Kellogg Worldwide Experience and Service Trip – is an institution among Kellogg MBA students. Each year more than 85% of the school’s incoming class and their significant others (referred to as “Joint Ventures” or “JVs”) embark on a weeklong adventure to countries all over the world. This year’s KWEST kicks off in less than a week, with students departing to a variety of destinations, from China and Portugal to Argentina and the Galapagos Islands, and many places in between.
Free lunch and ping pong don’t make a culture
I never wanted to be one of those people that took pictures of their food and texted it to others. But while interning at LinkedIn this summer, I became one of them. It started slowly … a picture here to my family, a picture there to my classmates. But soon my addiction to culinary-related sharing was out of control. Everyone had to know about the sushi I ate for lunch, all playfully captioned with “did I mention it’s free?”
Such a shameless parading of perks is fun, especially when you work in technology for the summer. But when does the glossy finish of “free” begin to fade? The answer is quickly. Free lunches and ping pong alone do not create a culture — at least not a great one and not by default. I’ll give you three reasons why that’s the case.
Making the most of your first year in an MBA program | MBA Learnings
A few months ago, I wrote a letter to an incoming MBA student in an attempt to help incoming students prepare for their two years at school. I tried staying away from specific advice in that post, as the assumption was that the framework ought to work for everyone.
Today, however, I’m going to dig into my first year process and provide specifics on how I spent my first year.
Creating Urgency around Corporate Innovation
In 2011, Redbox made video-game rentals available at each of its thousands of kiosks. The games were a success in their own right: games like “Call of Duty” often rented as well as blockbuster movies. The innovation also had a profound effect on the performance of other products the company offered. Customers rented more frequently,… Continue reading
Discovering the many faces of innovation
MMM students got a crash course on what innovation looks, feels, tastes, smells and sounds like during a class visit to Doblin’s global innovation firm’s Chicago offices. Doblin Co-Founder Larry Keeley also teaches Innovation Frontiers, a core course in Kellogg’s MMM program.
The topic that afternoon was, quite simply, a crash course on what Innovation looks, feels, tastes, smells, and sounds like.
Upcoming Webinar: A Conversation with Kellogg’s Director of Admissions
Have you ever wanted to know insider tips on applying to Kellogg? Want to know how to make your application stand out? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then you won’t want to miss Wednesday’s webinar with the Kellogg Admissions team. “Applying to Kellogg – A conversation with the Director of Admissions,”… Continue reading
Warmth and competence | MBA Learnings
We discussed the tension between “warmth and competence” in the first week of classes at school. Academics have used this concept in various ways to show how various cultural/demographic/occupational groups are perceived in various parts of the world. As usual, I’m going to gloss over all that and focus on the implications for you and me.
Dean Blount speaks at White House
Dean Sally Blount ’92 visited the White House on Wednesday and met with senior advisers and several leaders from the business and business school communities to discuss the changing needs of the 21st century workplace.
Campus profile: Studying at WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany
This post is part of a new series featuring the different partner schools within the Kellogg Executive MBA Global Network. The school: WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management Location: Vallendar and Düsseldorf, Germany Expertise: European business, luxury goods The basics Consistently regarded as a top business school in Europe, the WHU Otto Beisheim School of… Continue reading
Bringing leadership lessons to life
As a first-quarter student in the One-Year MBA program at Kellogg, we dove into our academics with a course titled “Leadership In Organizations.” The class is designed to enhance our leadership skills.
The coursework for leadership is interesting because it places a lot of importance on practical and conceptual training.
One-line checkouts are better than multiple-line checkouts | MBA Learnings
A few weeks ago, I wrote about why queues form. The one line answer is that they form because of statistical fluctuations and dependent events. The concept is simple: if your presence at a meeting is dependent on the previous meeting, and the average time in the meeting is variable, it is likely that you’ll have people waiting for you, on average.
There’s a really cool application of this principle when it comes to checkout lines in stores and supermarkets. Multiple line checkouts are woefully inefficient.
Bringing analysis back to data analytics
Joel Shapiro, JD, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Program on Data Analytics (PDAK) at Kellogg. Since joining the school in spring 2015, he has been engaging with students via the Big Data and Analytics Club and developing a new course for the PDAK curriculum. Shapiro helps businesses understand how to better take advantage of data and to improve decision-making across the enterprise. He has served on faculty at Northwestern for 11 years, and in 2010 built the first online degree program in predictive analytics.
In this Q&A, Shapiro talks about big data, his vision for data analytics at Kellogg, and more.