Business
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Humanity is not as far removed from trading three chickens for a sack of flour as we would like to believe. The international economy works because everyone has agreed, more or less, that some amount in one currency is worth some other amount in a different currency. Central banks from the USA, UK, EU, Japan,…
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Security owes part of its DNA to finance. Financial management decisions are all about risk management. This makes logical sense: We must consume time, money, and raw resources to create a product or service of value. This is inherently risky if the final product is not more valuable than the sum of its parts. Finance…
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Houston, security has a branding problem. People hate us. We’re the no people. The people that hold up procurement. The people that ask nosy questions. The people that spend money. How do we change the vibe? Marketing offers us a path forward. There’s two groups – the P’s and the C’s – with four points…
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Finally, a class with a familiar subject: analyzing data. The methods were kept fairly high level, as this was a class for business students, not engineering students. I certainly appreciated that, as I only passed engineering statistics with the help of my now-late ex-husband. The tools were kept to the ubiquitous accessible Excel, with the…
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Like my strategy class, I went into “Managerial Leadership & Productivity” completely blind. The course description helped little; it mentioned “organizational behavior and human motivation in the workplace”. Seven weeks later: You know how people keep saying security needs “people skills”? The textbook is “Developing Management Skills” by David Whetten and Kim Cameron. You know…
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I really didn’t know what to expect from a class titled “Strategy Formation and Organizational Design”. There wasn’t even a textbook. Instead, we had a course pack of articles from the Harvard Business Review. I ended up liking this setup, not least because it was a solid $100 cheaper than a textbook. My biggest lesson…
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Well, I survived my only Accounting class. I received a phone call prior to the class, warning me that this class might require more than the advertised 20 hours of work a week. I would say I spent about 15 hours of time per week, but math is a strong area for me. Since we…
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I am an interloper. This isn’t an imposter syndrome thing. I’m an engineer in business school. Specifically, an MBA program. I weighed my options before I applied. I’ve already had a lot of formal schooling, last graduating a full decade ago with a technical master’s degree. Future promotions at my organization require a graduate degree,…
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