Darden Beijing Trip: Day 4 & 5 – The Great Wall of China!

October 16, 2008

Click HERE For the Flickr Photo-stream of Days 4&5 Getting to the Great Wall of China It’s hard to believe we’ve been here for almost a week.  The schedule has been fast paced to put it mildly.  On Tuesday afternoon we took off for the Great Wall.  It was a bumpy and sometimes precarious ride [...]

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Darden Beijing Trip: Day 3 – Lecture, Chinese Juice Factory and Italian in China!

October 13, 2008

Click here for Day #3 Flickr Photstream Day #3 It’s day #3 and I’m considering a lifetime ban on Chinese food.  It’s actually not that bad, I think others are having much more difficulty than I am.  Positioning myself as a vegetarian has saved me more than once.  If you’re a picky meat eater, you’re [...]

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Darden Beijing Trip: Day 2 – Class, Forbidden City, Exotic Food

October 12, 2008

Day #2 in Beijing. We visit a food court, Tienanmen Square and The Forbidden City

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Darden Beijing Trip: Day 1 Arrival

October 11, 2008

Day one in Beijing! Follow our trip to from the airport to Beijing and our first meal in country!

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Darden Beijing Trip: Day 0 (Travel Day)

October 10, 2008

Today is a travel day to Beijing. Follow the adventure of the Darden EMBA class of ’09!

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Darden Beijing Trip: Day -1

October 9, 2008

It’s Thursday and I’m blasting off to China tomorrow. I haven’t traveled overseas since the mid-90′s so this is going to be interesting. Reports are trickling in from classmates already in country. Fiddler reports being hustled by a Chinese cabbie for taxi fare twice the reported going rate. That sucks. I’m not planning on taking [...]

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Darden Beijing Trip: Day -2

October 8, 2008

Two days out and I’m already getting emails from classmates that are either getting ready to head to China or are in the process. Sixteen months ago when we started this program, China was just a far-off concept. Intuitively you knew the departure date for China would show up, but like an out-of-town guest, you [...]

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Prediction Markets and the US Financial Crises.

September 26, 2008

Visit my prediction market! It’s been a week.  Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know that the US economy has seen better times.  You have to wonder how bad things are.  As in any crisis, there are mixed accounts.  There’s a fantastic list of potential calamities in a WSJ article this morning.  This thing [...]

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Awesomeness isn’t quite free – Ice Kream Koan brings free awesome back!

September 19, 2008

I’ve been following the Thirty-day Challenge with a lot of enthusiasm.  I really have to hand it to Ed, GuruBob and crew, they’ve really packed a lot of information into a very useful and concise package.  There’s huge value there!  Kudos to you all. I’m impressed too with the tools that they are helping promote.  [...]

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Economic Karma – Deleveraging America…

September 18, 2008

I’ve got a friend of mine who I always seem to be on the other side of the debate with.  His position is that the current financial meltdown is the result of a loss of transparency in the market.  There are those that point to SIVs and other off-balance sheet items as the protagonists in [...]

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