It’s been 2 years in the making and it’s now done! I just received my final grade in my Capstone class for my MBA in Marketing from Regis University!

It was 12 classes and I took the Marketing concentration and I’m very happy to announce that I received 11 A’s and 1 B….the B was in Financial Decision Making which was the most boring and difficult class I could imagine because it was all financial spreadsheets and how to interpret them!

But at the age of 41 to pull off a 3.8 GPA is awesome considering a full-time job and Wife and 4 kiddos!

So now I am taking one last class as an Independent Study in Internet Marketing so that I have 18 hours in Marketing at the Graduate level. This is because many Universities require their Adjunct Professors to have this to be able to teach Marketing at the College level. My goal is to teach online at a few Universities in Business and Marketing as I thoroughly enjoyed the online learning environment and see this is the most reliable way for a College to grow in the future.

If there’s any Marketing Related issues or questions that I can ever help you with I’ll be happy to help!

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Whew! This one is done and boy was it a lot of work….but really fun!

The entire class was a Simulation where our Team set up a computer company
and made dozens of executive decisions each week regarding expanding
Internationally, hiring, Advertising, Sales and Marketing etc

My Team took 1st place!!

Now it’s off to my last class in my Marketing MBA!

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OK I realize it’s been a few months since I update my journey through my MBA in Marketing but here’s why…after the Consumer Behavior class I went right into Financial Decision Making and Market Research….not fun! In fact I am the guy who has the 30,000 foot vision for success. I can put together a marketing plan, I can strategize joint venture relationships to increase sales. I can create back-end marketing systems to increase revenues….but show me a Balance Sheet or Income Statement and I throw up a little in my mouth (sorry). So the last 2 classes were a bit dry, but I got an “A”  and a “B” in them (the only “B” in the entire MBA so far….oh well)

So now I have started “Product Management” and it really is looking like a lot of fun….a lot of work, but fun!

Here’s the overview from week 1:

This class is a bit different than the classes you have had so far in the program. The activities you will participate in will revolve primarily around playing a computer simulation of business – so most of the course content will involve the simulation in some way.

The main emphasis of this course is Product Management. Product Management is a function that requires a great deal of interaction between the different functional areas of the business. It is important that each functional area understand the impact their decisions have on the rest of the organization. The business simulation that you will participate in during this course does a good job of doing just that

So this entire class is a game simulation of starting a computer company and EVERY SINGLE decision needs to be made to start and run the company over 6 quarters. Finance,Advertising,Branding,Manufacturing,Sales etc….and we compete against other teams to see who has the best results. It actually allows us to draw on all the learning we have done up to this point and put into a real simulation of business application. Pretty cool. Looks like a lot of work because we have to spend 3-5 hours a week in the simulation program and hold a team conference call and also an Executive Board meeting with the Prof and turn in a 10 slide PowerPoint each week…

I’ll post updates throughout the rest of this course and then I begin the last class at the end of August and should complete my MBA in Marketing by November….Whew!!

Until next time

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