In business school, it seems like many of the cases involved Southwest Airlines, Toyota (their production system, kaizen, etc.), WalMart, and a other companies.
We studied Southwest Airlines a few weeks ago and discussed their various strategic advantages. These include point to point (instead of hub and spoke), faster turnaround at the gates, no assigned […]
Entries from June 2009
Southwest Airlines
June 30th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments
Tags: Term 4
Flint, Michigan
June 30th, 2009 by RVD · 1 Comment
I spent this past weekend in Michigan. Many of my friends don’t realize this but I actually grew up in Michigan. I went to elementary and middle school out there in a suburb of Detroit called Southfield, MI. It was a great place to grow up because there were parks everywhere, bike […]
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Tutoring?
June 23rd, 2009 by RVD · 1 Comment
Although I don’t personally use a tutor and I haven’t been to any of the official Wharton tutoring sessions (although I hear that Nick is just AWESOME!), it looks like there’s a service out there that caters to graduate student tutoring. They specialize in MBA, CFA, and CPA tutoring and the service is called […]
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Clear - bye bye
June 23rd, 2009 by RVD · No Comments
This past Sunday morning I went to SFO to fly back down to LA. There was a decent line for security although it wasn’t too crazy. It looked like maybe a 15 minute line or so. But no worries for me, the CLEAR line was open so I walked over there and […]
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Wharton Bowling!
June 23rd, 2009 by RVD · 1 Comment
On Friday we went bowling at Yerba Buena. It was a fun night with pizza, libations, strikes, spares, gutter balls, high scores, and low scores. We did find some interesting hidden bowling talent in the class.
Thanks to Brandon for the pictures.
Turns out Hunt is a ringer…
“N” who shall remain pictureless scored a 67. […]
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Whew! More exams completed…
June 21st, 2009 by RVD · No Comments
We all had at least 1 exam this past session with most students having 2 exams and some even having 3 exams! I had 2 exams (both on Friday) so Friday was kind of a long afternoon/evening.
We celebrated on Saturday after class by going out for Hawaiian food ($5 specials on Blue Hawaiian had […]
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Dilbert MBA cartoons
June 16th, 2009 by Umer · 1 Comment
A few weeks ago, there were a series of Dilbert cartoons poking fun at MBAs :-) I probably can’t post them directly in the blog for copyright reasons, but here are the links:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-18/
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-19/
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-20/
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-21/
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-22/
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-23/
Tags: Misc
Legal Studies and Proposition 8
June 11th, 2009 by RVD · 2 Comments
Proposition 8 was a controversial and hotly contested California ballot proposition in the 2008 election. The proposition was to add a new section to the California state constitution stating that “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” This essentially meant that California would only recognize opposite […]
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Madrid!
June 9th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments
It looks like a lot of us have finally booked our tickets to Spain. I booked my ticket a few days ago. Because of the global recession, plane tickets are CHEAP! My round trip ticket from LAX to Madrid was only $523. I remember when it used to cost that much […]
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Legal final - Done!
June 9th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments
We finished our legal final this past Saturday. The exam was long…3 hours and 50 minutes long including essay questions, multiple choice, etc.
I used to think that multiple choice exams were usually not too hard because after all, the answer is in front you and you just have to pick the right one. […]
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