Baker Library

Boy they really make you work with case study after case study!

Here i am soaking up the Baker library for some more quite study.
i have not done this for 25 odd years , so you can imagine how much i am loving that part!

Below, i have shown the schedule for today, to give you an idea of the daily grind and the topics covered!




TUESDAY MAY 25
7:00 - 8:30 am
Breakfast
Kresge Boardroom
All
7:30 - 8:45 am
Discussion Groups

Assigned Living Groups
All
9:00 - 10:30 am
Leadership: Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley Robert Steven Kaplan

McCollum 102
B, D
10:30 - 11:00 am
Break

Baker Hall Lounge
All
11:00 - 12:30 pm
Control: Activity-Based Management V.G. Narayanan

McCollum 102
B, D
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunch

Kresge Boardroom
All
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Strategy: Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, and the Three Phases of Marketing Cynthia Montgomery

McCollum 102
B, D
3:00 - 3:30 pm
Break
Baker Hall Lounge
All
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Life Planning: Life Cycle of the Family Business System John Davis

McCollum 101
All
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Dinner
Kresge Boardroom
All
6:30 - 7:30 pm

Kresge Boardroom
All

Probably the piece which resonated most was the strategy session comparing the strategies of Ford and General Motors.

Does anyone know who Alfred Sloan was?

The big lesson was a business needs a difference that matters we also learnt how costing systems can drive profitability.

Last night's team dinner gave us a chance to get to know closely a group of seven very different people from Thailand, India, Usa, Brazil and Venezuela, very rewarding and informative.

Tomorrow, we move onto negotiations.