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Having recently studied, in a rudimentary fashion, the causes of the recent economic crisis in an exo-Sauder course, I was a little taken aback by some of the dialogue during the ‘introduction to finance’ lecture. Firstly apparently not everyone knows what short selling is, hedging, securitization, or collateralized debt obligations. I guess this should not […]
“To define perpetual growth on a finite planet as the sole measure of economic well-being is to engage in a form of slow collective suicide.” Wade Davis On top of business courses I have been studying geographic interpretations of globalization and Anthropology. Both seem a little more sceptical of CSR than the average business class. […]
I sincerely believe that my favourite lecture of the year was regarding non-profits and social enterprises. The subject manner greatly interested me; however, it was the guest speaker that really got me intrigued. I may only paraphrase at this point but I distinctly remember him saying something along the lines of ‘I didn’t really mind […]
I just took the online test from http://go-beyond.ca/calculator-results and appear to have a carbon footprint of 7.229 tons. To be blunt, this numerical value in itself means very little to me. I am surprised to see that they don’t compare to an average in my geographic region. In another similar test I have previously taken […]
Right after 486g I have recently been attending a night course on practical finance as applied in investment banking. Although many of the financial concepts are well over my head, it is interesting to be thrown into the deep end of financial modelling and appraisal. One of the consistent topics brought up is compensation in […]
Having recently been focusing on accounting, I read an interesting article yesterday regarding the ‘creative accounting’ practices that were used by American banks in order to hide the extent of Greece’s debts. With the upcoming spring payment of over twenty-five billion Euros to be made by Greece to various debt holders, fears of default are […]
Ok so it is time to delve into real business – hockey: Olympic hockey. With the Olympics now in full swing the real competition begins today. Lets be honest, we wish the best for all of our athletes, but, if Canada doesn’t win gold in men’s hockey it won’t matter if we own the podium. […]
Well this was quite a interesting Valentine’s Day. I spent a large portion o the day locked in a small room with three other guys: as much as it was enjoyable, not exactly the ideal situation. We were participating in the West Coast Case Competition at UBC. We were to analyze a case regarding Apple […]
resonating within my mind. Firstly Zara’s culture is described as one of “immediacy”. How often are important corporate decisions debated to exhaustion prior to any decisions being made? On a more individual level how often do I avoid making difficult decisions—choosing instead to deal with simple aspects of a task first? By centralizing design activities […]
We were somewhat vaguely asked to write an entry having to do with business ethics—I have decided to shed light on the ethics of and element of business school: more precisely the indoctrination effect leading to a reduction in charitable donations by non-economics majors having attended intro and mid-level economics courses. Yoram Bauman, an economics […]