CCL: Rich Media blog

By Randy Zwitch - August 7th, 2009 Category: CCMBA 2010D| Pre-reading: London

If it’s Friday night, it must mean…more studying!

Tonight, I spent a bit of time reviewing the “rich media” portion of the CCL pre-reading.  Here, Profs. Boulding and O’Driscoll have provided a compilation of videos and interactive tools to augment the cultural and anthropological readings.  Specifically, the videos focus on two areas:  the research of Dr. Jared Diamond on the development and collapse of civilizations, and the two works by Tom Standage on the role of food and drink throughout history.

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Pre-reading: Culture, Civilizations and Leadership

By Randy Zwitch - August 5th, 2009 Category: CCMBA 2010D| Pre-reading: London

In my last post, I talked about looking forward to the CCL class, but not necessarily looking forward to the reading.  My perspective has changed!

There are nine CCL pre-reading assignments, of which I’ve completed roughly half.  I started by reading ‘6 Glasses‘, which was definitely a fun history assignment.  I ran into a snag on “Clash of Civilizations”, which is an extremely dense account of the differing cultures and world viewpoints. However, tonight’s readings, “The Four Basic Social Bonds” and “Worldwide Differences in Business Values and Practices”, have brought back my CCL excitement!

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Random Thoughts

By Randy Zwitch - August 3rd, 2009 Category: CCMBA 2010D| Pre-reading: London

In the spirit of Thomas Sowell, brilliant economist and Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford who regularly writes a “Random Thoughts” column on the state of politics, here’s what I’ve been thinking about today related to the Duke Cross Continent program:

  • The amount of pre-reading isn’t getting any easier.  But I am making headway, one case study/article/chapter at a time.
  • Fuqua has an awesome level of technology available to the students… Continue Reading
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