The end of my first year in the program is closing in very fast – a lot faster than I could have ever imagined. However, there is still a lot that is going on in the meantime. We started another online simulation in our operations class, this time we are focusing on managing our inventory in order to meet customer demand while maximizing revenues. In our managerial human resources course we also had another online simulation, for this one we all managed our own offices and had to make interactive decisions on how we would deal with a couple of underperforming employees. We are also working on finalizing our results and findings for a measurement scale that we have been developing with our teams in our advanced topics in marketing research course.

Last weekend we had our spring ball; this was a ton of fun. A large number of the MBA students, professors and faculty all enjoyed a really nice evening at the Overture Center here in Madison. The event included a dance performance, a lot of dancing from all of us and some great food and drinks to enjoy. The evening also included the announcing of the winners of a handful of fun student created awards. This was a great time, especially due to the great turnout of students and faculty.