exams, ethics and BCAP

Exam fever started a week before the exams began. I enjoyed the CSCA-strategy exam analyzing Robert Mondavi case written in 2001. It was a group exam and we had one day to work on. It was one of the rare occasions our study team sat together to answer. I like my study group a lot because we did not need to have face-to-face meeting a lot. We have gotten better and better at doing group assignments over email. I was satisfied with the results we submitted for CSCA.

We have ethics stream for the past two modules. Do not get me wrong. I am very interested in the subject. However, the classes were so boring and made me wonder why we have this subject at all. I think it is there just to please the potential employers: "look we teach ethics too". I wonder how students at other schools think about their coursework.

Now, we are busy with our BCAP (a year long consulting project with real companies). We are studying the enterprise software industry. Babson has access to very good online resources. I am getting familiar with a bunch of them. In Fall we do the industry analysis and in spring we focus on the sponsoring company and they problem they ask us to look at. We will know the sponsoring company next monday.

I will be attending Cyberposium organized by HBS this Saturday. We at Babson get more and more invitations from HBS and MIT events. More on that cyberposium next week.