Communication stream and exam

Here is our schedule for this week:
Monday - Tech Briefing - Present a technical topic from one of the six streams (Data Analysis, Accounting, Economics, Marketing, Strategy or Law) and present in front of a group of 14 + a speech consultant who provides feedback on how you present.
Catch: You need to speak to an imaginary audience, assuming assuming the audience to be unaware of the topics.
You want to know what I presented? Read on.

Tuesday - final accounting class. I am going to miss this class. I never expected this class to be this interesting.

Wednesday - Send a second draft of writing assignment. Topic: You are the CEO of Whirlpool writing to the employees of the newly acquired company, MayTag, informing bad news - a plan to cut jobs during the integration process.

Thursday - Accounting Exam. Receive group exam question for Law/Strategy

Friday - Submit the exam paper

Here is the topic I presented in the tech breifing. P-Value, its meaning and uses. Audience: high school graduates planning to take some surveys for a company.

Events: Rocket Pitch Competition - Review

Babson organizes rocket pitch competition every year. This year, there were about 108 participants: current graduate/undergraduate students, alumni and some faculty as well. It was very well organized, presentation in four rooms were even synced to facilitate easy movement from one topic to another.

It was a very interesting event. One would think 3 minutes allotted time is too short. However, good presenters communicated enough to enthuse the audience and create an interest. As you can expect there were a few very good presentations and a few very good products. But, due to time limits there were not enough details to evaluate their feasibility.

I presented one too. It was about a niche product in emerging market. I thought it would take lot of efforts to convey the context. It did not. Though the investors did not flock to my table after the presentation, I got good feedback from a fellow students.

Overall a very good experience.

Law Stream: Microsoft Antitrust and NAP

Our law professor makes the classes very interesting though the stream may sound boring. He brings a theme each class and wears a tie according to the theme. The theme of Antitrust discussion class was Monopoly.

Here is the interesting part. One of the bullet items was the 2004 antitrust case raised by Japanese fair trade commission alleging that Non-Assertion Provision in Microsoft's contracts with Japanese OEMs . The case in point is: Microsoft signed contracts with a provision to not sue MS for any future infringement.

(You can google and get more details. Anyway here is my analysis of this issue)
If MS get some supplies from a Sony subsidiary, they can not sue MS for infringing, say PlayStation related patents. Oh!

Prof's theme was very apt, right??

Law stream is one of my favorite. I am learning a lot of new things which I have never paid attention to.