5:29pm
Today was just another day of yoga, class, and schoolwork. I'm using this post as a way to procrastinate on the paper I should be writing. There's not really much to talk about for the events of today so I guess I'll just talk about today's international business class.
As I said in my last post, we're starting to learn more about our professor as a person and he continues to impress us. Today we talked about the complications and blurred lines of international business in the telecommunications industry. During this lecture, Dr. Raghunathan started talking about how he met with the chief of staff for the mayor of Atlanta just before the start of the '96 Olympics and came up with the idea of putting internet banks in the Atlanta airport so that all of the people coming in from around the world could pay a small fee to get in touch with loved ones back home via email, fax, etc. The idea was immediately approved and was a huge success. Dr. Raghunathan and his team were featured on CNN and some local new stations. Soon after, a group of guys in California went public with their own, lower quality version of what he implemented in the Atlanta airport. Their idea featured only a small portion of the technology that Dr. Raghunathan had used, but they were the ones who immediately went public with the plan and were able to claim all of the credit. Within weeks these guys were on the cover of Fortune magazine for their list of "top 20 companies to watch". It was hard to believe our professor when he said he is not still bitter about that. I know I would be. Dr. Raghunathan tied this interesting story into a really good message about the importance of finding your calling in life at an early age so that you have more time to build upon it. It's pretty safe to say that today's class involved more life lessons than international business lessons and that's fine by me.
9:37pm
We ate a good dinner at the hotel tonight and now everyone is doing schoolwork then going to bed. Tomorrow's post should be a bit more interesting and have at least a few pictures since we're leaving the hotel for a while to visit some places. For now, here's a picture of my breakfast. I'm not sure what all of the names are or what exactly they're made of, but I do know it's good. I also know that the red cubes in the bowl are just plain old watermelon. Other than the obvious, I don't have a clue. I'll post the names later if I can remember.
Today was just another day of yoga, class, and schoolwork. I'm using this post as a way to procrastinate on the paper I should be writing. There's not really much to talk about for the events of today so I guess I'll just talk about today's international business class.
As I said in my last post, we're starting to learn more about our professor as a person and he continues to impress us. Today we talked about the complications and blurred lines of international business in the telecommunications industry. During this lecture, Dr. Raghunathan started talking about how he met with the chief of staff for the mayor of Atlanta just before the start of the '96 Olympics and came up with the idea of putting internet banks in the Atlanta airport so that all of the people coming in from around the world could pay a small fee to get in touch with loved ones back home via email, fax, etc. The idea was immediately approved and was a huge success. Dr. Raghunathan and his team were featured on CNN and some local new stations. Soon after, a group of guys in California went public with their own, lower quality version of what he implemented in the Atlanta airport. Their idea featured only a small portion of the technology that Dr. Raghunathan had used, but they were the ones who immediately went public with the plan and were able to claim all of the credit. Within weeks these guys were on the cover of Fortune magazine for their list of "top 20 companies to watch". It was hard to believe our professor when he said he is not still bitter about that. I know I would be. Dr. Raghunathan tied this interesting story into a really good message about the importance of finding your calling in life at an early age so that you have more time to build upon it. It's pretty safe to say that today's class involved more life lessons than international business lessons and that's fine by me.
9:37pm
We ate a good dinner at the hotel tonight and now everyone is doing schoolwork then going to bed. Tomorrow's post should be a bit more interesting and have at least a few pictures since we're leaving the hotel for a while to visit some places. For now, here's a picture of my breakfast. I'm not sure what all of the names are or what exactly they're made of, but I do know it's good. I also know that the red cubes in the bowl are just plain old watermelon. Other than the obvious, I don't have a clue. I'll post the names later if I can remember.
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