The Rainforest is Burning
Charles Hill, my strategy & economics professor and one of my favorite professors throughout business school always said – ‘If you remember one thing from...
Is a bear market looming?
We are currently in the longest running bull market in US history. The stock market is at its peak for various reasons and from a...
Theranos – When Corporate Governance Fails
I just finished reading ‘Bad Blood’ by John Carreyrou, the Pulitzer Prize winning Wall Street Journal investigative reporter. As I read through the book, I...
Rent Seeking
Have you ever wondered why medication has become so expensive? Do you wonder why cable companies so blatantly disregard their customers? This is likely due...
Was I right about Apple?
Three months ago after Apple’s last earnings report, the insanely negative market reaction forced me to voice my opinion in a post here. The market reaction...
Time value of Money and Investing
In August of 2017, the largest individual lottery prize was awarded in US history. The prize was $758.7 million. The winner had a two options...
The Trade ‘War’
Trade – The thing that everyone is opinionated about right now. If you are unwilling to put up with logic and facts, you are going...
The Apple Conundrum
Apple released its quarterly earnings after the bell Thursday. While it crushed Analyst estimates, the stock was down over 7% Friday. The worst single day...
Ethical Leadership with Scott Reynolds
There are two main trains of thought when it comes to ethics. Deontology and Teleology. Deontology is the ideology based on morality and rules that...
Managerial Accounting – Balanced Scorecard
Since we are talking about methods of evaluating and rewarding performance, it seems fitting that we would use some sort of ‘scorecard’ to do so....
Managerial Accounting – Evaluating & Motivating Performance through EVA
Companies evaluate their employees in numerous ways. Some of the most common ways I have seen include asking for peer and self feedback, surveying clients...
Managerial Accounting with David Burgstahler – Cost Allocation and Decisions
The phrase that defines this class and likely was used more times than anything else was ‘It depends’. While this phrase doesn’t help someone who...
Competitive Strategy – Video Games, Toyota, Walmart
Home Video Games, Toyota and Walmart I decided to combine these three cases into one blog post because while the messages delivered by each of...
Competitive Strategy – Uber
This was a fascinating case for two reasons. 1) Because it was so current and in the news all the time. 2) This was written...
Competitive Strategy – Google
One thing that stuck with me about the Google case was the fact that Google was the exception to the rule in terms of a...
Competitive Strategy and Microeconomics with Charles Hill
This course was probably one of the best courses I have taken in my entire life. Charles Hill is the king of the socratic method...
Why this blog exists?
I graduated from the Executive MBA program at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business this last spring. Earning an MBA was an aspiration...