field in the survey.

Best wishes,

MBA & MM Programs office

Please note that you can make multiple submissions of your case memo to Connect’s assignment dropbox before the deadline (ie. 8:00am on Sept 3) and only your last submission before the deadline will be graded.

Dear Class, as a quick reminder, please find below the question to address for submitting your Westlake Lanes case memo on Tuesday morning.

What should Shelby Givens do and why? In addressing this question, you should identify what options she is contemplating and provide arguments for and against each option. Before coming to a recommendation, explain your rationale for this choice.

In preparing your answer, try to consider issues related to different disciplines such as Accounting, Marketing, Strategy, Operations and OBHR. We appreciate that you have not covered specific theories for some of these disciplines, but are intentionally trying to push you to look at this question from multiple angles. As you progress in the MBA, you will learn more concepts to apply to future cases, but we wish to encourage the holistic nature of business analysis and decision making right from the beginning of the program.

As some of you may be aware that the tuition amount on your Student Service Centre (SSC) was slightly off. We have worked with the SSC team and this issue has been resolved. Your correct tuition and fees amount should now be showing. Please pay this amount on your account.

For international students who will be using wire transfer as a method of payment, please ensure that your transfer is submitted at the latest on September 4th .

If you have any questions please email askmba@sauder.ubc.ca

Please be advised that BA 504 IPD outline is now posted on the Current Student website.

Questions? Please email askmba@sauder.ubc.ca

We have just been notified that Connect will be unavailable tomorrow, Saturday, August 24th from 7am-3pm due to system maintenance.

We apologize for this disruption in service, and ask that you please download any documents you will need for Opening Week from Connect prior to Saturday 7am, as they will be unavailable from 7am-3pm.

Connect is our online learning management system, and a tool you will use throughout your program to access program information as well as individual module information.

You may have noticed a different landing page when you last opened Connect, and I’ve created a short 5 min online tutorial to introduce you to the components of the myDashboard page. View the tutorial.

I will send you additional online Connect tutorials over the next few days to help ensure that you are comfortable using this tool for the first week of class.

Cherry and I will also be available after the Accounting Prep class tomorrow (Thursday Aug 22nd) at 4pm to go over some Connect training in person and answer any questions you might have about Connect, Opening Week, etc.

For those of you who aren’t in Vancouver yet you are very welcome to send any questions you might have to askmba@sauder.ubc.ca or post them on the Facebook group so everyone can see the answers.

On Friday August 30th you will be participating in a mini-case competition as part of Opening Week.

Please review the full student instructions regarding this competition, and visit your Connect site to access the required pre-reading, which is the Loewen Case. You will find it here: Connect > Prep & Opening Week > Orientation/Opening Week

The timing for Friday August 30th of Opening Week has also changed slightly, as you will see from the instructions – there will no longer be a blog session on Friday morning, instead students will go right into the Mini-Case Competition briefing at 8:30am.

Schedule

The P1-P7 Schedule is now available on your Current Students webpage – please visit this page and review the schedule to see which modules you will take in each Period.

For the detailed P1 & P2 schedule please refer to the program Google calendar on your Connect site myDashboard page, which was activated today. The class google calendars enable you to keep track of your P1 & P2 modules (both Blue & Green Cohorts), as well as your program workshop dates and Professional Development workshops. We highly recommend you subscribe to these calendars in order to manage your schedule. Additional workshops/events taking place in P1 & P2 that aren’t on your academic calendar, but are required or optional for you to attend will also appear on your class Google calendar.

Registration

The MBA & MM Programs Office will be registering you in either the Blue Cohort (Section 001) or the Green Cohort (Section 002) for all required classes in P1 & P2 after the first day of Opening Week. You will then self-register in mid-October for the Track Specific mini-modules that you are interested in – you will receive full registration instructions for this in early October. So you don’t need to worry about registering in anything until mid-October.

Outlines & Connect class sites

All outlines that have been received for P1 & P2 have been posted on the Current Students webpage under the Outlines tab – please review the outlines for the modules you will be taking in P1 to see your readings and assignments for each class:

• BA 504 IPD: Foundation
• BA 562 Creativity (note the irregular schedule for this class)
• BAAC 550 Foundations in Accounting
• BABS 540 Data Utilization
• BAHR 550 Organizational Behaviour
• BAMA 550 Marketing
• BAPA 550 Foundations of Managerial Economics

Most instructors will be using their module Connect site to post assignment and reading information as well. We will be sending out some Connect navigation information to you shortly, and Theresa & Cherry will run a Connect Training Session after the Accounting Prep session on Thursday afternoon this week (Thurs Aug 22nd, 4-5pm in the Prep classroom). There will be additional Connect training sessions available to students in the first few weeks of classes to ensure that you are all aware of how to maximize use of the online resources.