Dear 1st year FT MBA student,

We are happy to advise that we are ready to assign lockers!

The MBA program has 82 half-sized lockers available for student use. Most are on the 1st floor, a few are on the 4th floor. As decided by the current MBAS Executive, these lockers will all be assigned to 1st year MBA students only; 2nd year students are not eligible.  However, as there are more students than lockers, selection will be made by lottery.

If you wish to go into the draw to have a locker, please click on the link below and enter your email address to access the sign-up form. Please enter your name and student number by September 8^th, 2013.

http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2ae6

Please note that you will only be able to sign in once to enter your details. Students will need to supply their own lock.

If you are currently occupying a locker, please ensure that you remove your lock and locker contents before 8:00am on Monday, 9^th, 2013. Any locks left on the lockers after that time will be cut off.

Lockers will be assigned initially for September – December 2013 only. Once the new MBAS Executive is selected in December, we will ask for their feedback as to how they wish to assign lockers from January 2014 onwards.

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