Some miscell topics

Hi all,

A few quick discussions.

1. Have had conversations with folk who insist on the need to have class slides available before the lecture. I hesitate for a variety of reasons, including the experience last year. However, as a compromise, this I can assure you - the slides for about 5 lectures on the quantitative side, sanitized for the quickfires, will be made available on blackboard before the start of the respective lectures.

2. Pls bring all handouts and slides, including from previous lectures, to class every time. Consider it a part of the course pack for all practical purposes. There may be occasions when caselets, slides etc covered in previous sessions will be seamlessly referred back to. Also, since almost all pop-quizzes are likely to be open-book, open-notes, it makes sense anyway to get these things to class.

3. Have put up the project scope document. See blog post preceding this one. Would like relevant and constructive feedback and comments. This is your chance to influence the project, I say. Once this thing is finalized and frozen, that is it.

4. I would encourage groups to meet more often and discuss MKTR topics whether or not project related, on an ongoing basis. Make the project group a kind of study circle. if you will.

5. The lec 2 beer dataset based HW is out. It involves essentially basic analysis - summarizing data, aggregating and sorting etc. Very basic stuff that everyone at this level should know without having to think. It involves lookup functions and pivot tables - which are again, essential tools in the workplace which every MBA should know like the back of their hand.

Sudhir