I’m currently taking the MBA course at Ivey business school here in Canada. I started on August and it is impressive how many things we learned until now. I am very sure that I do not see business, organizations, finance, accounting and career management in the same way as I used to. Even though I’m just here for about 4 months in the course and in Canada, my knowledge about business has improved significantly. For instance, I can provide assessment in the optimal capital structure of a firm, I can read and understand balance sheet in the point of view of managers, investors and shareholders, also I am starting to see how strategy can drive employees and managers behavior and how a leader can drive the direction of a company.

The course lasts for 1 year and its main focus is in general management.

Besides the academic life of an MBA, I’m participating in many different activities. Maybe too much.

I’m one of the four Executive Directors of LEADER Project, a student run not for profit organization aimed to teach entrepreneurship in universities in Eastern Europe countries (Russia, Macedonia, Moldova and Ukraine). I founded with Ali the Innovators club. I’m member of the Finance, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Wine and Presentation Skills clubs in the MBA side and I’m member of the French, Portuguese and Visual Arts clubs in the University of Western Ontario side.

Also, I’m creating a business plan with John, John, Matt and Pema. We think we may have a great opportunity in the online advertising industry (I always worked in Internet monetization, my expertise). Besides, I’m participating in the Canada’s next top ad executive competition with John. I will also participate in some others competition in the beginning of next year.

After all of this, I’m also making some new friends! Friends from China, India, Venture Capital industry, Automobile industry, Canada, Peru, etc.

A lot of things are happening, that’s why I am not updating my blog as much as I used to. The great thing is I’m able to manage and prioritize all my activities. Thanks for my Google experience where I learned how to do things fast.

My next posts will be focus on the monthly Canada’s Venture Capital Firm list (I’m posting on December 3rd). I will add more information for each of the firms. Also, I will resume my posts about the case studies from the Entrepreneurial Finance from the MIT OpenCourseWare. I promised in the beginning of this year that I would go through all the cases from that course at MIT and I think I am much more prepared to discuss the cases in that course.

Here are some of my previous posts about the Entrepreneurial Finance course:

Horizon Communication

Venture Capital Valuation Method

What happens when the schedule slips in startup?

Technical Data Corporation

I will resume from the Horizon Communication case. Probably, I will make a podcast for about it.

Stay tuned!