Quarter 8 - Week 4

The effects of this week's classes were so strong, that this post didn't make it till Thursday! We had classes on Friday, Saturday AND Sunday. It's the anomalous quarter, where we just have nine weeks of classes, so we make up with two Sundays to match a week. I see the weeks rushing by, and I realize... it's just another 5 weeks to a well deserved vacation! The same time, next month... I'll be so chilled out.

Ethics in Business Management

This week had some flashback memories, as we studied about Demand and Supply and some of the other basics from MicroEconomics in our first quarter. But this sessions put a twist on it. At the time, we had studied about how you would charge people differently based on their capacity to pay, and on the power a monopoly and oligopoly have. And now, we hear about why most of these are unethical. Goes to show that the stuff we find ethical and awesome in quarter 1, might not necessarily be so. Wonder if the converse is also true?!?

The last session was about ethics and the environment. It revolved more around the ways in which we harm the environment, and how people are now waking to the fact that we need to preserve and maintain the environment. It's our responsibility. It was a good class where we saw various aspects from the angle of nature.

Managing Off-shored Software and IT Services

The week had a lot to do with respect to understanding cross-border issues. One of the articles was on "Following the Sun". It discussed how people could efficiently get a product quicker out of market, when teams in different parts of the world work around the world on a single project. The remaining sessions were more about Cross-Cultural Management and the types of issues that can crop up.

It's also the time when we realized that the interim reports for our course-required-project was due. And so, me and my team-mate get together and hash together a report based on our findings so far. It's a good feeling when we do some sort of work on our project, feels so much more.... deserving... than our regular projects! :)