Life is choice
Kyra has a post today that I could have written. She’s writing about food & exercise choices, but really, I think there is choice in how you act or react in just about any situation. Do you seize life or …
Month: February 2005
Business Plan Planning
The owners of one of the biotech companies that leases space in my research building have been allowing me to use their company as a focus of several of my MBA class projects. Over the summer, I wrote a Business …
What should colleges do?
Ben, a young entrepreneur who is pondering college, has an interesting post on the role of Colleges & Universities. Here’s a bit of his post: This troubles me and I think there are a number of consequences. First and foremost …
Why Business School?
I get asked from time to time, why, when I already have a PhD, would I go back to school at night to get an MBA? There are many answers to this question, depending upon the day and my mood …
Blogs I read
Until the Summer of 2004, I had never heard of or read a Blog. This all changed when an incredibly candid and humorous local venture capitalist, Brad Feld, spoke at one of my Entrepreneurship classes. He discussed how he started …
Four Days of Exams
Between the classes I’m taking and the class I’m teaching, today makes 4 days of exams in the last 5 days. Due to their over ambitious schedules, my students took their regularly schedule exam on three different days. At least …
Wine is Bad
Last night hubby and I went out for our Valentine’s Day Dinner at O’s Steak and Seafood. Even though Friday was my real "free day", since I ran 6 miles on Saturday (right leg & foot feeling good) I decided …
Chemo Brain
I learned a new term today: chemo brain. While doing my PhD at Emory University, I took just about every class at the Medical School that didn’t involve touching people but I never heard this term before today. A colleague …
Thoughts from the Ivory Tower
Strange things happening at my work and an experience in the classroom that I had today have me thinking about an article I read in my first semester of business school entitled On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping …
24 weeks of Body For Life
Today is my last day of my second 12 week Body for Life (BFL) challenge. I completed my first one in November and immediately started a second 12 week cycle. Overall, in 24 weeks, I am down about 20 lbs …