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We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

Bilal is joined by fellow MBA candidate Felipe about how to write the perfect MBA personal statement, losing every weekend in February to workshops and a new dilemma... which electives to do and where?

We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

Bilal is joined by Canadian student Tracy to discuss the challenges of stress in the workplace as a manager, employee and as an MBA candidate.

We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

Bilal is joined by Annabel, a fellow MBA candidate, to discuss MBAs relevance to nonprofit organisations, how we have used McNutt's T/3 framework to understand company strategy and what is ChatGPT's impact on Google.

We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

In this episode we chat about the year ahead, our only full calendar year as MBA candidates.  In the coming months we need to choose electives and how did we start to build bonds with our fellow students.  

We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

Ella and Bilal return from Spain straight into new modules for Business Accounting and Finance (BAF) and Learning and Managing in a Global Environment (LMGE).  We discuss what our approach is to break down the task of reading and preparing for workshops as well as a few (more than a few) Latin-American new year traditions.

We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

Ella and Bilal discuss the law of demand in relation to calculating pricing for Glastonbury Festival and how data helps inform pricing strategy.  We also attended our first MBA networking event at the university.

We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

This week we are joined by our fellow MBA candidate, Alejandra, and we discuss time management for our Strategy and Competition (S&C) and Operationalising and Communicating Value (OCV) modules.  We also chat about the differences between UK and Canadian business schools.

We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

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We've just had our first individual assignment results and discuss the concept of financialisation.  We touch on agency theory and the agency problem and how companies have become financialised in recent years.  No Secret Diary would be complete without discussion about Ella's notepad.

We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

We are joined by our fellow MBA student Dave to discuss how the work-study-life balance is for us after a few months of the course.  We also chat about strategy types, Marris and Baumol.

We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

Mariella and Bilal discuss the submission of their first assignments and how they managed the challenges of workload around deadlines.  One of our assignments was an examination of a public company and their reporting of ESG. 
Mariella also explains her new role as student representative for our class.

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We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

In this episode Mariella and Bilal discuss MBA life and what they have learnt about Environment, Social and Governance or ESG.  ESG is at the centre of corporate news at the moment as some companies push their socially conscious and sustainable credentials while others are accused of greenwashing.  Is it just company narrative?

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We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.

Mariella and Bilal discuss the first days of the MBA journey, how they chose their MBA and what the application process was like.

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We are MBA students at the University of Manchester and our mission is to make MBA subjects, business theory and entrepreneurship easier to understand.