Today was my supersmart groupmate RB’s birthday, and I was trying to think of something interesting to do to him. It also happened that this morning, our Strategy professor liked our group’s submissions for the Apple case and wanted us to present our views on a particular question.
My groupmates asked me to make the presentation as I was the one who prepared the slides for that question! Despite being a big Machead (i.e. Apple fan) I had long abandoned any notions that my work would be singled out for show and tell at INSEAD. So this certainly gave me a confidence boost which will hopefully help as the Strategy exam is this Thursday!
RB had improved many of our slides before submitting it, so he offered to come up with me to present. Then I realised we could spring him a little surprise. So I told RB he could present 1 slide and I would present the other. I quietly passed a note to another groupmate MEK to tell her that when RB presents we should sing ‘Happy Birthday’. And so the whole class sang!
We proceeded with our presentation. At the end, the professor told me ‘very good’ and we saw similar comments written on our paper submission :)
Then we got news from our Marketing professor that we scored 93% in our last case. I think we learnt from our mistakes in the previous case and did a much better job this time. We seem to get consistently high scores for analysis and this time, full marks for recommendation. Last week we scored 25/25 for a Managerial Accounting case where the mean was just 19.82 marks, even though at one point it nearly killed some of us (with angst). So it is heartening to know we can get full marks for qualitative components as well. Overall I hope this makes our group above average. We need every ‘competitive advantage’ we can get! ;-)
Gotta go. This may be the last you’ll hear from me until after the exams which end next week (unless something very significant happens)…
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