Archive for December, 2008

Christmas 2008 in San Francisco and Tahoe with brothers Ben (+ Allison) and Joe

Joe flew in first for some extended bonding time. We had a nice Christmas in Napa with Sara’s extended family.

Ben and Allison joined us Christmas evening. Yes, our small 1-bedroom apartment will happily sleep 5. That’s Joe in his hallway/bedroom.

Winetasting in Napa was followed by a week of snowboarding in Tahoe. [...]

1/12th done! My first term at UC Davis’ Bay Area Working Professional MBA program

The first quarter of b-school was kinda awesome. I met a bunch of cool kids, learned a lot more about finance than I thought I was going to, and the material in class was incredibly relevant to the crashing economy and failing banks. We talked about mark-to-market financial accounting the weekend before Lehman [...]

UC Davis MBA course review: MGB201A Organizational Behavior with Greta Hsu

MGB 201A: Organizational Behavior with Greta Hsu
Date evaluated: Fall 2008 at the Bay Area Working Professional San Ramon campus.
Official course description: This is an introductory course in the management of modern organizations. The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding of the behaviors, problems, and effective management of organizations and their members. The [...]

UC Davis MBA course review: MGB200A Financial Accounting with Michelle Yetman

MGB 200A: Financial Accounting with Michelle Yetman
Date evaluated: Fall 2008 at the Bay Area Working Professional San Ramon campus.
Official course description: Introduces the concepts and objectives underlying the preparation of financial statements. Topics include understanding the accounting cycle, measurement and valuation problems associated with financial statement components, consideration of the usefulness of financial statements [...]