Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The medium is the message

Well, the day started with talent management course, where we saw concepts like yield rates at work. While analyzing how different yield rates are affected by factors internal and external to a firm, Monika gave out a statement 'The medium is the message' pointing to how candidates form an opinion of the firms based on their interactions with the interviewer.
This statement was enough to stress importance of having a charismatic person as a recruiter.

Next was our group meeting where we kicked off the work for our talent management presentation.

In the Corporate Finance class today, Carlos summarized all the concepts we have seen so far, and the concepts we need to be familiar with for developing a good model. I think we will jump into developing finance models right away, starting next class.

And then, Gonzalo was back with a case on China. While it was an interesting case, where we got to know about the history of China, and the gradual economic reforms it has been implementing, the class also indulged into discussions such as how this relates to the way Russia and Eastern Europe went on with their reforms.

I think one of the important takeaways from this class was that the policies you implement as government talk a lot about what message you send to your population and to the world outside. Again, a common theme discovered in classes of today - the medium is the message :-)

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